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Welcome to this week's useletter
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focussing on your future not my past, a newsletter that's useful.
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I'm just back from a break, spending time with my daughter over the school holidays. I hope you were similarly able to take some time off too. To recharge and spend time with your families and friends over the Easter break, if not the school hol's.
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I'm pretty good at stepping away from my work over holidays. I nevertheless appreciate it as a time to notice where my thoughts or attention is drawn and dwelling. Allowing ideas to bubble, percolate and take shape without intention. Establishing new perspectives with the distance and time away. It helps make space for new ways of thinking, especially when I've been stuck.
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(It doesn't always work.)
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Over the break, as my subconscious fermented development of unmeasured, my conscious obsessed with Zoe Chance's magic question, "What would it take?" It's from her brilliant book, Influence is Your Superpower (highly recommended). It's a powerful question to ask yourself and others. Let's go there this fortnight.
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"What would it take?"
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A question for negotiation with yourself and others.
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With multifarious value...
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It allows you to reframe uncomfortable negotiations.
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These negotiations, for example, might be at work "What would it take for me to get a promotion?" or your personal life, "What would it take for you to forgive my insult?"
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It's a vehicle for creativity.
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When you're stuck on a problem, it's a frame that might lead you to unconventional solutions to a problem or consider something entirely new. "What would it take to deliver a more affordable, yet sustainable project?"
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It acknowledges that you don't have the answer and you're acknowledging that the other person has more knowledge or insight and they might have an answer.
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It can reveal important information.
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Information is important in any negotiation and in developing new work. If you don't ask you might not know.
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It's a collaborative gesture.
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It's seeking the input, insight and knowledge of someone else in an inclusive conversation. It acknowledges you're working together on the problem.
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It can simplify solutions.
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It's not necessarily the case, but by asking what it will take you'll at least initiate a discussion with the potential to discover a simplified path through negotiation.
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Next time a situation seems hopeless, unable to be resolved or unclear, ask
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Let's chat
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At unmeasured I take the argh out of architectural practice.
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Helping architects rethink and find joy in their practice.
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I'd love to hear your story. Book a free 30 minute chat now.
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What else is going on at unmeasured?
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recent useful blog posts...
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It might be time for the architecture profession’s leaders to starting learning form the ground up.
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There’s two main ways to stand out. Be different. or Be better. Copying is the route to unexceptional.
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Or…
do architects do too many of the wrong things?
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"Enrolment is not about forcing, cajoling, tricking, bargaining, pressuring, or guilt tripping. Enrolment is the art and practice of generating a spark of possibility for others to share."
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