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It’s the Quiet Ones You Should Be Like in Meetings
You’d be surprised at how much more you can accomplish when you’re not talking.
We’ve all attended meetings–it’s a necessary part of the job. Yet, have you ever been in a meeting discussing your CRM system, and no one can stop talking? Someone wants to discuss how to improve data tracking, while someone else wants to focus on contact management. Team leaders or managers might try to steer the conversation back on track, but everyone keeps talking.
I’ve been in a number of meetings where this exact scenario played out. Heck, I’ve even been the one that’s been talking too much. After leaving a meeting like this, I’ve gone back to my desk, frustrated and a little annoyed that nothing got done. All we did was talk–and talk and talk and talk. Maybe we were all trying to show that we deserved our job title or wanted to make sure we were on the list for a big promotion. Whatever the reason, we were all too busy talking to accomplish anything.
“However,
after spending years in the professional world,
I’ve realized these meetings aren’t a complete waste of time.
And that’s thanks to the quiet ones.”
And no, I’m not referring to the weird character in a scary movie who reveals himself as the killer. Rather, these are the people who go unnoticed during meetings. They sit quietly in meetings, watching the room fill with noise and observe. They may even be known as ‘the quiet guy’ around the office–the one notorious for never talking during a meeting.
While you may think that these individuals don’t speak because they don’t have anything to contribute or are too intimidated to speak up, this couldn’t be further from the truth. They’re thinking. They’re taking in information from the room, coming up with action items, and learning. These incredible quiet creatures do all this without uttering a word.
I’ve always been curious about these individuals, eager to know what their take is on whatever we’re talking about. But these quiet people don’t waste their words–they save them for a fortunate few.
As I’ve worked more closely with these individuals, I’ve changed how I react in meetings. Instead of jumping in and contributing to the throng of voices, I keep quiet and listen. I’m a long way from perfecting this skill, but already I’ve seen great results.
Silence is Actually a Sign of Intelligence
How many times have you sat in a meeting to discuss problems within a team or process pain points and felt ignored? Many problems in a professional setting come from a lack of listening. Managers are overly eager to come up with a solution that they layout in a too-long PowerPoint or team members spend too long discussing their problems that they don’t give anyone a chance to present a solution.
The endless talking happens for a number of reasons: managers eager to show they’re worthy of their job title or showcase their leadership skills, employees anxious to show off their communication skills to bump themselves upon the promotion list, over-inflated egos, and more. But perhaps the biggest reason is to look smart. Where the idea that the smartest person in the room is the one that talks the most came from, I don’t know.
I’ve found that the opposite is true. The people who sit quietly and take in all the chatter are incredibly smart. Think about how much these people learned or the action items they created while we were all too busy talking.
Even after the meeting ends and many of us linger, anxious to talk more, the quiet ones head back to their desk, ready to get started on their next action item or to further process all the information that was just presented.
“That’s one of the characteristics of quiet people:
they act instead of talk.”
Seeing the results that these silent creatures produce has changed my opinion. I’ve realized that the person who spent the entire meeting talking doesn’t know as much as they think they do. They put on a good show, sure. But the person who never said a word actually knows so much more than the rest of us.
Staying Quiet is Actually a Good Thing
When the time comes that these quiet creatures do have to speak up, it’s an incredible sight. Rather than reference a very detailed spreadsheet, repeat a lengthy conversation with a customer or an email chain between a customer and themselves, they say what they need to say, then shut up.
That’s the mindset I’m working towards but I am a long way from perfect: make your point in as little words as possible, then listen.
Already, I’ve found that I’ve learned more by listening and observing. Additionally, I’ve picked up on what people aren’t saying, which is equally as important.
Intelligent People are Focused on Listening
Focusing on listening instead of talking has, for me, been a game-changer. Primarily because I’ve been able to learn so much more about our customers, processes, and the market by listening to what others have to say rather than showing off my own knowledge.
I’ve had some practice with this throughout the years, beginning with my first job after graduating college. I accepted a job as a content writer with a large software company days after graduating. However, I was concerned about my lack of technological knowledge and was concerned about how well I could do this job. Not one to shy away from a challenge (or the salary for that matter), I accepted.
However, I quickly became known as being “the quiet one” on the team because I rarely, if ever, spoke during team or company meetings. At first, this was because I was afraid of coming off as stupid because I didn’t know much about the technology. Over time, I was able to learn more about our company’s software stack, how our business operated, and what our customers were interested in–all because I focused on listening.
Enough of tooting my own horn though. I also heard an example of someone who used the art of listening to accelerate his career path and attend a meeting with the founders of Google.
Simply by offering to take notes, he gained a wealth of knowledge that allowed him to stay ahead of his competition and accelerated his career. That skill was what earned him a seat in a meeting with the two men who created Google.
I can only imagine what this man learned from these two professionals and how valuable that information is to him now. And how did he do it? He listened.
Welcome Silence
Now when I walk into a meeting, I’m focused on observing rather than adding my voice to an already noisy room. This small change has accelerated my own learning dramatically.
While this change is small, it takes time to master–I’m a long way from it like I’ve said. However, it’s not impossible to do. Rather than allowing your pride, ego, or job title take over in meetings, reign it in. Swallow your words and listen. Not only will your knowledge increase, but so will your productivity. You’ll have a list of things that need to be done rather than having to call yet another meeting to discuss action items.
A final warning I’ll leave you with: have the self-discipline to know when to talk and when to listen. Don’t become known as the guy who can’t stop talking (both in and out of meetings) because you’re actually hurting your career.
Look for the quiet ones around your office. Watch how they work. Pay attention to when they do speak up and follow their example. Again, you’d be surprised at how much more you can accomplish simply by staying quiet.
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What Manufacturers Can Learn From Formula One’s Industrial Optimization Model

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When it comes to optimizing manufacturing processes, no one is better at it than the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team. From the way the team collects data, to how it analyzes that data and optimizes its systems and processes, it serves as a model for manufacturers. Let’s take a look at what manufacturers can learn from Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1’s industrial optimization model in order to improve their own factories.
Data Collection
When it comes to data, like other manufacturers, the team produces a plethora of data that needs to be collected and analyzed. This translates to 45 terabytes of data produced during the course of a race week, comprised of 50,000 data points from over 300 sensors. Similarly, in a factory, production machines generate large volumes of data that need to be analyzed and quickly. For example, a CPG company can generate 5,000 data samples every 33 milliseconds. Manufacturers can learn from F1’s amazing ability to collect, analyze, and act on that tremendous amount of data in near real time.
Manufacturers can learn from F1’s amazing ability to collect, analyze, and act on that tremendous amount of data in near real time. Click To Tweet
Data Analysis
For the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team, one of the ways data is collected is from a digital twin simulator, which tests overall car performance. There are billions of combinations of car set-ups that are possible, so the team needs to use analysis and experience to figure out the best ones to test.
Like F1, in a factory, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data must be analyzed in real time to understand how a process is performing in order to detect anomalies. Digital twins are also used in factories to reduce waste and improve product quality; a faulty product can lead to increased costs, rework, and unhappy customers, in addition to hefty fines and business closures. Digital twins are able to achieve this by mimicking real-world processes by utilizing sensors data in real-time to hone in and predict the key elements and attributes to optimize production, or prevent unnecessary failures.
Optimization
When everything is properly optimized, the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team sees the most benefit at the track. After careful analysis of the data, the team is able to find the optimum car setup in rapidly changing circumstances leading to significant gains in performance. Other examples include a reduction in anomalies in gearbox changes, resulting in great track performance improvements, helping ensure the best race and qualifying lap times.
Imagine what that kind of time-saving that type of optimization could do for your company.
In fact, without proper manufacturing optimization, manufacturers face unplanned outages, which translate in a lower Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). However, when optimized, manufacturers see increased performance and higher quality products.
Looking Ahead
In the coming decade, many manufacturers are going to be switching their smart factory strategy from one that was focused on technology implementation to one that is focused on process-change management. This will result in manufacturers treating their own IIoT assets like internal customers, reducing downtime, equipment failures, and diagnosing and resolving issues. Manufacturers will increasingly leverage digital twins driven by IIoT and machine learning in order to save operational expenses and optimize supply chains.
In the coming decade, many manufacturers are going to be switching their smart factory strategy from one focused on technology implementation to one that is focused on process-change management. Click To Tweet
While Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 pioneered the modern industrial optimization model, manufacturers are starting to implement these best practices into their own factories. From data collection, data analysis, and optimization, manufacturers have an opportunity for greater industrial optimization going forward. When utilized properly and with the right technology, factories can increase performance, reduce costs, and produce higher quality products.
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With 49 other state conventions, plus a handful of territorial ones, Nevada is weird, not a trend.

Seriously, everyone, chill.
So here’s how Nevada went: Badly for the Nevada Democratic Party. Just like it went badly for them when they failed to provide translators and we ended up in a big pointless fight with each other over their mistake. Just like it went badly in the county conventions, when Clinton won the Caucus, and yet somehow Bernie won the Clark County convention. And it went badly again last night, when the entire chaotic process came crashing down and ended up in an ugly, ugly situation.
There are both Clinton and Bernie supporters in Nevada who don’t trust the process now and think their votes were stolen. Clinton folks who are mad that somehow the county convention flipped the other way, and now Sanders supporters furious that the state convention didn’t reflect the county convention.
Apparently, there was some violence and some shouting. Chairs were thrown. There was a medical emergency, but every shred of information I have said it was entirely unrelated to anything which happened at the caucus. At the end of the night the Nevada Democratic Party got kicked out of the hotel they were holding their convention in.
This happened because caucuses are undemocratic institutions prone to chicanery, theft, and other shenanigans. Caucuses never work well, and we ought to do away with them, certainly.
But we are not going to see violence at the National Convention.
Okay, so sure, there are a bunch of angry folks on twitter and reddit who say they want to disrupt stuff, but as far as I can tell, and I’m good at figuring out who people are based on their profiles, none of those folks are delegates.
One account calling for violence at the convention is from someone who has boasted in other posts that they aren’t on the voter rolls, and never vote. These are angry people shouting nonsense into the void, many of whom don’t actually vote, and none of whom are actual delegates from where I’ve looked.
Nevada is sending a handful of people to the convention. I don’t think any of the selected delegates are likely to be from the group of Bernie delegates who — according to WaPo and Ralston — became violent at the Nevada Convention.
If instead of a chaotic process like the Nevada Caucus, we’d had an actual week-long primary election with plenty of time for early voting, none of this would have happened.
Think of the Bernie supporters you actually know. Think of the people you’ve interacted with as they’re out canvassing, or who’ve called your phone.
Those are the folks who represent the vast majority of the millions who’ve voted for Bernie.
They’re not some horde of unwashed manospherites who think that ethics in games journalism is one of the most important issues facing the United States. Actual Bernie supporters are too busy phone banking to spend much time swarming over pro-Clinton statements like fundamentalists to contrary opinion.
I know tons of Bernie supporters, including a handful of delegates. I almost was one of his supporters myself. I have too much faith in them to believe that the isolated violence in Nevada was anything but a fluke.
What happened at that caucus was completely unacceptable from the first night. From start to finish, this has been a mess. After the complete mess that Nevada’s caucus process has been this entire election season, we shouldn’t feel surprised or blindsided by the complete and utter shit show it became at the very end.
So chill. This is a Nevada problem. Let’s hope they fix it. And while we’re at it, let’s get rid of caucuses altogether.
Beware the media.
There are going to be a ton of people now with a vested financial interest in making it look like violence is coming to the Democratic Primary, that Bernie Supporters are going to turn violent, and that the Democratic party is some kind of powder keg.
If it bleeds, it leads.
They want Clinton folks to feel threatened and under attack by Bernie folks. They want Bernie folks to feel like they’re being universally blamed for the actions of a handful of idiots. They want people to try and justify the idiocy that happened in Nevada.
They want to shake the jar, because if they can get us actually fighting each other at conventions the resulting chaos will bring in a ton of ad money.
The media is about to attempt to create a narrative out of a single isolated incident. Watch them closely. This should be instructive. If we pay attention, we’ll actually be able to see the gears of the outrage machine as it grinds into motion.
What would be nice though is that maybe, for once, we could all collectively decide not to fall for this sort of nonsense.
The Future Doesn’t Belong To The Ones Who Know
We all know Francis Bacon’s famous statement, “Knowledge is power,” but does that statement still hold true today? Since Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1440, knowledge has increasingly been democratized, probably even commoditized.
With 90 percent of all data in the world having been created in the last two years alone, knowledge is finding itself in a state of abundance, as opposed to scarcity. Your smartphone gives you access to more information at your fingertips than you can handle – let alone actually use – in an entire lifetime. In a world where individual knowledge is no longer power, what does it take to thrive in the future?
Learn how to unlearn
We all know of people in our environment who tend to stick with what they already know, thereby creating a safe and comfortable – but at the same time false and confining – world for themselves. With today’s fast pace, unlearning what you currently know or do is at least as important as learning new things.
As Alvin Toffler put it:
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Think about it: Today’s top 10 most in-demand jobs didn’t even exist 10 years ago, and the pace of change is only accelerating. The shelf life of what we learn and know is getting shorter by the day. The future belongs to those who master a constant state of adaptation, continuously unlearning old rules and adopting new ones. It is far from easy.
If there is one thing we are not taught at school, it is how to get rid of what we have learned so far. It requires us to be vulnerable to our own fallibility, accepting that there is no way to obtain absolutely certain, final knowledge.
It requires us to be open to others’ opinions and openly share knowledge with each other. And it requires the necessary discipline to keep questioning our assumptions and paradigms about how things work, creating the necessary conditions for deeper and better understanding.
Become a knowledge entrepreneur
What you know matters; it might even make you a knowledge expert in a certain domain. But it is no guarantee of future success.
Instead of being knowledge experts, tomorrow’s winners will act as knowledge entrepreneurs, all the time on the outlook for new ways of uncovering new knowledge and connecting the dots between existing pieces of knowledge.
By connecting the last billion people to the Internet, everyone on the planet will at some point be able to tap into a global and extremely powerful meta-brain. The possibilities of artificial intelligence are so powerful that the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are to some extent frightened by it.
It is only a matter of time before we implant extra processing power and memory into our human brains as an extension to our natural brain. All of this means that the ability and speed to adapt to new ways of knowing and learning is what really matters, not what you as an individual know today. Rather than engaging a handful of elite music experts to help predict where the next Adele might be, it makes more sense to build a smart system that taps into the individual preferences from subscribers to a digital music service.
Instead of investing time in becoming experts themselves, knowledge entrepreneurs understand the power of decentralized, connected, and shared knowledge with humans, robots, and intelligent machines joining the party.
Start from your own passion
The classic education and career development system is up for disruption. Do you remember the days when, at high school or university, you were dominantly evaluated on the basis of your capacity to remember things and quickly forget about them afterwards? What a waste.
Take a look at the following keynote of Jef Staes explaining in his own funny but crystal-sharp way why so many business professionals have turned into “sheep” and stressing that the corporate world should evolve from what he calls a 2D to a 3D management model. He puts his finger on the problem that most schools have only created the illusion of learning.
Luckily, we see great initiatives, such as Singularity University and the Saunalahti School in Espoo, Finland. Or take a look at how 13-year-old Jordan Casey founded his own gaming company, Casey Games, solely based on self-learning. In all these examples, people decided to learn what they intrinsically care about, not what other people told them they need to learn. Intrinsic passion and motivation are the real and only engines of knowledge progress in today’s world.
Allow yourself to be a bit weird
Some of the weirdest people in history have changed the face of our planet. Steve Jobs referred to them as “the crazy ones.” Weird people have something in common, which is scientifically referred to as “cognitive dishibition.” Shelley Carson, Harvard University lecturer and author of Your Creative Brain, defines it as “the failure to ignore information that is irrelevant to current goals or to survival.”
Some of the weirdest people in history have changed the face of our planet.
Cognitive dishibition actually makes people tune in to everything around them, without their brains filtering out what is seemingly less important or relevant in a given context. If our minds are freed up because they don’t need to process and validate what is relevant or not, we create more room for developing new connections and associations.
With individual knowledge becoming increasingly powerless, the future belongs to those who embrace active and networked thinking. Next time you make an assumption about how your world is functioning, challenge yourself to come up with at least one alternative explanation. Next time you assume you know something, ask for someone else’s opinion on the matter. Next time you ask your brain to filter knowledge based on relevance, give it a break and have it surprise you. Good luck!
For more insight on our increasingly connected future, see The Chip In Your Head Bread.
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The Future Doesn’t Belong To The Ones Who Know
We all know Francis Bacon’s famous statement, “Knowledge is power,” but does that statement still hold true today? Since Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1440, knowledge has increasingly been democratized, probably even commoditized.
With 90 percent of all data in the world having been created in the last two years alone, knowledge is finding itself in a state of abundance, as opposed to scarcity. Your smartphone gives you access to more information at your fingertips than you can handle – let alone actually use – in an entire lifetime. In a world where individual knowledge is no longer power, what does it take to thrive in the future?
Learn how to unlearn
We all know of people in our environment who tend to stick with what they already know, thereby creating a safe and comfortable – but at the same time false and confining – world for themselves. With today’s fast pace, unlearning what you currently know or do is at least as important as learning new things.
As Alvin Toffler put it:
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Think about it: Today’s top 10 most in-demand jobs didn’t even exist 10 years ago, and the pace of change is only accelerating. The shelf life of what we learn and know is getting shorter by the day. The future belongs to those who master a constant state of adaptation, continuously unlearning old rules and adopting new ones. It is far from easy.
If there is one thing we are not taught at school, it is how to get rid of what we have learned so far. It requires us to be vulnerable to our own fallibility, accepting that there is no way to obtain absolutely certain, final knowledge.
It requires us to be open to others’ opinions and openly share knowledge with each other. And it requires the necessary discipline to keep questioning our assumptions and paradigms about how things work, creating the necessary conditions for deeper and better understanding.
Become a knowledge entrepreneur
What you know matters; it might even make you a knowledge expert in a certain domain. But it is no guarantee of future success.
Instead of being knowledge experts, tomorrow’s winners will act as knowledge entrepreneurs, all the time on the outlook for new ways of uncovering new knowledge and connecting the dots between existing pieces of knowledge.
By connecting the last billion people to the Internet, everyone on the planet will at some point be able to tap into a global and extremely powerful meta-brain. The possibilities of artificial intelligence are so powerful that the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are to some extent frightened by it.
It is only a matter of time before we implant extra processing power and memory into our human brains as an extension to our natural brain. All of this means that the ability and speed to adapt to new ways of knowing and learning is what really matters, not what you as an individual know today. Rather than engaging a handful of elite music experts to help predict where the next Adele might be, it makes more sense to build a smart system that taps into the individual preferences from subscribers to a digital music service.
Instead of investing time in becoming experts themselves, knowledge entrepreneurs understand the power of decentralized, connected, and shared knowledge with humans, robots, and intelligent machines joining the party.
Start from your own passion
The classic education and career development system is up for disruption. Do you remember the days when, at high school or university, you were dominantly evaluated on the basis of your capacity to remember things and quickly forget about them afterwards? What a waste.
Take a look at the following keynote of Jef Staes explaining in his own funny but crystal-sharp way why so many business professionals have turned into “sheep” and stressing that the corporate world should evolve from what he calls a 2D to a 3D management model. He puts his finger on the problem that most schools have only created the illusion of learning.
Luckily, we see great initiatives, such as Singularity University and the Saunalahti School in Espoo, Finland. Or take a look at how 13-year-old Jordan Casey founded his own gaming company, Casey Games, solely based on self-learning. In all these examples, people decided to learn what they intrinsically care about, not what other people told them they need to learn. Intrinsic passion and motivation are the real and only engines of knowledge progress in today’s world.
Allow yourself to be a bit weird
Some of the weirdest people in history have changed the face of our planet. Steve Jobs referred to them as “the crazy ones.” Weird people have something in common, which is scientifically referred to as “cognitive dishibition.” Shelley Carson, Harvard University lecturer and author of Your Creative Brain, defines it as “the failure to ignore information that is irrelevant to current goals or to survival.”
Some of the weirdest people in history have changed the face of our planet.
Cognitive dishibition actually makes people tune in to everything around them, without their brains filtering out what is seemingly less important or relevant in a given context. If our minds are freed up because they don’t need to process and validate what is relevant or not, we create more room for developing new connections and associations.
With individual knowledge becoming increasingly powerless, the future belongs to those who embrace active and networked thinking. Next time you make an assumption about how your world is functioning, challenge yourself to come up with at least one alternative explanation. Next time you assume you know something, ask for someone else’s opinion on the matter. Next time you ask your brain to filter knowledge based on relevance, give it a break and have it surprise you. Good luck!
For more insight on our increasingly connected future, see The Chip In Your Head Bread.
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