The Sunday Summary: Guarding potatoes, reacting, and finding notes next to the bleach

In an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week.

Mon, December 2: Guarding the potatoes
Back in the 1700’s, leadership in Paris was trying to get people to be willing to eat more potatoes. Among other challenges, potatoes had once been thought to cause leprosy, so people weren’t wanting to eat them. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier had a tried a number of different techniques to raise their status, including giving bouquets of potato blossoms to the king and queen, but it was the fake “guards” that finally did the trick.

Tue, December 3: My only job is to react
“The point of practice and running all of these drills and studying over and over again is so on gameday my only job is to react.”

Wed, December 4: Metcalfe’s Law for staff?
Does Metcalfe’s Law apply to growing a team (in a bad way)?

Thu, December 5: Word of mouth only matters if people know what they’re sharing
“When trying to generate word of mouth, many people forget one important detail. They focus so much on getting people to talk that they ignore the part that really matters: what people are talking about.”