@JessFlynn Why Every Business Manager Needs to Make Sausage
May 24, 2015
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Why Every Business ManagerNeeds to Make Sausage
I Like Cured Meatand…
homemade pasta,hand-crafted cheese,
home-infused adult beverages,personally pickled items,hand-grown & cut herbs
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Typical DayAnswering Emails
Conference Calls
Virtual to-do lists
Online Calendaring
Internal Meetings
Writing Emails
External Meetings
Whiteboard to-do lists
Counseling clients
Counseling colleagues
Putting Off Emails
Redoing to-do lists @JessFlynn
Best Part of My DayCutting
ChoppingHackingDicingSlicing
MincingMashingSmashing
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CHECK OUT MY SAUSAGE!
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EFFORT-DRIVEN REWARDS
Survival-Based Outcome
Physical effort =
Something tangible, meaningful =
Deep sense of satisfaction & pleasure
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The IKEA Effect• Labor enhances affection
for its results• Confidence and pride
(even when unfounded)• Happiness in imperfection
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The Art of Making & Fixing
“..misguided separation of thinking from doing, the work of the hand
from that of the mind.”
WHAT’S YOUR SOULCRAFT?
SLOW DOWN, SAVOR, HOLD ON
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CREATE WITH ABANDON
RIGHT BRAIN TERRAIN
“You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. Just create to create.
Create to remind yourself you’re still alive.
Make stuff to inspire others to make something too.
Create to learn a bit more about yourself.” @JessFlynn
GET IN THE…
UNCLAMP
MAKE S#&! MANIFESTO
I will honor physical labor as much as office effort
I will respect the analog as much as the digital
I will invest in my tools as much as my technology
I will revel in the often messy process of discovery and making s#&!
I will embrace the flow
I will commit to creating something physical and tangible weekly
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MY MAKE S#&! BUCKET LIST
Create something in a 3D printer
Sew something I would not be embarrassed to wear
Learn to weld
Learn to letterpress
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MY MAKE S#&! BUCKET LIST
Hack, Make, Create, Invent
Don’t just consume,Don’t just converse,
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