TLDR: The best MMM’s of 2021 ranked and linked
With almost a year under our belt, MMM has been read over 16,414 times, and our subscribers grew 104%! Thank you to everyone who continues to read, share, and subscribe to this quick and quirky mostly professionally weekly drop.
As we come to a close on the year, I thought I would share some of the most popular Monday Morning Meetings of 2021, and whether you’re new here or you’ve been around since the beginning, hopefully you’ll (re)enjoy the crowd favorites.
The Best Monday Morning Meetings of 2021
It’s no David Letterman Top 10, but here goes…
8. Framing
Great Framing = Candor + Compassion (link)
All too often candor overshadows intention, and it deteriorates conversations. This post is a quick read on the power of adding compassion to your repertoire.
7. Differentiation
A profitable core spins the flywheel faster (link)
This post details my fundamental belief that merely replicating best practices yields average results, and therefore arriving at a point of view on differentiation is essential. I offered one example of how it could be done in venture.
6. You’re probably wondering what this is
The MMM is one example of the power of habit (link)
One of our very first posts. Here’s how I described the MMM back then:
Every Monday I will send a short note to kickstart your week—a thought, a tip, a habit, a reflection, a quote, a question, or something entirely different but genuine to who I am with the goal of helping you.
5. Professional Confusions
Over the course of thousands of career conversations this is my advice: trade passion for curiosity and shortcuts for identity (link)
Ask yourself this question: “What am I curious about?”
Finish this sentence: “I’m the kind of person who…”
4. (Obvious) Values
Have you written down (any of) your values? (link)
Here are some of mine:
Do more of what makes me happy
Make decisions my future self will be proud of
Prioritize being loving over being right
Minimize regrets
Be grateful for one new thing every single day
3. How to get lucky
Great opportunities will feel like luck. They are not. But that is how luck works (link)
This post was a shorter version of much longer rant on the topic of creating your own luck. In short, on a scale of what’s within your control to what’s not, it’s all about results, relationships, and timing.
Know what you are best at & dominate your job, it’s table stakes
Reflect on what you are curious about
Read what you love until you love to read
Build relationships in the context of your goals
2. Tlazocamati
When “thank you” has a deeper meaning (link)
This posts shares an example of the profound sense of gratitude practiced in other cultures. Imagine if everyone thanked you like this for something as routine as paying for a good or service:
Thank you for working hard for this money, for putting your heart into everything you have done in your life to arrive here, and for sharing this with me so that I can continue doing what I love, supporting my family, and sharing what I do with others. Tlazocamati.
1. Rule of Three
You’ve probably heard of the The Rule of Three. It’s famously written about in Aristotle’s book Rhetoric. The idea is pretty straightforward—we remember in threes (link)
In this post, I shared one of the many frameworks I learned in my time at LinkedIn, the one below being in reference to managing a new team or starting a new job:
Have an honest conversation
Plant the flag
Do one meaningful thing first
And there it is, the most popular Monday Morning Meetings of 2021!
Thank you to everyone who read, liked, shared, commented, subscribed, and stayed in touch over the past year.
And as always,
See you Monday.