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Richard Banfield
Richard Banfield

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Aug 25

Learning By Doing

We’ve convinced ourselves that the path to learning requires thinking and reading. The reverse it closer to the truth. — You Are Your Actions Not Your Resume Several years ago I interviewed someone for a design position. The candidate didn’t have much design experience and had no formal training in design. At first glance they weren’t a good candidate for the job. On paper they should’ve been rejected from the interview process.

Learning

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Learning By Doing
Learning By Doing
Learning

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Jun 19

Work Isn’t Working

Leading healthy teams isn’t a luxury anymore. It’s a necessity. — In today’s complex working environments, people don’t know how to work with each other. When I say that, I get pushback. “What?? I work with people every day! That’s absurd.” “Sure, it’s not perfect, but it works. What’s the alternative?” “Oh another catastrophist. …

Work

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Work Isn’t Working
Work Isn’t Working
Work

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May 20

Slow Love

Urgency is killing love, but it doesn’t have to — When you step back from the dizzying human carousel you notice something: Slow is nature’s preference. Yet humans are seemingly obsessed with increasing life’s speed. Fast food. Same day delivery. Red eye flights (god forbid we miss a meeting). On-demand dating, AI, etc. All in the name of saving time. …

Love

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Slow Love
Slow Love
Love

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May 13

The Tech-Bro Blueprint To Creating A Unicorn Product Company

How to guarantee failure by replacing competence with hubris — Create a tech-first solution in search of a market. When asked if you’re solving an existing problem, proclaim “We’re market makers.” Have a mission to be the world’s best for everyone. And I mean everyone. “This thing has a massive TAM.” Start by telling the press and investors that you’re…

Tech

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The Tech-Bro Blueprint To Creating A Unicorn Product Company
The Tech-Bro Blueprint To Creating A Unicorn Product Company
Tech

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May 1

Starting Over at 52

Antifragility and the temporary nature of things — Have you wondered what it would be like to start over? Now imagine you had to start over in your 50’s. It’s not something I imagined I would be doing. None of us really ever think your plans will be destroyed when you’re in the autumn of your life. Yet…

Antifragility

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Starting Over at 52
Starting Over at 52
Antifragility

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Mar 23

The Search For Innovation is Slowing Your Success

Building a new flywheel doesn’t make the existing flywheel spin any faster — For almost two decades I worked with teams to help them innovate. Startups and large incumbents paid us to find breakthrough ideas that would catapult them into success. Yet, almost every workshop or design sprint revealed the same conclusion: Don’t do the wild new thing you imagine you need, instead…

Expectations

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Expectations

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Mar 23

Organizational Constipation

Why throughput in product companies stalls and what leaders and teams can do about it — Several years ago Mind The Product did a survey on what problems plagued product leaders. Top of the list was prioritization. In the 5 years since that survey, not much has changed. On an almost daily basis I hear from my clients that prioritization is painful. …

Backlog

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Backlog

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Mar 21

This Is What We Do Now

In the US our lives have been designed to serving the interests of business, in Europe, life is dedicated to serving the self. — The primary difference between the American way of life and the European way of life is the amount of time spent on working. …

American Dream

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This Is What We Do Now
This Is What We Do Now
American Dream

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Mar 17

You Can’t Say No, Until You’ve Said Yes (A lot)

Being focused is a privilege that many don’t have, or haven’t earned yet. — Being focused is undoubtably a great answer to getting things done. We all experience it and it’s a game-changer when you find it. But in the search of focus we’re often overlooking the first step: being unfocused. For me, saying no is a privilege. A privilege that comes from having…

Focus

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You Can’t Say No, Until You’ve Said Yes (A lot)
You Can’t Say No, Until You’ve Said Yes (A lot)
Focus

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Mar 1

Shame Will Kill You

Guilt verses shame — This past few years have given me a lot of time to explore the origins and effects of trauma. After fives years of chemo and radiation treatments my beautiful wife died of cancer. It’s been a little over a year since that day. During those treatments we also had to…

Mental Health

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Shame Will Kill You
Shame Will Kill You
Mental Health

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Richard Banfield

Richard Banfield

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Dad, artist, cyclist, entrepreneur, advisor, product and design leader. Mostly in that order.

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