Monday, July 20, 2009
Critique Me, Please - John Maeda & Becky Bermont - HarvardBusiness.org
Critique Me, Please - John Maeda & Becky Bermont - HarvardBusiness.org: "The 'viciousness' of language, operating in a recursive manner, will encourage all that is evil in men."
Monday, July 6, 2009
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary: "Quotation of the Day ▼X?
Background:
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Discuss"
Background:
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Discuss"
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy
Think Again: Asia's Rise - By Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy: "But self-confidence is not an ideology, and the much-touted Asian model of development does not seem to be an exportable product"
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
How Dare Google Send Belgian News Sites Traffic! Court Orders Them To Stop | Techdirt
How Dare Google Send Belgian News Sites Traffic! Court Orders Them To Stop | Techdirt: "#
Manmasian History
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Importants Years & Events In Manmasian History By
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IMPORTANT YEARS & EVENTS IN MANMASIAN HISTORY
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Manmasian History
by timothy Z.Zote - Mar 20th, 2007 @ 10:52am
some important years
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IMPORTANT YEARS & EVENTS IN MANMASIAN HISTORY
-Timothy Z. Zote"
Monday, June 1, 2009
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary: "Quotation of the Day ▼X?
Background:
Every man is a builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own...We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss"
Background:
Every man is a builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own...We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Discuss"
iGoogle
iGoogle: "The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
- Esther Dyson
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster"
- Esther Dyson
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster"
Saturday, May 30, 2009
What I Learned As CEO - WSJ.com
What I Learned As CEO - WSJ.com: "Leadership, particularly of people-intensive businesses, is also about knowing what you do not want or can't do and getting someone better suited for the job to do it. There is no shortcut."
iGoogle
iGoogle: "Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
- Edith Sitwell"
- Edith Sitwell"
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Five Questions Every Mentor Must Ask - Anthony Tjan - HarvardBusiness.org
Five Questions Every Mentor Must Ask - Anthony Tjan - HarvardBusiness.org: "Additionally, they can serve as a self-diagnosis of one's own capabilities and opportunities.
Here are the questions:
1. What is it that you really want to be and do?
2. What are you doing really well that is helping you get there?
3. What are you not doing well that is preventing you from getting there?
4. What will you do differently tomorrow to meet those challenges?
5. How can I help / where do you need the most help?
Let's briefly look at each question:
1. What is it that you really want to be and do? This question is about aspiration and purpose. The reason why someone is doing what they are doing should come out here. The question is also meant to get at the business goals and broader aspirations of an individual - someone wishing to be successful in business so that they can do more to help others, for example. The answer to question one should surface the driving passion of individuals - what is it they do or wish they could be great at doing?
2. What are you doing really well that is helping you get there? This question helps spotlight a core strength and the person's ability to execute towards his/her goal. What is someone naturally good at doing? Detailed and standardized oper"
Here are the questions:
1. What is it that you really want to be and do?
2. What are you doing really well that is helping you get there?
3. What are you not doing well that is preventing you from getting there?
4. What will you do differently tomorrow to meet those challenges?
5. How can I help / where do you need the most help?
Let's briefly look at each question:
1. What is it that you really want to be and do? This question is about aspiration and purpose. The reason why someone is doing what they are doing should come out here. The question is also meant to get at the business goals and broader aspirations of an individual - someone wishing to be successful in business so that they can do more to help others, for example. The answer to question one should surface the driving passion of individuals - what is it they do or wish they could be great at doing?
2. What are you doing really well that is helping you get there? This question helps spotlight a core strength and the person's ability to execute towards his/her goal. What is someone naturally good at doing? Detailed and standardized oper"
The liberating effect of failure - May. 29, 2008
The liberating effect of failure - May. 29, 2008: "What else do successful rebounders do?
They create a new purpose. Many people think that prominent people rebound because they're wealthy and have access to resources and great connections - or luck. No, it's the conscious choices they make.
Who rebounded by crafting a new purpose?
Martha Stewart. She saw the frothing glee of people who wanted to bring her down, and rather than be frightened and chastened by that glee, it only motivated her more. She focused on defining herself by her future, her comeback.
What's the No. 1 reason business bigwigs fail to deal with failure properly?
They're afraid of looking weak. Everyone can learn from [JetBlue (JBLU) founder] David Neeleman, who has had the rug pulled out from under him a few times. He has the confidence to ask questions about how to do things differently. And he knows that if he's going to be a maverick, failure is going to be a cost. He's comfortable talking about his setbacks and he's proud of his Protean-like resilience.
Your parting wisdom, Jeff?
People who fail should feel liberated. They've already failed. Get over it! To top of page"
They create a new purpose. Many people think that prominent people rebound because they're wealthy and have access to resources and great connections - or luck. No, it's the conscious choices they make.
Who rebounded by crafting a new purpose?
Martha Stewart. She saw the frothing glee of people who wanted to bring her down, and rather than be frightened and chastened by that glee, it only motivated her more. She focused on defining herself by her future, her comeback.
What's the No. 1 reason business bigwigs fail to deal with failure properly?
They're afraid of looking weak. Everyone can learn from [JetBlue (JBLU) founder] David Neeleman, who has had the rug pulled out from under him a few times. He has the confidence to ask questions about how to do things differently. And he knows that if he's going to be a maverick, failure is going to be a cost. He's comfortable talking about his setbacks and he's proud of his Protean-like resilience.
Your parting wisdom, Jeff?
People who fail should feel liberated. They've already failed. Get over it! To top of page"
Don't Live in a Half-Built House - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org
Don't Live in a Half-Built House - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org: "David McClelland, a Harvard psychology professor, wrote the book on Human Motivation. It's 688 pages long, but since the world might end in six months, I'll give you the short version. Everyone is driven by three things:
1. Achievement (the desire to compete against increasingly challenging goals)
2. Affiliation (the desire to be liked/loved)
3. Power
* Personalized (the desire for influence and respect for yourself)
* Socialized (the desire to empower others; to offer them influence and respect)
If people have the opportunity to achieve, affiliate and influence, they'll be motivated and engaged. Even without a clear vision of the future.
So instead of worrying about what life is going to be like tomorrow, focus on these three things today.
Sit in your office for an hour and think, one by one, about each of your people (including yourself). Ask:
* Is this person working on something meaningful and challenging; something for which he has about a 50% chance of succeeding?
* Is this person relating to other people in the office; people she likes and to whom she feel close?
* Is this person being recognized for the work he is doin"
1. Achievement (the desire to compete against increasingly challenging goals)
2. Affiliation (the desire to be liked/loved)
3. Power
* Personalized (the desire for influence and respect for yourself)
* Socialized (the desire to empower others; to offer them influence and respect)
If people have the opportunity to achieve, affiliate and influence, they'll be motivated and engaged. Even without a clear vision of the future.
So instead of worrying about what life is going to be like tomorrow, focus on these three things today.
Sit in your office for an hour and think, one by one, about each of your people (including yourself). Ask:
* Is this person working on something meaningful and challenging; something for which he has about a 50% chance of succeeding?
* Is this person relating to other people in the office; people she likes and to whom she feel close?
* Is this person being recognized for the work he is doin"
Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus - New York Times
Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus - New York Times: "The scientists, despite their impressive credentials, were accused of bias because some of them had done research financed by the food industry. And so the informational cascade morphed into what the economist Timur Kuran calls a reputational cascade, in which it becomes a career risk for dissidents to question the popular wisdom."
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview: "It’s hard to spend a significant portion of your life studying diet and health and not want to interject yourself into someone’s life when you see them eating in a way you’ve come to consider unhealthy. Nonetheless, I treasure my friends and family and try to keep my thoughts buried far beneath the surface. If anyone asks for advice, I tell them, of course, to avoid the easily digestible carbohydrates, stay away from sugar in any form, and eat the foods we evolved to eat: meat, fish, fowl, eggs and the non-starchy vegetables."
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview: "It’s hard to spend a significant portion of your life studying diet and health and not want to interject yourself into someone’s life when you see them eating in a way you’ve come to consider unhealthy. Nonetheless, I treasure my friends and family and try to keep my thoughts buried far beneath the surface. If anyone asks for advice, I tell them, of course, to avoid the easily digestible carbohydrates, stay away from sugar in any form, and eat the foods we evolved to eat: meat, fish, fowl, eggs and the non-starchy vegetables."
Heart Disease - Lipoprotein Testing: Why it's So Important and Where You Can Get it Done
Heart Disease - Lipoprotein Testing: Why it's So Important and Where You Can Get it Done: "“My doctor said my cholesterol was fine . . . So why did I have a heart attack?!”
Let’s face it: Using cholesterol values alone to predict whether or not heart attack is in your future can lead to failure. Yes, it works statistically in a large population. But apply it to a specific individual, and you might as well roll the dice."
Let’s face it: Using cholesterol values alone to predict whether or not heart attack is in your future can lead to failure. Yes, it works statistically in a large population. But apply it to a specific individual, and you might as well roll the dice."
Heart Disease - Lipoprotein Testing: Why it's So Important and Where You Can Get it Done
Heart Disease - Lipoprotein Testing: Why it's So Important and Where You Can Get it Done: "“My doctor said my cholesterol was fine . . . So why did I have a heart attack?!”
Let’s face it: Using cholesterol values alone to predict whether or not heart attack is in your future can lead to failure. Yes, it works statistically in a large population. But apply it to a specific individual, and you might as well roll the dice."
Let’s face it: Using cholesterol values alone to predict whether or not heart attack is in your future can lead to failure. Yes, it works statistically in a large population. But apply it to a specific individual, and you might as well roll the dice."
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview: "Q: What do you, as a science journalist rather than a doctor, bring to the subject that will change our minds?
A: Perspective. I had no vested interest. I wasn’t taught in graduate or medical school that something was true and so never thought to question it. As a journalist, I question everything. And because my initial training was in physics and I had spent the last 20 years writing about controversial science, I know what’s required to do good science, the need to be skeptical of everything and, perhaps most importantly, to be skeptical of your own pet theories. Once I started my research, I just followed the evidence, not just a study here and there that supports a given point of view but all of the science. All the disciplines, not just a given one. I had no investment in any particular point of view, though I had my hunches based on preliminary research. Some of these hunches turned out to be right; some were wrong. One advantage I had working in the 21st century was that I could do an immense amount of research in a relatively short period of time."
A: Perspective. I had no vested interest. I wasn’t taught in graduate or medical school that something was true and so never thought to question it. As a journalist, I question everything. And because my initial training was in physics and I had spent the last 20 years writing about controversial science, I know what’s required to do good science, the need to be skeptical of everything and, perhaps most importantly, to be skeptical of your own pet theories. Once I started my research, I just followed the evidence, not just a study here and there that supports a given point of view but all of the science. All the disciplines, not just a given one. I had no investment in any particular point of view, though I had my hunches based on preliminary research. Some of these hunches turned out to be right; some were wrong. One advantage I had working in the 21st century was that I could do an immense amount of research in a relatively short period of time."
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview: "A: Perspective. I had no vested interest. I wasn’t taught in graduate or medical school that something was true and so never thought to question it"
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes - Hardcover - Random House - Author Interview: "Q: When you’re not pouring over medical studies, what do you observe about the health and habits of people around you? If you could offer them a few pieces of advice, what would you say?
A: It’s hard to spend a significant portion of your life studying diet and health and not want to interject yourself into someone’s life when you see them eating in a way you’ve come to consider unhealthy. Nonetheless, I treasure my friends and family and try to keep my thoughts buried far beneath the surface. If anyone asks for advice, I tell them, of course, to avoid the easily digestible carbohydrates, stay away from sugar in any form, and eat the foods we evolved to eat: meat, fish, fowl, eggs and the non-starchy vegetables."
A: It’s hard to spend a significant portion of your life studying diet and health and not want to interject yourself into someone’s life when you see them eating in a way you’ve come to consider unhealthy. Nonetheless, I treasure my friends and family and try to keep my thoughts buried far beneath the surface. If anyone asks for advice, I tell them, of course, to avoid the easily digestible carbohydrates, stay away from sugar in any form, and eat the foods we evolved to eat: meat, fish, fowl, eggs and the non-starchy vegetables."
Monday, May 11, 2009
Inside Publishing: The End of Overeating
Inside Publishing: The End of Overeating: "We inspire and enable people to improve their lives and the world around them"
Inside Publishing: The End of Overeating
Inside Publishing: The End of Overeating: "how can we make the needed 'critical perceptual shift' that fundamentally changes the way we view food"
Twitter / Home
Twitter / Home: "Tip·Joyn. easy social payments for great people, causes, and content."
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Stress Tests: A Cardiologist Weighs In - Health Blog - WSJ
Stress Tests: A Cardiologist Weighs In - Health Blog - WSJ: "I get myself in trouble if I extend myself outside my area of expertise"
Mind - Stumbling Blocks on the Path of Righteousness - NYTimes.com
Mind - Stumbling Blocks on the Path of Righteousness - NYTimes.com: "But the point is that many types of behavior are driven far more by the situation than by the force of personality. What someone else did in that situation is a very strong warning about what you yourself would do"
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Attention Must Be Paid — but How? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com
Attention Must Be Paid — but How? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com: "Ms. Gallagher’s “Rapt” is a survey of the science of attention and a guide to achieving what she calls the focused life. My column quotes some of her advice for shunning multi-tasking, Twittering, Crackberrying and other modern temptations. “Where did the idea come from that anyone who wants to contact you can do so at any time?” Ms. Gallagher said to me. “You need to take charge of what you pay attention to instead of responding to the latest stimuli. Taking top-down control of your own experience almost always correlates with well-being. You pull out your book on the subway, and suddenly it’s not so bad even though you’re surrounded by crazy people doing crazy things.”"
Attention Must Be Paid — but How? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com
Attention Must Be Paid — but How? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com: "Ms. Gallagher’s “Rapt” is a survey of the science of attention and a guide to achieving what she calls the focused life. My column quotes some of her advice for shunning multi-tasking, Twittering, Crackberrying and other modern temptations. “Where did the idea come from that anyone who wants to contact you can do so at any time?” Ms. Gallagher said to me. “You need to take charge of what you pay attention to instead of responding to the latest stimuli. Taking top-down control of your own experience almost always correlates with well-being. You pull out your book on the subway, and suddenly it’s not so bad even though you’re surrounded by crazy people doing crazy things.”"
Findings - Ear Plugs to Lasers - The Science of Concentration - NYTimes.com
Findings - Ear Plugs to Lasers - The Science of Concentration - NYTimes.com: "When I woke up in the morning,” Ms. Gallagher said, “I’d ask myself: Do you want to lie here paying attention to the very good chance you’ll die and leave your children motherless, or do you want to get up and wash your face and pay attention to your work and your family and your friends? Hell or heaven — it’s your choice"
Findings - Ear Plugs to Lasers - The Science of Concentration - NYTimes.com
Findings - Ear Plugs to Lasers - The Science of Concentration - NYTimes.com: "The mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n"
Op-Ed Columnist - A Complicated Question - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - A Complicated Question - NYTimes.com: "She had put so many quarters in the shiny slot machine of their mutual ambition. It was hard to walk away."
How to Decide in a Time of Confusion | BNET
How to Decide in a Time of Confusion | BNET: "Other Resources
Further Reading on Managing Uncertainty
* “Managing in a Downturn,” PricewaterhouseCoopers
* Harvard Business Review on Managing Uncertainty
* Ian MacMillan and Rita Gunther McGrath, “Using Discovery-Driven Planning in Business Building”
* “The Evolution of Crew Resource Management in Commercial Aviation,” University of Texas at Austin
* Decision Quality in Organizations course, Stanford University
* “Managing in the Fog,” The Economist
* “Managing in a Downturn,” Financial Times"
Further Reading on Managing Uncertainty
* “Managing in a Downturn,” PricewaterhouseCoopers
* Harvard Business Review on Managing Uncertainty
* Ian MacMillan and Rita Gunther McGrath, “Using Discovery-Driven Planning in Business Building”
* “The Evolution of Crew Resource Management in Commercial Aviation,” University of Texas at Austin
* Decision Quality in Organizations course, Stanford University
* “Managing in the Fog,” The Economist
* “Managing in a Downturn,” Financial Times"
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Gmail - CR #411: How You Make Choices, Part II - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - CR #411: How You Make Choices, Part II - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "'Too much information, running through my brain
Too much information, driving me insane.'
- The Police"
Too much information, driving me insane.'
- The Police"
Bill Gates, Sr.: Why I Wrote Showing Up for Life
Bill Gates, Sr.: Why I Wrote Showing Up for Life: "I believe there's power in sharing stories. My dad, who dropped out of school in the 8th grade to help support his family, didn't live long enough to see how our story has unfolded. And, as I enter my mid-80s, I know that I likely won't see how life unfolds for my own grandchildren as they move beyond young adulthood. I can at least help them to understand mine.
Like my son, I am an optimist. I believe in the combined power of men and women who 'show up' for the people they love and the causes they believe in. I've seen the power of public will to take on and surmount great challenges and I believe our society works better when people think less about 'me and mine' and more about 'us and ours.'"
Like my son, I am an optimist. I believe in the combined power of men and women who 'show up' for the people they love and the causes they believe in. I've seen the power of public will to take on and surmount great challenges and I believe our society works better when people think less about 'me and mine' and more about 'us and ours.'"
Monday, May 4, 2009
Need to Find a Job? Stop Looking So Hard - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org
Need to Find a Job? Stop Looking So Hard - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org: "Why does this work? Woody Allen once said that eighty percent of success is just showing up. When I first started my business, a great mentor of mine told me to join the boards of not-for-profits and do what I do best for them. Other board members will then see the results and want to hire my company to do the same for them and their companies. That's the obvious reason."
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | May 4, 2009 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | May 4, 2009 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live life fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.”"
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | May 4, 2009 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | May 4, 2009 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "“We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live life fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.”"
Amazon.com: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher: Books
Amazon.com: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher: Books: "The author makes a strong argument about the superficial amount of focus children give due to technology overwhelm. Where hours of focused practice made for successful mastery of subjects, today's youth (and increasingly, many adults) are unable to focus long enough to complete tasks requiring intellectual rigor or deep thought. Or in the words of the author: 'when you're finally forced to confront intellectually demanding situations in high school or college, you may find that you've traded depth of knowledge for breadth and stunted your capacity for serious thought.'
In a time of information overwhelm, this is the one book that everyone should read, thoroughly."
In a time of information overwhelm, this is the one book that everyone should read, thoroughly."
Salon.com Books | Why can't we concentrate?
Salon.com Books | Why can't we concentrate?: "But while it's one thing to accommodate more information, it's another to engage with it fundamentally, in a way that allows us to perceive underlying patterns and to take concepts apart so that we can put them back together in new and constructive ways. The early human who was constantly fending off leopards or plucking low-hanging mangoes never got around to figuring out how to build a house. Because leopards and mangoes were for the most part relatively few and far between, most of our ancestors found it easier to summon the kind of attention conducive to completing projects that, in the long term, make life measurably better. Ironically, while immediate threats and fleeting treats are comparatively much rarer in our complex social world, the attention system designed to deal with them has been kept on perpetual alert by both design and happenstance.
As long as we remain only dimly aware of the dueling attention systems within us, the reactive will continue to win out over the reflective. We'll focus on discussion-board trolls, dancing refinancing ads, Hollywood gossip and tweets rather than on that enlightening but lengthy article about the economy or the novel or film that has the potential to ravish our souls. Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold! Over time, our brains will adapt themselves to these activitie"
As long as we remain only dimly aware of the dueling attention systems within us, the reactive will continue to win out over the reflective. We'll focus on discussion-board trolls, dancing refinancing ads, Hollywood gossip and tweets rather than on that enlightening but lengthy article about the economy or the novel or film that has the potential to ravish our souls. Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold! Over time, our brains will adapt themselves to these activitie"
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008): "Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “We are not only what we read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. “We are how we read.” Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged."
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008): "I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary: "Quotation of the Day ▼X?
Background:
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) Discuss"
Background:
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) Discuss"
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Living Longer - Oprah.com
Living Longer - Oprah.com: "Dr. Gupta says Okinawa has the highest concentration of centenarians than any other place in the world for a number of reasons. For starters, they eat a plant-based diet, including lots of tofu and water-rich foods rather than calorie-dense ones.
The Okinawan cultural habit called hara hachi bu, which means you eat only until you are 80 percent full, also plays a big role in longevity, Dr. Gupta says. 'It means you never satiate yourself when you're eating, you never stuff yourself,' he says.
Perhaps the most important component of the Okinawans long life span is the way they approach aging. 'Elders as they get older are actually more respected, more revered, as they get up in years,' Dr. Gupta says. 'Aging is not treated as a disease and you are not discarded when you get to 65. In fact, there is no word for retirement in Japanese.'"
The Okinawan cultural habit called hara hachi bu, which means you eat only until you are 80 percent full, also plays a big role in longevity, Dr. Gupta says. 'It means you never satiate yourself when you're eating, you never stuff yourself,' he says.
Perhaps the most important component of the Okinawans long life span is the way they approach aging. 'Elders as they get older are actually more respected, more revered, as they get up in years,' Dr. Gupta says. 'Aging is not treated as a disease and you are not discarded when you get to 65. In fact, there is no word for retirement in Japanese.'"
Living Longer - Oprah.com
Living Longer - Oprah.com: "The practice of ikigai, meaning 'sense of purpose,' is a huge part of their philosophy of life that contributes to living longer, Dr. Gupta says. 'As you get older, your sense of purpose becomes more strongly defined. You become a true elder in the community you integrate with younger people all the time.'"
Run Your Personal Finances Like A Business
Run Your Personal Finances Like A Business: "Successful Small Business Owners See the Big Picture
One of the hallmarks of successful small business owners is that they've figured out what works and what they do well. Then, armed with that knowledge, they throw 95% of their energy and resources in that direction. To break it down a little further, small business owners are masters at 'prioritizing, assessing and restraining.' If you can learn to implement these principles in your personal finances, you'll be on your way toward financial independence. (For further reading, see A Corporate Approach To Personal Finance.)"
One of the hallmarks of successful small business owners is that they've figured out what works and what they do well. Then, armed with that knowledge, they throw 95% of their energy and resources in that direction. To break it down a little further, small business owners are masters at 'prioritizing, assessing and restraining.' If you can learn to implement these principles in your personal finances, you'll be on your way toward financial independence. (For further reading, see A Corporate Approach To Personal Finance.)"
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | April 30, 2009 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | April 30, 2009 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "spacer
quote of the day
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
—Epicurus (341BC-270BC); ancient Greek philosopher"
quote of the day
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
—Epicurus (341BC-270BC); ancient Greek philosopher"
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Jennifer Huget - Food Experts Are Thinking About What You Eat. Maybe You Should Join Them. - washingtonpost.com
tncdel wrote:
Unfortunately, the so-called "experts" are also shills for the "bad food" industry.
And they unconscionably have brainwashed people over the years into thinking some things not good or even harmful should be eaten by human beings.
It's all about money and profit in a capitalistic society.
Even nutritionists and the author of this article are tainted by misconceptions about what is best for humans to eat.
People are also brainwashed by their cultures.
When you get a change, Google search the words, "Milk white poison," for starters.
From ther, next Google search, "excitotoxins."
And after that, Google search, "high fructose." And also, "high fructose corn syrup."
So-called "health foods like Dannon yogurt and Oceanspray cranberry juice contain that harmful substance, among countless other products that the FDA allows to be sold in our country.
Lastly, humans have teeth and digestive tracks virtually identical to that of apes, which eat primarily FRUIT and other vegetation. And they do NOT eat dead animal parts [which we call "meat"].
Neither apes nor humans have teeth and digestive tracts like CARNIVORES, which, like cats and dogs, have pointy teeth designed for ripping apart flesh, and digestive track enzymes capable of digesting animal flesh.
Humans do NOT.
Instead, dead animal parts simply ROT in our intestines, like roadkill on a highway, poisoning us, as toxic matter to humans. Stinking and putrefying. And is the main reason why many people need to use deodorants.
I myself do not eat meat, nor do I drink milk. I also eat nothing with sodium glutamate or high fructose in it.
Instead I eat mainly fruit. Supplemented by grains [oatmeal, rice, etc.], a small amount of eggs, plain yogurt, a bit of cheese, nuts and some vegetables.
But mostly fruit, since fruit is the ONLY food that the human digestive tract can digest completely ... meaning it is the only food with nothing toxic to humans.
EVERYTHING else has toxic matter. And so does fruit not organically grown.
Humans are designed to be FRUITARIANS, not meat eaters or even vegetarians.
But the so-called "experts"have wrongly brainwashed most of us into believing that nonsense that we are "omnivorous.
There are few truly omnivorous creatures on our planet: rats, being one. Because they can eat and digest just about any organic matter.
But humans cannot. For example, we can digest only about ten percent of starchy food, like white bread. The remaining ninety percent is eliminated as toxic waste.
Fruit contains nutrition and quick-burn carbs that provide the energy you need.
Ever wonder why you felt so "stuffed" after gorging on a Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner? You were STUPIFIED and LETHARGIC because you POISONED YOURSELF.
If you want to be more healthy, and better able to combat diseases [since the immune system won't have to fight the toxic matter and can instead focus on fighting the germs, etc.],
switch to a mainly fruit daily menu. supplemented as I do. I also supplement with all-natural 100 percent whey protein and daily vitamins.
And the PROOF is myself, born in 1948, and a solid 175 pounds at 6'2" with five percent body fat, married to a woman 22 years old.
:)
And I bicycle over 5,000 miles yearly, because I have the energy and health I need to do it.
And they unconscionably have brainwashed people over the years into thinking some things not good or even harmful should be eaten by human beings.
It's all about money and profit in a capitalistic society.
Even nutritionists and the author of this article are tainted by misconceptions about what is best for humans to eat.
People are also brainwashed by their cultures.
When you get a change, Google search the words, "Milk white poison," for starters.
From ther, next Google search, "excitotoxins."
And after that, Google search, "high fructose." And also, "high fructose corn syrup."
So-called "health foods like Dannon yogurt and Oceanspray cranberry juice contain that harmful substance, among countless other products that the FDA allows to be sold in our country.
Lastly, humans have teeth and digestive tracks virtually identical to that of apes, which eat primarily FRUIT and other vegetation. And they do NOT eat dead animal parts [which we call "meat"].
Neither apes nor humans have teeth and digestive tracts like CARNIVORES, which, like cats and dogs, have pointy teeth designed for ripping apart flesh, and digestive track enzymes capable of digesting animal flesh.
Humans do NOT.
Instead, dead animal parts simply ROT in our intestines, like roadkill on a highway, poisoning us, as toxic matter to humans. Stinking and putrefying. And is the main reason why many people need to use deodorants.
I myself do not eat meat, nor do I drink milk. I also eat nothing with sodium glutamate or high fructose in it.
Instead I eat mainly fruit. Supplemented by grains [oatmeal, rice, etc.], a small amount of eggs, plain yogurt, a bit of cheese, nuts and some vegetables.
But mostly fruit, since fruit is the ONLY food that the human digestive tract can digest completely ... meaning it is the only food with nothing toxic to humans.
EVERYTHING else has toxic matter. And so does fruit not organically grown.
Humans are designed to be FRUITARIANS, not meat eaters or even vegetarians.
But the so-called "experts"have wrongly brainwashed most of us into believing that nonsense that we are "omnivorous.
There are few truly omnivorous creatures on our planet: rats, being one. Because they can eat and digest just about any organic matter.
But humans cannot. For example, we can digest only about ten percent of starchy food, like white bread. The remaining ninety percent is eliminated as toxic waste.
Fruit contains nutrition and quick-burn carbs that provide the energy you need.
Ever wonder why you felt so "stuffed" after gorging on a Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner? You were STUPIFIED and LETHARGIC because you POISONED YOURSELF.
If you want to be more healthy, and better able to combat diseases [since the immune system won't have to fight the toxic matter and can instead focus on fighting the germs, etc.],
switch to a mainly fruit daily menu. supplemented as I do. I also supplement with all-natural 100 percent whey protein and daily vitamins.
And the PROOF is myself, born in 1948, and a solid 175 pounds at 6'2" with five percent body fat, married to a woman 22 years old.
:)
And I bicycle over 5,000 miles yearly, because I have the energy and health I need to do it.
4/28/2009 11:17:32 AM
Jennifer Huget - Food Experts Are Thinking About What You Eat. Maybe You Should Join Them. - washingtonpost.com
Jennifer Huget - Food Experts Are Thinking About What You Eat. Maybe You Should Join Them. - washingtonpost.com: "tncdel wrote:
Unfortunately, the so-called 'experts' are also shills for the 'bad food' industry.
And they unconscionably have brainwashed people over the years into thinking some things not good or even harmful should be eaten by human beings.
It's all about money and profit in a capitalistic society.
Even nutritionists and the author of this article are tainted by misconceptions about what is best for humans to eat.
People are also brainwashed by their cultures.
When you get a change, Google search the words, 'Milk white poison,' for starters.
From ther, next Google search, 'excitotoxins.'
And after that, Google search, 'high fructose.' And also, 'high fructose corn syrup.'
So-called 'health foods like Dannon yogurt and Oceanspray cranberry juice contain that harmful substance, among countless other products that the FDA allows to be sold in our country.
Lastly, humans have teeth and digestive tracks virtually identical to that of apes, which eat primarily FRUIT and other vegetation. And they do NOT eat dead animal parts [which we call 'meat'].
Neither apes nor humans have teeth and digestive tracts like CARNIVORES, which, like cats and dogs, have pointy teeth desi"
Unfortunately, the so-called 'experts' are also shills for the 'bad food' industry.
And they unconscionably have brainwashed people over the years into thinking some things not good or even harmful should be eaten by human beings.
It's all about money and profit in a capitalistic society.
Even nutritionists and the author of this article are tainted by misconceptions about what is best for humans to eat.
People are also brainwashed by their cultures.
When you get a change, Google search the words, 'Milk white poison,' for starters.
From ther, next Google search, 'excitotoxins.'
And after that, Google search, 'high fructose.' And also, 'high fructose corn syrup.'
So-called 'health foods like Dannon yogurt and Oceanspray cranberry juice contain that harmful substance, among countless other products that the FDA allows to be sold in our country.
Lastly, humans have teeth and digestive tracks virtually identical to that of apes, which eat primarily FRUIT and other vegetation. And they do NOT eat dead animal parts [which we call 'meat'].
Neither apes nor humans have teeth and digestive tracts like CARNIVORES, which, like cats and dogs, have pointy teeth desi"
KISS principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
KISS principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Antoine de Saint Exupéry's 'It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"(ie all imperfections have been removed)
KISS principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
KISS principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication'"
Jennifer Huget - Food Experts Are Thinking About What You Eat. Maybe You Should Join Them.
Jennifer Huget - Food Experts Are Thinking About What You Eat. Maybe You Should Join Them.: "Eating well is a matter of knowledge, money and time. Some people are zero for three"
Monday, April 27, 2009
The Right Way to Start a New Job -- And Leave Your Old One - Tammy Erickson - HarvardBusiness.org
The Right Way to Start a New Job -- And Leave Your Old One - Tammy Erickson - HarvardBusiness.org: "In today's economy, the reality is that many of us are likely to be coming and going over the upcoming months - leaving firms, joining firm - of our own volition, or that of others. Whenever you do, those first few and last few weeks are critically important. You have great opportunity for upside when you arrive and tremendous potential for downside when you leave. You do more to shape your reputation, for the good or the bad, in the way you come and the way you go, than just about anything else you do.
Here is my fundamental philosophy: both of these periods are times when your primary focus must be (or at least must appear to be) firmly fixed on the company and your colleagues. Both of these are times when the phrases 'what do you need?' and 'how can I help?' should be the questions that everyone hears most clearly. Neither are times to talk about yourself and what you want. They are both times to give back. You'll be repaid many times over in terms of the reputation you build.
What lessons have you learned about coming and going gracefully?"
Here is my fundamental philosophy: both of these periods are times when your primary focus must be (or at least must appear to be) firmly fixed on the company and your colleagues. Both of these are times when the phrases 'what do you need?' and 'how can I help?' should be the questions that everyone hears most clearly. Neither are times to talk about yourself and what you want. They are both times to give back. You'll be repaid many times over in terms of the reputation you build.
What lessons have you learned about coming and going gracefully?"
Foreign Policy: The Next Big Thing: A New You
Foreign Policy: The Next Big Thing: A New You: "By beginning to read and write life code, we are gradually becoming a different species; we are moving from Homo sapiens into Homo evolutis, a human being that deliberately engineers its own evolution and that of other species. And that is the ultimate tsunami"
Foreign Policy: India’s Chinese Wall
Foreign Policy: India’s Chinese Wall: "China’s communist political system rated against India’s complicated democracy, the two countries are endlessly dissected in relation to one another. Yet amid all the hand-wringing over which country is “beating” the other in their race to industrialize, one simple question sums up very pointedly the debate over which one is making life better for its citizens. It’s a question few dare to ask in polite circles: If you were born today, would you rather be Chinese or Indian?
Delhi-born Pallavi Aiyar, the first Chinese-speaking Indian journalist based in Beijing and author of an engaging new book about the two countries, takes on the charged question. The best option, she contends, is to be a high-caste Indian man. His political freedom would certainly outweigh the economic opportunities of any Chinese citizen, she argues. But if that weren’t possible, she’d choose to be a wealthy Chinese woman, because she wouldn’t be as constrained as her Indian counterparts by low literacy rates and limits on female participation in the public sphere. If she had to be poor, she’d go with China. An Indian latrine cleaner may get to vote, she says, but a Chinese one is far less likely to be viewed as completely subhuman."
Delhi-born Pallavi Aiyar, the first Chinese-speaking Indian journalist based in Beijing and author of an engaging new book about the two countries, takes on the charged question. The best option, she contends, is to be a high-caste Indian man. His political freedom would certainly outweigh the economic opportunities of any Chinese citizen, she argues. But if that weren’t possible, she’d choose to be a wealthy Chinese woman, because she wouldn’t be as constrained as her Indian counterparts by low literacy rates and limits on female participation in the public sphere. If she had to be poor, she’d go with China. An Indian latrine cleaner may get to vote, she says, but a Chinese one is far less likely to be viewed as completely subhuman."
Foreign Policy: India’s New Deal
Foreign Policy: India’s New Deal: "I entered politics because I realized I was not going to play for Newcastle United and I was never going to be Mick Jagger"
Foreign Policy: More Epiphanies: Francis Fukuyama
Foreign Policy: More Epiphanies: Francis Fukuyama: "EVERYBODY HAS TO DEAL WITH UNCERTAINTY. But the unwillingness to adjust to real facts as they emerge [is] a dangerous thing"
Foreign Policy: Epiphanies: Richard Dawkins
Foreign Policy: Epiphanies: Richard Dawkins: "THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all."
Foreign Policy: More Epiphanies from Richard Dawkins
Foreign Policy: More Epiphanies from Richard Dawkins: "THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CANNOT BEAR CLARITY. What they’re used to is a kind of muddled, obfuscating obscurantism. And when they hear somebody talking clearly and straightforwardly, it’s so unexpected that it sounds aggressive."
Foreign Policy: Epiphanies: Amartya Sen
Calculating the cost of human foibles. Economists have suffered a collapse in credibility since the global financial crisis began. Faith in the efficiency of markets and the invisible hand is out; “behavioral economics,” which stresses that humans are fundamentally irrational actors, is in. We are blind to risk; we make decisions on a whim; we prefer consuming now over saving for later. Human fallibility seems to be the perfect explanation for an unfathomable crisis. Here’s how—after years of being considered a quaint subfield—behavioral economics has finally stolen the limelight.  Photos: brain, iStockphoto.com; Kahneman, Getty Images; piggy bank, iStockPhoto Elizabeth Dickinson is an assistant editor at Foreign Policy. |
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informal coalitions: Leading is a "doing word"
informal coalitions: Leading is a "doing word": "Nominalizing verbs and using other abstract nouns is, of course, part of the way that we learn. We generalize patterns of meaning from disparate experiences and name these as a way of making sense of the world. This practice won’t disappear from language; and I’m not arguing that it should. This blog is peppered with such usage (including the phrase 'Informal Coalitions'!). What I am saying, though, is that we need to become more sharply aware of the ways in which describing our practice (there’s another one!) in abstract terms can:
* distort our own and others' perceptions and understanding of what’s going on,
* blind us to the part that we are playing in this ongoing process, and
* disempower us from acting in the only place, and at the only time, that we can – that is, in the here and now."
* distort our own and others' perceptions and understanding of what’s going on,
* blind us to the part that we are playing in this ongoing process, and
* disempower us from acting in the only place, and at the only time, that we can – that is, in the here and now."
informal coalitions: Co-creation – a core dynamic of organizations, not simply jargon for working together!
informal coalitions: Co-creation – a core dynamic of organizations, not simply jargon for working together!: "I prefer radio to television. The pictures are better.'
Anon"
Anon"
informal coalitions: Drucker on communication in organizations
informal coalitions: Drucker on communication in organizations: "People can only perceive what they are capable of perceiving in the light of their experience: 'There is no possibility of communication ... unless we first know what the recipient, the true communicator, can see and why.'"
Tip Of The Day - Serious about your work?
Tip Of The Day - Serious about your work?: "Let´s take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously"
Tip Of The Day - Who's got the monkey?
Tip Of The Day - Who's got the monkey?: "Tip Of The Day - Management
Who's got the monkey?
The article “Who’s got the monkey” by William Oncken is one of the two best selling articles Harvard Business Review articles ever. It has been reprised by Steven Covey below. Even if you have read it before, it is well worth re-reading every now and then.
See http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/ccochran/hca400/HCA400_web/Monkey.HTM"
Who's got the monkey?
The article “Who’s got the monkey” by William Oncken is one of the two best selling articles Harvard Business Review articles ever. It has been reprised by Steven Covey below. Even if you have read it before, it is well worth re-reading every now and then.
See http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/ccochran/hca400/HCA400_web/Monkey.HTM"
I am capitalist and so are you | The Ingenesist Project
I am capitalist and so are you | The Ingenesist Project: "In case you have not noticed, it is largely in the best interest of one group of people to keep another group of people poor, weak, and disorganized. I’ll let the reader connect these dots as they see fit, however, the fact is that is how capitalism works – there must be a merchant class and there must be a working class. And even after all the inequality that this arrangement implies, capitalism is still the only game in town for creating and distributing wealth."
Introduction to Value Innovation : Pure Insight
Introduction to Value Innovation : Pure Insight: "Questions:
* Do you read about innovation leaders and wonder why your company can’t do what they do?
* Do you focus more on your competition than your customers to stand out?
* Does your team need to cut through the clutter of new initiatives and buzz words to get to something that is simple, and will work?
* Is your gut feel telling you that the hidden value in your product or service portfolio is right under your nose – if only you knew how to get to it?"
* Do you read about innovation leaders and wonder why your company can’t do what they do?
* Do you focus more on your competition than your customers to stand out?
* Does your team need to cut through the clutter of new initiatives and buzz words to get to something that is simple, and will work?
* Is your gut feel telling you that the hidden value in your product or service portfolio is right under your nose – if only you knew how to get to it?"
Value Innovation | BNET
Value Innovation | BNET: "Value innovators don't set out to build competitive advantage. But their innovative practices lead them to achieve precisely that"
Practicum_monkey
Practicum_monkey: "Command and control as a management philosophy is all but dead, and 'empowerment' is the word of the day in most organizations"
Management time: Who's got the monkey
Management time: Who's got the monkey: "Tips:
* Learn to say 'no.'
* Limit exposure and keep distance from monkey-carrying subordinates?
* Establish self-value.
'Until you value yourself, you will not value your time.
Until you value your time you will not do anything with it.'
- Dr. M. Scott Peck."
* Learn to say 'no.'
* Limit exposure and keep distance from monkey-carrying subordinates?
* Establish self-value.
'Until you value yourself, you will not value your time.
Until you value your time you will not do anything with it.'
- Dr. M. Scott Peck."
How to Manage Your Stress Level - Health and Well-Being - HarvardBusiness.org
How to Manage Your Stress Level - Health and Well-Being - HarvardBusiness.org: "# If you are seeing yourself doing a good job, you are more inclined to move in that direction,' she says. And giving your mind a break from counterproductive thinking helps neutralize the mental and physical toll exacted by stress."
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Four Ways to Use "Pull" to Increase Your Success - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.org
Four Ways to Use "Pull" to Increase Your Success - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.org: "Maximize return on attention. Hearing these recommendations, some readers will ask how any of us will have enough time to expand our networks and explore talent spikes. Aren't we time-constrained already? Yet by adopting new tools and services we can all improve our 'return on attention' — the value we get in return for the time spent looking for what we want and need. Search tools help improve this value immensely. But serendipity tools may prove even more helpful as they connect us to people and resources we don't yet know exist."
The Perennial Struggle: Continuous vs. Breakthrough Innovation | BNET Intercom | BNET
The Perennial Struggle: Continuous vs. Breakthrough Innovation | BNET Intercom | BNET: "Google will be at the 2007 World Innovation Forum to talk about how they develop breakthrough innovations. Meanwhile, GE uses Six Sigma continuous process improvement (CPI) to stay near the top of Fortune’s most admired companies list. Google is all about rule-breaking creativity; GE is about the incremental pursuit of excellence. Both companies succeed with very different innovation cultures, but is it possible to combine the best of both worlds?"
A Crash Course in Leadership - Gill Corkindale - HarvardBusiness.org
A Crash Course in Leadership - Gill Corkindale - HarvardBusiness.org: "1. Be aware. Understand yourself and your context. Know your own strengths, limitations, and development needs. If you don't have time to build your skills, bring people into your team who will complement you. Be aware of the organization and the people you are leading. If you have moved from a start-up to an established organization, for example, the people and the rules of engagement will be very different.
2. Have a plan. Know where you are going. One great definition of leadership is to have followers. If you cannot create a sense of the future, no one can follow you.
3. Build relationships. Give more of yourself. A leader has to get things done through others, so people skills are critical. Take time to get to know your peers, bosses, and subordinates. Talk less, listen more, and remember the details of what people say. Investing time to understand the roles, ideas, and personalities of those around you will yield a strong network, corporate allies, motivated staff, and personal goodwill.
4. Deliver. Get things done. Whatever your line of business, you need to show the results of your leadership. So whether it's a better product, an improved service, a higher profit or share price, make sure you deliver.
5. Have Integrity.Get your values right. Your values define who you are and why others should work for you. The important point here is that values should be lived, not written down or occasionally talked about. Show by your own example that honesty, truth, transparency, respect, and sustainability matter.
2. Have a plan. Know where you are going. One great definition of leadership is to have followers. If you cannot create a sense of the future, no one can follow you.
3. Build relationships. Give more of yourself. A leader has to get things done through others, so people skills are critical. Take time to get to know your peers, bosses, and subordinates. Talk less, listen more, and remember the details of what people say. Investing time to understand the roles, ideas, and personalities of those around you will yield a strong network, corporate allies, motivated staff, and personal goodwill.
4. Deliver. Get things done. Whatever your line of business, you need to show the results of your leadership. So whether it's a better product, an improved service, a higher profit or share price, make sure you deliver.
5. Have Integrity.Get your values right. Your values define who you are and why others should work for you. The important point here is that values should be lived, not written down or occasionally talked about. Show by your own example that honesty, truth, transparency, respect, and sustainability matter.
These are the key principles of leadership as far as I can see. Do you agree? Is this an oversimplification or a welcome streamlining of a subject that has become far too academic? Is it time for a campaign to demystify leadership or will it always remain complex and challenging?
Wanted: Entrepreneurs Who Can Ignite 550 Million Young Indian Minds - Navi Radjou - HarvardBusiness.org
Wanted: Entrepreneurs Who Can Ignite 550 Million Young Indian Minds - Navi Radjou - HarvardBusiness.org: "Hi Navi and all
It is definitely an interesting topic.
One of the biggest issues i think is the 'Educational System' by itself. We are following the Curriculum based on Age Old theories and youngsters are thrust with unwanted knowledge and forced to practice 'Rote learning'.
No one is taught about Fundamentals of Life
- Money Handling
- Parenting
- Relationship building (how to deal with families and friends)
- Team Work (in schools they encourage competition
and individualistic behaviour)
- Creating opportunities (selling/entrepreneurialship)
- Time management
- Keeping healthy
- Work/Life Balance
etc"
It is definitely an interesting topic.
One of the biggest issues i think is the 'Educational System' by itself. We are following the Curriculum based on Age Old theories and youngsters are thrust with unwanted knowledge and forced to practice 'Rote learning'.
No one is taught about Fundamentals of Life
- Money Handling
- Parenting
- Relationship building (how to deal with families and friends)
- Team Work (in schools they encourage competition
and individualistic behaviour)
- Creating opportunities (selling/entrepreneurialship)
- Time management
- Keeping healthy
- Work/Life Balance
etc"
Saturday, April 25, 2009
You Always Have a Job (Even if You're Unemployed) - Daisy Wademan Dowling - HarvardBusiness.org
You Always Have a Job (Even if You're Unemployed) - Daisy Wademan Dowling - HarvardBusiness.org: "The trick to getting to the next destination safely? As hard as it is, you've got to help yourself ditch the shame — yes, I said 'shame' — of being Unemployed, and get your usual energy back. You've got to get yourself ready to go to that cocktail party — or an interview — looking, acting, and feeling like the champ you really are."
StumbleUpon WebToolbar - We Should, Like, Stop Saying Like. on vi.sualize.us
StumbleUpon WebToolbar - We Should, Like, Stop Saying Like. on vi.sualize.us: "“it is impossible to be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”"
Thursday, April 23, 2009
- 'Complacency' Epidemic-ET Slide Shows-Features-The Economic Times
- 'Complacency' Epidemic-ET Slide Shows-Features-The Economic Times: "Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained'. So go ahead, break free from the shackles of complacency and enjoy its rewards"
- 'Complacency' Epidemic-ET Slide Shows-Features-The Economic Times
- 'Complacency' Epidemic-ET Slide Shows-Features-The Economic Times: "Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained'. So go ahead, break free from the shackles of complacency and enjoy its rewards"
Find Purpose, Live Longer
Find Purpose, Live Longer: "Keep working
A job is probably the easiest way to help you feel your life has purpose, so consider staying with it as long as you can, says Robert N. Butler, M.D., founding director of the National Institute on Aging and author of The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life (Public Affairs, 2008). Even if your job is not the greatest, Butler notes, “accomplishment—and, most important, income—can provide an ongoing sense of purpose.” But there’s more. A European study that tracked 16,827 Greek men and women for 12 years found that those who retired early had a 51 percent higher mortality rate than those who kept working. And according to a 2005 study that followed 3,500 Shell Oil employees, those who retired at 55 were twice as likely to die during the next ten years as people the same age who continued to work.
Take stock of yourself
If you’re struggling to bring your purpose into view, Richard Leider, life coach and author of Something to Live For: Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life (Barrett-Koehler, 2008), suggests making a list of what you consider your gifts, values, and passions, then identifying your top quality in each category. Together, he says, the three can help reveal your calling—a formula he describes as G+V+P=C. Chopra"
A job is probably the easiest way to help you feel your life has purpose, so consider staying with it as long as you can, says Robert N. Butler, M.D., founding director of the National Institute on Aging and author of The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life (Public Affairs, 2008). Even if your job is not the greatest, Butler notes, “accomplishment—and, most important, income—can provide an ongoing sense of purpose.” But there’s more. A European study that tracked 16,827 Greek men and women for 12 years found that those who retired early had a 51 percent higher mortality rate than those who kept working. And according to a 2005 study that followed 3,500 Shell Oil employees, those who retired at 55 were twice as likely to die during the next ten years as people the same age who continued to work.
Take stock of yourself
If you’re struggling to bring your purpose into view, Richard Leider, life coach and author of Something to Live For: Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life (Barrett-Koehler, 2008), suggests making a list of what you consider your gifts, values, and passions, then identifying your top quality in each category. Together, he says, the three can help reveal your calling—a formula he describes as G+V+P=C. Chopra"
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Sex + Sleep = Long, healthy life? « - Blogs from CNN.com
Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Sex + Sleep = Long, healthy life? « - Blogs from CNN.com: "Maybe it was cancer, dementia, Alzheimer’s… the list of potential health problems is endless and almost expected in the US. Rarely do we hear about people living nearly disease-free until their final days. Yet, on this 99-square mile island, people require far less medical care and tend to have more “good years”. If you’re thinking Ikarians simply hit the good gene jackpot, it’s a nice try but not that simple. Only about 20 percent of our longevity is determined by genes; the rest is up to us.
Dan Buettner, the best-selling author of “THE BLUE ZONES: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest” just named Ikaria the world’s fifth “Blue Zone.” He’s there right now to get some firm answers for us about what makes Ikarians so special, and to share those tips with us. Do sex and sleep play a big role? I’ll ask Dan tonight. In the meantime, you could always do a little research of your own – naptime, anyone?"
Dan Buettner, the best-selling author of “THE BLUE ZONES: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest” just named Ikaria the world’s fifth “Blue Zone.” He’s there right now to get some firm answers for us about what makes Ikarians so special, and to share those tips with us. Do sex and sleep play a big role? I’ll ask Dan tonight. In the meantime, you could always do a little research of your own – naptime, anyone?"
Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Does religion help you live longer? « - Blogs from CNN.com
Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Does religion help you live longer? « - Blogs from CNN.com: "Duke University has done several good studies that show that people who below to a faith-based communities, and show up to services at least four times per week. live up to 14 years longer that people who never attend religious services. It doesn’t matter if you’re Muslim, Christian, Jewish or a faithful atheist.
The lesson is that having religion is good for us. It forces scheduled stress reduction, makes it less likely we’ll engage in risky behavior and surrounds us with community. Of course, we don’t know for sure how religion helps us live longer, it just seems to help. And, I suppose, Konstantinos is a living example"
The lesson is that having religion is good for us. It forces scheduled stress reduction, makes it less likely we’ll engage in risky behavior and surrounds us with community. Of course, we don’t know for sure how religion helps us live longer, it just seems to help. And, I suppose, Konstantinos is a living example"
Gmail - CR #409: How to Write MORE Copy in LESS Time - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - CR #409: How to Write MORE Copy in LESS Time - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "'Procrastination is the art of
keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis"
keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis"
Saturday, April 18, 2009
iGoogle
iGoogle: "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
- Benjamin Franklin"
- Peter Drucker
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
- Benjamin Franklin"
Affirming affirmative action.(the book 'The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions,' by William Bowen and Derek Bok, seems to confirm
Affirming affirmative action.(the book 'The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions,' by William Bowen and Derek Bok, seems to confirm: "THE AIM OF affirmative-action programs, which give preference to blacks and other minorities in matters of employment and school admissions, is to bring underrepresented groups into the mainstream of American life. Making race an issue in this way makes sense as a provisional measure in service of a larger goal--that of creating a society in which race is not an issue."
Management idea: Kaizen | Kaizen | The Economist
Management idea: Kaizen | Kaizen | The Economist: "However, Watanabe also acknowledged that “when 70 years of very small improvements accumulate, they become a revolution”"
Audio: Scrap the MBA - How To Fix Business Schools - HarvardBusiness.org
Audio: Scrap the MBA - How To Fix Business Schools - HarvardBusiness.org: "However if we will seriously consider how to keep on exploring and understanding the complex world we live in, and make this an inherent part of management education, perhaps the future version of our world would look better."
Audio: Scrap the MBA - How To Fix Business Schools - HarvardBusiness.org
Audio: Scrap the MBA - How To Fix Business Schools - HarvardBusiness.org: "From my perspective, the main lesson from this economic meltdown is that despite our confidence – we actually know very little about the operation of the financial world around us. Moreover, it is clear that such lack of understanding, together with high confidence and reliance on the opinions of others (presumably experts) can have devastating consequences. If anything I suspect that this meltdown shows exactly how important it is for executives to have a better understanding of the world in which they operate."
Audio: Scrap the MBA - How To Fix Business Schools - HarvardBusiness.org
Audio: Scrap the MBA - How To Fix Business Schools - HarvardBusiness.org: "Derek Bok, the 25th President of Harvard, famously said: 'If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.' What we need is more business education, not less!"
First, Lead Yourself - Gill Corkindale - HarvardBusiness.org
First, Lead Yourself - Gill Corkindale - HarvardBusiness.org: "The feedback is important, but it is the time spent on reflection that is critical to their development. In other words, in which situations or with which people might they be more strategic or sensitive? What is stopping them from being strategic or sensitive? And what might they do to change their behavior?"
Friday, April 17, 2009
The Easiest Way to Change People's Behavior - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org
The Easiest Way to Change People's Behavior - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org: "So don't fight yourself to change your behavior in the midst of the wrong environment; just change the environment"
Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln - HBR.org
Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln - HBR.org: "If I did get to meet him, though, I wouldn’t ask him what I, as a historian, know I’m supposed to ask him—about what he would have done to bring the country together after the Civil War, had he lived. I’d ask him to tell me stories. Everyone remarked upon his extraordinary sense of humor, and he was widely admired as a storyteller. He said himself that a good story is better than a drop of whiskey. I’d just sit at the kitchen table with him and have him tell me one story after another, for then he would truly come to life again."
Predictably / Irrational » Blog Archive
Predictably / Irrational » Blog Archive: "We aren’t cool calculators of self-interest who sometimes go crazy; we’re crazies who are, under special circumstances, sometimes rational."
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Predictably / Irrational
Predictably / Irrational: "And yet, even the Oracle of Omaha is not immune to the allure of irrational behavior. He is what Behavioral Economists call a sophisticate: someone who understands his irrationality and builds systems to cope with it. (The other types of people are the “rational,” who never deviates from optimal behavior, and the “naif,” who is unaware of his irrationality and therefore doesn’t do anything to address it.)
Uncommon a person as he was, Buffett had a very common concern: he feared gaining too much weight. Rational agents don’t gain weight because they always consider all the possible consequences of all actions. Naifs plan to start their diet tomorrow."
Uncommon a person as he was, Buffett had a very common concern: he feared gaining too much weight. Rational agents don’t gain weight because they always consider all the possible consequences of all actions. Naifs plan to start their diet tomorrow."
Questioning Pride - Consults Blog - NYTimes.com
Questioning Pride - Consults Blog - NYTimes.com: "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission” - I try to think of this when the situation arises"
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Living Simply to Simply Live - CBS MoneyWatch.com
Living Simply to Simply Live - CBS MoneyWatch.com: "I think if people are forced to spend less time on getting stuff and more time on doing stuff, then that’s all to the good"
Living Simply to Simply Live - CBS MoneyWatch.com
Living Simply to Simply Live - CBS MoneyWatch.com: "Also, the most important thing about well-being seems to be close networks of social relationships. If anything, those were better than they are now. I don’t think Facebook is a substitute for neighborhoods. It may become one, but it isn’t yet"
Mind - When All You Have Left Is Your Pride - NYTimes.com
Mind - When All You Have Left Is Your Pride - NYTimes.com: "Pride, in short, begets perseverance"
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Employing Emotional Intelligence In Everyday Life, from Associated Content - Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET
Employing Emotional Intelligence In Everyday Life, from Associated Content - Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET: "Overview: Emotional intelligence is about how we apply our emotions to our interactions. Emotional intelligence, as indicated, is partly about the language we use as we talk to other people and it's often dictated by those we are communicating with. If we are familiar with that person our language will be different from when we just met them. As we become more comfortable with a relationship we loosen up and our language changes. It changes in the security of that relationship. This is part of emotional intelligence."
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Management idea: Business process re-engineering | Business process re-engineering | The Economist
Management idea: Business process re-engineering | Business process re-engineering | The Economist: "BPR’s originators, Hammer and James Champy, maintained that re-engineering had a wider significance than mere processes. It applied to all parts of an organisation, and it had a lofty purpose. “I think that this is the work of angels,” said Hammer in one of his more fanciful moments. “In a world where so many people are so deprived, it’s a sin to be so inefficient."
Leadership Vs. Management
Leadership Vs. Management: "1] People cling to old ways of working even though they have been confronted by a new situation.
2] They fail to define new goals with meaning and challenge.
3] Action is taken without studied reflection. Behaviour is rooted in tradition rather than need.
4] Institutionalized contentment exists: activity is secure and stable, not venturesome.
5] Old 'wisdom' is passed on to new people. Older managers tend to adhere too rigidly to old ideas, to antiquated approaches and methods.
6] Low tolerance for criticism acts to stifle independent thinking."
2] They fail to define new goals with meaning and challenge.
3] Action is taken without studied reflection. Behaviour is rooted in tradition rather than need.
4] Institutionalized contentment exists: activity is secure and stable, not venturesome.
5] Old 'wisdom' is passed on to new people. Older managers tend to adhere too rigidly to old ideas, to antiquated approaches and methods.
6] Low tolerance for criticism acts to stifle independent thinking."
Leadership Vs. Management
Leadership Vs. Management: "The manager administers; the leader innovates.
The manager maintains; the leader develops.
The manager accepts reality; the leader investigates it.
The manager focuses on systems and structures; the leader focuses on people.
The manager relies on control; the leader inspires trust.
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
The manager has his or her eye always on the bottom line; the leader has his or her eye on the horizon.
The manager imitates; the leader originates.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
The manager is the classic good soldier; the leader is his or her own person."
The manager maintains; the leader develops.
The manager accepts reality; the leader investigates it.
The manager focuses on systems and structures; the leader focuses on people.
The manager relies on control; the leader inspires trust.
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
The manager has his or her eye always on the bottom line; the leader has his or her eye on the horizon.
The manager imitates; the leader originates.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
The manager is the classic good soldier; the leader is his or her own person."
Friday, April 3, 2009
Financial Crisis for Beginners « The Baseline Scenario
Financial Crisis for Beginners « The Baseline Scenario: "Where did all the money go?
This is a fairly common question. If banks are taking losses by writing down hundreds of billions of dollars, is someone else gaining hundreds of billions of dollars? Or is money just vanishing? Planet Money took a stab at this with Satyajit Das, but I thought I could help clarify it with a simple example."
This is a fairly common question. If banks are taking losses by writing down hundreds of billions of dollars, is someone else gaining hundreds of billions of dollars? Or is money just vanishing? Planet Money took a stab at this with Satyajit Das, but I thought I could help clarify it with a simple example."
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Rebecca Traister on using Freedom, internet-disabling software | Salon Life
Rebecca Traister on using Freedom, internet-disabling software | Salon Life: "That's just like what I downloaded, except in my case, the Freedom I was seeking was meant not to liberate me from the oppressive bonds of an unjust regime. No, my Freedom was designed to bind and restrict me, to prevent me from e-mailing, surfing, browsing and playing online games. Ah ... sweet, sweet Freedom."
Rebecca Traister on using Freedom, internet-disabling software | Salon Life
Rebecca Traister on using Freedom, internet-disabling software | Salon Life: "'In order to be free, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed, humans must sometimes surrender a measure of freedom.'"
Rebecca Traister on using Freedom, internet-disabling software | Salon Life
Rebecca Traister on using Freedom, internet-disabling software | Salon Life: "'In order to be free, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed, humans must sometimes surrender a measure of freedom.'"
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com: "To me he is a towering figure although he is tiny — almost a saintly model of how to get old. The main thing he retains is playfulness. Einstein had it. Playfulness and curiosity. He also stands for this unique trait, which is wisdom. Brightness here is common. He is wise. He integrated, not in a theory, but in his life, all his dreams of things.”"
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com: "What may trouble Dyson most about climate change are the experts. Experts are, he thinks, too often crippled by the conventional wisdom they create, leading to the belief that “they know it all.” The men he most admires tend to be what he calls “amateurs,” inventive spirits of uncredentialed brilliance like Bernhard Schmidt, an eccentric one-armed alcoholic telescope-lens designer; Milton Humason, a janitor at Mount Wilson Observatory in California whose native scientific aptitude was such that he was promoted to staff astronomer; and especially Darwin, who, Dyson says, “was really an amateur and beat the professionals at their own game.” It’s a point of pride with Dyson that in 1951 he became a member of the physics faculty at Cornell and then, two years later, moved on to the Institute for Advanced Study, where he became an influential man, a pragmatist providing solutions to the military and Congress, and also the 2000 winner of the $1 million Templeton Prize for broadening the understanding of science and religion, an award previously given to Mother Teresa and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — all without ever earning a Ph.D. Dyson may, in fact, be the ultimate outsider-insider, “the world’s"
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com: "THE WORDS COLLEAGUES COMMONLY use to describe Dyson include “unassuming” and “modest,” and he seems the very embodiment of Newton’s belief that a man should strive for simplicity and avoid confusion in life. Dyson has been in residence at the institute since 1953, a time when Albert Einstein shared his habit of walking to work there, which Dyson still does seven days a week, to write on a computer and solve any problems that come across his desk with paper and pencil. (In his prime, legend held that he never used the eraser.)"
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com: "Science is not a matter of opinion; it is a question of data"
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile - NYTimes.com: "Among Dyson’s gifts is interpretive clarity, a penetrating ability to grasp the method and significance of what many kinds of scientists do. His thoughts about how science works appear in a series of lucid, elegant books for nonspecialists that have made him a trusted arbiter of ideas ranging far beyond physics"
Op-Ed Contributor - Cynicism We Can Believe In - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - Cynicism We Can Believe In - NYTimes.com: "Cynicism is basically a moral protest against hypocrisy and cant in politics and excess and thoughtless self-indulgence in the conduct of life. In a world like ours, which is slowly trying to rouse itself from the dogmatic slumbers of boundless self-interest, corruption, lazy cronyism and greed, it is Diogenes’ lamp that we need to light our path. Perhaps this recession will make cynics of us all."
Life Lessons From the Family Dog - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
Life Lessons From the Family Dog - Well Blog - NYTimes.com: "Human beings constantly struggle to live in the moment. We’re either obsessing over the past (”Gee, life would’ve been different if I’d only joined the Peace Corps.”), or obsessing over the future (”Gee, I hope my 401K holds up”). We forget that life, real life, is lived right now, in this very moment.
But living in the moment is something that dogs (and cancer patients) do by their very nature. Bijou eats when she’s hungry, drinks when she’s thirsty, sleeps when she’s tired and will still gratefully curl up in whatever swatch of sunlight steals through the windows."
But living in the moment is something that dogs (and cancer patients) do by their very nature. Bijou eats when she’s hungry, drinks when she’s thirsty, sleeps when she’s tired and will still gratefully curl up in whatever swatch of sunlight steals through the windows."
Life Lessons From the Family Dog - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
Life Lessons From the Family Dog - Well Blog - NYTimes.com: "We forget that life, real life, is lived right now, in this very moment"
Harvard Business Publishing - Management Tip of the Day
Harvard Business Publishing - Management Tip of the Day: "Management Tip: March 27, 2009
How to Recover From Your Mistakes
Making mistakes is inevitable — what counts is how you handle them. Some very public mistakes (see Tom Daschle's failure to pay taxes) have demonstrated the power of an apology to make amends and restore reputations. Here's how to recover from a mistake, gracefully.
* Own up. Don't use phrases that sound like doublespeak, 'I apologize if I hurt anyone.' Be explicit and truthful about what you did wrong.
* Make things right. Find out what you can do to remedy the mistake, whether it's repairing hurt feelings or working harder to undo the damage.
* Don't make a scene. An apology is not an excuse for a stump speech. Make your apology and get out of the spotlight. Demonstrate that you are ready to move on.
* Prevent mistakes in the first place. Think about how your actions and decisions will be perceived. Forethought and caution can stop mistakes before they happen."
How to Recover From Your Mistakes
Making mistakes is inevitable — what counts is how you handle them. Some very public mistakes (see Tom Daschle's failure to pay taxes) have demonstrated the power of an apology to make amends and restore reputations. Here's how to recover from a mistake, gracefully.
* Own up. Don't use phrases that sound like doublespeak, 'I apologize if I hurt anyone.' Be explicit and truthful about what you did wrong.
* Make things right. Find out what you can do to remedy the mistake, whether it's repairing hurt feelings or working harder to undo the damage.
* Don't make a scene. An apology is not an excuse for a stump speech. Make your apology and get out of the spotlight. Demonstrate that you are ready to move on.
* Prevent mistakes in the first place. Think about how your actions and decisions will be perceived. Forethought and caution can stop mistakes before they happen."
Invaluable information on health inequities : The Lancet
Invaluable information on health inequities : The Lancet: "It is hoped that the impact of these findings will help accelerate processes to improve the health situation of those most in need, not only by increasing the coverage of evidence-based interventions, but also by persuading politicians of the urgent need to combat social inequities, what Michael Marmot has called “the ‘causes of the causes’—the fundamental structures of social hierarchy and the socially determined conditions these create in which people grow, live, work, and age”."
Marshall Goldsmith Library
Marshall Goldsmith Library: "Successful people consistently over-rate themselves relative to their peers. I have asked over 50,000 participants in my training programs to rate themselves in terms of their performance relative to their professional peers - 80-85% rank themselves in the top 20% of their peer group - and about 70% rank themselves in the top 10%. The numbers get even more ridiculous among professionals with higher perceived social status, such as physicians, pilots and investment bankers.
MDs may be the most delusional. I once told a group of Doctors that my extensive research had conclusively proven that half of all MDs had graduated in the bottom half of their medical school class. Two of doctors insisted that this was impossible!
We all tend to accept feedback from others that is consistent with the way we see ourselves. We all tend to reject or deny feedback from others that is inconsistent with the way we see ourselves. Successful people feel great about their previous performance! The �good news' is that these positive memories build our self-confidence and inspire us to try to succeed even more. The �bad news' is our delusional self-image can make is very hard to hear negative feedback and admit that we need to change."
MDs may be the most delusional. I once told a group of Doctors that my extensive research had conclusively proven that half of all MDs had graduated in the bottom half of their medical school class. Two of doctors insisted that this was impossible!
We all tend to accept feedback from others that is consistent with the way we see ourselves. We all tend to reject or deny feedback from others that is inconsistent with the way we see ourselves. Successful people feel great about their previous performance! The �good news' is that these positive memories build our self-confidence and inspire us to try to succeed even more. The �bad news' is our delusional self-image can make is very hard to hear negative feedback and admit that we need to change."
Simplicity: The Next Big Thing - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - HarvardBusiness.org
Simplicity: The Next Big Thing - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - HarvardBusiness.org: "“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”— Warren Buffet
'Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.' --- Francis Bacon
'Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.'--- Albert Einstein
I believe these 3 quotes, by men much more intelligent than myself, touch on the key aspect of complexity vs. simplicity."
'Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.' --- Francis Bacon
'Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.'--- Albert Einstein
I believe these 3 quotes, by men much more intelligent than myself, touch on the key aspect of complexity vs. simplicity."
The Art of the Self-Imposed Deadline - Steven DeMaio - HarvardBusiness.org
The Art of the Self-Imposed Deadline - Steven DeMaio - HarvardBusiness.org: "Don't wait another minute to sweat the task of imposing creative discipline on your own workload. Wipe your brow and start now -- productivity can be poetry."
Gmail - Gmail - The Art of the Self-Imposed Deadline - Steven DeMaio - HarvardBusiness.org - Sent Using Google Toolbar - shekharkashyap@gmail.com - Sent Using Google Toolbar - shekharkashyap@gmail
Gmail - Gmail - The Art of the Self-Imposed Deadline - Steven DeMaio - HarvardBusiness.org - Sent Using Google Toolbar - shekharkashyap@gmail.com - Sent Using Google Toolbar - shekharkashyap@gmail: "Gmail - The Art of the Self-Imposed Deadline - Steven DeMaio - HarvardBusiness.org - Sent Using Google Toolbar - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
For people who work for themselves, the self-imposed deadline is a fact of life. Whether you're starting a business, writing a dissertation, or consulting for a dozen clients, paying attention only to your drop-dead dates would mean never meeting them. You obviously have to set up interim goals along the way.
But the art of self-scheduling is not unique to entrepreneurs and PhD students. It's one that I actively -- and successfully -- practiced for the two decades I spent working for other people. And it's now making my transition to freelance life a lot smoother. Here are the self-scheduling techniques that worked for me really well in the office -- and that remain the hallmarks of my working style out on the professional fringes:
1. Start your day as early as possible. Even if you're not a morning person, there's something intoxicating about planning to do A and B, and then discovering you've done A, B, and C by noon. Seeing C in the rearview mirror at lunch also makes D and E look a lot"
For people who work for themselves, the self-imposed deadline is a fact of life. Whether you're starting a business, writing a dissertation, or consulting for a dozen clients, paying attention only to your drop-dead dates would mean never meeting them. You obviously have to set up interim goals along the way.
But the art of self-scheduling is not unique to entrepreneurs and PhD students. It's one that I actively -- and successfully -- practiced for the two decades I spent working for other people. And it's now making my transition to freelance life a lot smoother. Here are the self-scheduling techniques that worked for me really well in the office -- and that remain the hallmarks of my working style out on the professional fringes:
1. Start your day as early as possible. Even if you're not a morning person, there's something intoxicating about planning to do A and B, and then discovering you've done A, B, and C by noon. Seeing C in the rearview mirror at lunch also makes D and E look a lot"
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Amazon.com: Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average: Joseph T. Hallinan: Books
Amazon.com: Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average: Joseph T. Hallinan: Books: "All of this has important implications for businesses, governments and other group activities. Organizations that brook no dissent, on the theory that the most senior people in the room will never make mistakes, are headed for disaster. As Hallinan explains, novices are often better able to spot errors than the 'experts,' who tend to skim over mistakes and ignore them because, ironically, the experts assume the mistakes out of the equation. Thus, the 'newbie' in the room may spot the embarassing arithmetic error faster than the senior folks who wrongly assume from experience that such an error could never be made."
Go Ahead, Have Regrets - HBR.org
Go Ahead, Have Regrets - HBR.org: "Neuroscience also tells us that learning probably works best when there is an intense emotional component to it, so it could be that regret bolsters our ability to learn from experience."
Monday, March 30, 2009
Amazon.com: Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average: Joseph T. Hallinan: Books
Amazon.com: Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average: Joseph T. Hallinan: Books: "As the Greeks put it, 'Know thyself.' Finally, as one more illustration, before carrying out s decisions, ask what could go wrong (what Klein refers to as a 'pre-mortem')."
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Dr. Doom - Profile - Nouriel Roubini - Predicting Crisis in the United States Economy - NYTimes.com
Dr. Doom - Profile - Nouriel Roubini - Predicting Crisis in the United States Economy - NYTimes.com: "As a graduate student at Harvard, Roubini was an unusual talent, according to his adviser, the Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs. He was as comfortable in the world of arcane mathematics as he was studying political and economic institutions. “It’s a mix of skills that rarely comes packaged in one person,” Sachs told me. After completing his Ph.D. in 1988, Roubini joined the economics department at Yale, where he first met and began sharing ideas with Robert Shiller, the economist now known for his prescient warnings about the 1990s tech bubble."
Saturday, March 28, 2009
An Orderly Office? That’s Personal - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com
An Orderly Office? That’s Personal - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com: "What is this? Mary Poppin's?!! Since when does every bit of medicine need to be washed down with a spoonful of sugar. In that movie, books are flying off the shelves, clothes are magically tucked away on their own, the beds are made on their own. I have major disagreements with this article. I don't care how busy you are, a small home office does not require nearly 2,000 bucks to clean. Stop your blogging, step away from your computer, and get to work!
Another example of how America has to sugarcoat every mundane task to get it done. My parents and grandparents would be shocked how utterly lazy this country has become. For the record, I am 28, live on my own, work 50-60 hours a week, preparing for grad school, live within my means, my house is spic and span, and I don't have an abundant supply of cheap child labor helping me with chores. It is not that difficult people!
— Nick, Midwest"
Another example of how America has to sugarcoat every mundane task to get it done. My parents and grandparents would be shocked how utterly lazy this country has become. For the record, I am 28, live on my own, work 50-60 hours a week, preparing for grad school, live within my means, my house is spic and span, and I don't have an abundant supply of cheap child labor helping me with chores. It is not that difficult people!
— Nick, Midwest"
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times: "No one likes to admit that his or her best efforts at understanding and solving a problem have actually made the problem worse, but that’s exactly what has happened in the case of nutritionism. Scientists operating with the best of intentions, using the best tools at their disposal, have taught us to look at food in a way that has diminished our pleasure in eating it while doing little or nothing to improve our health. Perhaps what we need now is a broader, less reductive view of what food is, one that is at once more ecological and cultural. What would happen, for example, if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?"
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times: "cientists study what scientists can see."
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times: "The good news is that, to the carrot eater, it doesn’t matter. That’s the great thing about eating food as compared with nutrients: you don’t need to fathom a carrot’s complexity to reap its benefits."
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times: "BAD SCIENCE
But if nutritionism leads to a kind of false consciousness in the mind of the eater, the ideology can just as easily mislead the scientist. Most nutritional science involves studying one nutrient at a time, an approach that even nutritionists who do it will tell you is deeply flawed. “The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science,” points out Marion Nestle, the New York University nutritionist, “is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of food, the food out of the context of diet and the diet out of the context of lifestyle.”
If nutritional scientists know this, why do they do it anyway? Because a nutrient bias is built into the way science is done: scientists need individual variables they can isolate. Yet even the simplest food is a hopelessly complex thing to study, a virtual wilderness of chemical compounds, many of which exist in complex and dynamic relation to one another, and all of which together are in the process of changing from one state to another. So if you’re a nutritional scientist, you do the only thing you can do, given the tools at your disposal: break the thing down into its component parts and study those one by one, even if that means ignoring complex interactions and contexts, as well as the fact that the wh"
But if nutritionism leads to a kind of false consciousness in the mind of the eater, the ideology can just as easily mislead the scientist. Most nutritional science involves studying one nutrient at a time, an approach that even nutritionists who do it will tell you is deeply flawed. “The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science,” points out Marion Nestle, the New York University nutritionist, “is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of food, the food out of the context of diet and the diet out of the context of lifestyle.”
If nutritional scientists know this, why do they do it anyway? Because a nutrient bias is built into the way science is done: scientists need individual variables they can isolate. Yet even the simplest food is a hopelessly complex thing to study, a virtual wilderness of chemical compounds, many of which exist in complex and dynamic relation to one another, and all of which together are in the process of changing from one state to another. So if you’re a nutritional scientist, you do the only thing you can do, given the tools at your disposal: break the thing down into its component parts and study those one by one, even if that means ignoring complex interactions and contexts, as well as the fact that the wh"
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times: "THE RISE OF NUTRITIONISM
The first thing to understand about nutritionism — I first encountered the term in the work of an Australian sociologist of science named Gyorgy Scrinis — is that it is not quite the same as nutrition. As the “ism” suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it’s exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather, all pervasive and virtually inescapable. Still, we can try."
The first thing to understand about nutritionism — I first encountered the term in the work of an Australian sociologist of science named Gyorgy Scrinis — is that it is not quite the same as nutrition. As the “ism” suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it’s exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather, all pervasive and virtually inescapable. Still, we can try."
Friday, March 27, 2009
About Us | Indian Muslims
About Us | Indian Muslims: "We couldn't say it better than these words of James Brow:
'I make no claim, therefore, that my account is either comprehensive or objective, let alone that it is the authoritative and definitive account of what happened ... Like all account it is partial, in the twin senses of being both incomplete and one-sided, and that partiality is inescapably mine. Nevertheless, while I cannot avoid imposing myself as a screen between the people ... and the reader, I am consoled by the thought that without my intervention few people would ever hear their voices... at all.'
'This is not because [they] are incapable of speaking for themselves. Far from it: they are as eloquent as anyone else. But inequalities in the distribution of power, wealth, and the technologies of communication virtually guarantee that, without the intervention of someone like myself, they would be heard only within a very narrow horizon.'"
'I make no claim, therefore, that my account is either comprehensive or objective, let alone that it is the authoritative and definitive account of what happened ... Like all account it is partial, in the twin senses of being both incomplete and one-sided, and that partiality is inescapably mine. Nevertheless, while I cannot avoid imposing myself as a screen between the people ... and the reader, I am consoled by the thought that without my intervention few people would ever hear their voices... at all.'
'This is not because [they] are incapable of speaking for themselves. Far from it: they are as eloquent as anyone else. But inequalities in the distribution of power, wealth, and the technologies of communication virtually guarantee that, without the intervention of someone like myself, they would be heard only within a very narrow horizon.'"
Thursday, March 26, 2009
The Science of Thinking Smarter - HBR.org
The Science of Thinking Smarter - HBR.org: "Nowadays, our stresses are measured not in moments with mountain lions, but in hours, days, and sometimes months, as we deal with hectic workplaces, screaming toddlers, bad marriages, money problems. Our bodies aren’t built for that. If you have the tiger at your doorstep for years, then all kinds of internal mechanisms break down, from sleep rhythms to specific parts of the immune system. Enduring chronic stress is a little bit like taking a giant airplane and sticking it into water. The airplane wasn’t built to be in water; the brain wasn’t built to endure chronic stress."
Karthik's talk: Hitman, Foxclocks, HBR, Google
Karthik's talk: Hitman, Foxclocks, HBR, Google: "Mahatma Gandhi Quotes"
Karthik's talk: Hitman, Foxclocks, HBR, Google
Karthik's talk: Hitman, Foxclocks, HBR, Google: "Mahatma Gandhi Quotes"
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail - HBR.org
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail - HBR.org: "Error 1: Not Establishing a Great Enough Sense of Urgency"
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
To Lead, Create a Shared Vision - HBR.org
To Lead, Create a Shared Vision - HBR.org: "As counterintuitive as it might seem, then, the best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present. The only visions that take hold are shared visions—and you will create them only when you listen very, very closely to others, appreciate their hopes, and attend to their needs. The best leaders are able to bring their people into the future because they engage in the oldest form of research: They observe the human condition"
Blog « I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Blog « I Will Teach You To Be Rich: "“The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
I wish we were always smart enough to prepare for flat tires, traffic tickets, coffee spills on our laptops, emergency flights for someone sick in our family, and other unexpected expenses. But we’re not — even though they consistently happen, month after month. Ironically, the expenses themselves may be unexpected, but the occurrence of them is very predictable."
– Kurt Vonnegut
I wish we were always smart enough to prepare for flat tires, traffic tickets, coffee spills on our laptops, emergency flights for someone sick in our family, and other unexpected expenses. But we’re not — even though they consistently happen, month after month. Ironically, the expenses themselves may be unexpected, but the occurrence of them is very predictable."
Holman Jenkins Says the AIG Bonus Episode Reveals Our Elected Officials' Lack of Political Courage - WSJ.com
Holman Jenkins Says the AIG Bonus Episode Reveals Our Elected Officials' Lack of Political Courage - WSJ.com: "But the biggest lesson here is the old one that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance -- beginning with insistence on the rule of law"
The New York Times > Health > What Makes People Happy? TV, Study Says
The New York Times > Health > What Makes People Happy? TV, Study Says: "Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of 'Authentic Happiness,' said that the method also adds a valuable dimension to the understanding of what constitutes a good life. One part of it is mood, he said; another is how engaged people are in what they're doing; and a third is meaning.
'You could think of them as three different takes a person has on his or her life,' he said. 'When a kid is deciding what job to take, the questions are: how much positive emotion will it provide, how engaging will it be, and how meaningful is the work.'"
'You could think of them as three different takes a person has on his or her life,' he said. 'When a kid is deciding what job to take, the questions are: how much positive emotion will it provide, how engaging will it be, and how meaningful is the work.'"
Op-Ed Columnist - Secrets of a Pollster - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - Secrets of a Pollster - NYTimes.com: "What distinguishes the best leaders, he says, is that they learn from their crashes, adjust, persist and succeed"
Jat (caste) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Jat (caste) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia: "Encyclopædia Britannica articles, from the full Encyclopædia Britannica database
Jat
peasant caste of northern India and Pakistan. In the early 21st century the Jat constituted about 20 percent of the population of Punjab, nearly 10 percent of the population of Balochistan, Rajasthan, and Delhi, and from 2 to 5 percent of the populations of Sindh, Northwest Frontier, and Uttar Pradesh. The four million Jat of Pakistan are mainly Muslim by faith; the nearly six million Jat of India are mostly divided into two large castes of about equal strength: one Sikh, concentrated in Punjab, the other Hindu."
Jat
peasant caste of northern India and Pakistan. In the early 21st century the Jat constituted about 20 percent of the population of Punjab, nearly 10 percent of the population of Balochistan, Rajasthan, and Delhi, and from 2 to 5 percent of the populations of Sindh, Northwest Frontier, and Uttar Pradesh. The four million Jat of Pakistan are mainly Muslim by faith; the nearly six million Jat of India are mostly divided into two large castes of about equal strength: one Sikh, concentrated in Punjab, the other Hindu."
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Be Strategic About Your Time - Rita McGrath - HarvardBusiness.org
Be Strategic About Your Time - Rita McGrath - HarvardBusiness.org: "So what can you do to get more value-added productivity into your days? A few suggestions:
Develop a set of screens or scorecards that can help you systematically winnow the attractive opportunities from the less attractive. I've got one that I use for considering new clients, and it helps to set priorities clearly.
• Try to bring old projects to some kind of closure before new ones get on the list.
• Make sure to book some time with yourself for those strategic, but non-urgent tasks (like thinking, or writing) that tend to get crowded out by urgent demands. I have one client who has a mythical person named 'Joe' - meetings with Joe are for thinking, and it's understood that they are not to be interrupted.
• Check email only twice a day (promise- it won't kill you!)
• Try to make the consequences of your tradeoffs clear to those (like a boss or colleague) who may be creating excess work for you.
• Match your strategic priorities with how you spend your time - and question activities that don't drive those priorities.
• And finally, do question the value of every activity - if it simply didn't get done, what would happen?"
Develop a set of screens or scorecards that can help you systematically winnow the attractive opportunities from the less attractive. I've got one that I use for considering new clients, and it helps to set priorities clearly.
• Try to bring old projects to some kind of closure before new ones get on the list.
• Make sure to book some time with yourself for those strategic, but non-urgent tasks (like thinking, or writing) that tend to get crowded out by urgent demands. I have one client who has a mythical person named 'Joe' - meetings with Joe are for thinking, and it's understood that they are not to be interrupted.
• Check email only twice a day (promise- it won't kill you!)
• Try to make the consequences of your tradeoffs clear to those (like a boss or colleague) who may be creating excess work for you.
• Match your strategic priorities with how you spend your time - and question activities that don't drive those priorities.
• And finally, do question the value of every activity - if it simply didn't get done, what would happen?"
Be Strategic About Your Time - Rita McGrath - HarvardBusiness.org
Be Strategic About Your Time - Rita McGrath - HarvardBusiness.org: "And finally, do question the value of every activity - if it simply didn't get done, what would happen?"
There's No Pill for This Kind of Depression - WSJ.com
There's No Pill for This Kind of Depression - WSJ.com: "The writer and philosopher Laurens van der Post, in his memoir of his friendship with Carl Jung, said, 'We live not only our own lives but, whether we know it or not, also the life of our time.' We are actors in a moment of history, taking part in it, moving it this way or that as we move forward or back"
There's No Pill for This Kind of Depression - WSJ.com
There's No Pill for This Kind of Depression - WSJ.com: "The writer and philosopher Laurens van der Post, in his memoir of his friendship with Carl Jung, said, 'We live not only our own lives but, whether we know it or not, also the life of our time.' We are actors in a moment of history, taking part in it, moving it this way or that as we move forward or back"
Shriver: Obama’s Special Olympics Quip Is ‘Teachable Moment’ - Washington Wire - WSJ
Shriver: Obama’s Special Olympics Quip Is ‘Teachable Moment’ - Washington Wire - WSJ: "Shriver went on to give Obama and the rest of the country, for that matter, a morning lesson: “I think it’s important to see that words hurt and words do matter.”
He went on to say that “This language needs to be a teachable moment, I think, for our country. I would hope every parent who is at home this morning, can turn to their children and say, ‘This is a chance for us to recognize that when we talk about Special Olympics, when we talk about people with special needs, let’s make sure we talk about it in an affirming way.’”"
He went on to say that “This language needs to be a teachable moment, I think, for our country. I would hope every parent who is at home this morning, can turn to their children and say, ‘This is a chance for us to recognize that when we talk about Special Olympics, when we talk about people with special needs, let’s make sure we talk about it in an affirming way.’”"
Shriver: Obama’s Special Olympics Quip Is ‘Teachable Moment’ - Washington Wire - WSJ
Shriver: Obama’s Special Olympics Quip Is ‘Teachable Moment’ - Washington Wire - WSJ: "Shriver went on to give Obama and the rest of the country, for that matter, a morning lesson: “I think it’s important to see that words hurt and words do matter.”"
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | March 23, 2009 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com
Gmail - FBL | Quote of the Day | March 23, 2009 - shekharkashyap@gmail.com: "“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”"
An Interview with Jonathan Clements - Part 2 | AllFinancialMatters
An Interview with Jonathan Clements - Part 2 | AllFinancialMatters: "Every time I tackle a new topic, it’s a huge amount of work. It isn’t simply that I need to understand the issues involved. Rather, I need to get to the point where I not only understand the topic, but also understand enough to have a point of view. That’s the goal of a columnist: Facts aren’t enough, you also have to have an opinion."
Amazon.com: How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street: Golden Rules Any Investor Can Learn: Allan S. Roth: Books
Amazon.com: How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street: Golden Rules Any Investor Can Learn: Allan S. Roth: Books: "10 Dumb Things Adults Do With Their Money
By second grade, we all learn some simple and truthful lessons about the world around us and how to navigate it. As life goes on, however, what we continue to learn is less about making us smart and more about making us outsmart ourselves in investing.
Adulthood apparently brings with it the feeling that important matters, such as our money, are too important to deal with simply. Why go back to the basics when there is the sophisticated, complex path to take? Sure, continuing on such a path offers a 99.9% certainty of underperforming simplicity, and will also set our retirement goals back by a couple of decades, but isn’t that how grownups invest? Unfortunately, yes. There are many dumb things that adults do...
1. They love to buy high and sell low. They buy after the market is up and then panic and sell when the market falls.
2. They play important games without understanding the rules. Any kid knows that if you don’t understand how a game is played, you can’t win at it. Same goes for buying a product that has a 471 page disclosure document no one can understand.
3. They believe an"
By second grade, we all learn some simple and truthful lessons about the world around us and how to navigate it. As life goes on, however, what we continue to learn is less about making us smart and more about making us outsmart ourselves in investing.
Adulthood apparently brings with it the feeling that important matters, such as our money, are too important to deal with simply. Why go back to the basics when there is the sophisticated, complex path to take? Sure, continuing on such a path offers a 99.9% certainty of underperforming simplicity, and will also set our retirement goals back by a couple of decades, but isn’t that how grownups invest? Unfortunately, yes. There are many dumb things that adults do...
1. They love to buy high and sell low. They buy after the market is up and then panic and sell when the market falls.
2. They play important games without understanding the rules. Any kid knows that if you don’t understand how a game is played, you can’t win at it. Same goes for buying a product that has a 471 page disclosure document no one can understand.
3. They believe an"
Monday, March 23, 2009
Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done
Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done: "#
Hive Five
Five Best Web Browsers
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