15 Baseline Tech Skills All Entrepreneurs Should Have “Being able to wireframe a page is an incredible important skill for technology development. It’s critical for being able to properly and ideally communicate with your technical and product teams. While not a coding skill per se, it requires understanding how sites or apps are designed, and the more advanced wireframing can involve complex software. Be sure to develop this skill before starting up.” - Doreen Bloch | CEO / Founder, Poshly Inc. “It sounds basic, but most people drown in email without any skill for how to manage, delegate, and reign it in. “The most important tech skill that you could learn is the ability to learn new ones. “At least a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, the two popular core technologies for displaying web pages, is key to so many basic things on the Internet. “A spec is a simple document that describes how a technical product or feature should function and work. “Businesses run on numbers and online analytics just proves the point. “Start basic.
25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer It’s easy to forget that we have access to a virtually limitless resource of information, i.e. the Internet. For a lot of us, this is even true at our fingertips, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and an ever-increasing push for online greatness by tech engineers all over the world. As a result, there are countless websites out there that are geared to make you smarter and more brilliant for either a low or no cost. Here are just 25 killer websites that may just make you more clever than ever before. 1. This isn’t the first time I’ve recommended this language-teaching website (and app), and it certainly won’t be the last. 2. Have you ever wanted to pick up a subject you’re not well-versed in, but you didn’t have the money to invest in a college course? 3. Guitar is one of the few instruments out there that’s actually pretty easy to learn if you’re a little older, making it one of the most accessible instruments. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
Management Today | Top 10 business books 2013 The Heath brothers are something of a writing sensation. Dan teaches at Stanford, Chip teaches at Duke. Their blog says their parents are pleased they are still playing together. They’ve latched on to one of the banes of any business or career – indecisiveness and poor decision- making. These include “narrow framing” or getting stuck in one way of thinking about a dilemma and ignoring the alternatives around us. Second, there is “confirmation bias” – looking for the answers you want to hear to support your hunch rather than reality-testing them. Third, how “emotions” and moods can warp decisions when they should not. Finally, there is “over- confidence” that can be just as deleterious as lack of confidence with preparation to be wrong the antidote. The four solutions are packaged into an acronym: WRAP, or widen your options, reality test, attain distance, and prepare to be wrong. 8. Before becoming an academic, McGrath worked in politics and founded two start-ups. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Top 10 Project Management Books Successful project management is made up of a number of factors: detailed planning and task tracking, smart delegation, exceptional communication, and strong leadership overall. These 10 books explore all angles of leadership and productivity. From discovering your team's dynamics to advice from today’s most successful CEOs, to tactics to manage stress and make better decisions, these books all make the “must read” list for project managers and leaders of any kind. Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Workby Chip Heath and Dan Heath The ability to make decisions is key to successfully leading any project, and can be tricky thanks to the natural human emotions that pop up during stressful decision making. The Heath brothers offer simple, decision making processes for their readers to help in all decision making situations. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivityby David Allen In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companiesby Thomas J.
The 13 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2013 by Maria Popova How to think like Sherlock Holmes, make better mistakes, master the pace of productivity, find fulfilling work, stay sane, and more. After the best biographies, memoirs, and history books of 2013, the season’s subjective selection of best-of reading lists continue with the most stimulating psychology and philosophy books published this year. (Catch up on the 2012 roundup here and 2011’s here.) “How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on presence over productivity, “is, of course, how we spend our lives.” And nowhere do we fail at the art of presence most miserably and most tragically than in urban life — in the city, high on the cult of productivity, where we float past each other, past the buildings and trees and the little boy in the purple pants, past life itself, cut off from the breathing of the world by iPhone earbuds and solipsism. Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you.
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5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education. Bloggers, podcasters, search engines and digital content creators of all types of have made it possible for us to learn virtually anything we want to even if we don’t have the money. Self Motivation is Not Optional Taking this kind of approach to educating yourself requires an extremely high degree of self motivation. 1. There are a handful of traditional education institutions that have started to embrace this trend. 2. In a recent feature, the CBS Sunday morning show said that there were approximately 50 million active blogs online. 3. 4. 5.
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