Own Your Personal Development
“Let him who would move the world first move himself.” — Socrates When it comes to your own personal development, who’s there for you? You are. Own your personal development. Nobody else will do this for you, or care about your personal development as much as you. In the book Leading with Your Legacy in Mind: Building Lasting Value in Business and in Life, Andrew Thorn shares a story to really remind us how important it is to own our personal development. A CEO Addresses the Workforce in a Town Hall Meeting When things are going well, it’s easy to forget how suddenly and swiftly your world can change. Via Leading with Your Legacy in Mind: Building Lasting Value in Business and in Life: “He spent some time discussion the impact of the losses the bank was experiencing, then said that in order to orchestrate a return to profitability, it would be necessary to reduce the workforce. Two Minutes on People, Forty-Two Minutes on Profitability It’s easy to talk about people development.
3 truths about your library’s website
I create websites for public libraries. I’ve been doing that for more than 15 years. In that time, I’ve learned a few things, especially in my current job, where I work on sites for multiple libraries. I’ve learned some hard truths about these sites, and sometimes I’ve shared those with the clients I’ve worked with. It’s subjective.There is absolutely no consistency in what one library likes compared to another. What are your thoughts on these?
Why the Five People Around You Are Crucial to Your Success
One of my company's co-founders, Jeremy Weir, recently spent a weekend surfing with Uber co-founder Ryan Graves, enjoying talks about upending markets and fundamentally changing businesses. He returned from the trip having had an epiphany and possessed a renewed sense of excitement as we prepared to launch into a new vertical. Because Jeremy typically works by himself in a remote office, Graves’ influence proved to be a huge asset. It all proves that the company that a businessperson keeps can have a profound effect on him or her and subsequently the success of a business. Related: Getting Your Dream Mentor to Talk to You Renowned businessman Jim Rohn once said, “You’re the average of the five people you spend most of your time with.” You need people -- whether it’s co-founders, mentors, family or friends -- who will challenge you and make you better, thereby raising your average or helping you maintain a high one. When assessing your five people, consider the following: Be open to change.
L’eccesso d’offerta e la «bolla» delle testate online
di Vincenzo Marino Questa settimana in RoundUp: Paper, l'applicazione di Facebook che vuole fare del social network una specie di magazine (con tanto di news editor), Ezra Klein passa a Vox Media per lanciare un nuovo sito d'informazione, e il mercato dei media digitali si affolla sempre di più. Facebook vuole davvero diventare il tuo giornale La novità della settimana arriva da Facebook, che ha annunciato il lancio, previsto per il 3 febbraio negli USA (e solo per iPhone), della news app Paper. Di Paper si è parlato per settimane come di una applicazione indipendente nella quale il feed delle notizie avrebbe avuto un’impostazione grafica sullo stile di applicazioni come Flipboard, “magazine” digitali capaci di aggregare contenuti da varie fonti. Che Facebook avesse intenzione di “farsi giornale” è aspirazione di cui avevamo già parlato, e che cova nella mente del Vice President of Product Chris Cox dal 2009. Ezra Klein e il futuro del mercato editoriale 1. Foto via Flickr
4 Reasons Why Being Comfortable Isn’t a Good Thing
We should all be comfortable, shouldn’t we? Well the answer may be obvious to most; yes of course everyone should have the right to a comfortable life. However comfort most often goes hand in hand with stagnation, in whatever your goals may be. Being comfortable means that you have accomplished what you think is necessary and have no further interest in pursuing goals of self-improvement in your health, career, mind and overall life. If you are comfortable and have no intentions of interrupting the daily motions of your current lifestyle, then read no further; however if you are looking to better yourself and pursue goals and dreams, I have compiled four reasons why you should never let yourself get comfortable until you have accomplished all that you have set out to accomplish. “Even though I played professionally in Cleveland, I still lived in Akron. 4. You may be suffering from the same dilemmas as Lebron was while playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers. You may be in the same situation.
Actually Reading
Today I spent time reading articles in their entirety. It’s something I rarely do anymore, and I suspect many of you share this problem. There’s a severe psychological struggle that’s been created by the web and particularly amplified by social media. The mental rewards we receive for sharing what we’re reading have become stronger than the act of actually reading. The flow of reading 20 years ago was pretty simple. Read.Think during and after about what you’ve read.Maybe tell some friends about it, usually only if prompted. These days the process is quite different. The carrot of reading today is rarely about stirring up your imagination or teaching you something you didn’t know before. In the end we’re still trying to make certain chemicals in our brains fire off and make us feel good, but reading seems to be a more indirect path to that outcome now. Today I spent some time actually reading. Is your day composed of reading 10% of 100 articles or 100% of 10 articles?
5 Signs You’re Going To Make It Big One Day
Essenziali e irrilevanti: le vite controverse delle tecnologie per i contenuti
tl;dr: una bussola per la scelta della tecnologia, senza perdere di vista gli obiettivi per cui ci è necessaria. Se ci occupiamo di contenuti, chi incontra il nostro lavoro non deve pensare alla tecnologia che c’è dietro: se lo fa vuol dire che il nostro lavoro è passato in secondo piano. E a meno che non siamo noi i produttori di quella tecnologia, qualcosa è andato storto. Scritto con @gabalese. «”Tecnologia” è il termine che descrive qualcosa che ancora non funziona», dice Douglas Adams ridimensionando con una battuta molte delle false prospettive da cui rischiamo di rimanere abbagliati, quando dobbiamo prendere delle decisioni a riguardo. Se abbiamo a che fare con i contenuti, oggi, ci piaccia o no, lavoriamo anche con la tecnologia: sul piano del prodotto, della comunicazione e dell’ambiente in cui entrambi abitano. Quello che non va dimenticato – e non è una contraddizione – è che, altrettanto probabilmente, la tecnologia sarà la parte meno rilevante del nostro progetto.
