... crucial sales campaign that in the best
case may enable the company to raise everyone’s pay and in
the worst case may result in huge layo s and possibly even
the company’s demise. It was a bet-the-farm ... are feeling
vulnerable, because it will inform all your
actions, big and small. Years ago, during a
downturn, I was a consultant toa supply-
chain group within Hewlett-Packard called
SPaM. ... Fear and para-
noia are running wild, not just in fi nancial markets but in
workplaces, too. A few weeks back a weary executive at a
professional services fi rm told me how painful it had been...
... Derivatives
IDEAS ARE CHEAP.
THROW A GOOD IDEA AWAY & FIND ANOTHER.
MAKING IDEAS AWESOME IS WHAT’S REALLY HARD.
ENOUGH.
JUST FOR NOW.
1. Assume there will will always be tools that
are better than the ones ... embarrassingly minute percentage of
the universe.
4. Assume that none of this matters if you’re
determined to make something you care
about today.
– This guy again.
I told you he was smart.
IDEA
IS ... credits:
1. Mohawk man: flickr.com/tommyforbes
2. John Hodgman: flickr.com/darthdowney
3. Farting unicorn: photobucket.com/anime_lover-122792
4. Merlin Mann caricature: drawn by Dave Gray of Xplane -...
... girlfriend and I had moved into. I had a great job and a relationship which was
moving towards marriage and starting a family. I remember sitting there and hearing the
question in my head, “what if ... the hard part it has tobe
you! It has tobe the person you feel inside you really want to be. This has nothing to do
with material possessions or anything physical. We’re talking about character ... or better and would finally be happy. But guess what? As I’m sure
many if you already know, there was always something else after that. The cycle never
ends.
Chasing a Fantasy
Success and happiness...
...
Writing Process
Thinking and talking about type, purpose,
audience
Gathering ideas/information
Organising
What you have to say (Content)
Drafting
Editing
Checking grammar,
punctuation, ... personal reading so that you know
what to talk about.
Talk to them about what you enjoy
reading.
WRITING
Range of Purposes
Entertain
Give information
Persuade
Explain
Describe
Give instructions
... editing and presentation.
♦
Encourage them to focus initially on what they are trying to say.
♦
Act asa sounding board for their ideas for writing.
♦
Encourage independent use of dictionaries and...
... strengths. Or to
say, tobe honest about yourself and your business creates growth as an individual and asa
company; it’s also the path to mastery and success. Tobe honest with your partners will
nourish ... have been unfairly robbed by unethical or unscrupulous
companies. Sadly enough, it’s nothing unusual. Another important area that can be given
insights into is a concept of “integrity factor” ... colleagues and improve
performance In fact, it has been scientifically demonstrated that emotional intelligence
and successful intelligence are actually more important in predicting success in...
... swimming,
and flying. To make it easier to administer, all the animals took all the
subjects.
The duck was excellent in swimming. In fact, he was better than his
instructor was! However, he made ... I was speaking at a national Chick-fil -A
conference, a restaurant manager asked me a question: How do you
develop good leaders?”
My answer was, “Find people who are potentially good leaders.” ... sign, and why I was so surprised. While I was thinking about
generating income and maximizing profits, she was thinking about
avoiding too much work.
Three Reasons Not to Send Your Ducks to Eagle...
... by using interfaces that expose as little information
as possible.
lingua franca
A language so popular astobea de facto standard for its field,
as French was for international diplomacy at one ... useful.
strawman
A document meant tobe the starting point of a technical dis-
cussion. A strawman may lead toa stickman, tinman, wood-
man, ironman, etc.
tribe
A group of people you share cultural affinity ... succeed.
1.2. Howto Utilize Embedded Languages
Embedding a programming language into a system has an almost erotic fascination toa program-
mer. It is one of the most creative acts that can be performed....
... as:
• Using a debugging tool,
• Printlining Making a temporary modification to the program, typically adding lines that
print information out, and
• Logging Creating a permanent window into the ... the best language for the job, and in so doing make work
more interesting.
Programming languages should really be called notations in that learning one is not at all as diffi-
cult as learning a ... multi-
threaded application servers in Java™ behind Apache™ web servers. To maintain fast page turns,
we do all I/O in small set of four separate threads that are different than the page-turning threads.
Every...
... year, or summer internships. Be prepared to start at the bottom,
prove yourself tobea valuable extra pair of hands, and in return you’ll get an insight
into the industry as well asa fantastic ... time
working in an editorial office to fully
understand howa magazine is put
together. It also provides an
interesting insight into social
anthropology. Have you ever spent the
day ina small car ... spelling/typing errors. When a company has
several hundred applications to wade through, a spelling mistake is enough to
put your application straight in the bin.
4. Use a PC to produce your CV and...
... ta cần có,
perhaps the most important one, is called relational capital. cũng có lẽ là loại giữ vai trò quan trọng nhất, nguồn lực vốn quan hệ.
A transformational leader has relational capital. ... có tiếng.
Let's listen as Nido Qubein teaches us howto change Hãy lắng nghe Nido Qubein hướng dẫn chúng ta cách thay đổi
things for the better through Transformational Leadership. mọi ... is called educational capital. Loại hình vốn thứ hai mà bạn có là vốn giáo dục.
Just what we're doing today. Today we're expanding, Đó là những gì chúng ta đang làm ngày hôm nay. Hôm...