HBDYWI… How bad do you want it?
How bad do you want it? It’s a question you need to ask yourself before taking up anything. How bad do you want to get ahead? How bad do you want that promotion, that job? How bad do you want to get (back) in shape? Are you willing to do what it takes? Honestly, most...
Personal brand and personal brain
You are what you tweet. How to work on your personal brand online, throught Fast Company. Using social networking to build your professional brand. I’m not sure if I’d follow the advice to “find five new people to follow or connect with every day”. That’s 1825 people...
Steve Jobs on marketing & identifying your core values
Next to the products, Steve Jobs also drove the marketing of Apple relentlessly forward. Click here to read the article and see the presentation on how he talks about getting the company back on message, after he took the helm of the company again. Once you're done...
Five years later…
Posted this in 2006.. Not much seems to have improved. The way of the future indeed.
One more argument against multitasking
We may think we multitask, but in reality we switch-task, and it's not doing us any good, according to an article at HBR. The author of the article stopped multitasking, and discovered six things: First, it was delightful. Second, he made significant progress...
Personal social media strategies
Harvard Business Review has an interesting article on personal social media strategies. The first example in the article really drives it home. Even if you don't have a social media strategy yourself, or are not active on social media, others that talk to you are, and...
Reading: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Malcolm Gladwell) Gladwell describes three separate agents of change: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor and the Power of Context. Each of these has extraordinary power to move the Tipping Point....
Reading: How to Think
How to Think (Stephen Reid) In a fast and complex world, we can’t work any harder so we have to work smarter. The ability to think clearly, quickly and creatively is crucial, yet many of us don’t realise how limited our thinking is. Intriguing book on how to ‘think’...
Will we be matched by machines by 2029?
Tagging on my previous post on "shift happens", ever serious site BBC Machines states that machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029. And we'll be having nanobots inside our bodies.Click here for the full article.
Flashback: The Double Life
For years, I've lived a double life.In the day, I do my job - I ride the bus, roll up my sleeves with the hoi-polloi.But at night, I live a life of exhilaration, of missed heartbeats and adrenalin.And, if the truth be known, a life of dubious virtue.I won't deny it -...