We are what we repeatedly do. If you want to be really good at something, it’s going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone, along with frustration, struggle, setbacks and failures.
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 they may quote whatever you say to them on twitter or in the blogosphere.
Thank about it next time you’re at a conference. Would you want your boss, co-workers or customers to read what you just said?
Good advice: “It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. People have blind spots about where they’re weak,” says Scott Erker, a senior vice president at DDI, which conducted the survey in September.
“How to be safe in a foreign country” has some good tips on things to do prior and during your trips to any country you’re not familiar with. Do your research before you go there (protests in Bangkok perhaps?), make copies of your documents, take important contact information with you, and a host of other tips (like: don’t look like a tourist 🙂 ).
You can read the original post here. And if trouble does break loose, check out the “how to survive a riot” article.
And if things really go south, and you happen to get stuck in a war zone, the “Dark arts for good guys” series over at this site may be an entertaining – althought slightly worrying – read.
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