Mark Provost: Why the Rich Love Unemployment « naked capitalism
Thought For Today
Change or Die
Seth Godin: The New Face Of Publishing « Radio Litopia
One of the most difficult things you ever have to do as a manager, executive or consultant is helping others to change. Follow this link to an interview with Seth Godin. It’s about 30 minutes long but well worth listening to. Godin’s thoughts about the future of the publishing industry are both scary and on target. Could there be another business so entrenched in the past, so tied to doing things the way they have always been done that its leaders are unable to see the changes all around us and that doing nothing becomes the perfect strategy for a slow and painful business death?
More on Multitasking – 04/23/2001
Interviews – Clifford Nass | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS
“It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They’re terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; they’re terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and they’re terrible at switching from one task to another.”
This interview is worth reading in its entirety.
Watch Listen and Learn – 4/16/2011
Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans – Knowledge@Wharton
“Economic life gets stronger not with bailouts, but with bankruptcies.
Evolution works not with bailouts — there are no bailouts in nature —
but with competition and natural selection.”
Thought for Today – 4/14/2011
Kevin Spacey on Success
A big hat tip to the wonderful folks at Flying Solo where I first watched this stunning short clip.
Watch this clip. You will be inspired.
Rethinking Multitasking
Productivity, Multitasking, and the Death of the Phone – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
Great podcast. I may be biased so here are my disclaimers:
- I have a dumb phone, not a smart phone
- My cell phone is for texting and talking, I use old-fashioned computers for everything else
- I don’t multitask, I uni-task
No Pretzels for You!
Thought for Today 3/5/11
Why the Medium Is Not the Message: Tech News and Analysis «
In all of these cases, the medium — a blog, Twitter, the Kindle, even the Internet itself — isn’t the important thing. It’s just a way of connecting people with things that matter to them, and with other people who matter to them. That is the real power, regardless of the medium.
Six Secrets to a Bulletproof Career
The Six Secrets to a Bulletproof Career – Guest Blog Post by Andrew Neitlich | paulacaligiuri.com
Check out this blog post.
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