Official Google Reader Blog: A welcome and a look back
These charts should be extremely scary especially to folks in the newspaper and media businesses. If you wanted some hard evidence on consumer preferences for news outlets shifting to the Internet, here you go. The top chart is the number of people who use Google Reader at least once a week. The bottom chart is the number of items read on Google Reader.
Personally, we still buy a daily newspaper.
I am still holding out for lower prices on my Ebook reader of choice. Besides I like dead tree versions of books.
Amazon: Kindle Books Now Outselling Hardcovers
E-books have hit a significant milestone. In each of the last three months, Amazon reports that sales of books for Kindle have outpaced the sale of hardcover books, and that growth is only accelerating.
In a statement, Amazon says that, “over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.”
The hidden trend in the monthly jobs report — and what it means for you | paulacaligiuri.com
There is a big change on the horizon in the way we should conceive of the concept of jobs – and it is dramatically changing how job security will be created in the future. For many, jobs of the future may be more like multiple income generating activities (or gigs) where we leverage our talents and skills. Job security will no longer be derived from being employed 40 hours/week. Rather, it will be something we create for ourselves when our talents and skills are in demand.
This is a mind shift.
The emphasis of the future will be on the skills you bring, rather than the job you occupy. There will be a far greater focus on self-management of both our skills and our network, two critical components of career success. Possessing more sought-out skills and having a strong network will be related to more income opportunities, whether working for a single organization or as an independent contractor.
Perhaps we need to take a collective deep breath and realize that, while change is afoot, this free agent mentality may also come with some upsides:
- You will now have tremendous flexibility to plan and grow your own career, no longer relinquishing career management to an employer.
- You will now have the ability to craft your sources of income across multiple opportunities if this is what you chose to do.
- You will now have the opportunity to engage in a career that fits with your life – and not vice versa.
Thanks Paula. I could not have said this better myself.
Managing the Productivity Paradox – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
This is an HBR IdeaCast podcast interview with Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and author of The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working.
Take 15 minutes and learn a little about ultradian rhythms and the way we work.
For Real Productivity, Less is Truly More – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review
The way we’re working isn’t working — for employees or for their employers. There is a better way to fuel productivity and high performance. The first key to changing the way we work is recognizing that the value of those you manage isn’t generated by the number of hours they work, but rather by how much value they produce during the hours we are working. Working longer hours, juggling more tasks and answering more emails isn’t the solution.
The Future of E-Readers Is Brighter Than We Knew | The Big Money
The report has much more information, including the stunning number that 49 percent of the respondents—whether they were familiar with e-readers—were planning to buy a tablet device within the next three years. (Holy smokes!)
The Strategic Imperative Not to Hire Anybody – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review
While companies may be doing the strategically correct thing by refusing to hire, the collective result is, of course, a catastrophe. Corporations may have concluded that they can grow profits without adding to their ranks, but meanwhile the proportion of the work force un- or underemployed approaches 20%.
The Productivity Myth – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review
Read this article and formulate your own opinion.
(Psst.. I agree with the author)
One Volcano, 4 Friends, and Many Career Ideas | paulacaligiuri.com
Opportunities, even those that change your plans in unexpected ways, may be exactly the ones that will help move your career – and your life – in a wonderful direction.
Attitude. And I’ll keep posting about this so that it sinks in and sticks.
People are often unreasonable and self centered
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind people may accuse you of ulterior motives
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest people may cheat you
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness people may be jealous
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough
Do your best anyway.
For you see in the end it was between you and God
It was never between you and them anyway.
– Mother Theresa
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