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Saturday, January 31, 2009
HTA Director Rex Johnson Stay Or Go
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
http://homeland.gov.safenow.org - what to do in an emergency
LOL. Need a good laugh for the day, check out these funny signs taken from a real anti-terrosim site and one guys funny take on what they must "really mean"
Warning: You may laugh uncontrollably when you read them, I'm not responsible if you get in trouble reading these at work and the boss wonders why you are laughing so hard at work :-)
Enjoy !
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Quick Ways To Make Extra Money
By Marye Audet
Found this interesting article from Marye on ways to earn a little extra money on the side. Several interesting ides here.
If you are feeling a little risky, you can also try out one or more of the free Biz Ideas at mt.bwebcentral.com/biz_ideas [mt.bwebcentral.com/biz_ideas]
Good Luck !
Monday, January 26, 2009
For Those Who Enjoy Language
From the page: "For Those Who Enjoy Language
1. Those who jump off a bridge in Parisâ¦are in-seine.
2. A backward poet writesâ¦inverse.
3. A manâs home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
4. Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
5. Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
6. Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.
7. A man needs a mistressâ¦just to break the monogamy.
8. A hangover is the wrath of grapes."
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Ghoulish Halloween. Fun idea for Halloween. by chocolatebite1 -- Revver Online Video Sharing Network
Here's a quick video for Halloween. The recipe - How to make chocolate covered peanut butter eyeballs.
Give it a try, there goolishly delicious!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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Rizal Almashoor
Good to Great is an awesome book (highly) recommened it for those interested in starting a new business.Based on research done by a team lead by the author.
Studied numerous successful and unsuccessfully businesses in an effort to determine while some companies succeeded while others don’t.Book mainly provides this output to the reader to help gain insight on the type of things that make a company successful.
Predecessor to an earlier book ‘Built to Last’ that discusses how great companies stay great
Key Concepts:
These concepts are based on a ‘flywheel’ mentality, that each of the concepts is one step closer to a ‘spin-off’ of successes, each building and complementing the other.
Good is he Enemy of Great: Discovered that the Great Companies always strived to achieve to be the best, and were not satisfied with a ‘good enough’ mentality. Never satisfied with the status quo but concerned with what else could be done to stand-out.
Level 5 Leadership. Trying to avoid the concept that all problems were related to poor leadership the group discovered they could not quite do this. In fact they identified a 5 Level system from component worker, effective team member, competent manager, effective leader, ‘Level 5 Leader’. Identifying a character tic that companied personal will and personal humility in a ‘ironic’ mix that lead to successes.
Characteristics of a Level 5 leader include looking outward for success and looking inward for responsibility, as well as putting the needs of the company ahead of there own personal needs or desires.
First Who Then What. It was observed that in the most successfully companies, the leaders worked first and foremost to get the right people in the right seats, and then determine where they were headed (what the vision was). In the comparison companies, the vision was usually established first, and the people in the seats may be there due to seniority, or family members etc, and not necessarily due an effective combination of skills and experience.
Confront the brutal facts, and never loose faith. It was observed that successfully companies were able to opening recognize and deal with the problems within the company, knowing that tenacity and perseverance would pay off and lead to eventual successes. The comparison companies would have a blame mentality or it’s the markets fault etc and often would not recognize or correct internal problems quick enough until they already went way out of hand.
The Hedgehog Concept. This is the observation that the successful companies were able to establish vision and strategies by taking complex ideas and breaking them down into simple concepts that could be used to guide any/all decisions. The trick was not about setting complex strategies and new concepts, as much as unifying existing concepts in a smaller, easier to understand pieces. This piece addressed such questions as what are you deeply passionate about, what can you be the best in the world at, and what drives your economic engine (economic denominator)
A culture of Discipline: The concept here is to design systems both with strictness and flexibility, to balance creativity with structure in a disciplined way and to make this way a part of the existing culture. Discipline here must not be confused with Tyranny. This idea encompasses change while still staying within the 3 circles of the defined hedgehog concept
Technology Acceleratos. Possibly a special case of the culture of discipline, here it was observed that lasting companies used technology as a fuel to accelerate the already existing hedgehog concept. Often this would not necessary mean being the first to market, to jump on the bandwagon of a new emerging technology. Instead, of looking to technology as a savour or means to end it was simply adapted to the existing concept of the great company to endure its greatness. Often the comparison companies used an emerging technology to Gail short term success but without the disciplined hedgehog concept could not endure lasting successes.
The Flywheel and the Doom Loop
The Flywheel analogy is an observation that the great companies build to be great in incremental steps from the inside, which may appear to have evolved overnight from the outside. Each step adds on to a previous action with continuous effort and diligence towards and within the
Friday, January 23, 2009
Scientists extract images directly from brain ::: Pink Tentacle
An interesting invention that is both "cool" and "Scary" at the same time.
But you know someone had to come up with it eveanually right?
A combination of medicial devices and computer technology that can (at least in part), read your own mind, and display images in your mind on a computer screen.
Just imagine the possibilities!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Learning Blog: Learning Gmails Web Clips
From the page:
GMail has recently introduced a new service called "Web Clips". With web clips you can know get your own favorite messages shown at the top of the Gmail screen. You know the one that I mean? Where the advertisements usually are?
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Seasonal Blogging, Startups and Work/life balance
I am sure we all have experianced this pull of passions, from work (career), home life, and time for ourselves. There are so many things to focus on and it seems so little time.
As for Jason's YouTube video, here's my 2 cents
1) The notion that there are "Excellent", "Great", "Average" people I would say is incorrect. I think everyone is 'excellent' at something, and many are average at most things. The trick is probably to figure out what your are excellent at and what you are passionate about and work at that.
You can have multiple passions and not just one, but sometimes you have to focus intensily one just one of your passions, but then you need to move on to others.
The person who works 150 hours per week for 12 weeks is really no different then the person who works 40hrs for 52 weeks, they just reach their goals in different ways.
Unlike the Olympics, your life doesn't have to be a race to the finish, he who dies with the most toys isn't really the winner.
I am a fan of Covey's idea from his 7 Habits. Imagine you are at the end of you life looking back and ask yourself which would you regret most, the short term 150hrs week or the life long 40/hrs week. There is no wrong answer, it is a personal decision.
Regardless, awesome post Lisa, Glad to see you're blogging again whatever the reason!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
One dead, dozens sick from bacteria outbreak
It is not often that I hear the president of a company admitting to a mistake and apologizing for such a problem.
It is very sad day for those that have purchased this products and have (or will) become ill or have died.
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