Problems and Solutions (1)
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I am doing my best to raise children who solve their own problems. Starting in toddlerhood my children hear the word "resourceful" used frequently as a compliment and an exhortation. My children know that we will help them to resolve their conflicts if necessary, but that the expected first step is to ask for what they need from the other party. This is not to say that I delight in uncomfortable conversations myself, or that ...
Dyslogistic Speech – Are You A Woman? (1)
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I was sitting at a table sipping tea when I heard a man say to another, “You know he’s a little b**tch, right?” Um, gee what was he trying to say? That the man was gay? That the man expressed feelings? Perhaps the person in question was on the rag, metaphorically speaking. Not the first time I’ve heard men using the B-word to refer to another man in such a manner. Dyslogistic speech is a ...
How We Fly: Aircraft as Career Metaphors (2)
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If you visualize your career (or your entire life) as the piloting of an aircraft, what sort of aircraft do you see? Modes of flight work as great metaphors for your life and career. The story of Icarus, of course, is the best known flight-as-metaphor parable. On the abstract side of the metaphor, you have Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying. On the pseudo-spiritual parable side, you have Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. In this piece ...
“Common sense is not so common” (1)
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Common Sense for Your Biz (2)
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The quote is attributed to Voltaire, but it is something we have all thought or experienced it at one time or another. Government bureaucracy, dealing with children, corporations, things done by our management or colleagues, all of these and many others have occasionally left us shaking our heads wondering who thought of this and why. The real question though is - how often do your co-workers, vendors, customers or clients wonder the same thing about ...
How to Balance Life Through Mental Portfolio (4)
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Have you ever ridden an emotional roller coaster? When things go right, you are happy and cheerful. But when things go wrong, you feel terrible and frustrated. An emotional roller coaster takes you either high or low. If you ever experience it, you know how bad it is. You’re standing on an unstable ground where you don’t know what will happen next. Something unexpected could suddenly break your day. Riding an emotional roller coaster will ...
Some Pointers to Thinking Styles (2)
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Okay, I couldn’t resist that bad pun in the title. I was idly wondering today, while taking my evening stroll to the coffee shop, about one of the most powerful visual icons in our world — the arrow. It is simple, yet supremely expressive. Take a look at this quiver full of twisty arrows I made up, to represent thinking styles. I had some more, but they wouldn’t all fit in this graphic, so if ...
Don’t Think, Just Do (1)
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Cody Robert -- design, code, freelancing, productivity, LIP, travel (2)
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That’s some solid advice. Although it’s very contradictory to what I’ve been told most of my life. Our parents tell us to think things through before we act, which in many respects is a very valuable skill. Pausing to think for a second can help us to avoid many mistakes. If I had stopped to think about what I was going to write for this post and actually thought it out, I’m sure it would ...
Leader, are you taking enough time out to think? (1)
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The Practice of Leadership (27)
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Leaders do not get enough time to think, this is the result of a recent survey. . . "… of nearly 1,200 managers and directors by the UK-based Chartered Management Institute has found more than eight out of 10 struggle to prioritise their work, with conflicting demands pulling them in all directions…. Two-thirds complain they have ‘little time to think’ and more than half struggle to find time to plan strategically…. the majority of managers ...
10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything (10)
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What does it take to succeed? A positive attitude? Well, sure, but that’s hardly enough. The Law of Attraction? The Secret? These ideas might act as spurs to action, but without the action itself, they don’t do much. Success, however it’s defined, takes action, and taking good and appropriate action takes skills. Some of these skills (not enough, though) are taught in school (not well enough, either), others are taught on the job, and still ...
Think Ahead (2)
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Successful people are often great at anticipating. If you want to be promoted as an assistant, anticipate how you can better serve your boss. If you want to be successful in business, anticipate what the market will do. If you want to be successful in church, prayerfully anticipate. What new thing is God going to bless? I try to think ahead by asking questions like these: How are people relating differently? What will relationships and ...
Drowning in Rice and Other Deep Subjects From CMK 08 (1)
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A Piece of My Mind (9)
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Thinking. It is the one thing all of us either don’t do, take too little time to do, don’t have the time to do, or just plain don’t know how to do. So how are we expected to put more time into an already tight school day schedule. This and more is part of our quest for knowledge at the Constructing Modern Knowledge conference here in New Hampshire. Our first day was loaded with theory, ...
Think Big! (1)
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My good friend and church consultant, Dr. Chand, sent me an email. At the bottom by his signature, he listed 5 ways to think. This week, I’ll expand on his five thoughts. Think BIG! Someone once said, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” I believe one of the biggest ministry challenges in our day is small vision. When I started our church in 1996, I dreamed of leading a church ...
Facebook的使用者介面設計 (1)
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社交網站收集與研究 (3)
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分享一篇在『白鸦，以用户为中心的设计』看到的文章，『浅析facebook的信息架构』，分析了Facebook舊的與新的使用者介面，還有另外幾個介面極度類似的社交網站使用者介面，分析的淺顯易懂。 相關推薦 DivVoted : 分享你喜歡的網頁到Twitter上 Facebook開放Cassandra Storage System原始碼 Mozilla Firefox3如何利用社會化網路創造世界紀錄 switchAbit : 一次發佈內容到你所有的網誌與微網誌 社交網站到底值多少錢? ShareThis
防止脑子坏了 (1)
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Limo说我总喜欢把twitter的内容和google reader贡献也聚合到我的wordpress (blog)里面是个非常不好的“恶习”。可是我觉得实在是没有办法，因为现在我能产生的唯一一些有价值的信息估计都在twitter的bitching里面或者google reader的人肉过滤结果里面了。当然，如果3个以上的朋友在twitter或者邮件里面也同意Limo所说我就停止这样的做法。 博文标题说“防止脑子坏了”是因为最近一年经常发生上下文丢失的事情，就是说本来是想做事情A，但是实际上却转去做了事情B、C、D，结果最后一件也没有做好。还有一种情况是要实现一个目标，结果遇到了问题A，结果为了解决问题A又发生了问题B，我又调查了问题C、D、E都没有解决问题B，造成最后很疲惫的一件事情都没做好。我觉得这种情况发生的原因是“思路的丢失”。在一个人的思考习惯有问题的时候就容易发生这种丢失思路的毛病。 这种丢失思路对于我这种看到什么都感兴趣的人来说就造成了什么事都做不专。可是我一直以来是以做事情做的专业自居的（为了我的自信心，不要反驳我的这个说法）。在和Limo pair一些东西的时候我也发现了这种情况，他说你做事的方式有改进的空间。因为我这个人本性里面缺少决断力，所以做事犹豫，所以就需要更多的理由来支持自己，所以非常容易发生分支思路。如果所有的分支思路都去cover一遍，那么付出的努力就会很大。无法让问题收敛并最终达到一开始的目标。 我现在已经意识到了这个问题，我正在思考解决的方法。我听说钱钱同学在学习决断力的课程，我相信用处不大，因为人的思考方式没有那么容易就通过学习班提高。今天我尝试了冥想的方式，自己感觉身体的每一个部位的存在，发现这种类似健康治疗的方法对于集中注意力非常有好处，感觉这是个路子。然后开始执行的就是在电脑工作的时候开一个文本记录思路和所有做过（要做，尽量让要做的分支工作进入堆栈，推后处理），在其它地方做事就尽量用本子记录同样的事情。短期看，已经发现了做事效率的提高，起码减少了不少分支的发生。待续…
Acceleration as Strategy, Urgency as Doctrine (2)
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Three things happened today that created a sort of nuclear reaction in my head. The result was a rather blinding flash of insight concerning a set of knotty problems I am wrangling with. The first thing was a reaction, from a colleague, to a whirlwind burst of activity I put in last night to react to an opportunity. The second was an unusual compliment from another colleague. The third was a pre-release review copy of ...
