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  • What’s The Problem With Problems? | Slow Leadership on 2008-10-09
    • Most people believe that their problems are unique to them. Many people believe problems are not a good thing to have.
    • If you live, then you will have problems. Problems are requisite to life as we know it.
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  • I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Leadership | PBS on 2008-10-08
    • why Windows Vista was so late to market and such a mess when it finally shipped. Vista had plenty of management, but not very much leadership.
    • This week former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said that John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and Joe Biden were all ill-suited to be CEOs of major corporations.
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  • I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Door Number Three | PBS on 2008-10-08
    • I have been fired from every job I have ever held.
    • Most of the times I have been fired it’s because I’ve been judged to be unmanageable, which is to say I won’t shut up. The ultimate reason given is usually something minor. The last time around, for example, I was fired because I didn’t transfer the cringely.com domain to my employer.
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  • trendwatching.com: PERKONOMICS on 2008-10-02
    • For years, airlines, hotels, credit card companies and private banks have been cleverly rewarding their most valuable customers with surprises, status symbols and convenience.
    • Anything that you can do to help save consumers' precious time is worth its weight in, well, long lazy uninterrupted days. And that includes not wasting people’s time, too ;-)
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  • Google Maps Assembler on 2008-10-02
  • Training workers in PKM (personal knowledge management) on 2008-09-28
      • Personal Productivity Improvement: (leading practice: Ernst & Young, KPMG)

        1. Pre-interview each employee in the organization to
          understand their job, what knowledge and technology they use and how
          they use it.
        2. Pre-assemble a file of possible 'leave-behinds' -- 'cheat
          sheets', step-by-step instructions, FAQs, bookmark lists etc. that the
          employee is likely to find useful, based on your previous PPI sessions
          with others with similar jobs or learning styles.
        3. If you don't already have a personal content management program (see below) get this set up for the employee first.
        4. Schedule about an hour face-to-face with the employee. The
          first half-hour should be spent observing and asking questions of the
          employee to identify significant productivity problems. The second
          half-hour should be spent showing
          the employee more effective ways of doing their work, stepping them
          through the leave-behinds, answering questions and getting feedback
          from the employee on the value they feel they have received from the
          session.
        5. Compile a list of observations and systemic problems that
          PPI cannot resolve, and present them to senior management for them to
          address.
      • Personal Content Management:

        1. Work with each individual employee to help them organize
          and index their 'My Documents' and e-mail folders in a way that makes
          sense for them. A standard firm-wide taxonomy is rarely appropriate and
          with current technology it is no longer necessary. Each person's files
          should be set up the way they would set up their personal filing
          cabinet if the documents were all hard-copy. Rather than by
          subject-matter, the most effective organization scheme is often 'taskonomic' rather than taxonomic -- indexed by how
          or when it will be (re-)used.
        2. Deploy Google Desktop or some other fast, simple, powerful desktop search tool.
        3. Use RSS feeds to simplify 'publishing' and 'subscribing' to
          others' content, and show employees how to use them and how to
          integrate this content into their personal taxonomy.
        4. If you have canvassing and/or harvesting programs (see below) show employees how to use them and how to integrate this content
          into their personal taxonomy.
        5. Develop and disseminate (with simple one-page instructions
          or FAQs) routines and practices for effectively capturing, filing and
          finding relevant knowledge in the context of what it is to be used for.
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  • How we learn and why we don't on 2008-09-28
    • we hardly ever do anything together
      anymore. The job of the typical specialized 'knowledge worker' today
      (despite the prevalent and somewhat fraudulent hype about collaboration
      and work 'teams') is mostly individual, solitary activities and
      experiences. And social and family discourse often centres around the
      passive and individual watching of television or films or listening to
      music. We often don't even eat together anymore, the primeval, original
      social activity of all species.
      • Here is my list of the
        top 10 constraints to learning in our modern culture:

        1. We don't allow ourselves (and society doesn't allow us) enough time for wonder.
        2. Our workplace activities and our home routines are often repetitious and stimulus-poor.
        3. We don't do anything together anymore.
        4. We get too much of our life experience second-hand (from books & movies, and online).
        5. We suffer from imaginative poverty -- we won't let ourselves imagine, and now we've largely forgotten how to imagine.
        6. Our lives are too organized and too scheduled to allow serendipitous experiences and hence serendipitous learning.
        7. In this world full of terrible knowledge and awful
          realities, we are becoming afraid to learn. We cannot bear too much
          reality, too much bad news, and we don't want to accept the awful
          responsibility that knowing and learning brings with it.

        8. Everything about the current Western educational system impedes and discourages learning.
        9. The media have addicted themselves, and us, to facts rather than meaning.
        10. We have 'desensitized' ourselves -- we process everything mainly with our left brain, so we no longer really see, really hear, really smell, really taste, really feel.
  • How we are inefficient on 2008-09-28
    • "We don't know how to effectively organize, manage and find
      the information we have now, in our offices, on our laptops, and in the
      few shared databases we use, so we waste a huge amount of time 'looking
      for stuff'."
    • "We don't know who to talk to, to get information we need quickly, inexpensively and effectively."
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  • Become a More Effective Leader by Asking One Tough Question - Marshall Goldsmith on 2008-09-27
    • What prevents us from making the changes we know will make us more effective leaders?
    • The 'do-nothings' were good people with good values. They were intelligent
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  • The Art of Nonconformity » Time Is Money? on 2008-09-27
    • Like money, time is limited. But unlike money, once time is gone, there’s no getting it back. You can’t earn back what has been spent.
    • The story is about a Zen student who is running from a tiger in the forest.


      The tiger is catching up to him, and the only way out is to jump over a cliff that leads to certain death on the rocks below.


      With no real options, the Zen student jumps over the cliff, and just manages to grab on to a branch halfway down.


      Beside the branch is a bush of wild strawberries, and the student reaches over with one free hand and takes one.


      With the tiger above him and certain death on the rocks below him, he slowly eats the strawberry.


      And as he does, he thinks, “This is the best strawberry I have ever tasted.”


      ***


      Thank you for your attention. Now, get back to work.


      Because Time Is Money… right?

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