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June 23, 2014
Leadership Is Not A Role!
One of the most common mistakes, I have encounter in my career, was about the nature of leadership! Most people argue that leadership was an intrinsic role in modern business and in our society, while many others support the personal nature of leadership. Both sides have right, of course, and both sides have wrong too! Leadership is many things! If you have to tag it though, you should be most defiantly would go for the function part of leadership!
Leadership Is Not A Role?
Leadership is not a...
June 16, 2014
50 Something!
This post, should be called “Things I have learned after 50 years“, instead of “50 Something“, but the title selected seems more appropriate! Today I’m 50 years old plus 1 day and I feel not at all different from previous days! In fact, the “50 years old +” phrase does not signifies any bad connotation, as those I would have imagined in previous years or any diminishing in my capabilities, as those we have learned to associate with older ages. My “passage” in my 50s seems very normal and foll...
June 12, 2014
Book Review: All In StartUp, by Diana Kander
We tell stories. We like to tell stories, because it is one of the ways toward knowledge. Some of us tell better the stories, while other people tell better stories. Period! It is wonderful, when a story conveys real experience towards real situations, because it permit us to draw many conclusions for subjects of our own interest!
It is more useful when, once a while, came a story, that really can teach you a lot of things, about business. And can make a difference! Especially when it comes fr...
June 9, 2014
5 Steps to Building Your Platform [Infographic]
This is an infographic, created byDave Whitlock ofPrinciple Designfor the excellent book Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World
, by Michael Hyatt.
In today’s world, platform is an essential element, for anyone wants, to spread his or her message, to a broad audience! Michael Hyatt, demonstrates, in his book, in the simplest way, how you can do this.
This infographic, describes the 5 important steps you need to make, in order to build your own platform, and the strategy behind it, for having suc...
June 5, 2014
How I Use The Social Metrics Plugin for WordPress
I use the Social Metrics Plugin for WordPress, to monitor the “social life” of my posts. This plugin is exceptional good, in present you how well your articles have traveled down the funnel of social media and what reception they had. This information is important for me, because show me the articles have gone well against the articles have not traveled beyond my site! This knowledge help me to discern the pattern working or not and assist me to build better posts!
About Platforms
A platform is...
June 2, 2014
Monthly Review – May 2014
The Monthly Review for April 2014 is a collection of the most interesting posts and articles, presented in this blog and articles of interest from around the web!
Graphic courtesy of Wordle.net
This month I started, again, my 2014 readers survey in order to find more information about the preferences of my readers.
As a lot of my readers have noticed, this month I change the basic theme of my site, using, now theGet Noticed! Theme for WordPress. At the same time, I start employing a new plug-in...
May 29, 2014
Picking The Right Leaders
Leadership is a process that involves directing and guiding a group to do the right things so as to attain a certain intended set goal. It is misinterpreted with management in most cases. Management however is more procedural oriented as leadership is concerned with all parties doing what is right.
The best managers should have leadership sk...
May 26, 2014
New Site Design Redux!
Most readers in my site, would have noticed lately, that a lot things, happen “under the hood“. The fact is that I try to make my site more “user-friendly”, while, at the same time, I would like to reach a maximum of usefulness for my readers! This balance is not always easy, especially in the blogging world!
A Balance To Be Reached, Or New Site Design?
In blogging world, if you omit “user-friendly” elements from your design, you lose readers. Simple as that! And your content is never reached t...
May 22, 2014
How To Build Momentum And Awareness
It is not easy to build momentum and awareness in present market conditions. It is even more difficult, when you gain it (as a person, company or organization) to sustain it for a long period of time. But momentum, in business as in sports, is what it would differentiate you from your opponents! So it is important, in today’s competitive market, to find a way not only to build but and sustain the momentum you are going to need!
What Momentum Is, Anyway!
Momentum, in general, can be defined as:
:...
May 19, 2014
How To Write 4 In Between 5?
Is it possible to write 4 in between 5? Is it a math quiz? Is it difficult to answer? Or not!
It is a question made without a particular reason! Perhaps out of amusement, boredom, or simple, out of jest! It is a question though, all the same, and it needs an answer.
80% of the responders, could not find the correct answer! Or any answer at all, for what’s matter. Could not make the “significant” link, would provide them with a base of reference. It is not math, or rocket science. It just needs...
