To be wrong all the time is an effort, but some manage it…
William Feather
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Going up
To climb the ladder of success you must get through the crowd at the bottom.
Anonymous
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Few start from the top, and in most of the cases they miss what you learn starting from the bottom.
Is a tough path, but taking it to the end brings lot of pride.
But always remember and respect the people you met at the start that didn’t make it.
You’re there, because of yourself and because each of this persons brought to you to push you up.
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Decisions
Those who are quick in deciding are in danger of being mistaken…
Sophocles
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Talent
The world will not recognize your talent until you demonstrate it…
Arnold Glasow
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Unfortunately, also the most crystal clear talent needs to be demonstrated. This applies to everything, including work.
You cannot simply stay there and wait for someone to discover you.
So try to put yourself under the light, but remember not to exaggerate because a talented person that exposes himself too much risk of shifting to ridiculous.
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Stocks
The way to make a small fortune in the Stock Market is to start with a large one.
Anonymous trader
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Saying no to customers
Kathy Cuff at Blanchard Leaderchat writes an article on a theme I’ve touched many times here (see this for example, on a part of this puzzle).
The theme is explored using her children trainer as an example, but is quite clear and I agree with her: Saying “no” to customers sometimes is the best thing to do.
Client seeks especially in consultant a confirmation of the strategy and support to pursuit. But just because you’re an external party, you can see things from a different angle and just because you’re there to support, saying no can be the right option.
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Leadership
Jim Stroup at Managing leadership wrote a good article on leadership and the not so useful attempts made sometimes to reverse engineer this quality.
Jim writes: “[...]
Have you ever had a boss that clearly had his (or her, of course) act together? He seemed to have all the answers, could grasp the core issue of a problem and resolve it on the fly, and understood every aspect of the business from everyone’s perspective – employees, vendors, customers, even prospects.
This all made him the focal point of everyone’s attention. Everything emanated from him, and everything that was sought but not found could be asked of him. This is all pretty heady leadership material, isn’t it? [...] The qualities often associated with leadership aren’t its building blocks; rather, to the extent they exist at all, they’re wholly incidental consequences of the focus on their duties invested by dedicated managers. They’re likely not even actually the personal qualities of the person with whom they’re associated, but rather are those of a diverse cadre of people and experiences that person draws them from. [...]”
I say what I always said: aiming leadership is a path shared with the experience. While you walk, you meet persons (with their style and experience) and you take a little brick from everything and everyone and this reinforces your leadership.
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Arriving
The two great tragedies in life: not getting what one wants and getting it.
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Arriving to a point is difficult. But sometimes seems that the pleasure is not in reaching the top, but in trying to reach the top. Then when you’re there all the excitement disappears.
Never sit down and find always motivation, even if you’re up there.
And when you don’t feel the excitement of having conquered your mountain, just think what you did to get there and be proud of it.
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Spin off
The universe is all a spinoff of the Big Bang.
Anonymous
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Facebook IPO is really worth or it is a bet?
Paul Sloan at cnet writes an opinion on Facebook IPO.
He writes “[...] When Facebook executives and its bankers hit the road Monday to pitch the company’s public offering to money managers, two questions will surely face prospective investors: Should we worry about the slowdown in the business? And what’s up with Zuck calling the shots on, well, everything?
The answer to the first question is yes. Facebook does state in its IPO filing that “rates of user and revenue growth will decline over time.” And while the company still has unprecedented reach — an astounding 526 million active daily users — that’s a troubling harbinger given how Facebook has boosted revenue over the years by adding more users to its service.
But what Facebook will do to make more money off that already giant audience leads to the second question, which is a lot harder to answer: Can Mark Zuckerberg can keep coming up with the right answers? [...] ”
I don’t like Facebook “world” nor the way it is managed by Mr. Zuck.
But I do have to admit that the idea was good and well followed, and definitely brought to the billion giant we all know.
The problem now will be if the bubble remains and continues to grow or it will blow up.
I think that maintaining this levels of expectations is not feasible. Though in some way is desirable for all of us that the Facebook bubble doesn’t explode, but either remains stable or slowly decreases, because a burst will be a(nother) problem for the economy.
I also fear the “high school” approach that is a distinctive point of Mr. Zuck company, because a company that owns almost a sixth of all world personal data cannot afford to have holes in security like happened in recent past, And moreover now will be a public company, with all the risks (economic and not) connected in violating this kind of rules.
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