9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact. There's a chart I saw recently that I can't get out of my head.
A Harvard business professor and economist asked more than 5,000 Americans how they thought wealth was distributed in the United States. This is what they said they thought it was. Dividing the country into five rough groups of the top, bottom, and middle three 20% groups, they asked people how they thought the wealth in this country was divided. Then he asked them what they thought was the ideal distribution, and 92%, that's at least 9 out of 10 of them, said it should be more like this, in other words more equitable than they think it is.
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium. Thursday, January 6, 2011 By Paul Ford I look forward to your feedback.
I sometimes chat with people in the book- and magazine-publishing industries. They complain to me about the web. They worry about what is being lost. Books are not product. I call the people who say such things the Gutenbourgeois. “Look,” I say, “maybe you're doing it wrong.” “But,” they say, “we tweet.” That's when I tell them about the fundamental question of the web. The Fundamental Question of the Web One can spend a lot of time defining a medium in terms of how it looks, what it transmits, wavelengths used, typographic choices made, bandwidth available.
Here's one question: “I'm bored, and I want to get out of the house and have an experience, possibly involving elves or bombs. The answer: You could go to a movie. How Geniuses Think. 109Share Synopsis Thumbnail descriptions of the thinking strategies commonly used by creative geniuses.
How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced "Mona Lisa," as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value. Train Your Brain for Monk-Like Focus. Recalibrate Your Reality. Forget Self-Improvement. Your Boss Is Bad For You: Why Bad Bosses Infect Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them. "The person above my boss, while nice, liked my boss too much to do anything about her.
" That's exactly the situation I'm in. My boss is a total idiot, but his superior thinks he's the coolest guy in the world. And there's only a small group of employees here that will admit that he's an idiot. The rest just want to continue sucking up. It's highly annoying, isn't it? 90% of the Decisions You Make Don’t Matter. In my post The 5 Ps: Achieving Focus in Any Endeavor I noted that “90% of the decisions you make don’t matter; real success comes in being able to identify the 10% that do and focus on those.”
The best, most effective, leaders are able to free their teams up to get stuff done by making lots of decisions quickly and enabling those decisions to stick. We all regularly hear criticisms of ineffective leadership voiced as “Decisions take forever” or “No decisions are ever made” or “We’re always flip-flopping; decisions never stick”. Effective decision making starts with an understanding that, in the long term, very, very few things actually matter. The vast majority (90%!) Of the issues we face in a team, day to day, are EITHER meaningless minutia OR easy to deal with. New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins Is A Patsy Set Up To Fail. A patsy is a person that is easily taken advantage of, the guy that gets set up to take the fall so the big wigs in power can extricate themselves from a situation free from blame.
As you may have heard, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has named a new CEO today, Thorsten Heins. He takes over for co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis who are both moving to non-operational seats on RIM's board of directors. Poor Heins. This is a big break for a guy that started his career as an engineer. Yet, Balsillie and Lazaridis are setting Heins up to fail. When a new CEO takes over the seat of an ailing major technology question, the first thing to look for is talk that the old ways, the ways that got a company in trouble in the first place, are going out the window. On the other hand, there is Heins.
"I don't think there is some drastic change needed. Wait, wait ... stop me if you heard this before. Can you use hostage negotiation techniques to improve your life at work and at home. This post on Google+ statistics is a billion* times better than any other post. In Thursday’s Google earnings call, CEO Larry Page told the world that the company’s fledgling social network, Google+ has reached 90 million registered users.
He went on to say that, “Over 60 percent of Google+ users use Google products on a daily basis. Over 80 percent of Google+ users use Google products every week.”