Photo essays - Jan Sochor Photography How a Leader’s Behavior Affects Team Members When I worked at Countrywide/Bank of America, I worked under one of the harshest middle-managers in the company. My boss Rhonda was known throughout the company as a stickler to the rules who chose manuals and numbers over people. I spent a lot of time with her behind closed doors, working on priority projects that remained hidden from the average worker—I sat behind the curtains of Oz, helping to operate the gears and pulleys of one of the largest fraudulent machines in human history. How Rhonda convinced an honest and hardworking man to lend a hand in perpetrating widespread financial crimes for the largest bank in the United States illustrated to me how a leader’s behavior affects team members. Trickle Down Effect When left to my own devices, I’m a good-natured, mild-mannered person; I never wish anyone any intentional harm. The atmosphere at Countrywide leading up to their bankruptcy and the subsequent financial crisis was interesting—everyone threw money around like it was water.
25 TED Talks that will change how you see the world Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” If this sounds like a philosophy you can relate to, then you’ll love TED talks. These informational 17 minute presentations are given at annual conferences by some of the world’s greatest thinkers. Their aim is simple: To inspire ideas and change attitudes around the world. 1. Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. 2. Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. 3. Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. 4. In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Entrepreneur Startup Advice I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by F’ing up at my first company. I think the sign of a good entrepreneur is the ability to spot your mistakes, correct quickly and not repeat the mistakes. I made plenty of mistakes. Below are some of the lessons I learned along the way. For now it’s mostly an outline for me to follow (in no particular order). Disclaimer: I ran two SaaS software companies. 1. 2. You also need to consider founder scenarios, ownership, prenuptials and stock options. Learning to work with lawyers. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42.
Studying for better retention and better grades Main page Studying for better retention and better grades There are 3 memory processes that affect our ability to understand, store and retrieve information. Each can improve with practice. encoding or transforming an experience (like a lecture or a reading assignment) from something heard or written on a page into signals in your brain. Strategies 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Elaborative Rehearsal Elaborative rehearsal is the most effective way of transferring information into long-term memory. Cognitive/concept maps help make the relationships between ideas clear by visualizing them, usually by drawing arrows and writing the nature of the relationship along the line. Outlines allow organization of complex information. Matrices help clarify how related concepts are similar to and different from each other. Flash Cards can qualify as an Elaborative strategy if you re-organize them in different ways, and keep trying to reduce them to fewer and fewer words. Deep Processing (encoding) 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4.
36 Questions That Help You Choose the Right Career Life is short but around 50% of our life is spent on working. If you don’t feel happy about what you’re doing, you may be leading a harder life than those who love their job. Choosing the right career can make a difference in your life. Go through the following questions that could help you choose the right career. What are your dreams and aspirations?What difference do you want to make to this world? The “best job for everyone” doesn’t exist, the career you want to lead may not truly suit your personality and the job which seems to suit your ability may not be the career you love. Wondering if you've got the wrong job? Featured photo credit: A red heart in a suit pocket representing the business card of modern Mr.
100 Websites You Should Know and Use In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH.
johnnylists 1. slimvoice.co – Create insanely simple invoices. 2. wetransfer.com – Transfer up to 2 GB of data. 3. similarweb.com – Get insights for any website or app. 4. coffitivity.com – Ambient sounds to boost creativity. 5. nibbler.silktide.com – A tool for testing website accessibility, SEO, and social media. 6. crowdriff.com/riffle – Get Twitter engagement, interest and activity analytics in real time 7. woorank.com – Another analytical website tool. 8. redditlater.com – Find out the best times to post on reddit.com. 9. builtwith.com – Find out what websites are built with. 10. mailchimp.com – Create an email newsletter for your users. 11. surveymonkey.com – Create surveys, get answers. 12. joinme.com – Instant screen sharing for meetings. 13. hootsuite.com – Streamline your social presence. 14. strikingly.com – Make a beautiful website for free. 15. unroll.me – Clean up your inbox. 16. picmonkey.com – Photo editing made easy. 17. growthhackers.com – A marketing discussion community.
8 Books For a Higher Existence Books are magical inventions. By carrying meaning, they gives us glimpses of experience and knowledge from a different world. Phonetic language, being cut-off from time and place, the Now, helps both to encapsulate the ego more, but also to offer guidance to make it poriferous, letting Eros free. Without books we would lose this guidance. If you’re done reading this list and want to level up more – check out part two! Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche’s most prophetic book in which he offers his teachings through the words of Zarathustra, based on the Persian prophet Zoroaster, who, after spending ten years on a mountain in meditation only accompanied by his Eagle and Serpent, comes down to offer his wisdom to the world. Becoming Animal – David Abram Abram’s first book The Spell of the Sensuous convincingly argued that being human is inseparably interconnected with everything that is not human. The Story of B – Daniel Quinn
How fear of failure destroys success Trial and error are usually the prime means of solving life’s problems. Yet many people are afraid to undertake the trial because they’re too afraid of experiencing the error. They make the mistake of believing that all error is wrong and harmful, when most of it is both helpful and necessary. Error provides the feedback that points the way to success. In fact, one of the greatest misfortunes you can meet early in a project is premature—yet inevitably still partial—success. Cultures of perfectionToo many organizations today have cultures of perfection: a set of organizational beliefs that any failure is unacceptable. Imagine the stress and terror in an organization like that. Clinging to the pastIf some people fail to reach a complete answer because of the lure of some early success, many more fail because of their ego-driven commitment to what worked in the past. Why high achievers failEvery strength can become a weakness. Achievement is a powerful value for many successful people.
Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29 So you've procrastinated again. You told yourself you wouldn't do this 2 months ago when your professor assigned you this. But you procrastinated anyway. Shame on you. Pick a Topic The more "legally-oriented" your topic is, the better. Make a list ...of every possible outcome that this issue could cause in...the near future...the far future...of every person that this topic affects....of any instances where this topic has come in the news....what you would do about this topic if you had the chance/power/enough-sugar...any little detail you can think ofThe important thing about this is to think of ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, no matter how silly or far-fetched. Reorder everything Put your most obvious argument first. Then put weird off the wall stuff, regardless of importance. Put the strongest argument for your case next. Now list the incidents that will help argue for your point. It's best to keep all this in the form of an outline. Spaces Now print it out. Write
7 Reasons Why You Should Quit Your Job And Follow Your Dream Quit your job. Follow your dreams. Chase your passion. These seemingly cliché pieces of advice are often repeated whenever you encounter motivational blogs and inspirational websites, right? Why is this so? While we also advocate that you quit your job and follow your dreams, there are some disclaimers that you need to be aware of — we don’t want you to act rashly: Have a fully filled emergency fund worth 3-6 months’ of your expenses as a cushion.Consider the possibility of your job connecting you to your dream.As early as now, look at your dream objectively and determine how you can turn it into a sustainable source of income. Are you already finished? Well, if you’re sure that you’re ready to quit your job and start living your dream now, here are seven reasons to compel you and motivate you to take the great leap: 1. Follow your dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs. 2. 3. 4. You’re motivated to do great things because you’re in love with what you’re doing. 5. No regrets.
10 counter culture novels that will get you high on life From the European Romantics of the 18th century avant-garde to the pre-WWI Bohemians, the world’s been struck by many a powerful counter-cultural movement. The one that’s closest to our hearts, though, spanned the mid-twentieth century, and was rooted in the USA: from the post-War 1940s right though to the early days of the 1970s, America was bombarded with hippies, flower-power, drop-outs, squatters, pacifist campaigners and (not least) feminists, each of them battling against the status-quo and the staid, conservative middle-classes. And what helped to stir this revolutionary stew? Why, books, of course! Writers were right there in the thick of it, scribbling literary rallying cries that we’re still hearing today. It’s hard to know where to start – Hunter S. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969) It’s trippy, it’s tragic, and It’s one of the finest, saddest, most savage indictments of war ever written. Franny and Zooey, J.D. The Group, Mary McCarthy (1963)