6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them You don’t need an MP3 player, a turntable, or a CD player to listen to Tristan Perich’s new album, Noise Patterns. All you need is a pair of headphones—"not earbuds," says the composer—and a willingness to hear music in noise. The 34-year-old Perich’s compositions push the border between white noise and electronic music, frequently straddling the two as if the static on your old television started emitting a strangely beautiful pattern of sound. But Perich doesn’t just compose music: His music is the instrument itself. He composes sound in code, carefully stringing together each 1 and 0 to transform numbers into a symphony. Perich, who studied math, music, and computer science at Columbia and received a masters from NYU's fabled hacking-meets-art Interactive Telecommunications Program, has spent the last dozen years of his life exploring the frontiers of one-bit sound, transforming those lines of 1s and 0s into a living art form. A recorded excerpt from Noise Patterns
The 20 most-watched TEDTalks (so far) Today, on the fifth birthday of TEDTalks video, we’re releasing a new list of the 20 most-watched TEDTalks over the past five years — as watched on all the platforms we track: TED.com, YouTube, iTunes, embed and download, Hulu and more … What a great, mixed-up group this is! Talks about education and creativity, sex and fish, whizzy tech demos and big questions about the universe … it’s a cool snapshot of what we find interesting. The 2012 list of the most popular TEDtalks this far is now online.
The Secrets Of Generation Flux If Wes Anderson ever conjures up a hipster mad scientist, he'll look a lot like Aaron Levie, the cofounder and CEO of an Internet company called Box. Levie's a mess of jangly nerves, topped by a wild mop of hair that he frets as he talks. And, man, can Levie talk, with a motormouth for technology, venture capital, corporate strategy, business history, startup culture, economic forecasting, and on and on and on. He showed up late for our lunch in Manhattan's Tribeca, but not for lack of trying: He had actually run through the streets trying to arrive on time. "Fortunately, I have this," Levie told me, pulling out an inhaler. Looking at him standing there, panting yet still bursting with kinetic energy, I could plainly see the vestiges of the kid he used to be. Levie is a dropout from the University of Southern California. Generation Flux describes the people who will thrive best in this environment. This is the great challenge of 21st-century leadership. Open Revolution What?
The Moment That Lasts Forever | Jeff Wise In an instant, your life changes forever. Your car skids off the road. Your plane clips a wing on landing. In response to my post “How The Brain Stops Time,” more than 100 readers have written to share their experiences of time dilation in the face of intense danger. Reader Alice from Jupiter, Florida writes: Crossing a street one evening, my sister’s boyfriend picked me up and threw me “fireman” style over his shoulder. My sister stated later that it happened so quickly, I simply could not have had time to think all the things I did. With all due respect, I think that Alice’s sister is wrong. In an experiment that demonstrated the role of the amygdala in intensifying fear-related memories, psychologist Christa McIntyre of UC Irvine let rats walk into either a dark or a well-lit chamber. Strange to say, but while most of us try to avoid stress in the course of our daily lives, it’s the stressful, emotionally intense memories that will live with us the longest.
Negotiation Conflict Styles or Profiles Negotiation Styles Understanding the Five Negotiation Styles People often ask "which is the best negotiation style?" As with much management theory there is no single 'best' or 'right' approach. All five profiles of dealing with conflict are useful in different situations. So if you're involved in business negotiations, which negotiation styles are likely to reward you with the biggest profit prizes? Compete (I win - You lose) Competitive style negotiators pursue their own needs - yes, even when this means others suffer. When to use? When you need to act or get results quickly. Competition can be an effective defense or counter balance to use against negotiators with a competitive conflict profile. When you're buying or selling something as a once off (e.g. selling your own home or car to a stranger), then your negotiation will likely be more competitive than say if you were selling to a close friend or family member, or if you were in a business to business negotiation. What's the Danger?
Low Testosterone (Low T) Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment by MedicineNet What is the definition of low testosterone (low-T)? An underproduction of testosterone causes low-T in men and women. Testosterone is a hormone required for male development and sexual function and is produced primarily in the testicles.Testosterone is responsible for building muscle and bone mass, sperm production, and sex drive.Testosterone influences male pattern fat distribution, bone density, and red blood cell production.In the normal developing male, testosterone peaks during early adulthood. Once you reach age 30, testosterone levels slowly decline by approximately 1% a year. What are normal ranges or levels of testosterone in men? The low limit of testosterone levels in men is about 300 nanograms per deciliter and the upper normal limit is approximately 1000-1200 ng/dl. Low Libido (Low Sex Drive) Symptoms Causes in men and women A decrease in sex drive can develop both due to medical conditions as well as to psychological or emotional issues. What is low testosterone (low-T)?
The First Follower | WeLearnToday We know a lot about leaders and there is plenty of literature out there about the qualities and skills of a leader, tips and secrets on how to become a successful leader. But what about the leader’s followers? While leaders are known to be the initiators, the followers are known to be as responders, leaders drive to the finish line and followers have ‘to be pulled across the finish line’. I’ve always aspired to become a leader, influence others and improve things around me and I used to read a lot about leadership. I soon realized that test are not going to help me to become a leader and the experience soon showed me that leaders around you are a much more valuable resource to learn from, but that’s another story. One day I stumbled across Derek Sivers’s theory of ‘the first follower’ which completely changed my views about being a follower. August Turak takes the idea of the ‘follower’ even further in his article ’11 Leadership secrets you never heard about’ : Image| Followers Wanted
s blog | Unlimited Vacation Buzz in France and shoelessness at WriteThatname This past week, our team was featured on 3 different French Television stations for our fairly unique policy of “unlimited vacation”… and also for the fact that we don’t all wear shoes in the office ;-) Unlimited vacation has been all the rage for the past few years, especially in high-tech startups. Below we’ll explore how we arrived at such a policy, and hear from other industry leaders that have opted for or against this kind of a policy. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think, and at the bottom of the post are also the three video segments (in French) and the team’s recent vacation pics! As the only American (Brad, Community Manager) on WriteThat.name’s team, I must say that when I realized that all French professionals were entitled to 5 weeks of paid vacation, I had to ask myself… wow! So, how does it work? Second, provide programming options or a menu of experiences that invest in the sustained wellness of team members. 1) It treats employees like the adults they are.