Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
Maybe employees aren’t always the problem. Sometimes it’s the person in charge.
Take a look in the mirror, or better yet, take a look at this article and honestly answer the questions it poses. For more fun, think about how it applies to your boss, and those you have had in the past.
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Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
When is there going to be one central repository for an individual’s online profile? So many websites and organizations ask you to create a profile, and they tend to ask the same kinds of questions. Let’s see, off the top of my head, here are the profiles I have been asked to create: LinkedIn, Blogger, Google, Yahoo, AIM, Digg, Delicious, PB Wiki, Naymz, Salesforce, ZoomInfo, Meetup (a separate profile for each Meetup I join), Pandora, 43 Things, ICMI Membership, ICMI’s QueueTips Forums, Facebook and Flickr.
Kind of hard to keep track of them all! So, I’m coining the term “Multiple Profile Disorder” and I hope soon there will be a cure.
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Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
One of Fast Company’s columnists, Karen Post, has many insightful ideas about branding and marketing. Check them out here.
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Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
Design has more bearing on industry and commerce than one might think. The education of future generations should place more emphasis on creativity and a successful integration of design thinking into these arenas.
This Fast Company blog posting makes thought-provoking reading.
I’m becoming more and more interested in the effects and impact of design, thanks mostly to enlightening Fast Company articles and blog postings.
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Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
For 20 years she has been an acclaimed but embattled singer. Now, by channeling a legend, she may finally no longer be hitless.
I’ve liked Shelby Lynne ever since I first saw her, smoking a cigarette by her tour bus down at Penn’s Landing as I went in the back way to WXPN’s Singer Songerwriter Weekend. Then she came on stage and rocked the place — and she looked really good, too. That was years ago, and I’ve gotten several of he albums, but hadn’t thought a lot about her until I saw this article. She’s good — if you don’t know her, check her out.
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Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
Trying to avoid vertigo, falls and other hazards of lost equilibrium. Scott McCredie is a Seattle-based health and science writer who says he “discovered” what he calls “the lost sense” of balance after he watched in horror as his 67-year-old father tumbled off a boulder and disappeared from sight during a hike in the Cascades.
Interesting article, complete with exercises to test and improve balance.
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Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
Evolution has endowed us with ethical impulses. Do we know what to do with them?
This is a lengthy, complex, in-depth article (not a quick read), and it re-hashes some concepts I have certainly read before. However, it does nicely pull together quite a bit of the research that has been done on morality.
Where do moral impulses come from? Are they learned? Are they innate? Are they universal among all human beings across all cultures? Why do we think some things are wrong and others are not? If you ponder these questions, take a look at this article.
Here are some excerpts that I found particularly thought-provoking: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
I have two young adult daughters, and I worry about how they manage money. What parent doesn’t? I’ve been using Quicken, myself, for more years than I can remember, and I really count on it to help me keep track of how much I am spending, how much I am not saving, and how much is actually in the bank or investment accounts at any given moment.
So, I found this Fast Company article about the website Mint.com interesting: Easy Money. Here’s the tagline:
Aaron Patzer is taking on Quicken by merging personal finance with Web 2.0. Can he get twentysomethings to be smart with their cash?
Maybe something like this would help young people like my daughters to take the kind of steps I wish they would with their finances.
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Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
This Fast Company article lists the biggest blogs in terms of links to them. I confess I am not much of a blog reader. Just don’t have enough time to troll through all of the stuff that’s out there to read, and I tend to return to news websites I have come to trust will offer content worth reading. But, I have run across some blogs I like, and I will post entries about them here from time to time. In the meantime, the list referenced here is a starting point for anyone like me who is curious about blogs and interested in exploring them. These are the most popular ones out there.
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Posted by Ted Hopton on January 13, 2008
This article got my attention with its headline on WSJ.com – ‘World’s Greatest Trencherman’ Ate His Way Into the Guinness Book. Here’s the summary: A living rebuke to the surgeon general and the diet doctors, Eddie “Bozo” Miller was once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the “world’s greatest trencherman.” He died Jan. 7 at 89. It’s a fun read about a fascinating, literally-larger-than-life person. Nothing more than a classic human-interest story.
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