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Influency: When You Can’t Find Yourself, Who Can Find You?

All the tools in the world don’t matter, if you use them like toys.Having 50 GB OF FREE CLOUD STORAGE!!! isn’t meaningful unless you use it, any more than having more pixels on a screen than you can see.

I’ve just come across Otixo. It’s a great solution to a growing problem; we have “stuff” scattered all across the Internet in various “cloud” locations, but as soon as you use more than one you create questions about what got stored where. And good luck moving things from one place to another.

Otixo Cloud Computing and Easier Storage Management

Giving a Lecture? People Would Rather Have Conversations

lectures in social networking and social media

I know a little bit about communication. One of the things I know is that I speak in a way that is often described as “professorial”. I don’t do this on purpose, by the way; it’s just what comes out of me.

There was a time when that skill came in handy. Once upon a time I did a lot of public speaking and taught classes on real-world technology use and (separately) the need for “managing up”. That skill can be useful for lots of people, but managing up requires some tact; it turns out that not everyone is so keen on this two-way communication thing.

You Should Trust His Ideas: Gary Kasparov Trusts Kasparov

For just the second time, we’re going to talk about chess.

More specifically, for a second time we’re talking about former chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov, widely considered one of the best chess players ever, and presumably, therefore, a very smart dude.

Most specifically, we’re going to talk, for a second time, about what’s become a Gary Kasparov-related theme:

Trust Your Instincts

Last year, Kasparov, a guy long considered to be what amounts to a human computer, came out and said that being the best compute-er is useful, but only up to the point where trusting your instincts works better.

Axl Rose: Business Change Agent ?

Last week I promised you a piece about Axl Rose. Sound like a silly idea? Nothing to do with business change?

Wrong. Axl Rose represents the epitome of business change . . . just the wrong kind.

As this Axl Rose-influenced piece in Inc. points out, “tactics” have started to replace strategy in the manager’s bag of tricks. It’s an interesting turn, and please don’t get me wrong: there’s a point where every manager has to make tactics part of his management skills set. But long before that happens you need to learn to trust your own instincts.

Kids and Allowances

from consumerist.com, 4/11/07

(http://lifehacker.com/software/personal-finance/money-tip–save-spend-and-give-jars-251413.php#viewcomments)

Years ago, I did the same thing with my kids, with the added “real-world-ism” of their allowances matching their ages, meaning that they each got a “raise” once a year. Seemed to work pretty well; they’re all great kids/people, and understand money pretty well. Goood Job!





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