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Seth’s Blog: When to start
When to start
- The best time to start is when you’ve got enough money in the bank to support all contingencies.
- The best time to start is when the competition is far behind in technology, sophistication and market acceptance.
- The best time to start is when the competition isn’t too far behind, because then you’ll spend too long educating the market.
- The best time to start is when everything at home is stable and you can really focus.
- The best time to start is when you’re out of debt.
- The best time to start is when no one is already working on your idea.
- The best time to start is when your patent comes through.
- The best time to start is after you’ve got all your VC funding.
- The best time to start is when the political environment is more friendly than it is now.
- The best time to start is after you’ve got your degree.
- The best time to start is after you’ve worked all the kinks out of your plan.
- The best time to start is when you’re sure it’s going to work.
- The best time to start is after you’ve hired the key marketing person for the new division.
- The best time to start was last year. The best opportunities are already gone.
- The best time to start is before some pundit declares your segment passe. Too late.
- The best time to start is when the new generation of processors is shipping.
- The best time to start is when the geopolitical environment settles down.
Actually, as you’ve probably guessed, the best time to start was last year. The second best time to start is right now.
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Top 10 Ways to Use del.icio.us - lifehack.org
Del.icio.us is an excellent system for archiving your favorite information from across the Net, tracking hot topics, and discovering new and useful sites. The power of del.icio.us comes in the form of it’s “collective intelligence”, which is constantly adding, reviewing, and filtering new information.
The community of del.icio.us allows you to find some of the best resources on the Internet without having to trudge through all of the junk.
It also gives you a centralized management system for organizing information from around the Net. However, many people are unaware of it’s complete list of features and valuable add-ons.
Here are 10 ways that you can use del.icio.us to its full potential.
1. Del.icio.us Firefox Extension
Del.icio.us Firefox Extension should be the number-one del.icio.us tool on your list. It allows you to quickly and easily add sites you like to del.icio.us with a bookmarklet. This tool puts a “My del.icio.us” button at the top of your browser, allowing you to view your save pages at the click of a button.
It also adds a “Tag this” button to the top of your browser, which allows you to bookmark websites while you’re browsing the Web.
If you use Internet Explorer, download this Internet Explorer Extension.
This Firefox Extension has saved me tons of keyboard time.
2. Desktop Shortcut for Delicious
Having to visit the del.icio.us website each time you want to access your bookmarks can be a time-consuming process. Why not plug your bookmarks into your desktop for easy access. You can do this with Delwin for Windows and Delibar for the Mac.
3. Increase Your Search Powers.
There are a variety of ways to search del.icio.us.
To view bookmarks tagged with a specific keyword, type in:
http://del.icio.us/tag/keyword
To view bookmarks tagged with two or more keywords, type in:
http://del.icio.us/tag/keyword+keyword
So for example, if I wanted to look for sites about organization and GTD, I would type in:
http://del.icio.us/tag/organization+GTD
If I wanted to narrow the search even further, I could include four terms:
http://del.icio.us/tag/organization+GTD+office+tools
If you are looking for the most popular sites in any category, than simply type in:
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/TAGNAME
So if you are trying to find the most popular sites related to GTD, you would type in:
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/GTD
4. Bookmark from Google Reader
If you’re a fan of Google Reader, then you’ll definitely want to start using Google Reader + del.icio.us. This is a Greasemonkey script that puts an “add to del.icio.us” button at the bottom of each post in Google Reader. With a single click, you will be able to transfer interesting posts from Google Reader into your del.icio.us bookmark collection.
5. Bundle Your Tags
Does your tag cloud look like a huge, disorganized mess. Bundle those tags into related categories for easy access. To organize your tags into bundles, click on the “Settings” link in the top right-hand corner.
From this page, click on “bundle tags” under the tags heading and start creating your own bundles.
Of course, if you’re not into the whole bundling idea, then you can always just use the search box in the upper right hand corner of del.icio.us.
If you want to limit your search to specific tags, then use the prefix “tag:”. An example for all you productivity junkies might be “tag:gtd”.
6. Newsmasher
Here’s a cool Greasemonkey script called Newsmasher that places a small “del.icio.us” tag on the upper left corner of your browser. When clicked, a small window appears displaying what del.icio.us users are writing about the page you are viewing.
This is a great way to get some quick feedback on any website you’re visiting. Quickly find out if people are giving it a virtual “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”.
7. Use the Inbox
Navigate to http://del.icio.us/inbox. Here you can subscribe to various tags or specific users. This is an excellent way to discover new sites that you may enjoy. It almost reminds me a bit of StumbleUpon. Based on the preferences you submit, you will be given a flow of new items to check out.
8. A variety of del.icio.us Uses
You can use del.icio.us in a number of exciting and interesting ways. Here are a few examples
to get you started:
- Bookmark movies you want to see
- Travel planning
- Bookmark books you want to read
- Bookmark things you want to blog about
- Research
9. Publish Your del.icio.us Bookmarks on Your Website.
In addition to all that, you can also share your latest del.icio.us bookmarks on your websites for all of your readers to enjoy. You can do this using Linkrolls and Tagrolls.
Linkrolls display your latest del.icio.us bookmarks while tagrolls display all of your del.icio.us tags in a tag cloud.
You can see these unique features in action at this blog . His bookmarks are on the left and his tags are on the right.
10. Creative Tagging
My final tip is based on a bit of creative tagging. For my most important tags, I place an “@” in front of them. This moves them up to the very top of my tag list. So, for example, for books that I want to read in the future, I have a tag labeled @books. This simple trick allows me to place my most important tags at the very top of the tag list.
If you know of any other del.icio.us tips, please add them in the comments.
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Book Summary: Thinking for a Change
The book is written by John C Maxwell, ISBN 0446529575
Even if you don’t read the whole summary or book, reading the first few paragraphs of this summary is worth it.
One young person asked Jack ” When you were my age, what did you do to elevate yourself among all of your other associates? How did you stand out from the crowd of other young, ambitious and driven colleagues of your day?
GE’s Jack Welch said.
“Great question, young man. And this is an important pint for every person to hear. The first thing you must understand is the importance of getting out of ‘the pile.’ The only way you are going to stand our to your boss is to understand this simple principle.
WHEN A BOSS ASKS FOR SOMETHING..he already knows the answer he is looking for.
“Practically speaking, this means coming back to the table and presenting to your boss not only an answer, but three or more other ideas, options and perspectives that were probably not preciously considered by your boss. The goal is to add value to the idea and the thought by exceeding expectations when the question is given to you. This is true not only with questions, but assignments, initiatives and everything else ever given to you to run with by upper management.
Jock drove the point home empatically. “So if you understand that the question is only the beginning, you will get out of the pile fast, because 99.9 % of all employees are in the pile because the don’t think. And in time, you will be the one giving out the questions to others!”
SKILL 1 “HOW TO ACQUIRE the WISDOM of BIG_PICTURE thinking?
- Don’t strive for certainty
- Learn from every experience
- Gain experience from variety of people
- Give yourself permission to expand your world
- Arranging matters so that you are continually learning and not getting bogged down in details
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SKILL2: Focused Thinking
- You will become as small as your controlling desire or as great as your dominant aspiration.
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HOW TO FOCUS
- Remove distractions
- Make time for focused thinking
- Keep item of focus before you
- Set goals
- Question your progress
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Give up things to FOCUS..bcoz
- You can’t know everyone
- You can’t do everything
- You can’t go everywhere
- You can’t be well rounded
- Being willing to give up some of the things you love in order to focus on what has the greatest impact isn’t an easy lesson to learn.
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SKILL 3 : Creative Thinking
- Stimulate Creative thinking
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Ask….
- Why must it be done this way?
- What is the root problem
- What are the underlying issues?
- What does this remind me of?
- What is the opposite?
- What metaphor or symbol helps to explain it?
- Why it is important?
- What’s the hardest or most expensive way to do it?
- Who has a different perspective on this?
- What happens if we don’t do it at all?
- In my wildest dreams, what can this idea lead to?
SKILL 4 :Realistic Thinking
What the difference ?
- Stimulate Creative thinking
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Misconception |
Reality |
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I could make everyone happy |
There will be conflict |
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People like change if it’s done properly |
People resist change regardless |
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It is enough that the leader takes care of people |
People must be developed to be effective |
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Good leadership makes tough call unnecessary |
Tough calls must always be made |
HOW TO have it…..
- Develop an appreciation for truth
- Do your homework
- Think about pros and cons
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Picture the worst-case scenario
- Ask..all the what-f question
- Align your thinking with resources
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SKILL 5: Strategic Thinking ( PLAN YOUR LIFE, LIVE YOUR PLAN)
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WHY??…bcoz…
- When failure isn’t an option, nothing serves a person better than strategic thinking
- Strategic thinking is the bridge that links where you are to where you want to be
- The one with the plan is the one with power
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HOW TO ??
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Break down the issue
- Weekdays
- Weekends
- Vacations or scheduled time breaks
- Ask WHY before HOW
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Identify the real issues and objectives
- Jack Welch once said…”Strategy is first trying to understand where you sit in today’s world. Not where you wish you were or where you hoped you would be, but where you are. Then its trying to understand where you want to be five years out. Finally its assessing the realistic changes of getting form here to there.
- Review your resources
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Develop your plan
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From 7 levels of changes..
- Level 1: Effectiveness - Doing right things
- Level 2 : Efficiency - Doing the right things right
- Level 3 : Improving - Doing things better
- Level 4 : Cutting - Doing away with things
- Level 5 : Adapting - Doing things other people are things
- Level 6 : Different - Doing things no one else is doing
- Level 7 : Impossible - Doing things that can’t be done
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Put right people is the right place
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If not…
- Wrong person: Problems instead of potential
- Wrong place: Frustration instead of fulfillment
- Wrong plan: Grief instead of growth
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Keep repeating the process
- The will to win is worthless, if you do not have the will to prepare.
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SKILL 6: Possibility Thinking
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HOW TO
- Stop focusing of the impossibilities
- Stay away from experts- who tend to limit possibilities
- Look for possibilities in every situation
- Dream one size bigger
- Question the status quo
- Find inspiration from great achievers
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SKILL 7: Reflective Thinking ( It turns experience into insight)
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HOW TO
- Set aside time for reflection
- Remove yourself from distraction
- Regularly review calendar or journal
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Ask the right question
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RELATED TO VALUES
- Personal growth?
- Adding values
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Physical health
- Personal faith
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RELATED TO RELATIONSHIPS
- Marriage and family
- Friends
- Inner circle
- God
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RELATED TO EXPERIENCE
- Discoveries
- Memories
- Difficulties
- Successes
- People
- Conclusions
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ALSO YOU CAN KEEP A JOURNAL for…reflecting pattern in your life
- YEAR……………….Turning Point…………Impact
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- Cement your learning through action
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- SKILL 8: Questioning Popular Thinking
Remember…the difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from the old ones. - SKILL 9: Shared Thinking
None of us is as smart as all of us. - SKILL 10: Unselfish Thinking
If you want to improve your world then focus your attention on helping others. -
SKILL 11: Bottom-line Thinking
- It makes it possible for you to measure outcomes more quickly and easily
Notes on Web Service
Soap is the communications protocol for XML Web services. SOAP is a specification that defines the XML format for messages—and that’s about it for the required parts of the spec. If you have a well-formed XML fragment enclosed in a couple of SOAP elements, you have a SOAP message. Simple isn’t it?
There are other parts of the SOAP specification that describe how to represent program data as XML and how to use SOAP to do Remote Procedure Calls. These optional parts of the specification are used to implement RPC-style applications where a SOAP message containing a callable function, and the parameters to pass to the function, is sent from the client, and the server returns a message with the results of the executed function.
WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information
UDDI: Universal Discovery Description and Integration is the yellow pages of Web services
Source: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996507.aspx
How to start your day at 5:00 AM
Free Touch Typing Program
Nice touch typing program on the net.
Factors that affect the success of a project
This is an excerpt from the Project Management Journal - Sept 2006
- Project control system
- Project mission and goals should be well defined
- Top management support within resources and budget in essential
- A detailed project planning that covers all aspect of the project
- Client consultation and acceptance during the project life cycle
- Competent project team members that supports project aims and objectives
- Technical abilities of the project team and project organization
- Project team should have troubleshooting capabilities
- Success criteria should be agreed upon with the stakeholders before onset of project
- A collaborative working relationship should be maintained between the project owner and project manager
- The Project manager should have the flexibility to deal with uncertainty
- The project owner should take an interest in the project performance
These in my opinion are a really nice set of factors which one should keep in mind whenever involved in a project.
The Shanghai Taxi Driver’s MBA Lecture
I needed to go from Xujiahui to the airport, so I hurriedly concluded a meeting and I was looking for a taxi in front of the Meiluo building. A taxi driver saw me and very professionally came in a straight line and stopped right in front of me. Thus followed the story that astonished me greatly as if I had attended a lively MBA course. In order to faithfully preserve the intent of the taxi driver, I have tried to reproduce his original words according to my memory.
“Where do you want to go? Good, the airport. At Xujiahui, I loved to get business in front of the Meiluo building. Over here, I only work two places: Meiluo building and Junyao building. Did you know? Before I picked you up, I circled around Meiluo building twice before I saw you! People who come out of office building are definitely not going to some place nearby …”
“Oh? You have a method!” I agreed.
“A taxi driver must also have scientific methods,” he said. I was surprised and I got curious: “What scientific methods?”
“I have to know statistics. I have made detailed calculations. Let me tell you. I operate the car 17 hours a day, and my hourly cost is 34.5 RMB …”
“How did you arrive at that?” I asked
“You calculate. I have to pay 380 RMB to the company each day for the car. The gas is about 210 RMB. I work 17 hours per day. On an hourly basis, the fixed cost is the 22 RMB that I give to the taxi company and an average of 12.5 RMB per hour in gasoline expenses. Isn’t that 34.5 RMB?” I was a bit surprised. I have taken taxis for ten years, but this is the first time that a taxi driver has calculated the costs this way. Previously, the taxi drivers all tell me that the cost per kilometer was 0.3 RMB in addition to the total company fee.
“Costs should not be calculated on a per-kilometer basis. It should be calculated on an hourly basis. You see, each meter has a ‘review’ function through which you can see the details of the day. I have done a data analysis. The averarge time gap between customers is seven minutes. If I started counting the costs when someone gets in, it is 10 RMB for about 10 minutes. That means each 10 RMB customer takes 17 minutes of time, which costs 9.8 RMB (4.5 x 17 / 60). This is not making money! If we say that customers who want to go to Pudong, Hangzhou or Qingpu are like meals, then a 10 RMB customer is not even a bite of food. You can only say that this is just a sprinkle of MSG.”
Great! This driver did not sound like a taxi driver. He seemed more like an accountant. ”So what you do then?” I was even more interested and I continued my questioning. It looked like I was going to learn something new on the way to the airport.
“You must not let the customer lead you all over the place. You decide what you want to do based upon the location, time and customer.” I was very surprised, but this sounded significant. ”Someone said that the taxi driving is a profession that depends on luck. I don’t think so. You have to stand in the position of the customer and consider things from the customer’s perspective.” This sounded very professional, and very much like many business management teachers who say “put yourself in others’ shoes.”
“Let me give you an example. You are at the entrance to a hospital. There is someone holding some medicine and there is someone else holding a wash basin. Which person will you pick up?” I thought about it and I said that I didn’t know.
“You take the one with the wash basin. If you have a minor complaint that you want to be examined and to get some medicine, you don’t usually go to a faraway hospital. Anyone who is carrying a wash basin has just been discharged from the hospital. When people enter the hospital, some of them die. Today, someone on the second floor dies. Tomorrow, someone on the third floor dies. Those who make it out of the hospital usually have a feeling of having been given a second life and they recognize the meaning of life again — health is the most important thing. So on that day, that person told me, “Go … go to Qingpu.” He did not even blink. Would you say that he wanted to take a taxi to People’s Plaza to transfer to the Qingpu line subway? Absolutely not!”
I began to admire him.
“Let me give you another example. That day at People’s Plaza, three people were waving at me. One was a young woman who had just finished shopping and was holding some small bags. Another was a young couple who were out for a stroll. The third one was a man who wore a silk shirt and a down jacket and holding a notebook computer bag. I spent three seconds looking at each person and I stopped in front of the man without hesitation. When the man got in, he said: ‘Yannan Elevated Highway. South North Elevated Highway …’ Before even finishing, he could not help but ask, ‘Why did you stop in front of me without hesitating? There were two people in front. They wanted to get on as well. I was too embarrassed to fight with them.’ I replied, ‘It is around noon and just a dozen or so minutes before one o’clock. That young woman must have slipped out at noon to buy something and I guess that her company must be nearby. That couple are tourists because they are not
holding anything and they are not going to travel far. You are going out on business. You are holding a notebook computer bag, so I can tell that this is business. If you are going out at this time, I guess that it would not be too close.’ The man said, ‘You are right. I’m going to Baoshan.’”
“Are those people wearing pajamas in front of supermarkets or subway stations going to travel far? Are they going to the airport? The airport is not going to let them enter.”
That makes sense! I was liking this more and more.
“Many drivers complain that business is tough and the price of gas has gone up. They are trying to pin the cause down on other people. If you keep pinning the cause on other people, you will never get any better. You must look at yourself to see where the problem is.” This sounds very familiar.
It seems like “If you cannot change the world, then you should change yourself” or perhaps a pirated copy of Steven Corey’s “Circles of Influence and Concern.” ”One time, on Nandan Road, someone flagged me down and wanted to go to Tianlin. Later on, someone else flagged me down on Nandan Road and he also wanted to go to Tianlin. So I asked, ‘How come all you people who come out on Nandan Road want to go to Tianlin?’ He said, ‘There is a public bus depot at Nandan Road. We all take the public bus from Pudong to there, and then we take the taxi to Tianlin. So I understood. For example, you look at the road that we just passed. There are no offices, no hotels, nothing. Just a public bus station. Those people who flag down taxis there are mostly people who just got off the public bus, and they look for the shortest road for a taxi. People who flag down taxis here will usually ride not more than 15 RMB.”
“Therefore, I say that the attitude determines everything!” I have heard dozens of company CEO’s say that, but this was the first time that I heard a taxi driver say that.
“We need to use scientific methods and statistics to conduct business.
Those people who wait at the subway exits every day for business will never make money. How are you going to provide for your wife and kids at 500 RMB a month? This is murder? This is slowly murdering your whole family. You must arm yourself with knowledge. You have to learn knowledge to become a smart person. A smart person learns knowledge in order to become a very smart person. A very smart person learns knowledge in order to become a genius.”
“One time, a person wanted a taxi in order to get to the train station. I asked him how he wanted to go. He told me how to get there. I said that was slow. I said to get on the elevated highway and go this other way. He said that it was a longer way. I said, ‘No problem. You have experience because you go that way frequently. It costs you 50 RMB. If you go my way, I will turn off the meter when it reaches 50 RMB. You can just pay me 50 RMB. Anything more is mine. If you go your way, it will take 50 minutes. If I go my way, it will take 25 minutes.’ So in the end, we went my way.
We traveled an additional four kilometers but 25 minutes quicker. I accepted only 50 RMB. The customer was very delighted for saving about 10 RMB. This extra four kilometers cost me just over 1 RMB in gas. So I have swapped 1 RMB for 25 extra minutes of my time. As I just said, my hourly cost is 34.5 RMB. It was quite worthwhile for me!”
“In a public taxi company, an ordinary driver takes three to four thousand RMB home per month. The good driver can get around five thousand. The top driver can get seven thousand RMB. Out of the 20,000 drivers, there are about two to three who can make more than 8,000 RMB a month. I am one of those two or three. Furthermore, it is very stable without too much fluctuation.”
Great! By this point, I admired this taxi driver more and more.
“I often say that I am a happy driver. Some people say, ‘That’s because you earn a lot of money. Of course, you must be happy.’ I tell them, ‘You are wrong. This is because I have a happy and active mind, and that is why I make a lot of money.’”
What a wonderful way to put it!
“You have to appreciate the beauty that your work brings. Stuck in a traffic jam at People’s Plaza, many drivers complain, ‘Oh, there’s a traffic jam again! What rotten luck!’ You must not be like that. You should try to experience the beauty of the city. There are many pretty girls passing by. There are many tall modern buildings; although you cannot afford them, you can still enjoy them with an appreciative look. While driving to the airport, you can look at the greenery on both sides. In the winter, it is white. How beautiful! Look at the meter — it is more than 100 RMB. That is even more beautiful! Each job has its own beauty. We need to learn how to experience that beauty in our work.”
“Ten years ago, I was a general instructor at Johnson’s. Eight years ago, I had been the department manager for three different departments. I quit because there was no point in making three or five thousand a month. I decided to become a taxi driver. I want to be a happy driver. Ha ha ha …”
When we arrived at the airport, I gave him my business card and said, “Are you interested in coming this Friday to my office and explain to the Microsoft workers about how you operate your taxi? You can treat it as if your meter is running at 60 kilometers per hour. I will pay you for the time that you talk to us. Give me a call.”
Then I began to write down his lively MBA lecture on the airplane.
Leading Forward: How to Read and Digest a Book
Read this nice article >>>
Theres been an increase in blog postings on strategies to improve reading effectiveness. This is my take on the subject and some of the strategies I personally use to improve my reading effectiveness. How I read for leisure is different to how I read to learn. This post is focused on improving the reading we do for personal and professional development, rather than leisure reading.
Hot Skills, Cold Skills
The IT worker of 2010 wont be a technology guru but rather a versatilist.
The Importance of Federation and the CMDB
Proven Storage Solutions for Business Applications
Automation-Delivering Intelligent IT Control
Grid Computing-Extending the Boundaries of Distributed IT
Transforming Your Enterprise: Synchronizing Business and IT to Capitalize on Change
Voice Over IP Executive Bulletin
Voice-over-IP will dominate the enterprise in the next few years - are you ready?
Computerworld Report: Mainstream BI
July 17, 2006 Computerworld — The most sought-after corporate IT workers in 2010 may be those with no deep-seated technical skills at all. The nuts-and-bolts programming and easy-to-document support jobs will have all gone to third-party providers in the U.S. or abroad. Instead, IT departments will be populated with “versatilists” — those with a technology background who also know the business sector inside and out, can architect and carry out IT plans that will add business value, and can cultivate relationships both inside and outside the company.
Paypal mobile didnt take off in 7years. However mChq rocks in India
IMAGINE doing your shopping without any money or credit/debit cards You can, if you had a “mobile wallet”. A concept that has caught on in Japan and other Asian countries, mobile wallets allow you to use your cell phone like a wallet. You not only do away with carrying cash, you no longer need to carry your credit or debit cards This is the convenience that ICICI Bank, in collaboration with Airtel, proposes to offer its customers with “mChq”. The service, offered to ICICI Bank cardholders who are also customers of Airtel, is now available only in Mumbai, Delhi and the National Capital Region.
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Project Management Wiki, blogs, …. Everything, Everywhere and Everybody’s Project
In case you have not noticed, there is a new web that has been emerging and is taking over the internet, and promises to change our lives forever. The new web environment is called Web 2.01 and has taken root in company offices, private homes, government and the connective tissue of cell phones and WiFi wireless devices. A now famous Web 2.0 map2
Software Project Management — A Mapping between RUP and the PMBOK
Software Project Management — A Mapping between RUP and the PMBOK
Many organizations wish to standardize their software engineering practices as well as their project management PM practices, and two well-known processes are available to help in both these areas, respectively. The IBM® Rational® Unified Process,® or RUP®, offers a prescriptive approach for standardizing on software engineering best practices, and the Project Management Institute® PMI® Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge® PMBOK® offers a descriptive approach for standardizing on project management best practices. With both these approaches available to organizations, the question becomes: Are they compatible? The simple answer is, “Yes.”
This paper provides a more elaborate answer to that question by mapping the RUP project management PM discipline best practices to the PMBOK best practices. Throughout this mapping, I will highlight the similarities and differences between them. Essentially, the RUP focuses on PM best practices in the context of software development and deployment projects while the PMBOK best practices are generic and applicable to management of projects in any application domain — from building a bridge to implementing new business processes in a company. So, from an application domain standpoint, the RUP PM discipline is a specific instance of the PMBOKs generic PM best practices.
Download: Microsoft Office Accounting Express - lifehack.org
Download: Microsoft Office Accounting Express - lifehack.org
There is a new product called Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 (long name, and yes MS Windows only), which allows small business to handle many aspects related to finance from one application. The most interesting integration that I see with this software is with the eBay and PayPal, which you can track sales activity and handle PayPal invoices easier.
Best of all - It is available for free:
Use your camera or cameraphone as a business-card scanner - Lifehacker
Use your camera or cameraphone as a business-card scanner - Lifehacker
I tried this application and it works very well.
You just need to open account and mail to the bc@scanR.com and it shows on the website which you could download as .vcf file. This file can be imported in your outlook.
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