Thursday, May 03, 2007

10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs at Ririan Project

10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs at Ririan Project

1. Steve Jobs said: “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

Innovation has no limits. The only limit is your imagination. It’s time for you to begin thinking out of the box. If you are involved in a growing industry, think of ways to become more efficient; more customer friendly; and easier to do business with. If you are involved in a shrinking industry – get out of it quick and change before you become obsolete; out of work; or out of business. And remember that procrastination is not an option here. Start innovating now!

2. Steve Jobs said: “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

There is no shortcut to excellence. You will have to make the commitment to make excellence your priority. Use your talents, abilities, and skills in the best way possible and get ahead of others by giving that little extra. Live by a higher standard and pay attention to the details that really do make the difference. Excellence is not difficult - simply decide right now to give it your best shot - and you will be amazed with what life gives you back.

3. Steve Jobs said: “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”

I’ve got it down to four words: “Do what you love.” Seek out an occupation that gives you a sense of meaning, direction and satisfaction in life. Having a sense of purpose and striving towards goals gives life meaning, direction and satisfaction. It not only contributes to health and longevity, but also makes you feel better in difficult times. Do you jump out of bed on Monday mornings and look forward to the work week? If the answer is ‘no’ keep looking, you’ll know when you find it.

4. Steve Jobs said: “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.”

Live in a way that is ethically responsible. Try to make a difference in this world and contribute to the higher good. You’ll find it gives more meaning to your life and it’s a great antidote to boredom. There is always so much to be done. And talk to others about what you are doing. Don’t preach or be self-righteous, or fanatical about it, that just puts people off, but at the same time, don’t be shy about setting an example, and use opportunities that arise to let others know what you are doing.

5. Steve Jobs said: “There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”

It is the kind of mind that can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything. Beginner’s mind is Zen practice in action. It is the mind that is innocent of preconceptions and expectations, judgements and prejudices. Think of beginner’s mind as the mind that faces life like a small child, full of curiosity and wonder and amazement.

6. Steve Jobs said: “We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.”

Reams of academic studies over the decades have amply confirmed television’s pernicious mental and moral influences. And most TV watchers know that their habit is mind-numbing and wasteful, but still spend most of their time in front of that box. So turn your TV off and save some brain cells. But be cautious, you can turn your brain off by using a computer also. Try and have an intelligent conversation with someone who plays first person shooters for 8 hours a day. Or auto race games, or role-playing games.

7. Steve Jobs said: “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”

Don’t equate making mistakes with being a mistake. There is no such thing as a successful person who has not failed or made mistakes, there are successful people who made mistakes and changed their lives or performance in response to them, and so got it right the next time. They viewed mistakes as warnings rather than signs of hopeless inadequacy. Never making a mistake means never living life to the full.

8. Steve Jobs said: “I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”

Over the last decade, numerous books featuring lessons from historical figures have appeared on the shelves of bookstores around the world. And Socrates stands with Leonardo da Vinci, Nicholas Copernicus, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein as a beacon of inspiration for independent thinkers. But he came first. Cicero said of Socrates that, “He called philosophy down from the skies and into the lives of men.” So use Socrates’ principles in your life, your work, your learning, and your relationships. It’s not about Socrates, it’s really about you, and how you can bring more truth, beauty and goodness into your life everyday.

9. Steve Jobs said: “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”

Did you know that you have big things to accomplish in life? And did you know that those big things are getting rather dusty while you pour yourself another cup of coffee, and decide to mull things over rather than do them? We were all born with a gift to give in life, one which informs all of our desires, interests, passions and curiosities. This gift is, in fact, our purpose. And you don’t need permission to decide your own purpose. No boss, teacher, parent, priest or other authority can decide this for you. Just find that unique purpose.

10. Steve Jobs said: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Are you tired of living someone else’s dream? No doubt, its your life and you have every right to spend it in your own individual way without any hurdles or barriers from others. Give yourself a chance to nurture your creative qualities in a fear-free and pressure-free climate. Live a life that YOU choose and be your own boss.

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Friday, April 20, 2007

Human Resource Consultants, Training And Development, The Ford Group

Fifty Behavior Based Interview Questions

Are you looking for behavior based interviewing questions? While the questions and behavior characteristics listed below are by no means comprehensive, it might be just the jump-start you're looking for. Try these…

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Leadership:

  1. Tell me about a time when you accomplished something significant that wouldn't have happened if you had not been there to make it happen.
  2. Tell me about a time when you were able to step into a situation, take charge, muster support and achieve good results.
  3. Describe for me a time when you may have been disappointed in your behavior.
  4. Tell me about a time when you had to discipline or fire a friend.
  5. Tell me about a time when you've had to develop leaders under you.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Initiative and Follow-through:

  1. Give me an example of a situation where you had to overcome major obstacles to achieve your objectives.
  2. Tell me about a goal that you set that took a long time to achieve or that you are still working towards.
  3. Tell me about a time when you won (or lost) an important contract.
  4. Tell me about a time when you used your political savvy to push a program through that you really believed in.
  5. Tell me about a situation that you had significant impact on because of your follow-through.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Thinking and Problem Solving:

  1. Tell me about a time when you had to analyze facts quickly, define key issues, and respond immediately or develop a plan that produced good results.
  2. If you had to do that activity over again, how would you do it differently?
  3. Describe for me a situation where you may have missed an obvious solution to a problem.
  4. Tell me about a time when you anticipated potential problems and developed preventative measures.
  5. Tell me about a time when you surmounted a major obstacle.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Communication:

  1. Tell me about a time when you had to present a proposal to a person in authority and were able to do this successfully.
  2. Tell me about a situation where you had to be persuasive and sell your idea to someone else.
  3. Describe for me a situation where you persuaded team members to do things your way. What was the effect?
  4. Tell me about a time when you were tolerant of an opinion that was different from yours.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Working Effectively with Others:

  1. Give me an example that would show that you've been able to develop and maintain productive relations with others, though there were differing points of view.
  2. Tell me about a time when you were able to motivate others to get the desired results.
  3. Tell me about a difficult situation with a co-worker, and how you handled it.
  4. Tell me about a time when you played an integral role in getting a team (or work group) back on track.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Work Quality:

  1. Tell me about a time when you wrote a report that was well received. What do you attribute that to?
  2. Tell me about a time when you wrote a report that was not well received. What do you attribute that to?
  3. Tell me about a specific project or program that you were involved with that resulted in improvement in a major work area.
  4. Tell me about a time when you set your sights too high (or too low).

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Creativity and Innovation:

  1. Tell me about a situation in which you were able to find a new and better way of doing something significant.
  2. Tell me about a time when you were creative in solving a problem.
  3. Describe a time when you were able to come up with new ideas that were key to the success of some activity or project.
  4. Tell me about a time when you had to bring out the creativity in others.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Priority Setting:

  1. Tell me about a time when you had to balance competing priorities and did so successfully.
  2. Tell me about a time when you had to pick out the most important things in some activity and make sure those got done.
  3. Tell me about a time that you prioritized the elements of a complicated project.
  4. Tell me about a time when you got bogged down in the details of a project.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Decision Making:

  1. Describe for me a time when you had to make an important decision with limited facts.
  2. Tell me about a time when you were forced to make an unpopular decision.
  3. Describe for me a time when you had to adapt to a difficult situation. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a time when you made a bad decision
  5. Tell me about a time when you hired (or fired) the wrong person.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Ability to Work in Varying Work Conditions (stress, changing deadlines, etc.):

  1. Tell me about a time when you worked effectively under pressure.
  2. Tell me about a time when you were unable to complete a project on time.
  3. Tell me about a time when you had to change work mid-stream because of changing organizational priorities.
  4. Describe for me what you do to handle stressful situations.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Delegation:

  1. Tell me about a time when you delegated a project effectively.
  2. Tell me about a time when you did a poor job of delegating.
  3. Describe for me a time when you had to delegate to a person with a full workload, and how you went about doing it.

If You're Looking For Behaviors that Revolve Around Customer Service:

  1. Tell me about a time when you had to deal with an irate customer.
  2. Tell me about one or two customer-service related programs that you've done that you're particularly proud of.
  3. Tell me about a time when you made a lasting, positive impression on a customer.

Human Resource Consultants, Training And Development, The Ford Group
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The Top 50 Productivity Blogs (most of which you haven’t heard about) | zen habits

The Top 50 Productivity Blogs (most of which you haven’t heard about) | zen habits

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Say Leadership Coaching: Management versus Leadership

12 Rules for Self-Leadership:

1. Set goals for your life; not just for your job. What we think of as “meaning of life” goals affect your lifestyle outside of work too, and you get whole-life context, not just work-life, each feeding off the other.
2. Practice discretion constantly, and lead with the example of how your own good behavior does get great results. Otherwise, why should anyone follow you when you lead?
3. Take initiative. Volunteer to be first. Be daring, bold, brave and fearless, willing to fall down, fail, and get up again for another round. Starting with vulnerability has this amazing way of making us stronger when all is done.
4. Be humble and give away the credit. Going before others is only part of leading; you have to go with them too. Therefore, they’ve got to want you around!
5. Learn to love ideas and experiments. Turn them into pilot programs that preface impulsive decisions. Everything was impossible until the first person did it.
6. Live in wonder. Wonder why, and prize “Why not?” as your favorite question. Be insatiably curious, and question everything.
7. There are some things you don’t take liberty with no matter how innovative you are when you lead. For instance, to have integrity means to tell the truth. To be ethical is to do the right thing. These are not fuzzy concepts.
8. Believe that beauty exists in everything and in everyone, and then go about finding it. You’ll be amazed how little you have to invent and much is waiting to be displayed.
9. Actively reject pessimism and be an optimist. Say you have zero tolerance for negativity and self-fulfilling prophecies of doubt, and mean it.
10. Champion change. As the saying goes, those who do what they’ve always done, will get what they’ve always gotten. The only things they do get more of are apathy, complacency, and boredom.
11. Be a lifelong learner, and be a fanatic about it. Surround yourself with mentors and people smarter than you. Seek to be continually inspired by something, learning what your triggers are.
12. Care for and about people. Compassion and empathy become you, and keep you ever-connected to your humanity. People will choose you to lead them.



Say Leadership Coaching: Management versus Leadership:
Manage v., to bring about or succeed in accomplishing; contrive.
Lead v., to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort.
- Random House Webster’s College Dictionary, Random House New York, 1995 edition.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

» 101 Essential Freelancing Resources

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Metadot: The World's Most Popular Open Source Portal Server

Metadot Portal Server provides a very large number of content management and collaboration functionalities in modules called gizmos (portlets) that are available out of the box such as:

* Discussion Forum
* File and Content Management
* Task / To-Do List
* Calendar
* Poll
* FAQs
* User Personal Website
* Group and user-based access control
* My News Page - like My Yahoo
* Email Notifications
* URL management
* Rich text Editor (from interactivetools.com)
* Site themes and templates
* and many more features!

TWikiTM - Enterprise Wiki & Collaboration Platform

Welcome to TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins.

TWiki is a mature, full featured web based collaboration system:

  • Any web browser: Edit existing pages or create new pages by using any web browser. There is no need for ftp or http put to upload pages.
  • Edit link: To edit a page, simply click on the Edit link at the bottom of every page.
  • Auto links: Web pages are linked automatically. You do not need to learn HTML commands to link pages.
  • Text formatting: Simple, powerful and easy to learn text formatting rules. Basically you write text like you would write an e-mail.
  • Webs: Pages are grouped into TWiki webs (or collections). This allows you to set up separate collaboration groups.
  • Search: Full text search with/without regular expressions. See a sample search result.
  • E-mail notification: Get automatically notified when something has changed in a TWiki web. Subscribe in WebNotify.
  • Structured content: Use TWiki Forms to classify and categorize unstructured web pages and to create simple workflow systems.
  • File attachments: Upload and download any file as an attachment to a page by using your browser. This is similar to file attachments in an e-mail, but it happens on web pages.
  • Revision control: All changes to pages and attachments are tracked. Retrieve previous page revisions and differences thereof. Find out who changed what and when.
  • Access control: Define groups and impose fine grained read and write access restrictions based on groups and users.
  • Variables: Use variables to dynamically compose your pages. This allows you for example to dynamically build a table of contents: include other pages; or show a search result embedded in a page.
  • TWiki Plugins: Enhance the TWiki functionality with server side Plugin modules. Developers can create Perl Plugins using the TWiki Plugin API. Some example Plugins:
  • Application Wiki: Contributors use the TWiki platform to create web applications. The TWiki Variables, Plugins and sample applications offer a rich environment where domain-specific applications can be built efficiently by contributors with moderate skill sets. Developers can create new Plugins to enhance the functionality of TWiki even further. Some example applications:
  • Templates and skins: A flexible templating system separates program logic and presentation. Skins overwrite template headers and footers; page content is unaffected.
  • Managing pages: Individual pages can be renamed, moved and deleted through the browser.
  • Managing users: Web based user registration and change of password.
  • What's new: See recent changes of TWiki webs. The change log can also be exported in XML RSS format for news syndication.
  • Statistics: Create Statistics of TWiki webs. Find out most popular pages and top contributors.
  • Preferences: Four levels of preferences: TWikiPreferences for site-level; WebPreferences for each web; user level preferences; and page level preferences.
  • Conflict resolution: Content is merged automatically if more than one user is edit a page at the same time. In rare cases where a conflict cannot be resolved automatically, users are warned and guided to resolve the conflict manually.
  • Referred-By: Find out back-links to a page.
  • ... plus many more features not listed here.
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

How to get over your fear of public speaking - lifehack.org

How to get over your fear of public speaking - lifehack.org

Developing For Windows Vista

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Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Google Romance

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