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"At times of crisis you have to change. And in order to keep on succeeding , you need to change even without crisis."
Jong-Yong Yun
Chief Executive Samsung Electronics
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 09:29 AM
In August 01 edition of Fortune magazine an intriguing article caught my eye - the subject - Job dumping!
What?
Basically the story is that employers offer jobs on the site and the person and the worker who offers his/her services for the least amount gets the job!
Do I hear one euro an hour!
20,000 Germans use the site and 3000 have got jobs in such blue collar fields as babysitting, machine repair and bodyguard services.
The promoter Fabian Low hopes that the US market will be more open to his services!
Thinking outside the box!
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 10:15 AM
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, georgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesnt serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
And we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson - Return to Love
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 09:34 AM
Those who flow as life flows know
They need no other force.
They feel no wear, they feel no tear,
They need no mending, no repair.
Lao Tzu
A man is free in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 08:50 PM
A focus on adding real value to their customers lives.
Interpret this as you want!
Focusing on the customer as opposed to your own needs is the way forward.
Of course pressure selling can get you sales in the short term but dont be considering a return visit.
In the long term your stock value will be based on your credibility and congruence.
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 08:22 AM
Keeping up with the Jones appears to be the official strategy of most in the USA according to the latest research from Pennsylvania State University
Relative income (compared with members of one's own age group) is more important than absolute income, researchers Glenn Firebaugh and Laura Tach found after analyzing 30 years of data from the General Social Survey.
They also found that physical health was the best single predictor of happiness, followed by income, education and marital status.
"If income effects are entirely relative, then continued income growth in rich countries today is irrelevant to how happy people are on the whole," Mr. Firebaugh said of the research, which is to be presented at a conference this weekend. "Rather than promoting overall happiness, continued income growth could promote an ongoing consumption race where individuals consume more and more just to maintain a constant level of happiness."
From a very early age, some parents start comparing their child's performance to their peers in the community. This is a very dangerous strategy. People in general must learn to compete against themselves and their past performace, not against others.
Spending you rlife benchmarking off the Jones in all aspects of life will be one stressful nightmare.
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 09:12 AM
"Vision without execution is an hallucination."
Thomas Edison
"Sept 11 for me was a wake up call. A lot of the world woke up for a short time and then turned over and went back to sleep again."
Tony Blair
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 07:53 AM
A new report "Reflections on employee well-being and the psychological contract, " commissioned by Britain's Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has found that only 39 per cent of jobs are classified as being "good" - in other words ones that were interesting and exiting but not unduly stressful.
The report suggests the key factors that influence people's well being at work, as identified in the CIPD's psychological contract survey, can be split into two factors –creating interesting and exciting jobs, and stress and frustration with work.
- The report found that more than four out of 10 people felt they have little control at work and one in five felt they had limited control.
- Two out of 10 said their jobs were either very or extremely stressful. Interestingly U.S. companies are losing about $300 billion annually due to stress related causes. Consider this amount in the context of the needs of the developing world eg Niger etc.
More than a third (37 per cent) said their workload was too heavy and one in five did not believe the demands of their job were realistic.
-A quarter said they received little or no support from their supervisor.
To fully tap into your employees, I believe that the organisation goals and values and mission should be a mirror reflection of the workforce's. An employee is more likely to be motivated when he/she has sense of ownership with respect to the company.
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 09:32 AM
“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control of the moment following.”
Gandhi
"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A mans life is what his thoughts make of it."
Marcus Aurelius
"History, despite its wrench and pain, cannot be unlived. But if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
Maya Angelou
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 01:17 PM
"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve."
Napoloen Hill
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 11:32 AM
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
The reality that requires a proof is only half a reality.
Lo, keep me away from a wisdom that does not weep, a philosophy that does not laugh, and a grandeur that will not bow its head before children.
The Vision - Kahlil Gibran
Posted by Kevin Kelly at 10:07 AM