Google’s success is legendary. Do you use any other search engine? Do you even know anyone who does? And yet, their path to world domination has been littered with failures. This graphic include the famous ones like Wave, and many others. Innovative ideas that have failed for whatever reason. Nevertheless, they relentlessly innovate. As a consequence we have a great search engine and first class [...]
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Helpful conversations
August 21, 2010
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Self-development is taking time to reflect on areas of your life where you feel you have yet to reach your full potential – finding ways to improve your confidence, increase your knowledge and fulfill your aspirations. If you want to do this – then this blog is for you. If you want to know even more – [...]
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January 26, 2010
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Flow is that feeling you get when you are using every last part of your energy, abilities, skills, and it is all coming together. That state we have all, hopefully, experienced at least occasionally. The concept was first developed by Hungarian American Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Pron. Chick-sent me high) Csikszentmihalyi describes seven features that characterise flow Completely involved in what one [...]
Read more7 Little rewards to motivate…
September 26, 2009
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Saw this at Engauge – We all know that reward and recognition are important elements of job satisfaction. Its important to feel that we’re making a contribution, but not everyone has the ability to maintain a vision of what their contribution might be without some sort of external recognition. But time and again, we read [...]
Read moreLessons in motivation ca. 1570
September 3, 2009
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Speaking of Ascham, reminded me something that has long been a gripe of mine. Why is it that so many seem to think that fear is the best way to motivate? I read recently that research into the behaviour of managers, shows that one third are, “Too afraid to be off ill”. Apart from being [...]
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