This comes from Tom Hill’s Friday Eaglezine. My teacher used to say “Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” This gem is below says something similar “Nothing lowers the level of conversation than raising the voice” – Stanley Horowitz Please sign up for my newsletter here:
Date Archives → April 2006
10 things you might have forgotten in your busy schedule
#1 Journey is the destination By the time you reach your goals, your goals change. You go after them and the cycle repeats. This is not wrong but forgetting to enjoy the journey and treating that as the destination can help make this process more enjoyable. Think about your last big and successful project. If… Continue reading
Things that make me smile #5 – A friend in need…
Actually I am so glad that my name does not start with J. After Java gained popularity, anything starting with J seems like a technology acronym. Although I love acronyms, I don’t want to be confused with technology 🙂 This one gets even better. When I coined an acronym for myself “EAT with Passion” where… Continue reading
Re-designed "Distinguish Yourself" lens on Squidoo now live!
Heath Row suggested a few months ago that I needed to do some serious work on my Distinguish Yourself lens on Squidoo. After that I got several emails on the same topic. Yesterday I spent a few hours categorizing about 124 items on the lens. The re-designed lens is now live. Any comments or suggestions… Continue reading
Thank you; "Personal Branding for Technology Professionals" – statistics so far
The first day of the launch of my new ebook (PDF, 40 pages) titled “Personal Branding for Technology Professionals” was great. Thank you for the warm reception. Here is the image showing some statistics so far. Here is the link to the FREE book again (right click to download) eBook: Personal Branding for Technology Professionals… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – Leo Buscaglia
Great perspective on risk. If you never walk you won’t have the worry of falling down but you won’t get anywhere else either 🙁 To laugh is to risk being a fool.To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.To reach out to another is to risk involvement.To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.To… Continue reading
The 24/7 Offshore disadvantage
Whether we like it or not, globalization is here to stay. It comes with a “24/7 Offshore disadvantage” if not handled properly. While the organizations will eventually gain by saving costs, people on both sides of the globe are working 24/7 to make this happen. My column in CIOUpdate this time is titled “Avoiding Global… Continue reading
Audio interview on the "Cranky Middle Manager Show"
Wayne Turmel hosts a show called the Cranky Middle Manager Show. While it is not Wayne’s full time job, this is something that Wayne does to distinguish himself from the commodity crowd. In other words, Wayne is on to building a personal brand with this initiative. Wayne interviewed me on the topic of “Personal Branding”… Continue reading
FREE eBook – Personal Branding for Technology Professionals
I have been fascinated by the work of both my heroes Tom Peters (Brand You) and Seth Godin (Purple Cow) for quite a while. My series on Ways to Distinguish Yourself is an offshoot of my passion on this subject. Technology professionals need to brand themselves more than anybody else as the consequences of not… Continue reading
Things that make me smile #4 – Oxymorons
I met Tom Hill a few months ago when he spoke at our Vistage Group. His talk was fascinating. Since then I get his Friday Newsletter and read it without fail. In Eaglezine issue, I found this interesting piece about Oxymorons. Oxymoron [def] A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as… Continue reading