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I love the core foundation of this article.  The best personal growth is not necessarily fast growth.

Thanks David, I will be studying this a lot. 

Muy interesante este ideagrama en el que nos muestra la efectividad de los "Modelos visuales" a la hora de solucionar problemas/retos complejos, ayudando a "seguir el hilo" y hacerlos tangibles.

Although we often stereotype givers as chumps and doormats, they turn out to be surprisingly successful. In fact, Grant shows, givers not only dominate the bottom of the success ladder. They also dominate the top.

Blaming others - never works, but so many people live in a 'blame culture'...

we spend our time blaming others, we have no time to look at ourselves. Blaming others prevents us from learning about ourselves. When something isn’t our fault, there’s no reason to do anything differently. Which means we will inevitably make the same mistake in the future. And that will lead to more blame . . .

Open Source es asunto de libertad no de precio por que no es gratis. Se refiere a la libertad de usurlos para ejecutarlos,copiarlos,distribuirlos,estudiarlos, cambiar y mejorar el software,

If you do intend to read one book this year, this deck is highly recommend

A real inspiration

This is a very long presentation.

intéressant pour chacun de nous. 

We need to set realistic goals in life and understand there are times we cannot achieve them. Realistic includes resiliency.

I do! ;)  

An essential perspective on taking the least traveled communcation path....

An insightful piece on how technology is changing how we are connecting with others.

(From the article): It is harder to intervene than not to, but it is vastly harder to choose to do either than to retreat into the scrolling names of one’s contact list, or whatever one’s favorite iDistraction happens to be. Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat. The phone didn’t make me avoid the human connection, but it did make ignoring her easier in that moment, and more likely, by comfortably encouraging me to forget my choice to do so. My daily use of technological communication has been shaping me into someone more likely to forget others. The flow of water carves rock, a little bit at a time. And our personhood is carved, too, by the flow of our habits.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. Being attentive to the needs of others might not be the point of life, but it is the work of life. It can be messy, and painful, and almost impossibly difficult. But it is not something we give. It is what we get in exchange for having to die.

This is my insight using the thining routine:see,think,wonder

This article is related to the theme"possibilities".This article talks about the factors that lead to realization of reaching the possibilities.In this article,it states that a professor,Dr. Jack Haskings,spent a decade studying detrimental effects of fear-based media on people. His findings provided a powerful reminder of why mediocrity so frequently and so easily becomes our preferred response when seeing possibilities.After reding this article,i think that what Dr. Jack Haskings said in this article is influential and beneficial.I wonder if can this article influence people and lead them to possibilities.

I see that mediocrity is often preferred when seeing possibilities. I think that we should think positive instead of living in fear. I wonder why we choose to be paralysed by our fears.

I see that being exposed to negative things will make people more inclined to make negative choices and have more negative thoughts. It will also make people believe they have little or no control over outcomes and therefore won’t strive to reach their goals. I think that we should surround ourselves with positivity. I wonder what about the negative thing such as news makes people more negative. Why wouldn’t it inspire people to change the world and be more optimistic, happy and inspired to change things and reach their goals and do what they want?

Are we heading towards a future of "glittering technology in a shabby society" ? 

Some interesting insights with some suggested solutions from McAfee.

These trends are impacting our businesses now and will transform the way we look at traditional human resources and people management.

Fascinating!

Very interesteing concept shared here about coherence ~ the fit between value creation for customers, its capabilities, and its products and services.  Thanks David.

From the article ~

How can companies be more successful and executives less frustrated? They need to find what Booz calls “coherence.” That means a fit between the way a company creates value for customers, its capabilities and its products and services. Not surprisingly, at coherent firms, 57% of survey-takers said they enjoyed above-industry-average revenue growth. At firms that were rated “incoherent,” only 18% reported growth above the industry average, and 36% of that group reported growth below the industry average.

Booz has run this study before. Last year it got similar results, though this year was even worse.  For instance, last year 53% of managers didn’t feel their company’s strategy would lead to success. That’s a poor showing, but not as bad as this year’s 64%.

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This is a great emotional description of many things about entrepreneurship.

I like in particular how phases you go through as an entrepreneur constantly change like on a roller-coaster. Not everyone's the same but all entrepreneurs I've known whent through these ups and downs (although admitedly not the getting-broke-from-being-millionaire phase). But the point James Altucher is making resonnates : it's about what happens now.