Get your brain in motion

Month: May 2013 (Page 2 of 2)

Tracking the trackers

Privacy shouldn’t be the price we accept just for surfing on the internet.

Gary Kovacs, in his Ted Talk, explains why it’s your right to know what data is being collected about you and how it affects your online life.

Discover the Genius in you

The theme of Diplocalendar 2013 was inspired by Mark Twain’s quotation that: “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them”.

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Diplomats, like many other professionals, must read, understand, synthesise and make sense of newspapers, magazines, emails, official reports and so many other things related to their daily work. But there is so much else to read both for pleasure and to deepen our knowledge.

The selected book suggested for the month of April that supports professional development and is relevant to management in diplomacy is Michael J. Gelb’s  Think Like Da Vinci

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