Do not fear failure.
Successful people use failure as a way to learn and a way to practice. Do not view anything as failure, rather a necessary stepping stone to success.
J.J. Goldwag
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Month: September 2013
Web 2.0 technologies are changing the ways we can do personal learning: Information and content aggregators may come in handy for training activities.
The English Learning Corner set by the Istituto Diplomatico (using Netvibes) is an excellent example of these possibilities. The service gathers and organizes links to relevant sites and RSS feeds devoted to English language learning. It shows how an aggregation service can provide a personal learning environment.
More about the English Learning Corner.
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If you wish success in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother
and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
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It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer”. – Albert Einstein
Timetables, time management, running time: time has become a scarce resource in the galloping 21st century. Technological innovation processes made our daily life easier and more comfortable, but also time-starved. Notwithstanding smartphones and ultra-high speed internet connections, problems still need time to be solved.
Joanne Cantor provides 5 tips to a profitable and healthy use of time:
(1) Anticipate
(2) Reconsider
(3) Review
(4) Refresh
(5) Reconnoiter
For more details read the full article
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Today, people in leadership roles are almost everywhere. But playing this role does not necessarily make a person a good leader.
To identify what are you good at and where your skills need further development, there are some quiz questions that can help you.
If you want to try one, just read more on: http://bit.ly/fQurc.
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela
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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”.
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.
One of the selected book suggested that supports professional development and is relevant to management in diplomacy is the classic C. Northcote Parkinson‘s Parkinson’s Law
Jason Fried explains what we all experience in the office
Working in the office? Not anymore, not like before.
Having a bad day? Do you need a bit of encouragement to move through it? One of the best things you can do is writing some simple sentences down and keep them in mind!
Here it is a quote by Lifehack that could inspire you:
If you want to read 12 more quotations, take a look at http://bit.ly/16RsZK4
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English is the most widely-spoken language in the world and is currently an official language in 88 sovereign states and territories; it therefore follows that it has many different versions and standards.
However, over the years, the European institutions have developed a vocabulary that differs from that of any recognised form of English. The problem with these words is that when people use them with the wrong meaning or in the wrong context, they are usually unaware that they are doing so.
Consult the list drawn by the Court of Auditors which aims at giving some guidelines for a proper use of English.
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