Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme. – Richard Holbrooke
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We do not know what kind of data cell phone companies are collecting. In this TED talk Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code – a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver
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Which ‘mindset’ do you possess? ‘Mindset’ is a simple idea discovered by Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success, a simple idea that makes all the difference.
According to Carol Dweck everyone has either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is one in which you view your talents and abilities as ‘fixed’. In other words, you are who you are, your intelligence and talents are fixed, and your fate is to go through life avoiding challenge and failure. A growth mindset, on the other hand, is one in which you view life as a series of challenges and opportunities for improving and you see yourself as fluid, as a work in progress.
The good news is that mindsets are not ‘set’ and we can cultivate a growth mindset to achieve success and happiness. At any time, we can learn to open our mind to develop our ability to learn new things across a broad range of skills. The more we learn, the more our brain grows and can learn more easily.
In this TEDx talk Eduardo Briceno, co-Founder and CEO of Mindset Works, explains the principles.
Richard Branson, one of the most original and successful businessmen in the world, is the founder of the Virgin Group and the author of various books on creative management. He has became the first LinkedIn Influencer to amass 1 million followers. To celebrate this accomplishment, Sir Richard sat down with LinkedIn’s Executive Editor, Daniel Roth, to answer questions from members about the secrets to success.
To be
- Creative
- Status Quo Disruptor
- Analytical
- Logical
- Innovative
- Free Thinking
- and Visionary
are some of the qualities that came out to be essential.
In his latest book, Like a Virgin, Secrets They Won’t Teach you at Business School, he stresses the importance of leaving freedom of thought and of setting priorities to his employees and he underlines the significance of never allowing money and bonuses to be the main incentives to hard work in order to be a successful manager.
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The Diplocalendar 2014 realised by S. Baldi and E. Gelbstein is dedicated to “Cybersecurity: Guidelines for diplomats” and is based on the assumption that “Cyberspace is inherently insecure”.
For the month of February the attention is drawn on “Tracking”
Image: Diplofoundation
The set of images used in the Diplocalendar 2014 can also be consulted on Slideshare.
Most of us think that the history of science is undoubtedly important for the evolution of our society, but, at the same time, incredibly boring. Since scientists and mathematicians who made the history of science, and therefore of the human kind as a whole, are simply thought to be massive geniuses, it is hard to imagine how their stories could be applied in our everyday life. That was the purpose of Bill Bryson, who made it possible to gather the amazing tales of some of the most extraordinary inventions and discovers in our history, showing how ingenuity must be combined with other ingredients: surely passion and hard work, but also fate and even good luck.
The message of the book “A short story of nearly everything” is simple. There are not revolutionary men, but only revolutionary ideas. Success is the result of a complex equation in which ingenuity, curiosity and a favorable context are the main variables.
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_bryson_a_short_history.jpg
Public diplomacy is increasingly challenged by the transformative power of technology and the swift pace of digital progress: an effective online communication needs a careful and creative use of social medias. The UN foundation and the Digital Diplomacy Coalition have dealt with this subject at the end of October by hosting a half-day conference attended by people from all over the world, connected through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Livestream. Eight key – pieces of advice emerged throughout the conversation:
1) Meet people where they are, using multiple platforms to reach different audiences.
2) Listen: don’t just put out your messages, involve your audience.
3) Build a network of networks: a stronger community means a better exchange.
4) Tell stories: data are important but reaching the emotional level is crucial.
5) Tell your stories visually, images make words more powerful.
6) Be authentic, be accurate: being credible is even more important then being fast.
7) Engage your leadership to be active on line, thus helping to shape a social-media–friendly organization.
8) Spur action: specific and relevant reaction means your communication has been really effective.
Read more on: http://bit.ly/IsTayB
Image source: Flickr – Paul Shanks
That some achieve great success is proof that others can achieve it as well – Abraham Lincoln
If you got to ask you ain’t got it – Fats Waller
Image – Courtesy of Ed Gelbstein
The true difference between success and failure is your ability to get and keep yourself motivated:
- Motivation means choosing to do what you’d rather not do.
- The most depressing and de-motivating sentences in the world usually begin with the phrase “Someday, I’ll…”
- Don’t set goals that just excite you; set goals that scare you a little bit. That way they’ll strengthen your “motivation muscle.”
- What holds people back is fear of failure, but if you don’t take action, you’ll fail by default, so what have you got to lose?
- You can have whatever you want in life, but nobody is going to give it to you. Everything of value must be earned.
Read more by Geoffrey James on: http://bit.ly/1hyTGtC
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