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.
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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.
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
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.
There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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According to Craig Jarrow, the author of Time Management Ninja web site, effective email communication is as much a skill as anything else. The shorter and tighter your email messages, the better chance that they will be read, understood and acted upon.
Here are 10 Reasons That Your Emails Are Too Long:
- You don’t know what you are trying to say
- You don’t know what you are talking about
- Your signature is unnecessary
- You are writing a book
- You are spamming
- You are rambling
- You are forwarding a mess
- It shouldn’t be an email
- It should be multiple emails
- You don’t edit your emails
In today’s high-speed communication, no one wants to read overly long email messages.
So, get to the point!
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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. A. Branson Alcott
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Microsoft Word is one of the most famous and used wordprocessors.
The manuals Word 2010 Introduction, Advanced part 1, Advanced part 2 free downloadable at Bookboon.com, are divided into sections and they will help you to know more about this application and to use it better.
Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals.
Have you ever done a PowerPoint presentation? Probably yes. Do you think it has always been compelling and memorable? We do not think so! Many presentations are boring and quite bad.
In his article, Aaron Couch provides a list of advices to make PowerPoint more enjoyable to read and simple to understand.
- Begin with an outline
- Be consistent with the theme and layout
- Forget clipart, crazy sounds and fancy transitions
- Do not read your Power Point
- Get to the point
- Use media but quality media
- Use the resources available to you
- Practice. Practice. Practice
- It all lies on you: the presenter
Read the full article at : http://tiny.cc/zl7snw
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Luck favours the prepared mind.
(La chance ne sourit qu’aux esprits bien prepares). Louis Pasteur
Audentis Fortuna iuvat
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid, X, 284.
In his Blog Nigel Paine talks about Verdi’s Otello and his dramatic failure as leader.
So, why has he failed?
- He trusts the wrong persons
- He doesn’t give attention to his team
- He refuses to admit he might be wrong
- He is not patient to make decisions
- He forgets he is in a context. He doesn’t understand the importance of the external environment
Nigel Paine continues listing his top ten leadership errors.
Read the full article at: http://goo.gl/cmCv9
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We learn from our mistakes. This is generally true.
However, there are common pitfalls managers and leaders should avoid:
- not giving good feedback
- not making time for their team
- being too “hands-off”
- being too friendly
- failing to define goals
- misunderstanding motivation
- hurrying recruitment
- not “walking the walk”, that is, not leading by example
- not delegating effectively
- misunderstanding their role.
The article “10 Common Leadership and Management Mistakes”
(http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/leadership-mistakes.htm), available on the Mindtools website, analyzes these mistakes and provides some suggestions on how to recognize and avoid them.
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