Get your brain in motion
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 July the attention is drawn on “Downloads“
Image: Diplofoundation
The set of images used in the Diplocalendar 2014 can also be consulted on Slideshare
The manual “Be A Better Writer“, downloadable for free at Bookboon.com, includes tips that will help you improve your writing (and actually get your writing done faster and easier) no matter what type of writing you need to do.
Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals.
Diplomatic activities are now mainly based on the daily use of internet. This illustration realised by Diplofoundation summarises one day in the life of an e-diplomat: the series of drawings shows how a diplomat dealing with an environmental crisis uses knowledge management to organise her work.
Image source: http://goo.gl/Pk28Ku
You can see more illustrations of the original gallery at: http://goo.gl/sAUQrK
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
Elizabeth Gilbert in a recent Ted Talk analyses the way we experience great failure and the way we experience great success.
In this moving video she describes how “for most of our lives, we live out our existence here in the middle of the chain of human experience where everything is normal and reassuring and regular, but failure catapults us abruptly way out over here into the blinding darkness of disappointment. Success catapults us just as abruptly but just as far way out over here into the equally blinding glare of fame and recognition and praise. And there’s a real equal danger in both cases of getting lost out there… in the hinterlands of the psyche.”
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 June the attention is drawn on “Backup”
Image: Diplofoundation
The set of images used in the Diplocalendar 2014 can also be consulted on Slideshare
Some believe leadership is a gift. Others think it is possible to learn to be a leader.
For those who wish to strengthen their leadership skills, Laura Entis provides seven points to help you become a better leader:
1. Do not be scared to fail big
2. Banish self-doubt by acknowledging your accomplishments
3. Do not settle for the standard solution
4. Focus on results, not style
5. Always keep improving
6. Learn to act like an introvert and an extrovert
7. Cultivate generosity
Read the full article here.
Do you think you’re qualified for a particular job, fit to lead a team, or entitled to a promotion because you have extensive experience and highly developed technical skills? Well, it turns out that while those things are crucial to your professional success, it is imperative that you also have great soft skills, more commonly known as “people skills.”
Jacquelyn Smith suggests 20 soft skills we need to succeed at work:
Read the full article at: http://onforb.es/1bKPpB7
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Posted by: Maria Del Carmen Taschini Otero
Randolph Frederick “Randy” Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch discovered he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was given a terminal diagnosis.
On September 18, 2007, he gave a lecture full of inspirational life lessons titled “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams“, which became popular on YouTube (watch the video of the “Last Lecture” here). He then co-authored a book called The Last Lecture on the same theme. According to the New York Times “As the video of his lecture spread across the Web and was translated into many languages, Dr. Pausch (…) became a deeply personal friend, wise, understanding and humorous, to many he never met”.
Here are a few suggestions from his lectures:
– We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I do not seem as depressed or morose as I should be, I am sorry to disappoint you.
– The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who do not want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
– Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. When you are angry at somebody, you just have not given them enough time. Just give them a little more time — and they will almost always impress you.
– Being successful does not make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
– Delegation: No one is an island. You can accomplish a lot more with help.
Read more quotations here.
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Posted by: Vincenzo Savina
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