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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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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
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”
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The set of images used in the Diplocalendar 2014 can also be consulted on Slideshare.
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
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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
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The true difference between success and failure is your ability to get and keep yourself motivated:
Read more by Geoffrey James on: http://bit.ly/1hyTGtC
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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 this month the attention is drawn on “Sharing”
Image: Diplofoundation
The set of images used in the Diplocalendar 2014 can also be consulted on Slideshare
Soft skills are becoming crucial for career success as the world gets increasingly competitive. Beyond technical skills, the softer, interpersonal and relationship-building skills are the ones that help people excel at work.
The problem is such skills are often taken for granted and there is far less training provided for them than for traditional hard skills. That’s why it is so important to focus on soft skills training and development.
Check out if you have a soft skills gap on: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCDV_34.htm
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How much time do we need to learn a foreign language?
According to Joshua Foer, an American journalist who learnt Lingala – a Bantu language spoken in the North West of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-, you just need 22 hours spread over a period of 10 weeks.
He used Memrise, a web app that teaches foreign languages through a game based on the repetition of words and their audio pronunciation. The trick is to assign to each word a “memo”, that can be an image, a sound, a rhyme, a video or just a note on the etymology of the word.
The idea behind Memrise is making the study of a foreign language a fun practice by using the internet as a social gaming and by exploiting the potential of our memory.
Read full article http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/09/learn-language-in-three-months
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