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TTTT: Take Time To Think!

19/09/2013 /

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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14/09/2013 /

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

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Image source: South Africa The Good News / www.sagoodnews.co.za [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

 

Bureaucratic traps to avoid

10/09/2013 /

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”.

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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

Quotes Can Light Up Your Day

07/09/2013 /

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:

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If you want to read 12 more quotations, take a look at http://bit.ly/16RsZK4

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Misused English terms

03/09/2013 /

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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31/08/2013 /

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
Woodrow Wilson

As quoted in The Wilson Era; Years of War and After, 1917–1923 (1946) by Josephus Daniels, p. 624.

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Excel 2010 Advanced

29/08/2013 /

The manual Excel 2010 Advanced, downloadable for free at Bookboon.com, concerns the spreadsheet software in the new Microsoft 2010 Office Suite. Excel allows you to store, manipulate and analyze data in organized workbooks for home and business tasks.

Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals.

10 +1 secrets to communicate leadership.

27/08/2013 /

Communication is the real work of leadership

by Nitin Nohrian

It is a hard work communicating efficiently and even more when the goal one is trying to achieve is to look and be a leader.
Here are the 10 tips that Forbes has decided to share with us in order to become great (communication) leaders:

  1. Speak not with a forked tongue;
  2. Get personal;
  3. Get specific;
  4. Focus on the leave-behinds not the take-aways;
  5. Have an open mind;
  6. Shut-up and listen;
  7. Replace ego with empathy;
  8. Read between the lines;
  9. When you speak, know what you’re talking about;
  10. Speak to groups as individuals;

*Bonus: Be prepared to change the message if needed!

Read more on: http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2012/04/04/10-communication-secrets-of-great-leaders/

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