Get your brain in motion
Mindtools.com provides a simple test, made of 15 questions, to discover if you are good in motivating a teamwork and lead it to success. Performance goals, an efficient reward system and good motivational practices have to be combined in the best way to become a good manager.
Take the online test at:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_67.htm
Science only tells you how to think. Others tell you what to think. Think about it.
Manage or simply participate to a meeting, can sometimes be hard. Colleagues and co-workers can become real “Meeting Killers”. The Wall Street Journal has published an humorous editorial by Sue Shellenbarger, which provides advices and solutions to handle this situations.
Read the full article at: http://on.wsj.com/JaBDcT
Shawn Murphy from http://switchandshift.com explains what behaviors a manager should avoid, to lead an organization to success.
The leader should be humble, self-confident, long-term thinker and should never aim company’s activities at his own interests.
A study by Zhen Wang and Clifford Nass from Stanford University, analyzes what happens in a brain while a person is multitasking. Multitasking, at first sight, looks very productive and seems the best way to solve several problems at the same time, without ignoring even just one of them.
The study, instead, shows that multitasking decreases brain efficiency and doesn’t help memory and filtering of information. Listening to music, instead isn’t a way of multitasking and can also help the person to be more efficient and concentrated.
Read the full article to “solve your multitasking madness” at:
http://lifehacker.com/5922453/what-multitasking-does-to-our-brains
Mrmediatraining.com provides a list of the seven main causes that could make a speech uninteresting and boring:
1. Your Introduction Failed to Interest Me
2. One Thought Ran Into The Next
3. You Loaded The Speech With Technical Detail
4. Your Delivery Was Sleep-Inducing
5. You Didn’t Tell Me What You Wanted
6. You Read From Your PowerPoint
7. You Didn’t Manage the Question and Answer Period
Read the full post at: http://www.mrmediatraining.com/index.php/2011/10/27/seven-reasons-i-hated-your-speech/
Tony Schwartz is the president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything. On his Blog he has recently published a post on Stress.
His starting line goes like this: “How often do you intentionally push yourself to discomfort?”
A very effective example he provides, explains his position on stress management: “This is easiest to see at the physical level. In the absence of regular cardiovascular exercise — a form of stress — the heart’s ability to efficiently pump blood drops an average of 1 percent a year between the ages of 30 and 70, and faster after that. Likewise, in the absence of strength training — literally pushing weight against resistance — we lose an average of 1 percent of lean muscle mass every year after age 30.” … “The principle is simple, but not entirely intuitive. The harder you push yourself, the more you signal your body to grow. It’s called supercompensation, and the growth actually occurs during recovery. The limiting factor is mostly your tolerance for discomfort.”
In fact research on dementia also says about the brain “use it or lose it”, which is directly related to the famous Latin quotation “mens sana in corpore sano”. However it should also be considered that persistent stress and over-exertion can push you to burnout.
The full text of Tony Schwartz’s post is available at http://www.theenergyproject.com/blog/stress-not-your-enemy
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Another Repost from Tommaso Coniglio’s Blog http://synapseburning.com as a follow up to the previous post on ideas from books: The Ultimate Book of Mind Maps (part 1)
“In my previous post I explored the concept of mind mapping and the theory behind its effectiveness, based on Tony Buzan’s approach. Now I want to touch on a related topic, to which Buzan dedicates the second part of his mind mapping book: success! Chapter 3 is literally titled: The ultimate success formula (we are definitely in cliché “self-help” territory, and if I didn’t have so much respect for the author, a phrase like that would have stopped me from reading further…)
So what is this special formula for success, and what does it have to do with mind maps?
The “goal of goals”
In 30 years of teaching, Buzan has discovered that most people seem to think that the path to success – the “goal of goals” – is to get better with every trial. This is a deeply flawed formula, because it implies that we should progress in a linear fashion, and that errors, especially after many trials, represent heartbreaking failures. In other words, Buzan maintains that most people are wrought with the fear of failure, which ultimately translates into fear of success, because there can be no success without experiencing a certain amount of “failure” all along the learning path – a path that is everything but linear.
This is why Buzan introduces his own formula for success, which is meant to mirror the way the brain works in learning and adapting to the universe: to learn with every trial. This formula acknowledges that learning is a complex process with a few ups and many downs, and with long periods when it seems like we are making no progress at all. It also puts errors is the proper perspective: they are the conduit for success or, conversely, success is the byproduct of our errors. [….]
Jovan Kurbalija, director of Diplofoundation, and Pete Cranston (communication advisor at Diplofoundation) have been asked to define the meaning of e-diplomacy. Here are their answers.
Interview to Jovan Kurbalija on e-diplomacy from arturo toscanini on Vimeo.
Jovan Kurbalija, Director of Diplofoundation, has been interviewed in the course of the e-diplomacy day in Rome (June 18, 2012) at the Istituto Diplomatico of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Interview to Pete Cranston on e-diplomacy from arturo toscanini on Vimeo.
Pete Cranston, Communication advisor of Diplofoundation, has been interviewed in the course of the e-diplomacy day in Rome (June 18, 2012) at the Istituto Diplomatico of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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