Get your brain in motion
We often spend years and years, day after day in job we don’t really love. Or we struggle trying to find out which job we would really love.
Scott Dinsmore shares what he learned from his personal experience in this deceptively simple TED talk about finding out what really matters to you — and then getting started doing it.
The first step? Understand yourself!
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson
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True loyalty originates from kindness, not from fear!
Indeed, according to Daniel Goleman, one of Linkedin’s most appreciated INfluencer and author of “A Force for Good”, if you want a loyal team, you must choose kindness over toughness.
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In his work Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from 450-year-old Company that changed the World, Chris Lowney lists four pillars of Jesuit-inspired leadership:
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The Diplo calendar 2015 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of the wisdom accumulated by humanity over the centuries that has stood the test of time and remains as valid as ever. The hope is that it will inspire you and lead you to explore the thoughts of the people who in one way or another have changed human history for the better .
For the month of November the selected quotation is an ancient Japanese proverb.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
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Music and diplomacy are deeply interrelated. The volume “Music and diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the present” deals with all the aspects of diplomacy which are connected to music, from the thoretical, philosophic or practical prespectives. Concepts, terminology, practices and institutions of the music shape the world of diplomacy. For instance, “to act in concert”, “improvisation” are terms which remind us both the world of the music and the world of diplomacy. In addition, music has always contributed to promote intercultural exchange and to build positive international relations. Rebeka Harendt, Mark Ferraguto and Damien Mahiet gathered sixteen international scholars with different backgrounds to discuss all these aspects.
Here you can find the introduction to this volume
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum – Henry Kissinger (Diplomacy)
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Would you give away your home keys to some random stranger? I bet not. Curiously enough, when it comes to internet personal security, people usually lower their guard, thus giving possibility to malwares, Trojans or identity thieves to have access to private data. Justin Schuh, one of the top Google’s information security engineers, here explains in five simple tips how to sensibly reduce risk of infection while surfing on the internet.
Because, as Jodi Rell once stated: “at the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security”
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