I happened upon a Globe and Mail blog list and one of them has some short hints in it. That blog is by Harvey Schachter
Harvey used the the Power Points title for his entry and he is making a blog by clipping from other people’s blogs and news articles and not adding any opinion or content … well [cough cough] exactly like this blog entry.
Here are some of the points:
- Procter & Gamble chief executive officer A.G. Lafley says the secret to communications is simple slogans, repeated over and over. Human beings don’t want to stay focused, so his job is to get them to focus their creativity, productivity, and efficiency or effectiveness around the company’s own focus in those areas. U.S. News and World Report
- When someone tells you that what you want to do can’t be done, they will only be right if you believe them, says Burlington-based consultant George Torok. You just need to find out how to do it. Motivational Speaker blog
- With nearly three-quarters of human resources professionals female, a survey has found that practitioners would prefer a more even balance between the genders so the profession would have more credibility and not be seen as a female ghetto. Canadian HR Reporter
- Tom Peters makes big bucks telling audiences everything was simpler in the past, but he confesses that he doesn’t feel managing is becoming more difficult these days. He contends it’s the arrogance of modernity to believe we face business challenges that are more difficult than our predecessors, who had railways, the automobile, the Great Depression, or world wars disrupt their businesses. The Financial Times
- If you like to write your daily to-do list on a small card or piece of paper, you might enjoy shifting it to your desktop with MiniTask (http://www.minitask.org), which allows you to check off tasks that are done (or have them disappear), group tasks by themes, add new tasks through the day and shift them around. Lifehacker.com
OK not really that profound but I clipped it because I think it would be a good conversation or table topics list. For table topics, we might have to have a longer time frame to give time for a better presentation … then only a few speakers.
I liked some additional information that Harvey provided on a related page … now gone from the G&M site — :
FINISH 2008 IMPECCABLY
Success coach Robin Sharma preaches the importance of ending things well, be it a meeting or the year. Often, we get distracted near the end of the year, losing energy and motivation. To finish 2008 impeccably, he suggests:
Go back to the beginning
Review your personal goals from the start of the year. If there’s work still to be completed, tackle it now. You may want to recommit to daily practices that you intended but failed to uphold.
Review your performance
Write the story of your year. What happened? What surprised you? List your accomplishments, which will probably surprise you. Study your calendar for the year to see how you invested your time.
Lessons
Write down the five to 10 lessons you learned this year. To avoid losing them, incorporate them in your goals for next year.
Recognize people
With handwritten notes, thank those who helped you this year.