Here’s a 60-second interview of Tom Peters where he talks about leaving it all on the stage: “If you don’t fall over, then you weren’t going hard enough.”
(via The Tom Peters Weblog)
I saw this reference to How to Run a Meeting Like Google on Micro Persuasion. Interesting points in an interview with Melissa Mayer, vice president of search products at Google, who reportedly holds 70 meetings a week. She offers six pointers on what makes a “good meeting”:
Set a firm agenda.
Assign a note-taker.
Carve out micro meetings.
Hold [...]
I saw this Ultimate Rejection Letter on Chaosmatrix and laughed out loud. I don’t know about the veracity of the letter, but I do like to see things turned inside out:
Herbert A. Millington
Chair – Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University
College Hill, MA 34109
Dear Professor Millington,
Thank you for your letter of March 16. After [...]
The Univerity of California-Berkely has quote a few online courses and lectures available on Google video. My favorite series? Physics for Future Presidents.
Kathy Sierra at Passionate posted an article called Be Provacative and used the graphic at the right to illustrate where attention goes. She writes:
If we want our users (members, guests, students, potential customers, kids, co-workers, etc.) to pay attention, we have to be provocative. We can moan all we want about how the responsible person [...]
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