Basic Research
“Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”
Wernher von Braun
Archive for January, 2005
Play your way to your best work
The Occupational Adventure (sm): Play your way to your best work
¿Pasión, diversión, satisfacción, son términos asociados a tus sentimientos en el trabajo?
Aunque sea en alguna medida estos sentimientos tienen que tener relación con tu “trabajo” para poder desarrollar tu potencial.
El trabajo tiene que ser divertido, entretenido, creativo, pero no solo debemos esperar que nuestro jefe nos asigne tareas divertidas, entretenidas o que requieran de nuestra creatividad, tenemos que sentir ganas de desarrollar el trabajo de esa forma.
Siempre podemos cambiar nuestro entorno para sentir que, de alguna manera, el trabajo produce en nosotros sentimientos asociados a la satisfacción, a la pasión y porque no a la diversión.
La forma en que trabajamos es determinante para tener oportunidades de destacarnos en lo que hacemos.
La forma en que trabajamos en equipo es determinante para sentirnos bien. Los seres humanos somos sociales por naturaleza y necesitamos de la interacción en grupos.
Creo que uno de los sentimientos mas intensos al trabajar en equipo es el sentimiento de unidad. Esa sensación que producen los sentimientos de confianza, identificación y respaldo del grupo que sentimos al tratar de conseguir un objetivo común, es muy fuerte.
Al margen de los éxitos o fracasos que pueden tener los grupos de trabajo, lo que siempre queda es esa sensación de haberlo intentado juntos, de trabajar codo a codo para lograrlo.
En resumen, tus oportunidades dependen de que puedas desarrollar tu trabajo con pasión, ganas, diversión y sientas satisfacción, no solo importa tu capacidad, tus oportunidades también dependen de tu actitud, de tus ganas de cambiar el mundo cada día, comenzando por tu trabajo.
The first secret of success
“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”
Norman Vincent Peale
Proper blog posting
Strategize: Proper blog posting
Buenos consejos para un estilo de redacción apropiado para el blogging.
Rubberducking and Creativity
Creating Passionate Users: Rubberducking and Creativity
Sobre como contarle a un osito de peluche tus problemas en voz alta, puede ayudarte a encontrar la solución a tus problemas.
Revelador e interesante, además de gracioso.
Idea Creation and Execution
Sobre la creación y ejecución de ideas para aumentar nuestra efectividad.
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
HBS Working Knowledge: Innovation: Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
A “Robin Hood” cardiac hospital in India–which charges wealthy patients, yet equally welcomes the destitute–is an exciting example of entrepreneurship in the subcontinent, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna.
A Better Scheme for Strategic Planning
A Better Scheme for Strategic Planning
The lengthy, top-down methods of yesteryear are unsuitable for these volatile times. Here are tips for a nimbler, more creative process
Creative Solutions, Critical Skills
People change slowly. They change because they have to, more often than because they want to. And they change their behaviours before they change their beliefs.
Nowhere is this more manifest than in business. And most large organizations have a large number of people, and so, like oil tankers, they change direction the slowest of all, and are the least agile and manoeuvrable.
Change gurus and consultants have, over the years, pushed three ways to bring about change in organizations.
The first way is by changing or imposing tools and technologies that enable, or strait-jacket, employees. A software program that requires you to complete credit check information on a new customer before you can open up a customer ID and sell to that customer is one example. New skills and competencies, both technical and ’soft’ skills like time management, can also be considered ‘tools’ of the trade. The difference between a skill and a competency is that a competency is an applied skill — the competency to innovate, for example, is an application of several skills, notably creative skills.
The second way is by changing or imposing work processes and methodologies. The new regulations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, for example, have imposed mandatory new processes on both managers and auditors of public corporations.
The third way is by changing the culture of the organization by using ‘internal marketing’, by leadership style, through performance management and through reward and recognition programs.
In the past generation, all three methods have been, and continue to be, used in most organizations, particularly the larger ones which are inherently harder to change….
…I would argue then that, particularly as it gets larger, the only way in which an organization can effectively differentiate itself or outperform its competition, is by helping its employees to work smarter. And the best ways to do that are to equip those employees with critical skills and competencies, and empower them to leverage those skills and competencies to give back to the organization creative solutions to its particular, and evolving problems. The power of many.
Please read the full article of Dave Pollard, it is excelent!
On Technology
“Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.”
Max Frisch
On predictions
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
Niels Bohr
On living
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 BC-65) Roman Philosopher & Playwright
Ten Rules for Project Managers
Reforming Project Management Theory and Practice
Ten Rules for Project Managers by Hal Macomber, Project Reformer
On trust and communication
Trust is the bandwidth of communication.
Karl-Erik Sveiby
Consultant & Professor in Knowledge Management
Source: Gurteen
On the creation of something new
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
Source: Gurteen
On choice, love and passion
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
On happiness, freedom, and peace of mind
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton Conway March
Winner: WordPress
Web application of the year
We asked forumgoers to choose the best web application or development framework of the year.
Web-based applications provide interaction for all users regardless of platform or location. If you can connect to the web, you can use it. Forums, blogs, administration tools, collaboration frameworks; there were many excellent options to choose from in 2004.
I love quotations
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
On the importance of involvement
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.
Confucius
(551 BC-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote