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Category: Ideas

  • Invest in Personal Development

    All aspects of your life finds its foundation in your personal development.  Think about you – your leadership development finds its foundation in your personal development.  Your business life, your professional life, your academic life – all finds its foundation in your personal development. What I mean by your personal…

  • The Psychology of Retweeting

    Psychology n., pl., -gies. The science that deals with mental processes and behavior. The emotional and behavioral characteristics of an individual, group, or activity: the psychology of war. Retweet To forward a Twitter post that someone sent you. It is accomplished by starting the tweet with “rt@” or “retweet@” followed…

  • Listening to Podcasts

    I can’t believe how much I am learning and how much content that I’m consuming as I have listened to podcasts.  I am learning so much – when I walk the dogs – when I drove to and from work.  I also didn’t realize how much time I am able…

  • Students and Email

    I have heard many people talk about how students don’t check their e mail.  They talk about how they cannot get a hold of students because they never check their email. A few weeks ago, I heard Christopher S. Penn talk about how students check their email.  He was involved…

  • Opportunity

    I can’t believe how much opportunity is out there – that I don’t avail myself of – and that’s the opportunities that I know about.  I just can’t imagine what the opportunities are that I don’t know about.  Do you know what I’m talking about? I’m not necessarily talking about…

  • The Semiotics of Clothes 2

    A little over a month ago, I wrote a post on the semiotics of clothes. You can click to see the post – but the main idea of the last post was that the responsibility rested on the wearer of the clothes; that the wearer is responsible for what is…

  • Your Identity

    There are so many facets to your identity.  There are some deep, deep “essence” type stuff that makes up your true identity.  The metaphysical and ontological versions of you.   There are definitely those aspects of who you are, but typically when I talk about identity, I tend to talk more…

  • Google Leaving China

    There are a ton of articles on this.  You can find them – on Google.  Here’s one that I read.  You can get the details of them leaving from all of these articles.  I just want to share my thoughts. Google is leaving because they do not censor any of…

  • What Do You Crowdsource?

    Just out of curiosity, what do you crowdsource?  If you don’t know what that means, you more than likely aren’t doing it, but if you do know what that means, what are you crowdsourcing? I guess an even more foundational question is – do you have a crowd that you…

  • Quiet

    I need it.  I long for it.  It has been a long day, and I got home late. It’s part of the job. But as much as I need it – I can name a few people that absolutely need it more than I do.  I think of my friends…

  • Sarcasm Distinction

    Sarcasm defined by Answers.com is. A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound. A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule. Sar-chasm defined – it defines the space in between knowing and…

  • Friends and Followers

    The whole social media space is changing the way that we see friends and followers. It provides a much fuller perspective or a more shallow perspective. I guess it depends on where you begin. My “friends” are people that I know. I know all of my friends on Facebook. Some…