THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Success

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” – Harry F. Banks

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Is money the answer to motivating your employees?

I spend a lot of my time helping managers understand how to get the best out of others; how to successfully motivate, engage, enthuse, inspire and influence those around them, so they get more done and achieve better results.

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India Since 1950: Society, Politics, Economy And Culture by Christophe Jaffrelot

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Perseverance

“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Wilderness Leadership—on the Job

Tori Murden McClure was the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the first American to ski overland to the South Pole. She has led expeditions up Mount Rainier and the Andes, and through Kenya and Alaska. She has law and divinity degrees and now serves as the president of Spalding University, in Louisville, Kentucky.

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India Since 1950: Society, Politics, Economy And Culture by Christophe Jaffrelot

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Responsibility

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Corporate social responsibility

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is also often referred to as business responsibility and an organisation's action on environmental, ethical, social and economic issues. The terms in the area can seem confusing if you don't know the jargon - but don't be put off by this.

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Right stuff / Tom Wolfe

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Life

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Top Strengths and Challenges of Modern Managers

At Full Circle Feedback we have an extensive database of managers who have undertaken our 360 degree feedback process over the past decade. We recently analysed the top strengths and challenges of approximately 200, 000 managers. Here are the very interesting results in rank order:

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Right stuff / Tom Wolfe

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Concentration

“To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.” – Bertrand Russell

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Functional Programming: Why Should You Care?

Functional programming languages are not widely used, but are frequently mentioned. David Chisnall gives an overview of why you should care about members of this family.

Since the mid 1980s, functional programming has been one of those things that periodically crops up as the magic bullet that will save everyone from the horrors of buggy code, or will magically make everything faster. It hasn't delivered on this promise in the past, but it may in the future. In this article, I'll take a look at why.

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Good strategy, bad strategy : the difference and why it matters / Richard P. Rumelt

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Attitude

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” – Og Mandino

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Work-life balance key to being the best

Just how far the best American employers have come in acknowledging the importance of work-life balance is clear from Fortune magazine's annual "100 Best Companies to Work For" list, from which Google emerged in top spot.

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Good strategy, bad strategy : the difference and why it matters / Richard P. Rumelt

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Silence

“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.” – Confucius

TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Application Execution Model in Windows Phone 7.5

This chapter provides an overview of the application execution model in Windows Phone 7.5 and examines the various application life cycle events, which are used to coordinate state persistence and restoration. It also delves into the sample application and discusses image caching, design-time data, and consuming a simple WCF service.

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Grow : how ideals power growth and profit at the world's greatest companies / Jim Stengel

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

DEDICATION

“The concentration and DEDICATION- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.” – Tom Seaver

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Importing and Exporting Windows Network Settings

Need to back up or distribute your network settings? Eric Geier shows how to work with your wireless profiles, TCP/IP configuration, and 802.1X authentication settings.

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Grow : how ideals power growth and profit at the world's greatest companies / Jim Stengel

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Positive Thinking

“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” – Patricia Neal

TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Like Effect: The Power of Positive Marketing

Facebook is a marketing tool unlike any the world has seen before. Facebook marketing is different because positivity is part of its DNA. The act of liking has far-reaching impact and a quantifiable effect on commerce.

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Grow : how ideals power growth and profit at the world's greatest companies / Jim Stengel

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Simplicity

“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” – Charles Dudley Warner

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Network topology

Network topology is the layout pattern of interconnections of the various elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a computer or biological network. Network topologies may be physical or logical.Physical topology refers to the physical design of a network including the devices, location and cable installation. Logical topology refers to how data is actually transferred in a network as opposed to its physical design. In general physical topology relates to a core network whereas logical topology relates to basic network.

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Grow : how ideals power growth and profit at the world's greatest companies / Jim Stengel

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Teamwork

“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” – Seneca

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Managing Confrontation in Multicultural Teams

Everyone knows that a little confrontation from time to time is constructive, right? And the classic business literature confirms it. Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team, for example, discusses at length how to achieve the right amount of confrontation for ultimate team effectiveness — and concludes that fear of conflict is one of the five major barriers to success. It was a bestseller in the U.S.

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Grow : how ideals power growth and profit at the world's greatest companies / Jim Stengel

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Luck

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Why You Need a Better Elevator Pitch

For decades, salespeople have practiced something called an "elevator pitch." The idea was that they had to sell themselves and their product or service in the time it took to ride an elevator from the ground to the top floor. Every good salesperson had an "elevator pitch" and could perform it flawlessly at a moment's notice.

Today, elevators are much faster and attention spans are much shorter, so you've got to amp up your pitch. You've got to have a 118.

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Grow : how ideals power growth and profit at the world's greatest companies / Jim Stengel

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Opportunity

“A new day is the biggest opportunity of your life.” – Maria Uman

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Entrepreneurship seems to have become the silver bullet for a job-scarce, unemployment-saddled global economy still struggling to shake off recession. Around the world, leaders talk about how start-ups can create new jobs and lift regions out of poverty. But many entrepreneurs — particularly those in the world's toughest economies — are still battling to secure the cash they need to launch and run their businesses.

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure...[and] a serious constraint on efforts to promote strong and sustainable global recovery."

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Get rich click! : the ultimate guide to making money on the Internet / Marc Ostrofsky

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Motivation

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” – Jim Rohn

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Your Problem Isn't Motivation

"Peter," my friend Byron emailed me a few days ago. "I haven't been diligent about working out over the past five years and I'm trying to get back in the gym and get myself into a healthier state. I've found that on my quest for a Mind, Body, Spirit balance, my body has been neglected. I need to fix it, and it's VERY hard for me to get motivated. Any insight?"

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Get rich click! : the ultimate guide to making money on the Internet / Marc Ostrofsky

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Financial

“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.” – Suze Orman

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Post-Financial Crisis, a New Generation's Views on Money

In 2008, adult conversations shifted. After nearly a decade of headlines on terrorism and the resultant wars, suddenly signs of financial trouble demanded top attention. Within months, the global financial crisis, considered by many economists to be the worst financial downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, settled in around the world.

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Harvard Business Review: On Managing Through a Downturn by Harvard Business School Publishing