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Learn to use e-mail (and other technology) far more sparingly and with far less dependency. Don’t and you risk losing control of your life, emotional and physical burnout, workplace meltdowns, and unhappiness. That’s the argument John Freeman makes in his new book, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox (to be published in October by Scribner). Here are some his thoughts as expressed in a recent Wall Street Journal article titled “Not So Fast”. This week we had all 13 grandchildren (and a few of their parents) over for Sunday dinner. The oldest is just over eleven and the youngest 3 months. After dinner, while the adults finished preparing dessert, we sent the kids outside to play. On a whim I suggested we try an experiment. The results surprised us all. Anyone with kids has heard “It’s not fair!” – and the unconvincing parental rejoinder of “Life’s not fair” – more times than anyone cares to count. Children seem to catch on, at a very early age, to a very American idea –life should be fundamentally ‘fair’. To a child, this means they should be allowed to stay up as late as a sibling who just happens to be several years older – and it’s unfair when they cannot. Or it means “I should get the same size brownie as everyone else” – which is the subject of the test I proposed. Ever tried to convince someone to try something new? If so, you’ve probably also met someone who doesn’t want to try anything new. They are set in their ways and don’t want to listen to you. If you wait for people to change their own way of thinking, you may just go out of business waiting. Have you ever wanted to know what interests your customers right now – to read their minds and find out what hot button you can use to get their attention? Are interested in identifying emerging trends? Google Hot Trends can help you in your quest. Every hour Google updates a list of the hottest 100 topics people in the United States are searching for. You can look at daily lists back to May 15, 2007. According to Kim B. Clark (Dean of the Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005 and President of BYU-Idaho since then), no matter what we teach, how we teach can help others learn the critical skills society needs to provide leadership in families, communities and the nation. Leaders and learning are inextricably intertwined. He shared his [...] “When you’re in trouble, ask a question,” Roger Zener taught. Here’s a true story that shows how effective that can be in a sales interview. The principle, however, applies to almost any human interaction. In 1986, Roger lured me out of a private practice of law in Eugene, Oregon to join him in the Advanced Marketing [...] Is it really an invention that will change the internet forever as one British news site proclaims? Or is it, as others have described it, the newest and most important golf blog research tool in the history of humankind or the magical search engine that will channel all kinds of data to give you coherent [...] People won’t buy something until they understand it. It doesn’t matter whether it is a product, a service or an idea. You have probably come across people who refused to take action even after you clearly and concisely laid everything out for them. They just didn’t seem to get it. And, because they didn’t get it, [...] How you look at solving tax problems and solving financial problems may well determine what answer you’ll get – or whether you get one at all. This principle illustrates the importance of creativity in business and can contribute to collaborative team creativity. Consider this. Two people are riding bicycles. When they start, they are exactly 20 [...] |
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