Practical tips, strategies, and insights for starting, growing, and managing small businesses and solopreneur ventures.
In May (May 2013), McKinsey Global Institute, published a very interesting report, named: “Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy” by James Manyika, Michael Chui, Jacques Bughin, Richard Dobbs, Peter Bisson, and Alex Marrs.
A web browser in modern computing is an indispensable piece of software, considering all the functionality have been performing in our day-to-day work. Think about it. We use our browser to find information, to check out our email, to connect and communicate with other people, to buy, to access cloud applications, to view, listen or check multimedia, to access training modules and a lot more.
The new model of today’s new business requires a set of tools that help the interaction of people from different places. These are the collaboration tools. Collaboration tools can be any technology assisting people in working towards common goals and includes a variety of technologies, ranging from conference calls, synchronous, asynchronous, audio and video conference, IRC and instant messaging, whiteboards and smartboards, wikis, collaborate spaces, documents, and applications, Virtual Meetings, and Chat Rooms, etc.
One of the basic productivity principles of David Allen‘s Getting Things Done (GTD) method (not an affiliate link), and a basic part of his method is the 2 minutes rule. 2-minute rule, says that every task you can accomplish under 2 minutes, you should do it right away and remove it from your list … and your mind.
Smart applications, as the Cloze is, facilitate your everyday business and personal life. Today, communication is everything in the digital age. And the applications that support this process, are important. Cloze, is one of these applications, supporting an integrated inbox for e-mail and social networks.
As a blogger, a professional in IT field, and a reader, I monitoring much different news, blogs, products, services and topics across the web, for interesting insights, ideas, and information. In order to do that, in an efficient and, time, effective way, I use an RSS aggregator to collect and organize all the information in one place.
Habits are powerful, tools, if used and managed properly. We all need an extra hand during the day, to help you do all the things, expected from us. If we had a method of “doing” the things right, we usually, at the end of the day, have achieved the most of the goals we needed to carry out.
On Thursday, March 28, 2013, I officially launch my new site takisathanassiou.com (the Leadership Initiative Blog!) after a, really, long period of trials and errors, both in the area of blogging, as well and in the area of installation and operation. In this site, I will intent to integrate various articles, posts, and content, I have created in various places and was scattered all over the web.
Leadership is a discipline, you can find in many places! You should be vigilant to understand and comprehend the leadership’s expression and development when it is practiced.
I found myself, lately, to consider more and more, the ways and practices for “good” decisions. The decision we made influence not only our actions but as well and those of the people we interact with and eventually influence (in a positive or negative way) their life. Potentially, “bad” decisions can influence negatively, not only our life but, that of others as well. Good decisions on the other part can multiply the positive effects for us and many more other individuals (even people we don’t know about!!!).
There are 3 basic elements for personal development and success in personal and professional life. These are the commitment, the engagement in action and the cultivation. The commitment and the engagement in action are the two faces of a truly self-directed, goal and principle-based life and the two-thirds of a set of factors that includes the “cultivation”, which provides meaning, context and duration to the things we commit and engage.
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