A quick random thought… When the weather is beautiful and all spring-like; everyone says this is a perfect day to be out and about, not to be wasted in-doors. When the weather is cold and gloomy; everyone says this day is best spent snuggled up in front of the TV drinking something hot. When the [...]
[Cue show's title music] The silhouettes of a group of overweight people walking towards you appear on the screen. The silhouettes start becoming clearer and we see the group of contestants. The name of the show flashes on the screen. “The Biggest Loser” (A show where a group of overweight people are challenged to lose [...]
I’ve been a loyal user of Google’s Chrome browser ever since the first day of its release, when I tried it and wrote about it here over a year ago. It just worked for me, it’s a very light, simple and fast browser; and the move from Firefox to it felt as sweet as my [...]
I’ve been reading a lot of books about business, entrepreneurship, marketing and other stuff along those lines recently; and as good as those get, I just missed going through a really nice novel and letting my imagination run wild with it, so a few days ago, I just picked up the book “Salmon Fishing In [...]
I just read that the Tunisian production company Cactus Prod has gone on as expected and filed to get the rights to launch a new television channel in Tunisia under the name: Elyssa TV. If all goes as planned, broadcast tests for this new channel could start as early as this coming December 2009, with [...]
This is something I’ve had bothering me for a while now, and that I’ve been wanting to write about for some time. On the news, in newspapers, in conversations, everywhere; whenever there is an incident, war or whatever with deaths involved; numbers are pulled out… X number of people died here, Y number of people [...]
Michael Jackson, the legendary musical genius and king of pop has passed away at the age of 50 after suffering a fatal heart attack. I learned the news this morning by accident while I was on IMDB looking for a review about a movie. While the site was redirecting me to the search results page, [...]
It is easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. There is also one rule that lies at the [...]
Most companies build their bureaucratic rules to manage the small percentage of wrong people on the bus, which in turn drives awaythe right people on the bus, which increases the need for more bureaucracy to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which then further drives the right people away, and so forth. Jim Collins, Good [...]
Spending time and energy to “motivate” people is a waste of effort. The real question is not “How do we motivate people?” If you have the right people, they will be self-motivated. The key is to not de-motivate them. Jim Collins, Good To Great
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