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from Inc. Good first reason: life is too short Good last reason: you don't think you can do anything else - time to trust your creativity, perseverance, and effort to take you to a new, happier, more fulfilling place.

from Inc. by Jeff Hayden Good first reason: life is too short Good last reason: you don't think you can do anything else - time to trust your creativity, perseverance, and effort to take you to a new, happier, more fulfilling place.

blog by Les McKeown in Inc. on 4/17/2013 on three phrases that may get people identified as leaders 1. I have nothing to add... (when you don't) 2. I don't understand what you mean by... 3. I recommend that we...

from Inc.com by Minda Zetlin. Here tips: figure out who matters most - id a critical few; pick your next tier of 50 - 100 contacts; find easy ways to engage everyone else; if you want to connect - find a way to help that person; be intriguing by arousing that person's curiosity with something unexpected; think people, not positions; give before you ask; be generous.

Interesting blog post on Inc., March 12, 2012 by Dave Balter and Jennifer Lum on spiderweb mentorship and horizontal entrepreneurialism. Think this has implications for connected learning, too. Excerpt: Spiderweb mentorship: Successful entrepreneurs and executives actively pushing people up and into the ecosystem. Horizontal entrepreneurism: Collaboration across companies, with entrepreneurs enthusiastically supporting each other.

article in INC on definition of entrepreneurship by Howard Stevenson, HBS professor, captured in book Breakthrough Entrepreneurship by Jon Burgstone. "Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled."

Simple but true tips for managing virtual groups--can use free tools to communicate; essential to communicate clearly in writing and to really READ emails/proposals; and weekly meetings--if only to check-in--boost momentum and esprit de corps. By Ilan Mochari at Inc. writing up Scott Berkun's lessons learned at Word Press when he was managing a virtual team.

Nice explication of five things successful learners do by Kevin Daum, Inc. 1. Imagine the outcome (have purpose!) 2. Think of text as a starting point (create additional opportunities for experiental learning--talk it through with others, watch it being done, do it) 3. Learn in your language(visual, auditory, tactile) 4. Make failure fun (test and push the boundaries) 5. Make accountability exhilarating (impact of tests, display your new skills or knowledge)

article by Walter Chen, Inc. Excerpt: "The most important character trait of a leader isn't where she went to school or her IQ. It's one that you're more likely to associate with a boring person than a Silicon Valley star: predictability. The more predictable you are, day in and day out, the better." The article It isn't as much about predictability as it is leaders establishing clear direction and getting out of the way of employees to work autonomously in making the goals/vision come true. All backed up by big data that has changed Google's hiring practices.

blog post by Anita Campbell at Inc.com on using images on social media--some good tips

short blog post by Leigh Buchanan, editor at large for Inc. magazine on practice devised by NixonMcInnes (social media consultancy) on Church of Fail--very funny and agrees with something else I saw recently elsewhere on failure/admitting vulnerability. Here they applaud after all failures are confessed 1x a month.

post by Elle Kaplan in Inc. on leading language

From Inc. by Christina Desmarais, August 14, 2013. Good advice about dealing with family members, friends, other phone calls while using a home office. Also, names some tools to help keep up with collaborative projects and work teams: Hipchat for group chatting, Trello or Asana for project management, Expensify for tracking expenses and submitting expense reports, and Sqwiggle which keeps your webcam on so co-workers can see you work.

Very scary video (4 minutes) by Mark Cuban on how privacy is violated because digital history is retained forever. Inc. How ownership shifts from author to recipient who may misuse it in any # of ways. Of course, Cuban is developing erasure apps that delete texts after a certain amount of time. Talks about tweets in particular. Unfollowing people who could be sending wrong message.

scientific study in 2013/published in March 2014 on how gender bias leads to discrimination of women in science. Cited in Inc.

how kids need to be equipped socially to work effectively with others by Greg Satel, @Digitaltonto

REALLY like this list of things not to do including checking the telephone when you are talking with someone else face to face, receiving multiple notifications during your work time, etc.

This account of how Dropbox has changed expectations and standards for meetings has good tips on keeping them few in number and very focused. Found it through an aSsociations_now blog post.

Good five minute video on women entrepreneurs and how they overcome internal self-judgments/fears to succeed. "Hard to succeed without failure..." "Grateful to mother for failure is a stepping stone to success" "It's fine to risk it." "Way workplace is structured means that a lot of women don't want to be there--pay that price." "If we take the time to regenerate, to renew ourselves, we will be much more successful..."

"stop shaming our failures, the easier it will be to turn them to our advantage."

Tips for having an about us page that really gets people interested in doing business with you.

Focus on facts, figures, accomplishments. "Forget what you do. Customers don't care about what you do; they care about what they receive: solutions and benefits."