I picked-up the 3G s today at lunch at the Apple store and here is the first video I took with it, a short demo of my office. I changed the default focus and this resulted in too much light at times.
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Tehran 24 is a photoblog. Its reported the blogger and photographer of this photo, Amir, has been missing for 4 days. May there be peace on earth.
After a 50+ year love affair with nature I lost interest - what?! To reignite the passion, or at least a modicum of it, I put my sea kayak in my living room. I'm not certain how long it will be there but, "out of sight out mind."
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Over at the Wall Street Journal, Gary Hamel writes a blog entitled, Management 2.0. He recently published a short article, "The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500" http://tr.im/kP0f and talks about 12 work-related online characteristics and their possible implication for future work and management practice.
Here are a few observation from the article that I found especially interesting.
Online is a place where:
"..authority trickles up, not down"
"leaders serve rather than preside"
"..human effort flows toward ideas and projects that are attractive"
"..there are a lot of incentives to share...few incentives to hoard"
"position, title..degrees...none of the usual status differentiators carry much weight..what counts is...what you can contribute"
"..(its) a gift economy..you..give away your expertise and content"
"..a..medium for aggregating the wisdom of the crowd"
"you may have built the community, but the users really own it"
"..human beings will give generously of themselves when they’re given the chance to contribute to something they..care about
While the concept of a servant leader is centuries old (at least 600 BC, Lao Tzu), Robert Greenleaf, formerly of AT&T, described servant leadership for modern times thus:
"It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead…The difference manifest itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: do those served grow as persons, do they grow while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?"
The business meeting of the Society, with about 400 attendees, on day 2 of the meeting in Atlanta, was held in the atrium of the Omni/CNN Center during lunch with a jumbo projection screen showing slides.
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This morning Jon Kabat-Zinn was interviewed on the PBS program Speaking of Faith about mindfulness. He ended with this:
LOVE AFTER LOVE
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved youall your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Here it is with the human voice (Kabat-Zinn)
"Love after Love" from COLLECTED POEMS 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott. Copyright © 1986 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC
For a week or so I've had the recurring image of teacups sitting on wood - simply and orderly. As I've learned that things which recurr unbidden can hold importance I decided to buy a set of teacups and place them with an unused cutting board that was stored in my kitchen. The experience wasn't equal to Richard Dreyfuss's recurring image of Devil's Tower and zeal to manifest it out of mind in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" but it'll do.
"Every force evolves a form." - Shaker Wisdom Saying
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