Hire People for their Strengths (You Can?t Fix their Weaknesses)
Hire People for their Strengths (You Can?t Fix their Weaknesses)
Marc Hedlund found a great quote about hiring people for their strengths:
Russian clown Yuri Kuklachev has a troupe of cats who do handstands, crawl along high wires and balance on balls and he says the secret to training them is realizing that you can’t force cats to do anything.
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“Each cat likes to do her own […]
Riverdale Goddess goes dark: sex & relationship blogger outed/censored once more
One of my favorite sex and relationship blogs, The Riverdale Goddess, shut down yesterday.
This personal account of a 40-something long-married woman who allowed herself to adventure around sensual touch, erotic self-expression and all sorts of edgy stuff–while remaining faithful to hubby and bringing him along on the journey–seemed like a classic Baby Boomer tale of rediscovery–and “Kate’s” joy in her transformation was charming.
Nevertheless, as of yesterday, the blog went down, with the author explaining:
“Today I received a phone call - and was asked to participate in a conversation where I was basically told that if I wanted to keep my job -That the Riverdale Goddess Blog needed to be taken down. I was outted……out of fear…..I was shut down out of fear….and because I care very deeply about my day job….it is also my passion….and I have a family and I am not independently wealthy…..I have had to comply. I feel like a part of my heart was cut away today.”
It’s a reality of the blogosphere–where sometimes people use pseudonyms to share their truths–that sexually explicit bloggers–especially women–have to fear being outed, but it saddens me that this situation seems to happen again and again.
If the Kumbaya cry is Why can’t we all just get along? the question here would be What harm do personals stories cause–and why do others want to shut true voices down?
Dear Steve,
Over the past 18 years I've spent close to $200k on Apple products, and I think with a track record like that, I can honestly say that I'm a pretty good customer. I'm someone who not only loves Apple products, but has a tendency to believe in the general strategies of the company. In […]
Kevin Briody of the Windows Live team has published the RSS feeds he subscribes to as OPML files for your feedreader. Some good feeds worth checking out there, including a bunch of Windows Live individual employee and team blogs.
Kevin, one way of displaying these as a blogroll is to use Grazr. Below is your OPML file for the Windows Live team blogs rendered inside the Grazr ui:. Just wack in the url of any OPML file here and then copy and paste the code…
I have to update my OPML file, but you can browse mine at my blog’s left hand nav.
