A different post

Every day, in my mail box, I receive a mail from www.charityfocus.org. For the most part, I try to see what it says. Today, I decided to catch up with a few of them that I had not. The first one said that the best way for managers to become better leaders was to give up authority. You can read this brief comment here. That email also exhorted the reader to check out this TED talk by ‘designer’ Tim Brown. I listened to it for sixteen + minutes. I am glad I did. I do not want to overstate the message. You would be able to relate it to your own personal surroundings, actions and thoughts. Needless to add, it is an important message – reinforcement – for all of us driven solely by ideology. We forget that behind all of ideologies, theories and laboratories is people. That he cites a lot of examples from India must be a bonus for the Indian visitors to this site.

This mailer from Charityfocus on the 70 words of wisdom for 2010 opened a box of chocolates (ack: Forrest Gump). I have no problem in acknowledging that, until today, I had not heard of Seth Godin. I downloaded the file from here. I have just gone through some pages.

One of the words is ‘Meaning’. The person who chose ‘Meaning’ says this: ‘Never compare your inside to some one else’s outside’. Beautiful. It is the same as ‘Be yourself. Every body else is taken’.

This quote from Arianna Huffington is really good:

To trade multi-tasking for uni-tasking and — occasionally — no-tasking. It’s left me healthier, happier, and more able to try to make a difference in the world. My eyes have been opened to the value of regularly closing them.

I could not get the exact post in which she had written the sentence above. But,  I came across this post. Equally interesting and important. Just get enough sleep.

Now, back to Seth Godin. Apparently, his latest book, ‘Linchpin’ was released in January. There are plenty of reviews here. This post in Seth Godin’s blog sounds very interesting. I am yet to check it out. I hope one of you would do that and let me know too.

06 Feb 2010 | By V Anantha Nageswaran | Concerning Uncategorized
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