Tiger Woods

As I was completing this book (said Tom Kelley), Tiger Woods was winning the U.S Open golf tournament at Pebble Beach, dominating the field as never before. He seemed both intense and utterly calm. His dedication was complete, and his swing and putting were nearly perfect. In spite of what looked like masteful putting in his first round, he insisted that the balls weren't going into the hole smoothly enough for him. They were just "scooting," he said, not rolling. He stayed on the practice green till they rolled beautifully, Butch Harmon, his swing guru, said Tiger was playing better than ever. "He's confident. He's mature," said Harmon. "We've built his swing together, so it's pretty easy to tweak if something goes wrong." I found that a wonderful, enlightening statement. The greatest golfer in history, who appears to be the ultimate solo performer, is actually the product of a team effort, and when the occasional bumps in the road arrive, the going is easier because of that fact.

The art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman

Innovation at the top

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To those few companies sitting on the innovation fence, business writer Gary Hamel has a dire prediction, "out there in some  garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got  one option now  - to shoot first. You've got to out-innovate the inovators."

The art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman

"Knowledge - Justice" quotes of the week #8. 2nd round

Sunday:

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply!."

Goethe

Monday:

"You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."

Oscar Wilde

Tuesday:

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday:

"Knowledge is a process of pilling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."

Martin H. Fischer

Thursday:

"There us a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

Charles F. Kettering

Friday:

"Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at."

Solomon Short

Saturday:

"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no  justice."

Lyn Yutang 

Turn your blog into something commercial

The best way to turn your blog into something commercially viable is to tie it in with your business. Commercial blogging - where the blog is hosted by a company and is primarily about its day-to-day business is taking off in a big way. Companies that habe blogs can push their corporate philosophy onto readers in the hope of turning them into customers. Blogs also make businesses seem more personable.

A corporate blog allows people to listen in on your daily business and keep track interesting - sounding projects. Consequently, customers and fans know about key projects without having to wait for them to be covered in the mainstream media.

It's worth remembering that a blog has the potential to reach anyone who is online.

Author: unknow

Cloud computing

Ray Ozzie:

The sentiment is clear:

Just packing software, collecting money, and then producing a new version a few years later (wheter people want one or not) is no longer a sustainable plan. The relationship with customers must be constant and continuous. Instead of discrete one time transactions, the money - wheter from subscriptions fees or advertising - will flow constantly. For the user, everything will happen when it's needed, as if pulled down from a cloud. (cloud computing)

Ozzy draws the line at the idea that you can do anything and everything in the cloud, that every application can become web-based, that the desktop is dead. Some things, he says, still require local computing, offline persistence, and the control that only one's own desktop processor offer.

Red Dog (Windows for the cloud) Wired Magazine (Dec 2008)

Ray Ozzie is the writer of Symphony and Lotus Notes. He said Google is more rival that Steve Jobs.

"I love competitions. But when we're behind a competitor, I hate it when we find ourselves just chasing their tailligths."

The pursuit of happyness

Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. Don't even me (the father tell to his son).

You got a dream. You gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves they want to tell you, you can't do it.

If you want something, go get it. Period.

Director:

Gabriele Muccino

Writer (WGA):

Steve Conrad (written by)

Release Date:

15 December 2006 (USA) more

Genre:

Biography | Drama more

Plot:

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor. full summary | add synopsis

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Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 9 wins & 17 nominations more

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"Sincerity" quotes of the week #7. 2nd round

Sunday:

"As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you."

Grenville Kleiser

Monday:

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Douglas Adams

Tuesday:

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

Peter T. Mcintyre

Wednesday:

"Sincerity is an openness of heart; it is found in a very few people, and that which we see commonly is not it, but a subtle dissimulation, to gain the confidence of others."

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Thursday:

"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."

Thomas Carlyle

Friday:

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

Benjamin Spock

Saturday:

"Be honest. If you do not sell the first time, you leaves a trail of trust behind."

George Matthew Adams

"Silence:Listen - Industry " quotes of the week #6. 2nd round

Sunday:

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

Mother Teresa

Monday:

"Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything."

Benjamin Franklin

Tuesday:

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."

Muhammad Ali

Wednesday:

"Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee."

Benjamin Franklin

Thursday:

"Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, 'Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being' ."

Friday:

"The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter."

Saturday:

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

Andre Gide

"Find the key issue. Frugality " quotes of the week. (#5) 2nd round

Sunday:

"Frugality may be termed the daugter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty."

Samuel Johnson.

Monday:

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

Stephen R. Covey

Tuesday:

"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be." 

Benjamin Franklin

Wednesday:

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Dale Carnegie

Thursday:

"Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left."

John Ray

Friday:

"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action."

Unknow author

Saturday:

"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."

Benjamin Franklin