If you think of yourself as a Business Man...pay attention!!

I was wondering around, seeing what the world had to say today and I found this very interesting article "20 Business Truisms That Can Change Your Life" which I found amazingly right. Let me share them with you:

1. If you don’t know, say so. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, stop talking.
2. Whether negotiation is strong or weak depends entirely on your goals.
3. Don’t jump ship before you hit the iceberg.
4. Anger is never about what you think you’re angry about.
5. Confidence comes from success, knowledge comes from failure.
6. A**hole is a subjective noun.
7. If you’re miserable, quit and do something else. If you’re still miserable, it’s you.
8. Success is based on current behavior, not past performance.
9. If you protect your domain or CYA, that’s all you’ll accomplish.
10. Thin-skinned people are actually thick-headed.
11. People won’t perform for those they don’t respect.
12. If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you won’t be successful at it.
13. When you have problems with others, look inside yourself for answers.
14. The workplace is about business, not you.
15. Conflict is healthy; anger is not. Get some help for that.
16. No matter how smart you are, wisdom only comes from experience.
17. Whine and complain all you want; nobody gives a crap.
18. You can BS others but you really can’t BS yourself.
19. The boss isn’t always right, but she’s still the boss.
20. The customer isn’t always right, but he’s still the customer.

For the full article:

http://www.bnet.com/blog/ceo/20-business-truisms-that-can-change-your-life/6222?promo=713&tag=nl.e713

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Inside Job...Are they stupid or what?

I just got home from watching "Inside Job" and from someone that doesn't work in the financial arena, I found it quite interesting.
Especially in terms of really understanding what happened, something that already got a feeling by seeing "Wall Street 2".

But there was this "tiny" detail that really was "fantastic"..even though most of you already got to the same conclusion and for me it was more a confirmation than anything else...and this is the thing:

Are American politicians stupid or they think the rest of us are??!!

I mean guys really speechless when trying to answer a simple question, to CEO's of major financial companies like Goldman Sach on a trial pulling off a "are you saying that hypothetically?", when facing a question about crappy financial products.

One thing is to say things in a different way,in cases where the truth is a bit sketchy and you can go around things....another is to completely avoid clear questions and say stupid things when it is crystal clear what happened.

But still, they continue to be in the top positions of the American government and major companies...I wonder why.

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Zuckerberg donating money to Diaspora?..uhmm

Like any other day, I was today looking at my Google Reader RSS's, checking the latest news and I noticed one very interesting (that came out some months ago): Zuckerberg donating money to Diaspora.

Well, you all remember Diaspora, the project from 4 kids from NYU to create an alternative to Facebook - apparently with stronger privacy focus.

I find it quite odd for Zuckerberg to be donating money to these guys, it raises the question: What will be his connection to this in a very near future?

Either he's going to "grab" it as soon as it is having some success or as a good source of ideas (and for free).

Full article:
http://mashable.com/2010/05/28/zuckerberg-diaspora/

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3D Content on iOS? Really?

I was quite interested is this, when I saw the news.

Seems like in a very near future we'll start having 3D content on iPhone and iPod Touch...now, are we going to need special glasses for this? Hope not.

Avatar all around? To be seen

Full article:

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/39391/Hasbro-to-launch-3D-peripheral-for-iPhone-and-iPod-touch

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Genius? Nah...A risk taker

Steve Jobs is definitely one of the most known personalities nowadays.

He's driven, he's creative, he's a showman, some say he's genius.

My take on that? Well, I think he's just someone who really wanted to change the world and hit with his face on the wall several times, to have that success.

I don't believe in genius or talent or whatever you want to call it.

I do believe in effort, learning from the mistakes you do and...above all...taking the risk to.

Many like him had success because they had the balls to do what other didn't have the courage to.

Anybody could have done what he or other so called geniuses, but they were the ones to do it because nobody else had what it take to make that extra step.

Einstein was called crazy too many times, he even drop school at some point and he didn't have that much of good grades - and we all know what he ended up doing.

Galileu...well, at that time religion was all over and who dared go against

it was simply killed. He had the courage to put his life on the life for that.

I could be here all day long with other example, but I think you got the picture.

There's no such thing as a born talent..there's the work you do, the objectives you have and the million dollar question:

Do I have the courage to risk several things and sacrifice myself to achieve them?

I leave you with this interesting video done by Bloomberg on Steve Jobs and I think you see my point:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/63722844/

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Life is like a coin: always has two sides!

Kind of interesting, isn't it?

In heard this expression a couple day ago and makes perfect sense.

In every situation we face, we can always see it in a different perspective and that can make the difference between success and failure, happiness and sadness.

It all comes down to the way you face things. How many times were you with a problem at your business and wondering why it didn't work the way you wanted to?

Well have you ever thought that maybe that "side of the coin" isn't the correct one?

It's good to hear other people's thoughts, brainstorm, be critic and provoke discussion.

Through this I'm 101% sure you'll get a more solid solution...or the solution to the problem you were wondering about.

As you say: "Two heads think better than one".

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What and If?

Two interesting words that most of us use very often.
Questions like "What are you doing?", "What's that?" or "If you do it your wrong", are a common fact in our lives.

However, if put together they can really piss you off.
"What if?" is the worst question you could ever put.
"What if I did that?", "What if I talked to her?", "What if I had taken some risk in that business?".

These are some example of stuff you'll ask yourself again and again.
But the thing is: why didn't we tried it at that time?

Taking some risk is something most people can't do, most of us don't have the balls to take some risk.

But a simple question should solve it: is it worse to try and fail, or to not try and spend the rest of your life wondering how it could have been if you took that risk?

I leave you a quote that really makes the point:

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." - by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What can a smile win?

Well here's an interesting question.

Aside from the obvious satisfactin and happiness, a smile can win a lot.

A smile can be the difference between finishing a business negotiation with sucess of not. It's the difference between giving a tip to a waiter and not giving it. It's the difference when conforting someone.

I could go on and on, but it's quite real.

How many of us went through these situations.

As you know, non-verbal communication is almost 85% of all human communication.

Smiling at someone makes them feel your confident, your happy and that they can trust in you. It has the power to transmit happiness towards another person.

With this, easily a hard negotiation can be a nice chat.

Have you ever thought about this and actually used it?

A smile can make life easier all around, be it in business or family/friends.

Try it and let me know if you see a difference.

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First Things First

Well, the little voice in my head is starting to roll over the blog.

So the thing is: why should I care? Why should you care about your own little voice?

The fact is that they are able to sum-up in very simple conclusions your life and teach you great lessons to the future.
So the thing is really hearing it, because, as I see it, most people don't because they keep doing the same mistakes over and over. Me included, but since I started to pay a bit more attention to details and really go over what went wrong you can see it wispering the conclusion...and it's a matter of taking that into consideration.

That's the purpose of this blog, to share with everybody (whoever is listening/reading) my thoughts and conclusions.

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