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I do, however, think this is a topic business owners need to explore for our own sanity – and the sanity of those around us – and at the core of it, for me, is the question of where to draw boundaries around our work commitments. I'll admit, though, that I'm stumped for a good way to describe this stuff, and I used both "balance" and "wellness" in the title of the aforementioned panel. I'd love to hear suggestions for a better term. For now, I'll use "balance" as shorthand, with the caveat that I'm well aware it's a problematic word.
OK, thanks for bearing with me on that. Let's get on with the learnings. Here's what I gleaned from my panel of experts:
When are you going to start acting like it?
The idea that you are a faceless cog in a benevolent system that cares about you and can't tell particularly whether you are worth a day's pay or not, is, like it or not, over.
In the long run, we're all dead. In the medium-long run, though, we're all self-employed. In the medium-long run, the decisions and actions we take each day determine what we'll be doing next.
And yet, it's so easy to revert to, "I just work here."
Jonathan lays out perfectly where the fine line between persuasion and manipulation exists, in a way that the rest of us dumb folk can understand.
So you have that old screenplay from 10 years back that you printed out but long ago lost the floppy disc you'd it saved on. If it's time to resurrect it and you don't feel like taking a couple of days to tediously type the whole thing up again, then no fear, Google is here.
Google is taking another one of its experimental features and taking it mainstream: optical character recognition.
Interesting. Looks like Google Docs might be edging in on Evernote's turf.
Every time you interrupt your prospect or consumer, you better ask, "is it important enough..." Most of the time, it's not. Most of the time, the interruption is a selfish, misguided effort by a committee that doesn't get it.
Love this article by the PsyBlog on creativity. Great little factoids *backed* with research.
