Posts by Carol Ross
Cracking the Code of Networking: Givers, Takers, and Protectors
I’ve been going to networking events for years, first as a way to build my career and then as a way to build my business. For some, this may sound like hell on earth. I prefer to think of it as a long-term study in human behavior. Think rats in cages. Okay, just kidding. I’m…
Read MoreRemembering Dad, 35 Years Later
I was startled this morning when I read an email about someone remembering my dad, who died over 35 years ago: "…in Boston last week, there was a conversation about old time calculators and early computers and some else there said….I used to know a man in Fort Wayne who could run an abacus faster…
Read MoreHave We Become a Society of Driveling, Rude, Multi-tasking, Automatons?
Factoids and observations over the last month have led me to wonder where modern society is headed: Heard on NPR, teenagers send or receive an average of 2,272 text messages per month. That's nearly 80 per day. I can only imagine the content of those text messages…. In doing research for this post, I ran…
Read MoreWhat If Your Idea is No Good, Misinformed, or Driven By Ego?
I recently tweeted that there is a danger in turning an idea into a movement. This was in response to a friend of mine who had tweeted a famous line from the song, Alice's Restaurant, "three people makes an organization." And if we can get 50 people, it's a movement. Photo by ninahale. No, I…
Read MoreDaniel Pink on What Really Motivates People and The Importance of Service and Persistence
I admit it. I'm biased. Anything that Dan Pink writes or speaks on, I usually agree with. It's no different with this TED talk he gave this summer on the mismatch between what social scientists know about motivation and how businesses apply incentives. He ties his thesis–that mastery, purpose, and autonomy are better motivators than…
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