Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Google Puts Lid on New Products
Google Puts Lid on New Products
Realizing that its myriad services are confusing users, it will focus on refining what it has.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In another sign of Google Inc.'s growth from start-up to corporate behemoth, the company's top executives said Thursday that they had begun telling engineers to stop launching so many new services and instead focus on making existing ones work together better.
The shift is a major departure from Google's previous strategy of launching new services rapid-fire and highlights the 8-year-old company's struggle to stay focused during swift growth.
Facebook Redesigns Help Center, Gives Unique URLs to Help Topics
It’s not a huge difference compared to what the help center looked before, but it’s definitely an improvement. Filters on the left have separated help for specific applications, help discussions, sheer Facebook basics and safety information from the rest of the help.
Furthermore, the new search interface displays related help pages and helps you find help in other languages (if there is no result in your language). Perhaps most importantly, specific topics now have unique URLs, which means you can easily share them with others.
While we’re on the subject of Facebook help centers, you can check out our recently released Facebook Guide Book, which explains some of the more complex Facebook-related tasks, with an emphasis on using Facebook for business and brands.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Momentum
"An impelling force or strength" or "the amount or force of motion in a moving body".
Momentum is one of the most important elements when achieving success, building a business, or selling a product/service; in fact, now that I think about it, it’s a key element of life in general. It’s what wins championship games in football and battles in war. Although this concept is pretty logical Momentum is pretty under rated. I don’t believe that many of us in business understand the power that it has. As a salesman, I can remember the days that I was jamming were the days that I had a ton on energy, confidence, and MOMENTUM throughout this successful period. Successful leaders understand the power that it has and when they identify it know how to leverage it.
For us out there engaged in our journey towards success, the first step is internalizing that momentum is key and when its active we must leverage it.
So what does this mean?
Well, of course it is all relative to your personal/business goals or definition of success, yet I believe that not letting up, reaching that extra inch; pushing your hardest during the moments where complacency is setting in, because you feel comfortable with status quo or your current production. I have observed that it is the people to work the hardest in the 4th quarter that break records resulting in breaking their own belief barriers. These are the guys/gals who do great things. These are things that others consider as great or impossible, and they consider as baseline.
Folks, I have seen the concept of breaking belief barriers succeed over and over again. And don’t get me wrong, I have been guilty many times of letting these mental barriers restrict me from achieving my goals, yet it is an exercise that we must all participate in. The beauty is that once these barriers are broken and new goals are expected, momentum has already started and will only gain strength with your continued pursuit.
Lets together allow our momentum to grow and focusing on the task at hand and pushing our hardest when complacency comes knocking at our door.
This is when champions are made.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Procrastination is the #1 Killer of all Success
I must say that this post was inspired by a few things that I am experiencing in my life today as well as a blog entry that a friend of mine Rory Vaden posted (http://takethestairs.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/causes-of-inaction/).
Rory speaks of the 4 Causes of Inaction. The last cause titled “Lack of Accountability” really resonated with me. I find that this is the root of all failure. It leads people to rationalize and make excuses which allows them to absolve themselves of all accountability.
The problem is that one must first be aware of their behavior to be able to fix it. Many managers out there simply tell their employees or partners what they are doing wrong, without helping them understand the root cause of the issue themselves. My personal opinion is that you can only walk someone so far; you can only preach to them so much, before they need to understand the issues themselves and hold themselves ACCOUNTABLE.
There is a reason that so many speak about success; less take steps towards achieving success; and very few achieve success.
Potential is useless without action. Thanks for the inspiration Rory.
