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Link Love - 12/09/08

By on September 12th, 2008

> 10 Skills You Must Develop To Succeed In Any Business
Tips include: Be A Visionary, Be Adaptable, Mix Passion With Planning, Communicate Like A Pro, Network Like A Pro, Be Aggressive, Be Persistent, Do Things Differently, Learn Everyday and Never Be Complacent

> 100 Useful, Free Web Tools for Lifelong Learners | Eduk8
100 free web tools and sites will grant you access to courses at Harvard Medical School & MIT, social media sites, videos & podcasts about everything from medical news to politics & more. Everything is free & there’s no grading involved

> 25 Ways to Build Stronger Friendships | Life Optimizer
A pragmatic summary of 25 ways to reinforce an existing friendship. Commonsense advice. Perhaps the most important one is the first one: Choose Friends Wisely. Life’s too short to try to get on with everyone, so don’t bother

> 9 Smart Money Tips To Help You Quit Your Job | Personal Finance Blog, Online Money Management, Budget Planner and Financial Planning - Mint.com
Some great tips here: Diversify your income sources / Develop passive income streams / Pay yourself first / Avoid debt and high interest rates / Live like a millionaire / Invest wisely and regularly / Stay married / Track your finances / Borrow carefully. I’m particularly interested in the first two points and will explore them further in a future blog post. Point 7 never worked you for me!!

> BNET Today | Management, Strategy, Work Life Skills & Advice for ProfessionalsSome excellent features of BNET include: * Management articles * Strategy posts * Work-life topics What is especially welcome about BNET is it’s creative use of top-line artwork. BNET is not overcome with ads that assault your eyes but is a rewarding site worth more than a few clicks

> Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog ” Deming’s Seven Deadly Diseases
Why the Seven Deadly Diseases developed by Dr Deming still hold true. I wonder if you could apply these on some sort of personal level instead of in an organisational context?

> Finding Your Life Purpose | Life Optimizer
Post that suggests working to your strengths, finding a passion and writing a mission statement. I made some comments here about thinking about your weaknesses too plus understanding the difference between your circle of concern and circle of influence when trying to identify “causes”

> Getting Things Done with Thunderbird :: Flipping Heck! Productivity, Project Management & Motivation Blog ::
A comprehensive overview of how to set-up the email program Thunderbird to work with GTD. I’d need to migrate away or somehow link my Yahoo! email account with this to get it to work. Perhaps keep my Yahoo! account and use it as an online back-up systems?

> Interviews: Tips for Talking Your Way Into a Job
A few tips on staying cool, telling your story without bragging or boring, and being prepared for any curve balls, so take a look before you pick up the pinstripes from the dry cleaners

> Push vs. Pull Processes - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss discusses the Lean philosophy. Typical business processes might be 90% waste and only 10% value-added work. Your objective is to create continuous flow in information processes and service processes. No one produces anything before it is needed by the next person or for the next step in the process. This is something which is discussed all the time over on my other blog

> Six Sigma Blogs: 5S Your Email In-box
The application of the lean tool of 5S to your inbox. This article goes through each of the five stages, applying them to “housekeeping” for your email. Again this is something I cover regularly my other blog

> Study Hacks ” Blog Archive ” The Art of Stealth Studying: How To Earn a 4.0 With Only 1.0 Hours of Work
An overview of the “stealth study” method: the perceived difficulty of work grows with the amount of consecutive time you spend working

> Warren Buffett’s Ten Secrets to Wealth and Life ? Get Rich Slowly
In Parade magazine, Schroeder shares 10 of Buffett’s “money-making secrets”. Though Parade has billed these as “10 ways to get rich”, I think they’re actually 10 sensible ways to deal with life in general

> What Do You Want To Be Known For? | Awake At The Wheel
What would you like to be known for? Create & reaffirm a vivid vision of exactly what it is we want to be known for, Commit to taking a single step in the direction of that vision that day, & Visualize ourselves taking that step first thing in the morning

> YouTube - Hacking the Technical Interview
Tips and tricks to ensuring you communicate your ideas better during interviews

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