Are you in the zone ?

Does it flow ?

5 attributes for 21st century success

Love of reading.

Thinking on your feet.

Be your own teacher.

Manage your attention.

Scepticism.

Paperless Office Transition

Start-Up Stack

Show me ! Don't tell.

The capitalism is teaching us that for any business startup you need to create business plan.

Although it helps to inform your investors about your business intentions and help you clear the path and your business journey, sometimes it makes more damage that good.

The business plan is too often static document. We need more dynamic document that documents various hypothesis and alternatives under the stress test of market forces and real customers.

We do this with a help of these tools: 1. ) Business Model Canvas Tool, 2.) Customer developement methodology, 3.) Lean start-up methodology.

Minimum Viable Product from Eric Ries

'' It's easy ''

** Tra-la-la-la-la-la. Easy like a sunday morning. **

When something is percieved as easy, one can fool himself into believing the action will be done without much effort.
That's common trap for most people. Even for Zec.

If you think that way, you'll have trouble getting things done.

Zec thinks he's good at writing. It's very easy for him to write blog post. His experience and knowledge gives him confidence he'll do it right, accurate and on time.

But then, he delays a little. Then he delays further, and now it becomes serious procrastination. Everything looked so easy at first.

But now he's having problem. A writer's block. The things are not done.

He sees his mistake and is ready to make correction. Hard work takes over. He's done. + 180 Karma points for a good job.
Well done !

Words don't come easy when they're not true !

Satisfied Employee

It's not only about paycheck.

There is more to employee productivity, efficency and satisfaction than good money alone. Good bosses know this very well, and behave accordingly.
It's employee's right to be assertive on this counts:

- Work / life balance
- Time for family / friends
- Training & specialisation
- Fairness, cooperation and communication among colleagues
- Flexible hours
- Challenging tasks
- Job autonomy ( Power & influence )
- Highly professionalism ( quality performance )
- Days-off
- Feeling of control
- Changing things & making difference
- Seminars & workshops ( job related )
- Coolness ( product & services )
- Recognition & acknowledgement
- Room for creativity
- milestones for promotion
- Non - bureaucracy
- Well defined organisation's structure and worker's roles
- Random Perks ( free coffee, dougnats, fruits, snacks )
- Security ( retirment & health coverage, life insurance )
- Fair compensation - Money & equity & bonuses
- Manager's support

You @ Flow and Zen

Concept: From Idea To Result

Do just one thing === Do the best you can === Have a partner
<< STAY FOCUSED >>

1. IDEA
{ only one }

2. ACTION PLAN
{ every step }

3. QUALITIES
{ drive, courage, spirit, competence }

4. RESOURCES
{ people, time, money, stuff }

5. RESULT
{ quantity }

6. REFLECT & SHARE
{ the end }


Author: Zec
Licence: Creative Commons By Attribution
Inspiration & Acknowledgements:
Quotes:

Alan Kay:
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!

Stevan Dedijer:
Science and technology doesn't matter. It's what do you know about the world.

Albert Einstein:
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Steve Jobs:
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Bill Gates:
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Warren Buffet:
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Budhha:
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Donald Trump:
I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Stephen Covey:
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

US Army Ad:
If someone wrote a book about your life, would anyone want to read it?

Albert Einstein:
Play is the highest form of research.

Gregory Bateson:
The source of the new...is the random.

J.F. Kennedy:
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Jeff Bezos:
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

Larry Ellison:
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

Katharine Graham:
To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?

Carl Icahn:
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

David Rockefeller:
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Dalibor Kunich:
You and I could be very, very rich.

David Allen:
The main one is staying focused on both the big picture and the important details.

VIRTUAL COMPANY AND COLLABORATION

Virtual Inc.




DJURDJEVAC- Setting up a virtual company is easy.

You need tools to manage your , usually, small group of people from all over the world in a consisten way. Robin Good posted excellent list of these collaboration tools available online for free or for a small fee .

It's basicly everything you need to work on a project from your home and collaborate with other people in the virtual company.

The mix of these tools depends on the type of project you work on. So, here's my selection of these tools for simple online collaboration based on my experience, familiarity, practicality and value ( relative price ) :

E-mail, IM, web phone, chat:
Gmail ( Google account )
Skype
Meebo
Tinychat

Project management:
Basecamp
Zoho Project


Event scheduling:
Google Calendar

Collaborative writing:
Google Docs
Zoho writer

Video conferencing:
Meeting24

Document sharing:
PBWiki
Google Docs

WorkGrouping:
Google groups
Meetup
BarCamps

Web presenting:
Slideshare

Co- browsing:
PageShare
Pocket Meeting

Whiteboarding:
Dabbleboard

But the aim is to keep it simple, easy and uniform. To be clear, these are basic collab tools ( for internal process ) and do not include ''external'' web services you use for other business purposes like PR, marketing, sales or business productivity ( Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, AdSense, SugarCRM, Highrise, YouTube etc. )

BONUS:
Entrepreneur's toolkit