Did you hear about "Climate Change"?

I accidentally found one site on the Web. That's "Blog Action Day".
This site says

"Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web."

I immediately joined this event because I sympathize the aim.
The issue of this year is "Climate Change". And in Japan, today is already October 15, so I want to post about "Climate Change" today.

I think it had snowed heavily when I was kid. I used to make snowman in my childhood. But recently, it's a few times that the snow pile up. And I heard the snowfall of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa becomes less and less every year.
Why? "The Global Warning" is one of the cause? I exactly don't know which is right or wrong. But we should do everything what we can for stopping the global warning. It's good to do a slight thing.
For example, turning off the light of the room nobody stay, don't crank up the air conditioner so much, trying to use the public transport, etc...

Now, if we act nothing, the world may be irrecoverable by ourselves...

Young, Fearless and Fed Up

How many of you dread Sunday nights because you know that the next morning you have to show up for a job you can't stand? How many of you have a boss that you know youre undoubtedly smarter than? I am sure there are many of you out there that feel this way. I felt that way while working at Lehman Brothers in New York City back in the early 1990's.

Fortunately, I decided that life was too short to stick around in a job that just wasn't for me. I decided at the time that I needed to follow my passion and work in sports to really be happy.

In the end, I started a sports marketing company in 1997 called TSE Sports & Entertainment, which I eventually sold to Premiere Global Sports in 2006. I had followed my passion and started my own business doing something I truly loved.

I feel its essential that you are able to marry your work and what you love. This passion will ignite the minds of your potential clients and connections. Your business has to be a reflection of what you are already willing to pour countless hours into. Your passion and enthusiasm for your business has to connect to your why, be a part of your own experience, and is ultimately what will make you successful.

Unfortunately, many young people today don't realize the types of risks they can afford to take. If you don't take risks youll never accomplish most of your goals and youll never know if your dreams could have come true.

Were socialized to believe that the path to success is to graduate from college, take an entry level position with an established company and work our way up the corporate ladder of the American dream. Our generation faces one small problem with this plan: that world does not exist anymore. It's a fantasy to expect anyone or any company to provide a path to riches.

If youre young and hungry, why not go take a chance on launching your business? Most likely, you have limited responsibilities with no kids or mortgage payments and only a deep passion to obtain your dream; all keys for success.

Look at Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook. He started the site as a hobby out of his college dorm room and turned it into the global phenomenon we know it as today. He had an idea and a vision and took a huge risk. Now he's worth billions, all because he went with his gut and didn't worry about what others would think.

How about those three guys from YouTube? Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim were PayPal employees who started a little website in their free time for users to upload their own videos for everyone to see.

Take a look at their timeline of events:

• January 2005: The three young friends chat at a dinner party about the need for software that would make it easier to share video files.
• February 2005: The YouTube.com domain is registered.
• May 2005: The site opens to the public.
• Late 2005: They secured funding from Sequoia Capital, which kept servers from going down as people flocked to the site in vast numbers.
• June 2006: the site announced that 2.5 billion videos were watched on the site during this month alone.
• August 2006: The Wall Street Journal reports the company hosts over 6 million videos and boasts over half a million subscribers.
• October 2006: Google completes a deal to acquire the company for $1.65 billion.

Thats an amazing course of events to occur just over a year and a half but it happened for them. Why can't it happen for you?

Ever heard of Rudy Pensa? My guess is unless youre a member of U2, Green Day, Velvet Revolver, or are John Mayer, you probably haven't. On 48th Street in New York City theres a tiny guitar shop called Rudy's Music Stop. As an ambitious, high-energy twenty-something, Rudy set himself apart from the "big guys" in New York's highly competitive, geographically centralized "guitar Mecca".

Pensa did this in three ways: by stocking (and, eventually, creating) higher quality guitars; providing deeply personalized, one-on-one service; and offering a family-style atmosphere that the more traditional (stuffier) guitar outlets would never have dreamed of allowing. Thanks to Rudy's enduring love affair with guitars, his little shop is legendary for finding, building, selling, and servicing electric guitars of the highest quality. Today Rudy's client list includes some of the most prominent names in music.

Don't get the wrong impression, this kind of success doesn't come easy; it involves a tremendous amount of hard work and a fire burning passion to keep you motivated on a daily basis. You have to be willing to take big risks, there are a people who talk about doing it but they just can't seem to take the leap. It really comes down to being ready for a better the quality of life.

If you decide to take the leap, you cant expect everything to go according to plan; just know mistakes are inevitable. You have to keep pushing through, though; dont let one mistake ruin your opportunity for success. Life is full of obstacles and hardships, you need to work through them--by doing this it will better you as a person.

Don't settle for the safe bet, push the limits and expand your horizons. Take a risk, whats the worst that can happen? At least you can tell yourself, you went for it!

Robert Tuchman is the founderTuchman Sports Enterprises (TSE), the global leader in sports event travel and a favorite commentator on the sporting industry. He is also the author ofThe 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live, a sports travelguide as well asYoung Guns, The Fearless Entrepreneurs Guide To Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own.

 Link : http://www.reuters.com/article/entrepreneur/idUS90128912420090916

First time managers need to fail

This is the article which really impressed me when i gone thru the ZdnetAsia.  

This gonna be really helpful to the Wanna be Managers. 

One of the greatest impediments to first-time project managers' success is their need to succeed. There are three things they really need--and early success isn't one of them.

Nothing succeeds like success, except in project management where nothing succeeds like failure.

Managing an IT project is very difficult, especially the first time you try it. The project manager's days and nights are filled with stress, worry, dreams, aspirations, and fear. Some first timers are overwhelmed by their newfound power, while some are weighed down by the responsibility.

But for most, the overriding concern is to avoid both personal and project failure.

This fear is often instilled and/or reinforced by the project manager's supervisor. The new assignment is often initiated with comments like, "Don't screw this up." "This is your big chance to shine.” Or, "don’t make me look bad and regret giving you this opportunity." Trust me, those sorts of comments really help first timers succeed.

For the project manager, this sort of fear is not only counterproductive, but also misplaced. In fact, I think that every first time project manager desperately needs to fail. That's right. I'm not just saying that it's ok to fail; I’m saying that if they don't fail, they may never learn to be effective project managers. In fact, complete success may set their management careers back by years.

As a manager, consultant, trainer, and coach, I've had the opportunity to work with hundreds of first-time project managers, and I've become convinced that one of the greatest impediments to their success is their need to succeed. If against all odds they do manage to succeed, they fall prey to the twin career killers, arrogance and self-confidence, depriving them of the opportunity to grow and learn.

Project management is such a complex discipline that it is completely impossible for a first timer to have mastered all the subtleties of task, people and risk management. In fact, it's impossible for anyone, no matter how experienced, to have mastered it all. The successful first timer is invariably lulled into a false sense of security that they know much more than they really do. They become convinced that they are now fully-fledged managers and can take on anything.

What's more dangerous is that they get brain freeze. They stop learning. Why learn when you have mastered a topic?

It can take two or three failed projects to undo the career damage inflicted by early success before a new project manager reclaims the humility and open-mindedness that they started with. Unfortunately, by that time, their careers have probably absorbed major damage. It is one thing to be seen as making a few mistakes as a first timer; it's another to have demonstrated a pattern of failure. Both the manager's image and self-image have been irretrievably damaged.

So what does the first timer need?

• A few big mistakes
• Permission to make those mistakes
• Coaching and introspection to learn from them

If you are a first-time project manager, be prepared for some problems along the way. Relax and enjoy the ride. No one will lose respect for you.

If you are the manager of a first timer, give them permission to make mistakes. When they do, make sure that they learn from them and don't make the same ones again. Coach them about the sources of problems and the meaning of their failures. It's normal for them to have difficulties, but make sure that you view them as training investments and not as screw-ups. Your job is to ensure that you get the maximum return on investment for the training that mistakes offer.

Becoming a project manager is hard work, but a little failure will help make the transition from individual producer to manager more successful.

It's my life ...song for you all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g50vzZzAja0

Commitment, passion are new mantras of reaching heights

I believe commitment and passion are true mantras to embrace the success. If some one has these two in his/her kitty, I am sure can fight against any odds. For instance, An IIM(A), Sarath who was graduated from the prestigious management Institute IIM-A, had denied the tempting corporate offer and become entrepreneur by establishing a Food King in Chennai. Serving food is an extremely satisfactory thing in his life. Now his company has become a well established with aim to provide employment to 1500 poor and semi illiterate people in India. He had confronted odds in his life. he has come from a very poor family, whose mother used to sell Idlis in the payments of chennai streerts. Now he is contesting for Assembly election from the chennai constitute. All the best for the Innovative entrepreneur in his new role of "NETA" to climb up new heights.

truely deeply madly

* I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasyI'll be your hope, I'll be your love be everything that you needI love you more with every breath truly madly deeply doI will be strong I will be faithful 'cause I'm counting onA new beginning.A reason for living.A deeper meaning.** I want to stand with you on a mountainI want to bathe with you in the seaI want to lay like this foreveruntil the sky falls down on meAnd when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky,I'll make a wish send it to heaven then make you want to cryThe tears of joy for all the pleasure in the certaintyThat we're surrounded by the comfort and protection ofThe highest powers. In lonely hours. The tears devour you **Oh can't you see it baby?You don't have to close your eyes'Cause it's standing right here before youAll that you need will surely come

Second day: Saturday

Wow. I can say its memorable, terrific day. Here I am e-inking my memorable moments that I spent on the Saturday. Do not take everything very close to the heart. So here I go.

In the evening, as we started to drive towards Taco Mac, cool breeze joined us. As we entered in to the Taco Mac, there were two waitress asked us to wait for some time, came out to enjoy the cool breeze. One among them was gorgeous… There at the end left corner, Indian was sitting with a glass of beer. To astound, waitress asked to sit next to the Indian sitting table. Menu was infront of us. I ordered one buffalo chicken(Its pure chicken item guys…) with salsa fries. We joined a passport club. This passport club useful I guess only for the one who has amazing ability to drink, so one’s name would be placed on the top of the club. for this, said one have to reach up to 90 beers. There were around 800 types of beers.In fact, two of our friends got T-shirts, by reaching 13 beers.
But to scare, each beer cost you some where around $5, is it does not sufficient, there are taxes. Taxes are very high in US. Buffalo wings and Salsa cost me around $15.86. Here I need pendown about the server.Because we chanted her name for the three days. She was terrific, named as Brooke. She is just around 18. She told us that as she is minor, does not take a beer in the public places. She messed up so many things while she getting bills for us. We preferred to pay individually. We become close all together with just single treat. For not to reach your expectations, my friend asked Brooke to go on a date. She said firmly, that she could wish to do that. Amazing..wonderful…. praising so much, but she deserved. we have given a tip of $2 each. So she managed to get some where around $10.As we return back to home, my friend mayank almost hitting the pole near to house.some how managed... So here it all about the saturday..