May 02
In John C. Maxwell’s book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You, John discusses the importance of influence and the ability to lead. Maxwell (2007) identifies five common myths about leadership. The first is the misunderstanding that management and leadership are equivalent terms. The second is that entrepreneurs are …
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May 01
In John C. Maxwell’s book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You, John discusses the effect of leadership toward improving one’s overall potential and personal effectiveness. Improving your personal effectiveness involves two major approaches. Improving your personal ability is the first approach and improving your leadership ability is the …
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Apr 26
As a novice screencaster, I found every section of The Screencasting Handbook enlightening. Particularly helpful is Ian Ozsvald’s coverage of microphone selection for improving audio recording quality. In my case, simply moving from an analog to digital input dramatically improved audio quality and reduced post-editing time to nearly nothing. I recommend The Screencasting Handbook to …
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Apr 25
To support the introduction of a new capability for an enterprise project management system at Motorola, I took a dive into creating a series of screencasts that provided overviews and examples of the capability. I started with some open-source offerings but after two days purchased Camtasia Studio from TechSmith. The speed to produce the screencasts …
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Apr 25
I recently read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell and created a mind map of the table of contents to serve as a reminder of these leadership laws. The mind map hangs in both my work office and home office. Select the graphic to …
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