Automattic, WordPress.com’s parent company, set out to learn how to boost applications from women and non-binary developers.
Any new thing faces the force of inertia! And that’s just a test! Use greater power and overcome it! Tom Morris American Philosopher
It’s my 5 Year Anniversary on WordPress business account. Thank you all for: following this blog, liking a post and sharing your comments with me. I hope you have enjoyed a number of takeaways.
Earlier today I wrote a piece for LinkedIn Publisher that explained that ethics is alive and well, the people who work in large corporations are just like you and me and want to do well, as well as lessons learned in this 21st Century.
Here is that link “IT REALLY HAPPENED. . .” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/really-happened-jo-ann-m-radja by @Coach_Jo_Ann on @LinkedIn
Another quotation from the American Philosopher Tom Morris is: Service puts others first. And, ironically, it’s in the acts of service that we most often feel our best and become our best.
WordPress has had a philosophy and culture of service over the past five years that I have been a member. Many of you also believe Service is important. All the best to you this week as you Choose Who You Want to be Known As.
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
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Watch the Mind and Life Power and Care Conference taking place in Brussels. http://livestream.com/accounts/5587887/events/6186028 The schedule of talks (Brussels Timezone) for Saturday and Sunday is: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, 2016 Session 3: Perspectives from spiritual and religious traditions Time: 9:30-11:30am Religious and spiritual institutions are influential forces that promote peace and compassion and are concerned with the […]
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It’s that time of the year here in the Midwest when we see clean streets again. The City Workers have been out in almost all of the neighborhoods and people were walking freely this week as no debris was left behind from the Winter Storms. We wish our neighbors in the State of California and elsewhere who have been suffering from years of drought, patience and continued fortitude.
As the fresh winds of life blow through our neighborhoods, perhaps a short perspective on mindfulness, published by Mindful Magazine,
will bring a smile to those who have just a minutes to spare.
Mindfulness Meditation by Actor/Comedian Bill Murray
Whatever Holiday you may be celebrating this weekend or later this month, Choose Who You Want to be Known As. Happy Holiday!
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive & Career Management Coach.
Notes: http://www.mindful.org/news/bill-murray-leads-impromptu-meditation-session-audio
Earlier this morning, I posted a Blog, that was published by LinkedIn Plus at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-your-spring-surprise-jo-ann-m-radja. The text now follows below:
“Life is full of surprises – you just have to look for them. It’s no surprise to many of us that when we work towards a goal and we reach it, we still have much work to do. We can’t bask in a victory for too long because that victory now is in the past and is placed into our experience. The question that faces us is, “What are you going to do now?”
No matter what the victory may be, the surprise lies in how we handle ourselves and learn from the experience. We keep taking steps that we hope will turn into a benefit, for ourselves and the people we work with. Of course, we become disappointed, yet more resilient in our choice to move ahead.
What are you going to do now with the victories that you had this past Winter Season? Have you patted yourself on the back because you found the resilience to “keep going at it,” when your tired body, said “enough already.” Of course you did – quietly to yourself. How will you carry forward all your resilience and apply it to your Spring Season at your Career this year?
I hope you surprise yourself, as you Choose Who You Want to be Known As in your career! Have a great Spring Season.
So, I
Persevered.
Resilience paid off.
It’s the first day of Spring and
Not too late to
Give back to those who were kind to me.
Doubts tried to creep into my mind for a while
this past Winter.
And were swept away.
Yearnings will come true as you focus on
what’s important to you. Copyright Jo Ann M. Radja
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive & Career Management Coach
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Aldous Huxley. Twists on the word “personally” is the subject of this Blog post, Personally to/for You… During your career, I’m…
Today is the first day of Daylight Savings Time and we are adjusting to the loss of one hour. I have come across a few articles recently about how the anchoring choice of a decision comes into play. The conversation of how we truly decide and move forward is always on-going. Neuroscientists and Psychologists keep us busy reading their latest articles and the above picture shows another view of what goes on when we begin to make decisions.
Anchors Aweigh is a phrase used to release the weighted anchor holding a ship at the harbor. Anchoring Decisions is a form of cognitive bias we all have which may be based on our education, culture, whether we grew up in a small or large family and the physical environment we enjoyed as children. When we choose the first piece of information we hear about an event, we anchor on to it. Although we may ask for some other information, we usually go back to the first piece of information we hear, because we unconsciously believe it to be true.
Perhaps some people haven’t considered how often they anchor what they hear. Often times we wonder why someone may not move from a “position” and anchoring may be the reason. Here is an additional view of how our unconscious bias influences our decision making.
During this second week of March, 2015, consider how you Choose Who You Want to be Known As when reaching out to understand another person’s decision. Have a great week!
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
An earlier version of this post was published by this author today with LinkedIn Pulse, under the title, “Managing the Common Good” at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/managing-common-good-jo-ann-m-radja. Here is the text for your convenience:
“Managing the Comon Good
Quite some time ago, a friend of mine at work asked if I wanted to join her on a trip to Worchester, Massachusetts. She was a young Board Member of a national ethnic organization and planned to attend the annual conference. Of course, I jumped at the chance and received the okay to take a Friday and Monday off from work. Some seven months earlier, while on vacation, I met a guy from Nantucket, and was excited to see him again, as he was a student at Worchester College.
We travelled in the “dead of winter.” The day before we were scheduled to leave, a snow storm hit; the wind drifts blew snow against the Holiday Inn, covering the first two floors of the Inn. We were blocked in and couldn’t get out. We stayed an extra two days until it was safe to leave the Inn and drive to Logan Airport. I was thankful my employer understood the situation and the Worchester, MA community had the necessary equipment to dig out from the storm.
Early this morning, I read that Worchester, MA, had some 31 inches fall during the past two days. The entire Nantucket community had no electric power and the temperature was sub-zero. A reporter wrote how he had to climb out of his home window to get outside because the door, which opened only one way, was blocked with snow. It was predicted that The Storm of the Century would blow through the Eastern Seaboard. The Common Good Theory came into Play. State and Local Governments issued Orders to protect communities from harm and ensure safety.
We often don’t take notice how local government protects its citizens. The organization of various agencies, fire, police, transportation, weather, medical all have to come together. It is no small feat to ensure the Common Good when interpreting weather is not an absolute science. No known entity controls the Weather. Scientists and educated people interpret data and reasonable judgments are made. Should we really blame someone for not knowing, ahead of time, how miles above the earth the wind abruptly shifts and a forecast is no longer wholly accurate.
Management, whether private or government does not have all the answers. It surely recognizes this fact and decides the next step, based on presently known information. Governing from the “Syco Slate” game* of “Maybe so”, or “Without a doubt,” or “Most likely,” doesn’t work. Let’s look for the random acts of kindness that took place by government employees who worked on our behalf, in difficult weather conditions. Isn’t that the real story, together with the careered government people who looked out for us?
As you Choose Who You Want to be Known As, consider who looks out for you, when weather conditions, stand in the way of your career choice.
Enjoy your career this week!
‘Jo Ann’ M. Radja, Career Management Coaching & Change Agent
http://careermanagementcoaching.me @Coach_Jo_Ann
*Syco Slate is the predecessor of the Magic 8 Ball of chance.
What an absolutely wonderful report. Much appreciated.
Note: Annual Reports weren’t sent automatically to all users. You had to publish at least one post for the year and get over five-hundred views in 2014 in order to generate a report.
At the end of 2014, when we were ringing in the new year, the busy data wizards at WordPress.com prepared and emailed a “2014 in Blogging” Annual Report for many of our blogs:
Your report was a fun snapshot of your blogging activity last year, including:
Understand and Analyze Your Stats:
As we’ve said before in our Stats Wrangling series (listed at left), analyzing these sorts of numbers…
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