Practice This

What is the biggest secret to successful business? Why there are extremely successful businesses and pure failures? Why some businesses on stagnation and others skyrocketing?

by ninjapoodles
I recently stumbled on Book Review: The Goal. I’ve read this book long ago but the content is timeless. Really.
I liked how Mike King distilled the essence of the book:

“…the goal to be; to make money. Its not to cut costs, reduce wages, increase efficiency, or any of the other traditional measures that were in place. Its about balancing 3 critical areas of the plant’s …

How to maintain acceptable weight without limiting food assortment and amount? How to keep alert after lunch time? How to keep high energy throughout the day?
DISCLAIMER: below is my personal practice. I am not physician or diet specialist.

by 46137
Morning – high energy
Morning meal is most important one. It should provide me the energy to survive high rhythm from 6:00 AM to 13:00, 6 to 7 hours of morning pressure – getting kids to school, getting through heavy traffic, planning the day, finishing unfinished work from yesterday, completing current work items. …

Thinking to quit your day job and kiss corporate life goodbye? Want more excitement, money, influence, freedom? Think quitting corporate life and entering freelance theatre of operations will get you it all? May be… May be not.
Why just not having it all while keep kissing your corporate life?

by Peter Kaminski
I was freelance trainer during .Com euphoria around 2000′s and I was doing really good numbers, having lots of fun, enjoying freedom and influencing lots of folks. I kissed my freelance life goodbye in sake of corporate life. Why?
Excitement
Training was …

Want to be in control of your relationships with your boss? Want to be praised? Want to anticipate critiques and make most out of it?
Here is my take – manage your manager.
Why you need a manager? Why is she calling your desk all the time? Why she constantly sends tons of emails? What does she want from you? The only reasonable answer I could come up with is “she wants you to accomplish your tasks so she could hit her goals”.
Understand you manager’s goals
Do you know you manager’s goals? Clearly …

How to improve your response times to overwhelming events and stay calm? Are there proven techniques to respond to avalanches of events fast and peacefully?
Caching, well known technique in software engineering, can be successfully applied in day-to-day duties to cope with stressful situations fast and peacefully.
Wikipedia on Caching:
…a cache is a temporary storage area where frequently accessed data can be stored for rapid access…
… Cache have proven to be extremely effective in many areas of computing…

J.D. Meier on Caching threats (as a result of improper use or lack of caching):
… …