Found by: Tom Krieglstein
This past couple of weeks I have read quite a few blog posts about business, project management, life, religion, innovation, entrepreneurship and community management. But the most profound post, the shortest yet effect one for me was Seth’s post on Exploration and the risk of failure.
People seem to be in one of two categories:
- Those who seek stability, affiliation, work worth doing and the assurance it (whatever it is) will be okay.
- Those who explore, need to know that failure is an option and quest to make a dent in the universe.
You can be in either category, the world needs and rewards both. But pick a brand and a job and a posture that matches your category, or you’ll fail, and be miserable until you do.
Hint: there is no category of: “does risky exploration, never fails.”
I was in the first category, but today I’m leaning towards the second 
How about you? Bit of both?
Assalaamu Alaikum – Ramadan Kareem to all Muslims
Here’s a Ramadan Daily Checklist sent to me by brother, Bilal Randeree. This will help list the things you want to do every day in Ramadan Inshallah. May ALLAH grant you all the rewards and purification this month.
Via: PhD Online
Ramadan.co.za is a community website that brings together Muslims all over the world for the month of Ramadan to share their experience of Ramadan in a different country amongst different cultures. This will hope to increase awareness, promote unity and provide information to readers.
Download the timtables in PDF formats for South African cities.
Download PDF’s (Right click and select “save link as”)
- Benoni suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Bloemfontein suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Cape Town suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Durban suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- East London suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Empangeni suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Ermelo suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Estcourt suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Johannesburg suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Ladysmith suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Middleburg suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Nelspruit suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Newcastle suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Pietermaritzburg suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Port Elizabeth suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Port Shepstone suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Pretoria suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Rustenburg suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Stanger suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
- Umzinto suhoor & iftaar times (pdf)
South Africa
- Johannesburg Sehri & Iftaar times
- Durban Sehri & Iftaar times
- Cape Town Sehri & Iftaar times
- Benoni Sehri & Iftaar times
- Bloemfontein Sehri & Iftaar times
- East London Sehri & Iftaar times
- Newcastle Sehri & Iftaar times
- Pietermaritzburg Sehri & Iftaar times
- Port Elizabeth Sehri & Iftaar times
- Pretoria Sehri & Iftaar times
- Rustenburg Sehri & Iftaar times
- Stanger Sehri & Iftaar times
Catch me and others on Ramadan.co.za
Mike Saunders done some research on the usership of Linkedin by South Africans and found 600 000 South Africans were registered, 94 000 users are in management positions with 50 000 company directors and presidents. The site also has over 75 000 business owners registered along with 26 000 consultants.
So to make things easier he put a few of the statistics into a presentation (below) and a PDF Download. Please bear in mind that the pdf download is the most detailed.
A great post by Peter Bregman who speaks, writes, and consults on leadership. He is the CEO of Bregman Partners, Inc., a global management consulting firm, and the author of Point B: A Short Guide To Leading a Big Change.
“To be fair to me, I was pretty focused at the time, working in my office on an article. When my wife called my name, I really didn’t want to be interrupted.
We were going away for the weekend and what Eleanor wanted to know was, could I help with the packing? She shouted from the bedroom, raising her voice enough to be heard between the two rooms. I yelled that I was working on deadline.
She yelled back: could I at least pack the shampoo?
Now that just seemed ridiculous to me. She wanted me to get up from my computer, walk over to the bathroom, grab the shampoo bottle, and put it in our suitcase? She was in the bedroom already packing everything. It would take her ten seconds to do it herself.
“Listen,” I shouted, “can’t you just put the shampoo in the bag? It doesn’t seem like a big deal.”
“Fine” she yelled and as soon as I heard the tone of her voice I knew I had made a critical error. I had missed the entire point of her request. I thought it was about packing the shampoo.
Welcome to the land of clumsy communication, misunderstandings, and unnecessary arguments escalated by not paying enough attention.
On one level, Eleanor’s request was about packing the shampoo. But even then, I had misunderstood what she meant. She thought I hadn’t yet packed my own toiletry kit and was asking if, when I did, I could pack some shampoo into a small bottle for the family. A reasonable request.
On another level, Eleanor’s request had nothing to do with the shampoo. It had to do with the fact that Eleanor is always the one who packs for the family and she’s sick of it. She asked me to pack the shampoo because she needed to feel like she wasn’t the only one packing. Like we were in this together. In some ways, she was being generous by asking me to do something as simple as pack the shampoo. She could have asked me to get all the children’s clothes together. She was being sensitive to my deadline. I’d missed that…”
This morning I had to pay my fine like ASAP (Before they issue me the warrant) – Imagine standing in the traffic department queue for hours during my working hours 
So I decided to use the PayFine website. I wasn’t really convinced to pay via credit card. The website not professional looking at all, which is sad, however serves the purpose.
I needed the confidence and the confirmation, whether it was safe to use the portal payment option and whether people used it or not? Facebook, was the answer, and within 10 minutes I made the decision
Here’s some stats on Facebook:
- If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populated in the world, ahead of the United States.
- If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populated in the world, ahead of the United States. Only China &India are more populated.
- 500 BILLION. The number of minutes spent on Facebook per month.
- 500 BILLION. The number of minutes spent on Facebook per month. LAST YEAR, THAT NUMBER WAS A MEASLY 150 BILLION.
- The amount of content 25 BILLION. (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each month on Facebook. THAT’S MORE THAN 6X LAST YEAR’S VOLUME.
- 500 BILLION. The number of peer influence impressions Americans generate per year via social media.
- 500 BILLION. The number of peer influence impressions Americans generate per year via social media. 62% of those impressions come from Facebook.
- 24 HOURS. The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
- 24 HOURS. The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. THAT’S MORE THAN DOUBLE LAST YEAR’S VOLUME.
- 2 BILLION. The number of YouTube videos viewed per day.
- 2 BILLION. The number of YouTube videos viewed per day. THAT’S TWICE AS MANY AS LAST YEAR. 11
- 4 BILLION. The number of images hosted on Flickr.
- 4 BILLION. The number of images hosted on Flickr. THAT’S 13X MORE THAN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
- ONE-THIRD. The proportion of women aged 18-34 who check Facebook when they first wake up—even before going to the bathroom.
- NINETY-FIVE. The percentage of companies using LinkedIn to find and attract employees. 14
- NINETY-FIVE. The percentage of companies using LinkedIn to find and attract employees. 59% use Facebook and 42% use Twitter.
- 1 in 6. The number of marriages last year between people who met through social media. 15
- 1 in 6. The number of marriages last year between people who met through social media. THAT’S MORE THAN TWICE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO MET AT BARS, CLUBS, AND OTHER SOCIAL EVENTS COMBINED.
- 27 MILLION. The average number of “tweets” per day on Twitter. 16
- 27 MILLION. The average number of “tweets” per day on Twitter. THAT’S 8X LAST YEAR’S VOLUME.
- 7 HOURS. The time it took for LeBron James to amass his first 150,000 Twitter followers.
- 7 HOURS. The time it took for LeBron James to amass his first 150,000 Twitter followers. It took Bill Gates 8 hours to reach 100,000
See full presentation here.
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