Twitter means more – Interactions, Learning & Focus
I have been around on Twitter for 90 days now and it’s been an amazing experience.
I have had interactions with great people who inspired me, gained a lot a knowledge in quick time & most importantly, i am doing things that i should be doing – focus on ecommerce and entrepreneurship.
Thanks to themetoday.com
More interactions: I have interacted with people whom i would have rarely come across. I live in Hyderabad, India and focus on International ecommerce. It is so rare to find the same species here. On twitter, I get to interact with people from all over the world in Social Media, SEO, Web Design, Social Actions, PR & Entrepreneurs of all hues.
More learning: I used to have newsletters & feeds as my main source of information. Now, Twitter has become a significant contributor to my learning. I have unsubscribed from all the newsletters. Twitter has also increased the number of feeds i use to gain knowledge.
It is amazing, that the cycle time it takes for information to come before my eyes has shortened. I read news, information & gain perspectives as events happen.
More focus: The craving to share information got the better of me, the whole day is spent learning new things, which i can give back to the twitter community.
I focus more on ecommerce & entrepreneurship than what i was doing before i started using Twitter.
Twitter has changed me
All these benefits have made a Twitter evangelist in my network.
Thanks to all the tweeple, who i have come across during this time.
What’s been your experience with twitter? Please comment.
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Entrepreneurs have more than 5 senses
Colonel Wyatt Turner in “Where Eagles Dare” says about Major Smith – “Some people have a sixth sense. He has a sixth, a seventh and an eighth.”
I think it is true with Entrepreneurs also.
Entrepreneur sees an opportunity, gets a vision and goes about organizing their resources to achieve it. To be successful, they need more than the five senses.
These additional senses are:
7th Sense – Directional Sense: A sense of overall direction is important, especially, before the resources get organized. It has to be based on past experiences, present market conditions & future trends.
8th Sense – People Sense: A sense of the people whom they work with. Their strengths & weaknesses. Not what they like or hate about them. Should not be emotional & under or over estimate.
9th Sense – Financial Sense: Cash flows more than profitability. Profitability more than Revenues. (Be patient with revenue; be impatient with profitability.)
10th Sense – Strategic Sense: This is the “HOW”. Every second, we are faced with options to choose, this is about selecting the ones which work and prioritizing amongst the chosen ones.
11th Sense – Scope Sense: We know that world around is changing. Changing way faster than we can catch up with it. Especially, Internet technologies are changing at a pace where defining the “Scope” of deliverable is necessary. It is about thinking in “versions” than “the grand vision”. This is where, according to me, most of us fail. Getting this right is crucial.
Using these senses, entrepreneurs develop their 6th Sense – An intuition, a gut feel whether they would be successful or not in grabbing the opportunity.
Did i miss anything?
Please add in your comments. (more…)
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New Managers – Blow your whistle
Are you a manager who has been appointed few days / months back and don’t see your team looking up to you or giving you trouble.
Here is a tip – “Blow your whistle”
I remember the movie – “Kindergarten Cop” in which Arnold Schwarzenegger is a hardened inner-city undercover policeman who suddenly finds himself teaching kindergarten in an idyllic little town in the Pacific Northwest and becomes afraid after few classes as none of his 5 and 6 year old students listen to him and admits that they are “walking all over” him.
One day, He brings with him two things – a whistle, and a new attitude. After scaring them with a blast from the whistle, he announces that from now on they will immediately respond to a series of signals from the whistle indicating that they do something other than what they’re doing at the moment.
It is made perfectly clear to the first little girl who objects that any deviation from this herd mentality will not be tolerated, and that her tears have no effect on the program, or her large teacher.
Soon Arnold has them marching everywhere, exercising vigorously, and competing with each other in tests of strength and endurance. I can still see Arnold’s face light up as he watches his little herd moving as one, saying to himself, “It’s vurking, it’s vurking!”
It is this new attitude and discipline that has to be enforced with your new team members.
So, next time you see your team not listening - “Blow your whistle” and show who is in command.
What has been your experience?
Share your thoughts with me.
Other resources to help you grow:
Team Taskmaster – Get more out of your team and your time
The Practice of Leadership – It’s only in the practice of leadership that we influence our world…
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