Friday High-Five: Posts I Loved Reading Last Week

Friday is the day to share link love with some great insights from my friends in blogosphere. So, here are 5 posts that I loved reading (and you will too):

• Directions 7 by Nicholas Bate: Insightful and thought-provoking as usual. Goodness in small bits. Sometimes, what we look for is more important than what we get.
   
• I’m a Blogger? Nope, I’m A Writer by Terry Starbucker: Terry goes over the roof top and says that he is a writer, not just a blogger. He says, I do it because I love it. Brilliant!
   
• John Hunter’s quick tip: Change How Your Business Changes where he shares, “The key to good management systems is how rapidly improvement is achieved, not that improvement is being made.”
   
• Patty Azzarello shares 3 Sales Lessons We All Need in a guest post at Liz Strauss’s blog. Key lesson: “In sales, NO is never a dead end.”
   
• Wally Bock, great as ever, prescribes a method to simplify performance appraisals. My favorite idea, “When you sit down at that formal meeting with a team member, he or she shouldn’t be surprised by anything you have to say.”

Bonus:

I have been a great fan of TED, a conference which offers riveting talks by remarkable people and that too, completely free. We are so fortunate to be living in a world where such great learning is available for free.

I was very glad to know that two young and aspiring individuals, Manan and Naitri (who are still students themselves) took an initiative to start TEDxAhmedabad (TEDx is an independently organized TED event). The theme of this conference, to be organized on 02nd October 2010, is “Urban Rethinking”. Visit TEDxAhmedabad’s website and register for the event. See you there!

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Have a Fantastic Friday and a Wonderful Weekend!