Month: September 2009

Career options for my personality type

How interesting that I have already explored some of the career options typical for ENFJs, which is my personality type. See the excerpt I’ve lifted from [this resource](http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/enfj/), and my comments (in brackets). > **ENFJ careers to consider** > > The following career areas are good places to look for a suitable occupation if you …

Kim Clijsters: How focus wins the game

If you watched the US Open ladies’ semifinals match between Kim Clijsters and Serena Williams, you’d have witnessed a stark contrast in mindsets. At some points, it was a close match. But what won in the end was emotional intelligence. After [blogging earlier](http://vantan.org/archives/2009/09/working_with_em.php) about Daniel Goleman’s book, [Working with Emotional Intelligence](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553378589?ie=UTF8&tag=vantan-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0553378589), I re-read the chapter …

Working with Emotional Intelligence –

[](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553378589?ie=UTF8&tag=vantan-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0553378589) Currently I’m reading ‘[Working with Emotional Intelligence’](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553378589?ie=UTF8&tag=vantan-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0553378589), which is Daniel Goleman’s follow-up to his hugely successful book, ‘Emotional Intelligence’. Here’s an excerpt which is relevant to the work I’m currently handling. As we endeavour to improve information flow, we must remember it’s not just having a knowledge repository (systems/infrastructure) but building a sharing culture …

Is HBR for or against Twitter?

Look closely at the screenshot of the Harvard Business Review’s home page, above. The [rightmost article](http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/09/a_single_question_haunts_me.html?cm_re=homepage-061609-_-secondary-1-_-headline) discusses the disadvantages of using of Twitter, but just below it is a button for subscribing to HBR’s Twitter feed. OK, it’s not as straightforward as that but I couldn’t resist showing the irony lurking on the surface. The …