March 10, 2005
Travel. . .can
get in the way of podcasting
Sorry to have gone dark for so long, my last trip turned into an extended visit
to the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington and between meetings and meetings
I lost the energy to produce the Manic Minute for a short while. . . But Now I'm
Back!
Business Book
Reading. . .Manic Minute Style
Don't have time to read all the business books you want? You've got to check
out www.GetAbstract.com where they
offer 5 page summaries of hundreds of business books with more added daily.
Getting To Yes.
. .
Many years ago I ran into this book by Roger Fisher and William Ury and have,
albeit somewhat unconsciously, used it's basic principals many times in the past
decade and a half. From my point of view the two basic principals are (1)
separate the people from their positions and (2) build agreements on top of
previous agreements. The first principal means be aware that just because you
don't like someone's opinion you don't have to not like them which means you may
yet find common ground. The second principal means you can't go from "Hello" to
"Yes I will withdraw my troops" in a single bound. Start with "Hello", move to
"Sunny day, eh?", get the other party's head nodding in agreement and start to
build a base of agreement on which to base further agreements. Links to the
Amazon page for the book (
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140157352/ ) and a summary from the
Conflict Resolution Consortium (
http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/example/fish7513.htm )
are on the softwareland.org blog .
Podcast of the
day:
Slacker Astronomy
http://www.slackerastronomy.com/
A weekly, five minute podcast covering a recent news item in astronomy.
Watch out for the "Phantom Astronomer".
The long tail at it's very finest.
Manic Minute Recommendation: Light Years are only a concept, Engage Brain Warp
Factor 9!
And that's your Manic Minute for March 10th, 2005. . .
8:33:55 AM 
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