A close up of a flower in bloom. This bud is about the size of your thumb and to me looked like a great photograph due to the strong blue colour and the green stem/leaves. Cranking the aperture as low as I could get it to drop the background out of focus the picture works for me.
I love this saying and I use it from time to time, it gets people to think a whole lot more than using one of the normal management cliches such as “thinking outside of the box”.
If you were to ask a well frog to describe the Ocean they are going to tell you about a well - simply because that is all they know about and they believe that is the extent of the world. Their knowledge, or lack of, limits their thinking and therefore their imagination.
So in business, you will often finding people speaking with authority about things but from a limited frame of reference. It dissapoints me to say that I find this far too often in the world of IT. Getting people to recognise their limitations is an important step in helping them to become more than they are as you can then build a development plan to close the gaps between what they are today and what they would wish to become in the future
On a related topic we also have: “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know”, but let’s leave that for another day.
| — | Anonymous Chinese Proverb - probably from a Xmas Cracker! |
| — | The Duck Test - Inductive Reasoning |
| — | BlackAdder |
Been really tired today, really feeling cold and not quite with it. At around 4pm I was convinced I was going down with a cold.
Anyway, some vitamin C tablets (controversial I know), some Echinacea (also controversial), a bit of food and a few hours sleep and I am back!
So who knows if I have shaken off a cold that was starting or it was just the week catching up on me but I’m feeling a lot better now. Question is whether I will now be able to get off to sleep tonight.
So the Q1 Incentive for Hilton HHonor members has arrived and I have already registered for it. The “Have a Night on Us” incentive begins with check-ins on Thursday, January 7 and check-outs through March 31. Earn a free night for every 4 stays or 10 nights at a Hilton brand hotel. Maximum of 3 free nights may be earned with this promotion after 12 stays or 30 nights.
So looks good for me as I will be having at least one and probably two stays a week so plenty of scope for getting to the maximum 3 free nights.
Annoyingly I have already made 4 reservations for January which won’t count towards a free reward as they were made before registration opened.
So, all that is left is to decide where to use the free nights. A year or so back it would have probably been in London but having experienced their fantastic hotel in Vilamoura, Portugal, then I think that may be the place to return in 2010. Or could it be Venice….
