Author Dwayne Melancon is always on the lookout for new things to learn. An ecclectic collection of postings on personal productivity, travel, good books, gadgets, leadership & management, and many other things.
Check out a free excerpt from Ram Charan's book "Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business : 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning" - Lisa's serving it up on Management Craft.
I've not been that "into" Ram's books in the past, but this excerpt has piqued my interest. It's on its way to me from Amazon (by the way - is it just me, or does that arrow logo on their shipping boxes look just a bit suggestive?).
Read MoreI’ve been traveling a lot lately with less time online than usual, so I’ve been suffering a bit of blog withdrawal. That includes posting, of course, but it also means I haven’t been able to keep up with my usual blog haunts. Well, I’ve spent some snippets of time remedying that over the last couple of days, and have found some pleasant surprises.
I found one of those “right there when you need it” posts on John Richardson’s blog. In his post “Follow The Leader,” he reminded me to take a look at the roadmap for my life and make sure it’s taking me where I want to end up. Powerful stuff. There’s lots more to see on the way back in - take a look through your blogroll, or borrow mine. And, as Rosa always reminds me - sometimes it’s a good idea to get out of your RSS feed reader and visit the blogs live - you can find fun stuff in the sidebars.
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I got a note from Dave the other day, telling me he sometimes wants to print out some of my blog articles, but can't get them to print in a sensible form from either Firefox or Internet Explorer. I'd never tried this before, but I quickly saw what he meant when I saw the screwy formatting that results. Apparently, this is an inherent issue with TypePad blogs (and possibly others).
I suggested a workaround that I'm sharing here, since it may help if you want to print out articles from the blogs you read.
This works very well and doesn't require any changes to any of the blogs you're reading - and since SharpReader is free, the price is right.
Below, I've provided a link to a PDF (created using Nitro PDF Pro, of course) showing a sample of what the output looks like:
Update March 10:
If you don't want to install another RSS reader, another option (for my site, at least) is to subscribe to the email alerts on my site (in the left navigation bar). I use a wonderful, free service called RSSFwd that will email a print-worthy copy of each new post to you. You can then print out any articles you'd like to print. It's privacy-friendly, as well - I don't have access to your email address through this method, and you don't receive any emails other than the posts through this method.
And fellow bloggers, the service is a snap to set up and use, so give it a try if you want to provide alternatives to share your ideas.
Read MoreRosa's done a wonderful job (and doesn't she always?) of touring the blogs of her community and provided a great snapshot of what's going on. Check it out (and thanks for the nod regarding my post titles, Rosa).
While you're over there, join in on the Managing With Aloha Jumpstart program she's been doing this year. It is a great way to get the zen of her wonderful book - and to get a better feeling of connectedness with her community. She started this in January, but it's never too late to jump in!
Read MoreLisa Haneberg has just posted the winners of the Best Management Ideas contest over at Management Craft! As one of the judges, I was impressed with the quality of ideas submitted. It has also been fun seeing who the submitters were (we were provided with a list of ideas, but no clues as to who submitted them).
There are some great ideas over there - and don't just read the winning idea - there is a wealth of learning in the whole list.
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