The way to hire.

I just read an article "Hire Great People: 10 Simple Rules by Barbara Reinhold" on nytimes.com & monster for employers.

In the article, it says "Rule number one is clear: Don't ever, ever hire somebody just like yourself".

Last year, I was hired by a banker who is not like me. This made me worried why I was hired. but now I think I understand why they hired. That was because I am not like him.

But I still am worried, what is gonna happen over the summer because I still dont know where I'm gonna work at. I know I'm gonna work for the bank, but they havent told me where the office gonna be. I hope I will be working in Tokyo..... If not I might change the job.....

It's too much!!

Today, I read some articles about [social news and social bookmarking].

Everyday I check so many things to keep up with others.

These new innovations in technology have increased the value of information.

Everyone is looking for new valuable information about anything.

I feel it is too much for me. I don't want to stay in front of PC all day looking for the information I want.

I just want to check my e-mail, do little bit of social networking stuff, and do one or less (0) research.

I don't want to bookmark so many different websites and keep checking them.

Is there any way that I don't need to do all this......



Social bookmarks helps it easier to look at different websites.

But, I hope there will be a day that I don't need to do any research to find the information I want. I hope someday I become so rich, so that my assistants do all the work for me.

Can you really build trust with your team?

I read "6 ways to build trust with your virtual team"

and it gave 6 solutions to problems you face in virtually working together.

but can you really build trust with your team by doing all the things she suggests?

Her suggestions were to:

- to have office hours' section, have IM
- work on some projects together
- give people the context as well as the information
- have team meetings, simply do their email
- use the feedback tools widely, interactive online meeting
- have a system that writes down what is expected of everyone

I thought these will help virtual team work better.
but wasnt sure it will build trust with team members.

I think there are many people who cant build trust in real life.
so it is better to give how to build trust itself since working virtually cant see others face and it is harder to build trust in those environment.

I heard that IM and other internet tools are making people's English and grammar skills worse. however, I think to build the trust, people really need to work on their English. It is harder to understand others with out looking at them. Therefore, I think people need the skill to tell what you really mean to others.

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Networking - Six Degrees of Separation

One day, I was told by my superior.

"The key to success in anything is to make large number of people involve for good cause."

I asked "how?"

Then he explained this philosophy.

Majolity of people know more than 300 people, so ask those people to introduce their friends. By the time you know the friend's friend, you'll know 27,000,000 people.

I know 300 x 300 x 300 = 27,000,000

Six Degrees of Separation is the same thing.

so Many business use this philosophy to success by gathering more consumers.

10,00O people buying $10 product is easier than one person buying $100,000 product.

so now Kevin Bacon is using this idea to make large number of people to donate money for fund-rasing.



The thing is that you cant do anything by your self.
Knowing someone doesnt connect you to anyone.

First, you need to ask someone to connect you to 27,000,000 people or more.

Just knowing 300 people wont give you job, money, or anything.

you need to start connecting the dots.