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Birthday
September 10th, 2009. Published under General. No Comments.
Hello again). It seems I’m writing quite a lot these days. Anyway today is my birthday.
There is no enough words I can say about these day. First of all – I’ve received quite a lot of congratulations from the agencies I’m working with. And they are really Fantastic people, but still – I give them job, give them orders. I feel that their congratulations where real, but still not so real as from my friends. Even if guys read all these, it’s still really cool to receive congrats from you. No one friend can afford a present you give to me. Maybe you are even better friends for me after all, or not? Something tells me that no – but still why?
Routine
September 7th, 2009. Published under General. 1 Comment.
Recently it seems I’ve finally understood what is routine. It’s not about your work, it’s about what you really do there. We all work using our heads, but are we really using it?
As David Allen says, we are actually reacting, we rarely use our time to sit down and to plan the whole thing. And even if we do it in the beginning, we often forget to get back to our plan. So day after day we work like this and after a few months you just get used to not to think and not to plan. You feel exhausted at the end of the day and the only thing you want is to sit behind the TV, or drink a glass of beer, or play a game etc. It’s self destructing process.
I’ve mentioned a few symptoms of it on myself and all inside me is against it. There are a few things that helps me keep going – I’ve started GMAT preparation and I’m very much in my goals settings. The first one keeps me in tone, the second help identify the following steps to keep up with the evolution.
My new business cards
August 23rd, 2009. Published under General. No Comments.
Recently I’ve received my new biz cards. There are 17 different back sides:
On friday I’ve tested them on a few people, people really enjoyed them. Show me your cards!
Advertising
January 16th, 2009. Published under General. 1 Comment.
These two ads just blew me off 
Enjoy!
Music in life
January 12th, 2009. Published under General. No Comments.
When I meet new people one of the most important questions that I ask is “what music do you like?” For me musical tastes of any person matters a lot. This is because for me music is very important part of life. So I decided to write this post and explain what music means for me.
I can’t leave without Music. I think this is one of the most powerful way to enforce your emotions of any kind. For me certain types and styles of music suits to different situations and moods. So roughly I can divide all the music that I listen in the following categories:
- Dancing/Club/Party – here comes all the modern electronic music like House, Drum’n'Bass, Techno etc.
- Working – I prefer acid jazz or minimal techno for the working environment
- Relaxing – ambient, acid jazz, atmospheric drum’n'bass suits here just fine
- Thoughtful – in this mood I like to listen indie of all kind
- Energy out – commercial house, pop-punk, industrial works fine for me here
So you see, how it is difficult for me to explain, what music do I like? And when I see in somebody the same problem answering my question, it’s a signal for me that the person is interesting.
What role plays music in your life? Sometimes I will post some of my most adorable track.
Games
January 6th, 2009. Published under General. No Comments.
When we were kids, we loved to play. This was the thing we did everyday and if we liked the game, we played in it for hours. Todays kids and teenagers play video games and they also very fanatic about them. They beat top scores every time, participate in championships, play endless hours via internet. There are ratings of best players and ladders.
What is good about games is that you try to do your best there. Wouldn’t that be cool if you work as hard as they play? Or as you yourself sometimes played? You just need to love your work as they love their games.
Advantages of systems approach
January 6th, 2009. Published under General. No Comments.
Hello everyone, and this is my first post in 2009. I’ve spent the New Year in beautiful capital of Estonia – Tallin. It’s the third time being there, but the city turns to us from a very different perspective everytime. There will be some photos of the trip on my Flick page soon.
The theme of this post is Systems approach. As you may know, currently I spend a lot of time in researching it: I read books, read lectures and conduct trainings based on systems approach. The biggest problem in it is its explanation. People want to know in simple words, what is it all about and how it can help them. I’ll try to explain it on my personal example. (more…)
Finally – blog update
December 25th, 2008. Published under General. 2 Comments.
So so so! Once again I write a post like this.
It’s been a long time since my last update. I was busy on many things, but the idea of my blog always stayed in the air. I thought about why I cannot update it regularly? And why some of my old posts are much more popular than the last ones. And I think I know the answer, but first, let me tell you a story.
I started my own blog in the beggining 2006 (almost three years before). I was encouraged by the literature about blogs, by Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Guy Kawasaki and other internet gurus. I thought of it – as a platform to share my ideas. And first posts were really “mine” – my thoughts, my experience. It was unique and thats why it attracted so much attention.
But reading more and more other blogs I began to copy them – copy style of posts, ideas of posts. But copying wasn’t so simple, because I cannot combine all those “not mine” ideas with my experiences and life examples. So the latests posts became boring and absolutely not usefull. Moreover I pretended to write on management, and limiting myself in such way made it even more difficult to write good content.
I hope that these are my real problems, and understanding them will help me continue blogging. Otherwise you won’t see another post for a few months here =).
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Good manners
February 22nd, 2008. Published under General. 2 Comments.
First read the post here – http://simplicityitk.blogspot.com/2008/02/are-bad-manners-now-norm-in-buisness.html
And now my answer – Trevor you are absolutely right. Now let’s think why. I got a few ideas:
1. Being rude and demonstrate bad manners leads you to acquiring bad reputation. What’s about it, you will say. Well sure – the world is big, and if you do something wrong in England, nobody will know about it in Germany. But here we comes to the point 2:
2. You never know when and where the reaction on your today’s action will be. Everything is connected (check the butterfly effect) in our world, and acting bad today can result in getting negative feedback 10 years. Moreover with Internet info of your reputation spreads quite fast today.
I’m not even saying here, that demonstrating bad manners is bad by definition.
The Hitcher (1986)
February 5th, 2008. Published under General. No Comments.
Yesterday watched The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer. Highly recommended – old school classic movie. And it’s really frightening sometimes).
Why do you like movie of 80th?
paradox
February 1st, 2008. Published under General. 1 Comment.
It’s seems like – less I wrote, more subscribers I get. Paradox?)
just stuff
November 25th, 2007. Published under General. 2 Comments.
The weekends passed – again very quickly. They were full of events, I’ll tell you about some of them.
Friday evening we passed relaxing at home. Olga prepared super salad + fried chicken. I was a barmen and prepared some very nice "gluhende Wein". That was a good evening for sure.
Saturday was full of movement – we’ve visited tour company. This NY we will pass in Tallin with our friends. We will take 3 film cameras and shoot everything on our way =). Either VS cafe or Cafe Stereo will be ours NY party place. We are very excited about this 4 day trip. In the evening we met my co-alumni.
The weather is very bad – about +1 -1 degrees (Celcium) and it’s snowy-rainy. Moscow is extremely gray these days and it’s very easy to be depressed – just take a look at the window. Also elections are very close and political pr is everywhere – I’m so tied of it.
I have an idea of post series to this blog. It’s called "Fantastic Statistics". I will collect some interesting statistics information on all themes from Russian media. So stay tuned.
Old abilities return
November 22nd, 2007. Published under General. No Comments.
Today I need to make a short audio clip for promotion of new book Funky Business Forever. I’ve downloaded some music software I haven’t used for months.
It’s been a year when I quit making music. So now it was a real experience to remember all the things I did before. I realized how cool it is to compose something – to create! The clip seems to be ok, but we are still deciding will we publish it or not.
Checked up the new episode of Heroes. There is one thing, that is much better in Heroes than in LOST. Producers give you answers, not only questions – contrary to LOST. In LOST we have a bunch of questions and this bunch is growing day by day. Only a few answers are given in the last season.
http://www.empatika.com/blog/vibor-logotipa – check out this post on our Empatika project blog. It’s in Russian – but anyway, please, visit the page. I need you help in choosing the logo for the project – just click which one (1st or 2nd) you like more.
Tags: tv series, modplug tracker, creativity, empatika, logotype
Heroes series and some life thoughts
October 19th, 2007. Published under General. 4 Comments.
I’m a big fan of Heroes TV series. I also like Lost and Jericho, but Heroes is very different.
In the center of the film are people with extraordinary abilities. It is shown how difficult for them to live in our society, how they adapt, how they find their own ways in life. This is more than just another aka-X-men. This is about how to be different. And what I think, it’s very common to some of us. There are a lot of people all around – that form the gray mass. They can be good, they can be bad – they can be just normal. But sometimes you find unique ones. I hope I’m one of those – but I can’t say for sure.
These unique ones are different in a lot of things, but primarily in their independence, in their own view, in their manner to think and to act. And, of course, in their dreams. What I matters me last days – are my dreams. Do I really do everything to fulfill them? It seems to me – a lot of work have to be done, before I can answer positively on this question.
What about you? Do you feel different? Do you want to be different?
Lost in web 2.0
October 9th, 2007. Published under General. 3 Comments.
I’m finally lost. As you see I update my blog very little these days. I really want to update it – but from the very beginning I tried to write about business issues. And one day I realized that:
- It’s hard to write only about business;
- I don’t want to write about business only.
It’s hard to change – but this is the only thing I’m left with. Otherwise I will not be able to continue force myself to write here. Maybe you have any ideas on how I can continue? What interests you in my blog? What would you want me to write about?
Also I have problems with all these social networks and web 2.0. Currently I’m registered in:
1. LinkedIn
2. Facebook
3-4. Two more Russia facebook-like sites (actually there are even 3 of these)
5. Livejournal
6. This blog
+ I write in corporate blog and Empatika blog (system thinking project of ours).
It seems like I need to make a choice, but it’s so hard to make…
Guys – please comment! I really want to know your opinion about all this stuff.
Tags: lost in web, blogs, social-networking, need help
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