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Lessons from Blogging; Lessons from Business

This morning, from Businesspundit, comes The Top 10 Changes In My Business Thinking. 

I call your attention to this item for two reasons:

  1. Blogging can turn into unsatisfying work.  Blogging may be one of the most powerful forces of the Internet Age, but it may not be for everybody and may not be for all time.  Now, as readers, we might conclude that from the sheer volume of gibberish we encounter in blogs, but we don't often hear of this conclusion being drawn by a blogger.

    What lies behind my occasional entries in this blog is the comforting idea that volume doesn't matter much, only quality.  I don't get too much confirmation of the latter, but I'm not much concerned.

  2. The second part of the item from Businesspundit is the ten changes in the author's business thinking.  I particularly call this to the attention of my students who occasionally visit here.  These reasons align well with my own experience.

    Their value is as a stimulus to one's own thinking about the ends and means to a whole life.
Posted on Friday, February 22, 2008 at 06:51AM by Registered CommenterJames Drogan | Comments3 Comments

Reader Comments (3)

Those are very good learnings, period. To have acquired them after only five years and by age 31 is great progress. As Twain put it though, "it was amazing how my father had ground in knowledge and understanding of how the world works". I wonder how many people tried to tell him all that to begin with.
Wisdom leads you to avoid bad choices but is the product of experience which is usually the result of surviving bad choices.
February 22, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterdblwyo
If the idea here is that the original author was a quick study, then, compared to me at least, he was. Certainly at the age of 31, with some eight years of business experience, I could not have been that eloquent.

Your statement "I wonder..." brings up an interesting issue regarding the credibility of the adviser. Credibility is a measure of trust established between the adviser and the advisee. To the extent that credibility has not been established from the point of view of the advisee, then it makes little difference what the adviser is trying to say.
February 22, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJames Drogan
Hmmm..think that's too easy. Your parents are always credible but they're old and don't understand. In my experience people have a very limited ability to learn from others mistakes until they acquire euff of their own to give it some emotional resonance. Hopefully they get to 1rst base not to painfully and then are smart enough to listen about the agonies waiting around the rest of the base paths. Sometimes
February 23, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterdblwyo

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