#UOSM2008 – Topic 3: Comment for http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/01/the-future-of-you/ article
For http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/01/the-future-of-you/ article
This comment took me one hour to write. They have marked it as SPAM. I wanted to post here because I highlighted some points for it. At least here nobody can hide it.
Thank you Mister Tomas, for your post. I found it to be a challenging article. It made me to stay focus in order to understand it. However, I disagree regarding some of the aspects which were discussed in the topic.
First of all, you have said that in order to gain reputation or space in the real life is important to us to promote our self. Well, a very quick look-back in the history could give us an interesting example, which combats this theory. Back in the Roman Empire, the emperor opted to promote its-self by using the personality-culture, This was supposed to give him a rank of hero, or even god, hence providing mental access to power in from of eyes of normal humans. There is no doubt this method was not successful; however it did not provide a result on the long-term side. Its problem is that the emperor is not using its own characteristics. He is trying to brand himself using no actual positive outcomes of this work. Because him results were null. On the other hand, a great example is Napoleon. No personality-culture, but an impressive history character, thanks to his administrative work on education and administration, still remains in our minds. In this way, it is important what we share, what we brand and it is important not to lose time branding a ‘nothing’, because the result is a ‘nothing’ (eg. the popularity of Lady Gaga now compared 2 years ago).
Second of all, I found a very nice observation about the work of an individual in a company. Nevertheless, the new ideas from workers can contribute to a firm, but I felt here is an error. I consider that the most suitable word is ‘good’, rather than ‘new’. This results in ‘ your career success depends on your ability to offer something good’. It seems normal in many cases, that something refreshing – a novel view, brings benefits, but not always. Not all the new products can have a better influence. Anyway, this changes should follow our human nature. They must inherit our normal behaviour in order to be practice and applicable. Moreover, Entrepreneurship represents
an important concept for the modern life. Facebook, Google and others are just a few examples of companies which were based on new ideas. But, the Entrepreneurship for an individual is a bad mentality. How many individual from the above companies have promoted them self? None !. For instance, it is important to promote Google Drive Car,as a good result of engineers from Google and thus, as a best product, compared to promote the individual person. I personally believe this is an important factor which makes Google to be Google and not just people who are working for it.
an important concept for the modern life. Facebook, Google and others are just a few examples of companies which were based on new ideas. But, the Entrepreneurship for an individual is a bad mentality. How many individual from the above companies have promoted them self? None !. For instance, it is important to promote Google Drive Car,as a good result of engineers from Google and thus, as a best product, compared to promote the individual person. I personally believe this is an important factor which makes Google to be Google and not just people who are working for it.
My last words go for the hyper connectivity part. I agree with you,
because this is the base of a product that you (the reader) are using now: the internet. To be more specific, there is the HTML which enables us to jump from one page to other. To go even deeper in the subject, the Google’s algorithm for searching is relying on this connectivity. Its primary focus is to find the page which has the biggest number of connections to pages which are important. It is simple and it follows our human intuition.
because this is the base of a product that you (the reader) are using now: the internet. To be more specific, there is the HTML which enables us to jump from one page to other. To go even deeper in the subject, the Google’s algorithm for searching is relying on this connectivity. Its primary focus is to find the page which has the biggest number of connections to pages which are important. It is simple and it follows our human intuition.