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If you work with other people, and especially if you mean to lead a team, and are not yet familiar with Rypple, I recommend setting aside time to get oriented and start using it a.s.a.p.!

They are curating a great online resource of archived 'Leadership Webinars', epic leadership tips from the likes of David Allen, Tony Hsieh, Dan Pink and more. Here's the link. Now go, enjoy a more successful and rewarding future.

Napoleon Hill — esteemed author of Think and Grow Rich!, one of the best-selling books of all time — is pretty much the granddaddy of modern personal success and achievement literature. In this video, Hill speaks about his fateful meeting with Dale Carnegie, and recounts the story of the sealed envelopes each of us is given at birth: one labeled "Riches", the other "Penalties"...

I just today discovered the Web Standards Sherpa project...

Really enjoyed reading this juicy devops+kanban post from globe-trotting management consultant, David J. Anderson (@agilemanager)... here's a [juicy] excerpt!

"The DevOps movement appears to be striving towards the patterns in Systems Thinking expressed by W. Edwards Deming. It’s about understanding the system as a whole instead of only looking at the bits and pieces. It’s about work flowing across functions instead of stagnating in silos. It’s about respect and trust amongst individuals doing the work instead of management-driven command and control."

Didn't I say it was juicy?... it's organizational leadership p*rn for technology organizations!

Some time back, Mel shared with me the DailyOm. My first reaction was "oy, not another daily newsletter", but I've since learned to love reading the messages. They've become a valuable mental tool in helping me to preserve a healthy perspective on all the craziness of life.

Here's an excerpt from recent Om that encourages us to take pause and carefully reflect on what is draining our energies whenever we are feeling run down, and [then] Recharging Your Batteries:

"In time, you might notice that the reasons you feel run down have less to do with how much you are doing and more to do with the fact that in your heart, you would rather be doing something else entirely. From now on, try and listen to what your heart really wants."

I liked it so much I edited down to a tweet =D.

Om.