Every now and then, certain things in life do not go the way we would like.
It is these moments that are the most important. As someone pointed out you can get up and see doom and gloom or the possibility to do it better.
Blind believers believe that being optimistic will solve everything, I am not sure about everything, but I do think to create things that you have to think upwards and creatively.
As a bonus there is not much to lose by trying it.
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I am aware that it has been around for awhile, but like new developments it can take some time for it to catch on. I have just been spending time on Zopa. What struck me first as slightly hippy-ish, appears to have real community support and backing. In what is now approaching its second full year online. Zopa is a bank that is regulated by the Financial Services. It is a bank with a very different structure offering unique services in the market. Members of Zopa can borrow money from other members. You create an online profile which is checked with your real world credit history. Each person that lends or borrows money can choose from a number of options such as insurance in case the person falls sick, or loses his job.
As with most internet companies they run a blog, slightly unsual for a bank but this is no normal bank. On the blog they post job adverts and other related company and office information. The forums seem to be very well attended with people asking a whole range of questions related to the website and product. As one magazine report describe it.
“A new web-based phenomenon could end up giving the big banks a bloody nose as people look for better ways to borrow. The trend is known as social lending and nearly three-quarters of borrowers who responded to a survey by the Social Futures Observatory said they would consider borrowing or lending this way rather than with their high street bank.”
I confess I think this is quite innovative http://uk.zopa.com
I received details of an interesting article on how businesses are applying web 2.0 communication technology via Google News alerts the other day – Taking residence in virtual worlds (Mahesh Sharma, Australian IT). It involves two case studies – Westpac (a bank) and Deloitte Australia – and whether Second Life could be used for business needs. The experiment proved to be positive and it is expected that an extended experiment will go ahead soon.
Some of benefits that Second Life can help deliver for businesses include:
– People felt more comfortable asking questions in that environment than a normal classroom or lecture environment
– It helps overcome the difficulty of communicating to 30,000 people, and the difficulty of getting people together from different locations and time zones to disseminate information
– It as a way of getting information out without the flying, driving and time-consuming travel to a central location
Deloitte Australia has also been experimented with Facebook as a business tool.
Benefits of using Facebook internally are said to include:
– It increases engagement with the 13,000 Deloitte employees that are members of Facebook globally
– To understand what other employees are at, and create a much higher level of engagement
– It allows an understanding of how other employees are thinking
Westpac has also experimented with an internal version of Facebook.
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Is there any greater thrill in life then being challenged? Some might say that is the meaning of life. There was an experiment conducted on rats, in which scientists gave rats paradise. (Not exactly sure what rat paradise would be like.) In any case the rats were made extremely comfortable. By the third generation they had stopped reproducing and hence died out. I think there is a interesting meaning in that story. Whether we like it or not, most of us get challenged. As pointed out to me by a family member it is dealing with that challenge with integrity that makes it interesting and of course rewarding.
When starting a business one of the most forgotten facts is persistence. Of course when you start, you think that you will be making money and have a host of customers more quickly then you can say Jumping Jack Flash. The reality is that before people are willing to invest their hard earned cash they want to be sure that you are going to be around in 6 months time and beyond. There is no easy road around this. Other than persistence and continually demonstrating that you have the goods.
There is a very interesting article this month in IOD magazine about the BBC’s Apprentice, where Gary Cooper wonders what people outside Britain may think of way we do business. Of course it is a TV show and its primary aim is to entertain. He goes on to point out that the influence of such programs may mean we are breeding ‘obsessional self interested, a lack of loyalty and value systems that are anathema to the corporate social responsibility ethic’
Another aspect that Gary points us to is that such behaviour demonstrated on the TV is counterproductive to UK PLC. Which needs to be innovative, unconventional and original thinking on products, services and ways of doing things, rather than conformity. I do recommend the read unfortunately it is not online.