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4 Athletic ‘Secrets-of-mastery’ Brought to Workplace
It is a perfect world.. Isn’t it? God has created everything in a symphonic interdependent harmony. Every atom and cell is put in the exact place it should be in.. and moving in the best direction that serves the bigger picture. Due to the bonds created in that miraculous harmony, we’re surrounded with abundance of knowledge and wisdom where we can inhale from, reflect on, examine in several contexts then reuse in different situations..
Having said that.. Let’s live that joyful experience by borrowing 4 big secrets from athletic world and explore how they perfectly fit into workplace.
1- Boxing coaches advise: winning doesn’t only depend on how strong you hit, but mainly on how flexible, ready and fast you are to avoid hits
If you examine that law in business life you’ll will find endless examples of people around who were able to win and continue winning (during their most vulnerable time) because of their flexibility, adaptation and speed of change! That, surprisingly, happen at the same time and place that witnesses the big failures of the strongest and toughest players.. History books prove how flexibility and adaptability dominate.
2- Chess masters suggest: your IQ might be your wildest enemy if it is attached to a fixed mindset
As it sounds, the fixed mindset is the belief that your abilities are mature and rigid.. This belief is harmful even when you believe you’re the smartest, prettiest, strongest … Etc). A fixed mindset might eat your success for breakfast. The growth mindset, on the other hand, is about believing your skills and abilities can grow and change from any starting point. A consequent conviction for growth is that your talents, gifts and IQ level won’t take you too far.. We critically need our growth, practice, discipline and efforts.
Like in chess, In business life, the growth mindset holder is equipped to win at the end, even when he/she starts from a quite normal launching position.
3- Martial arts masters teach their students to hit THROUGH the target not AT it
Try this game in business, set big and crazy targets.. Encourage and inspire people and teams to achieve them and create a safe space that empowers them to try, fail and retry.. Allow your teams to make the effort without being threatened.. Now stay alert and watch the show, even if you didn’t achieve the extreme target you set, you’d be at least achieving a score that you wouldn’t even dream of in a normal objective-setting process! As a result you would hit through mediocre targets and pass onwards to olympic scores!
4- Football coaches bet all what they’ve got on the three greatest players; Team-Spirit, Team-Plan, And Team-Work. They know well that even a supernatural skill-set of an individual player might entirely evaporate, or even weakens the team, if not employed perfectly to serve those three greatest players..
I don’t think we need further explanation to that one check its suitability for workplace.. In my experience, it fits like a glove
Are you ready for the lessons to-go?
– Stay fit, flexible and ready for change and reshape.. Don’t allow your strength and toughness to play against you!
– Keep practicing, working and learning and above all STAY HUMBLE
– Dreaming big isn’t enough.. If you want to add big value to life go dream bigger than everyone you know!
– A whisper to those men and women in leadership positions and who look for non-toxic long-term success: “your master strategy should put the team spirit, purpose and behavior above all individual benefits.. Remember: A leadership position won’t make you a LEADER unless you earn it from your followers.
After the success of the previously shared overall analysis of Sherine’s new album “Ana Keter” and her social media presence, we decided to fulfill your requests with more details and additional insights.
The report is from Jan 15 through Jan 31, 2014; however, starting Feb, we noticed that Sherine’s team has enhanced and developed how they engage with fans on Facebook.
Still, there’s more to do; please review the slides below to know what exactly they are missing with recommendations.
Check out the report:
Key take-outs in 15 days after the launch:
- Album gained 11 million views in 2 weeks on YouTube
- YouTube Channel subscribers boosted by 90K subscribers in 15 days out of 127K total subscribers overtime
- Buzz reached 15K tweets/RTs since the launch on Twitter
- How do people talk about the album/Sherine on Twitter?
- People are sharing songs from YouTube & SoundCloud
- +90% positive sentiment on Twitter
- Sherine’s Twitter account is excellent at spreading the news about the album’s success.
- People are tweeting the song’s lyrics.
- Sarcastic tweets about Sherine & few songs (regular) - Almost zero negativity about the album
- Album teasers on Facebook created credibility for Sherine’s page, reflected in the page results after the album’s launch in the next 15 days with 92K Interactions & 312K New Likes.
- The album received tremendous engagement on the launching date of Jan 15. However, no posts for four days after the launch negatively affected the interactions.
Recommendations:
Sherine Abdel Wahab’s Facebook page would have received double or maybe triple new likes and interactions if the improved posts’ quality; please find below the points taken:
- Long updates with no extra value-added will lead to losing your fans’ interest
- The text-only format isn’t preferred, as it is well-known that they generate less reach than other content (Facebook announcement)
- A call to action is essential to generate leads & increase engagement
- Each post has to have its visual, audio, or video so you can attract/engage your audiences
- Understand the situation and act upon it, always be relevant to the time and avoid posting irrelevant content at the wrong time.
- Revise the tone of voice in future activities.
To recap - Overall performance is average to good - Enhance your content formatting - Improve the tone of voice on all networks - Be creative to engage your fans better - Be Consistent - Start your SoundCloud account.
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Putin, Obama war on social media starts with unfriend on Facebook
New stage of the cold war, is it?
The Social media war between Putin and Obama started with UnFriend, this is the action taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Facebook diplomacy with American president Barack Obama.
The unfriending comes after an official White House update about the possibility of a US-Syrian war. President Putin revealed that Obama’s updates about the Congressional debate on a possible war with Syria have annoyed him.
After unfriending, President Putin update status on profile “Something I should have done a long time ago”
Also, He said to Russia’s Pravda News Service “President Assad and I, we are the Facebook friends. We like the same pages, we share pictures of cute women and all that. Obama needs to lighten up on there, it’s not for serious stuff,”
President Obama’s latest posts about the possibility of the war in Syria have been reported by someone and he received a warning from Facebook that he will be prevented from posting on his profile for 24 hours.
He has also commented “Really, Putin needs to grow up. If he didn’t like that [post], he could have just hid it from his news feed instead of creating all this Facebook drama,”
JOE BIDEN “Vice President of the United States” announced to reports that President Obama has signed into his Twitter account to unfollow Putin.
The turmoil generated between Putin and Obama over their dispute on the Syrian crisis. Expanded to reach the social networks
Putin and Obama on social Networks
The question now is, are we witnessing a new stage of the cold war between the two countries, will they continue the war online instead of the military tactics and old spy war?
It’s obvious that social media is really changing the game in everything, and now it’s taking over on a very high level.
Keep an eye on Digital Boom and we will keep you posted with more news and updates on the cold war and even more…
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Amr Diab Gets Hacked on Twitter
Amr Diab’s Facebook page has announced that his twitter account has been hijacked by anonymous and now tweeting political.
Update: Amr Diab’s Facebook Page announced that “Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been restored successfully and you can follow Amr’s tweets normally now”
Amr Diab got hacked on Twitter
On Thursday 9th of Jan, Amr Diab’s Facebook page announced that Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been hacked by anonymous and now tweeting politics!
Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (born 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of pop music. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle East Artist, three times: 1998 for the album “Nour El Ain”, 2002 for the album “Aktrr Wahid Byhbak 2001” and 2007 for the album “El Lillady”. Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.
He is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music He has created his own style which is often termed “Mediterranean Music” or “Mediterranean Sound”, a blend of Western and Egyptian rhythms.
In The Mediterranean in Music, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as “the new breed of Mediterranean music”.According to author Michael Frishkopf, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, “Nour El Ain”.
In his analysis of The Very Best of Amr Diab album, Victor W. Valdivia of All music said: “His music melded traditional Arabic sounds and textures with Western rhythms and instruments. The mesh was dubbed Mediterranean music, and The Very Best of Amr Diab displays Diab’s superb skill in creating it.”
In 1997, he won three awards at the Annual Arabic Festival: one for Best Video, for Best Song, and for Best Artist of the Year. Diab received a Triple Platinum Award for the sales of Nour El Ain and a World Music Award in Monaco.
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