090422 Broken and Done Links

Thought For The Day: “It’s easy for us to project our biases. Effectiveness depends on navigating someone else’s projections.”

• MarketingCharts: 
  Fantastic demographics resource…charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format,. Ready to soup up your presentation.
• Bernard Hodes Group – 08 HR Department Structure and Staffing Trends
  This great little report will help you benchmark Recruiting staff size, budget and tactics. It’s a great way to define your perdormance baseline.
• Modern Life Is Broken
  It’s broken if I say it is.
• Cult of DoneManifesto
  Now, more than ever. Doing produces wisdom. Discussing produces more discussing. 
  1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
  2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
  3. There is no editing stage.
  4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
  5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
  6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
  7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
  8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
  9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
  10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
  11. Destruction is a variant of done.
  12. If you have an idea and publish it on the Internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
  13. Done is the engine of more.

• I’m on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Friendfeed. Catch up with me.
• I’m doing a Free Webinar:Regional HR Marketing and PR – Tailoring Sales to Market Realities
  - Thursday, May 7, 2009,
  - 10-11 am PT (1-2 pm ET)
• I’m leading an Intensive workshop called Recruiting Strategy in a Down Economy: Identifying What’s to Come in the Upturn at the Kennedy Recruiting Conference in Las Vegas on May 19.