Manager’s Bible

This post is for all managers, not. A rather large book landed on the desk with the ominous title of "Every Manager's Desk Reference". The pages did not have that well used look, and I can only imagine that it left out one of the most important skills of a manager, and that is people skills. Yes people skills, not that I have it, just let’s say that I am a work in progress.

This Manager’s Bible lists its chapters as Stress Management; Time Management; Getting Organized; Motivating People; Leadership; and many more, too many to list them all. Okay it is just a reference book BUT does this book get it right?

Light Reading

Come on Tuesday I feel better.

Somehow I have managed to get my Online Reputation Marketing Strategy completed but now I have to put it into the Reputation Management presentation with all the bells and whistles. Pop goes the weasel.

Now to get some light reading done in between the stories of mascarpone cake, tipping cows, and waking up and smelling the coffee. What to read first, uhmmm HTML 5, CSS3, Analytics, I know already so it’s the Business Model Generation book.

I’ve got Friday on my mind.

Conclusion

Cheer up - it might never happen. Oh is that the conclusion at the end of a hard year? With a lot of water under the bridge, I wonder what the New Year will bring.

I am already on leave and Matthew is with me, so after running a few reports, we went off to watch the new Hobbit movie and Matthew was pointing out all the differences between the movie and book. In some places the scenes were too quick and blurry. I could not even focus on what was happening and in those scenes the people walked way to fast to be natural. Something was wrong; the movie simply lost its awesomeness with these blurry bits.

Transhumanism Doomsday

Well not quite yet. Matthew found this book way back in February when we browsing at Scoobs, a bookstore in Montecasino while waiting to go see the Mousetrap. The Doomsday Handbook fascinated Matthew opening up his world to 50 possible ways the world could end. Interesting this is my 1950th post on this blog which means only 50 more posts till I reach 2000.

I am getting side tracked as usual, back to the Doomsday book. Remembering that I promised Matthew that I would buy the book for him another time, so while in Exclus1ve Books buying another book, I sought out the Doomsday book for Matthew. Another thing that I remembered from that evening in Scoobs was that Matthew and I learnt a new word, and that word is Transhumanism or just H+.

Now either you scrambling to put the word Transhumanism into search parameters or you are waiting for me to tell you. Well read on, my friend...

Transhumanism, trans-human or simply abbreviated as H+ is the term for the use of emerging technologies to transcend from our current human form to the hypothetical posthuman. Is this the Doomsday for humans? To me basically it boils down to two arguments in Transhumanism, you can choose which side you are on. One side we have the Fountain of Youth and on the other, Playing God.

I hope this is a good book for Matthew, who needs to understand the dangers his forefathers, including me, has left in the world for him. As someone once said it is not the world that is in danger but we humans that live on it. "Humans have spent thousands of years building tools to make our lives better, happier and more productive. At some point, our innovation will take us beyond the natural and lead to people with capabilities so advanced that we might not define them as human." Transhumanism! Are we ready?