7 Myths and Misconceptions About Myers-Briggs
These seven tend to come up during Myers-Briggs workshops and can cause a lot of confusion. So without further ado…
How To Migrate Your Blog From Wordpress.com To Wordpress.org
Like thousands of others, I started my blog on Wordpress.com. The benefits of doing so are too many to list here. But there are a few liabilities - such as when you want to ‘monetize’ your blog or use it for purely business related purposes. Or when you’ve decided that the Wordpress.com widgets don’t give you enough functionality, and you want to be able to use the full range of plug-ins. When that time comes, you have to migrate to a server hosting Wordpress.org software. When I migrated a few months ago I found a huge set of headaches waiting for me. I had to do a bunch of things the hard way, because, frankly, I didn’t anticipate 1) the need to ever make the transition and 2) that when I did it might prove detrimental to my blog. So I’m going to show you exactly how to do it correctly, from the time you start a blog on Wordpress.org to the time you decide to migrate to your own hosted server. (Aside - that title is misleading because you’re actually migrating your blog to a SERVER running software downloaded from Wordpress.org - but I had to keep it short and searchable.) Now then:
How To Transform A Culture With Innovation
Have you ever witnessed an innovation that transforms everything in a culture?
It doesn’t happen often. Most of the time innovation improves rather than transforms. Well over 90 percent of the time, in fact.
There’s a good reason for that. Change is hard. In Myers-Briggs terms, most people in our culture (75 percent) prefer ’sensing,’ and one of the aspects of sensing is resistance to change. Incremental change, if useful, might be OK. Transformational change is painful.
Sphere: Related ContentHigh-Priced Gas Is GOOD For America!
How could this possibly be? We rely on gas for just about everything in this country - how could high priced gas actually be GOOD for us?
Because without high-priced gas, we’d have no incentive to innovate.
In my article on ‘Who Killed The Electric Car?’ last year, I emphasized the fact that no one wanted an expensive, inconvenient-to-operate electric car while gas was cheap. The economics would never work out, even if electricity was marginally cheaper than gas, because batteries were way too expensive. But it’s safe to say that many foretold the coming of high-priced gas back then. Peak Oil is a concept dating back to the 50s, and those who adhere to its principles saw a drop in petroleum production on the horizon.
So why didn’t we do anything about it? Same reason we don’t do anything about Social Security, widely predicted to collapse in a couple of decades - it’s not a current crisis. We respond to current crises pretty well in this country - we plan for future crises poorly (just ask those living in New Orleans).
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