Launch: Grasshopper

Welcome to Grasshopper!

Happy 2006! Grasshopper is a place to grow your capabilities. We’ll learn about new ideas, tips, techniques, and skills for developing you or your team or your small business. We’ll share with each other links to useful information, publications, and websites that will be useful. We’ll collaborate on finding ways to be more productive, more valuable to our organizations, in better control of our time, our resources, and our efforts. We’ll find new ways to think about what we are doing with our lives.

Collaborate

The strength behind Grasshopper is you. Read. Comment. Author. Share. Teach. Present. These are the types of activities I want to foster. I want you to share your best ideas. I want to hear your thoughts on things that are posted. And I want you to call out for whatever you need. Here are the three key points of Grasshopper in 2006:

1. Ask
2. Share
3. Grow Yourself

Ask– I have already met with great success using this simple formula. Ask for things that you want or need, and ask if you can be helpful.

Share– Share what you know, and what you want to know. By sharing, our efforts magnify more than what we can accomplish separately. Think of this as the “compound interest” of knowledge work.

Grow Yourself– You have to do this work yourself. When it comes to personal development and self improvement, companies aren’t spending as much time, money, and effort to train you on the skills you need to succeed. Further, lots of them don’t even KNOW themselves what you REALLY need to succeed (maybe even survive) in this new age.

Coming Up

Look for these types of activities through Grasshopper in the first few months of 2006:

• Great posts full of ideas, skills, and practical knowledge that will help you grow yourself.
• More authors, include some regular authors and some guests.
• Cross-blog presentations: where a post will link to another author’s blog and resources, and then another, to tell a larger story.
• Face-to-face presentations and workshops. (Grasshopper can come to you!)
• Podcasts- audio programs you can take with you.
• More resources- All kinds of ways to grow your own capabilities.

This will be Grasshopper, and it’s yours. Come join in and let’s get to work.

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