Archive for the ‘Traveling’ Category
Boroughing In
Monday, July 5th, 2010Last time was the easy part. I’d been wanting to write about New York City, and I focused on the core of the Big Apple — Manhattan Island, whose power, glamour, and jaw-dropping scale form our image of the city as a whole.
But there are four other boroughs, or administrative divisions, including one that was once every bit as powerful and prestigious as Manhattan. And except for following the New York Yankees baseball team in the Bronx or the New York Mets in Queens — or reliving the glory days of the Brooklyn Dodgers team that split for Los Angeles in 1958 — most Americans don’t give them much thought. Read more here
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Source : Ted Landphair’s America
The Ginormous Apple
Thursday, July 1st, 2010As the rocker Alice Cooper once put it, I’ve been “Big Apple dreamin’.” For me and anyone else who’s beguiled by New York City’s grandeur and charms, only a few months — a couple of years at most — can pass before the itch to visit again needs scratching.
You, too, may have put big, brash New York on your list of dream destinations. So I thought I’d tell you about the place in two blogs: Today, Manhattan, the little island that you’d think would sink from the sheer weight of its skyscrapers. Next time, the city’s four other boroughs, or administrative divisions, where 78 percent of its 8.3 million people live. Continue reading here
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Source : Ted Landphair’s America
Find a Travel Mate for Your Next Remote Adventure
Friday, June 25th, 2010Coordinating trips with friends can be a difficult endeavor, given conflicts in work schedules, budgets and destination preferences. But if you’re not too particular about who you travel with — or if you’d like to make some new friends — you might want to check out Globetrooper while planning your next trip.
Globetrooper is a social platform for aspiring travelers to design trips and find others to travel with them. You can post a trip outlining your dates and preferences for others to join, or browse the roughly 100 trips already listed on the site. Users can also leave comments on each others’ trips with suggestions for places to stay and sites to see. Trips are ranked by Difficulty, Culture Shock, Remoteness and Risk on a scale of 1-5. Find your Travel Mate here
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Source : Mashable
3 Ways to Start Your Overseas Job Transition
Monday, June 21st, 2010Leaders who go to work overseas are often surprised by how much they thought they knew about a culture, and how little they really do. Here are three ways to begin your cultural transition before you start working or seeking jobs in a different country:
1. Check your assumptions. You will hear many things about how people in the other culture get work done. Remember that all cultures are nuanced and while generalizations can be descriptive, you can’t accept them as universal rule.
2. Attend workshops. Leading up to your move, find workshops or lectures about doing business in different countries or go to a country-specific conference.
3. Immerse yourself in global coverage. Find publications, websites, and television programs that give you a cross-cultural view of what’s going on in the world and insight into how other cultures view global news.
Today’s Management Tip was adapted from “Managing Yourself: Making It Overseas” by Mansour Javidan, Mary Teagarden, and David Bowen.
Source : Harvard Business Review
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13-Year-Old Climbs Mount Everest
Friday, June 4th, 201013-year-old Jordan Romero of California became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mt. Everest. Some in the media are asking the question: how young is too young? Read transcript >>
You Can’t Look for a Job from a Remote Location – It Doesn’t Work.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010by Mark Suster
I’ve had this conversation so many times it’s painful. A friend calls me up from “you name it” city: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Let me know if you hear of anything interesting.”
I guess when I hear things like this I revert back to my shock jock instincts and say, “Don’t bother. If you’re committed to living in New York then move there. Otherwise you’re not serious and you’ll never get the right job so don’t bother.” Definitely gets shock value. At least I have their attention.
Why do I give this blunt advice?
Lots of reasons. Let’s start with the obvious. Finding the best jobs takes a lot of commitment to taking many different networking meetings with executives, recruiters, entrepreneurs, VC’s, investment bankers, etc. The best jobs (as you know) are found through personal connections. The best jobs are the ones that have not already been put on a job board. The best jobs are the ones that certainly haven’t gone out to an executive recruiter. The reason these are the “best” jobs for you is that once it goes to an executive recruiter there will be a stack of 100 prospective recruits, 20 amazingly qualified resumes that will have phone or in-person interviews with the recruiter of which the company will meet 5-6. So unless your last job is a mirror image of your next then good luck with those odds. Continue reading here
Comment : that’s a great and insightful post. This should definitively resonate with those who want to move to the States to work.
by Mark Suster
15 Great IPhone Apps for the Traveler
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010The world of travel apps is expanding exponentially, covering nearly every aspect of a trip.
Here are 15 great and useful apps (and cost per use) that you should try during your next trip.
See a few highlights below:
- Maps (free)
- Cheap Gas! (free)
- Priceline Negotiator (free)
- ATM Hunter (free)
See all 15 handy apps here
International Fellowships Program Helps Disadvantaged Students from Around the World
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Unlike others, this program deliberately chooses among qualified applicants who are members of marginalized or disenfranchised groups in their societies.
The International Fellowships Program (IFP), which recently commemorated its ten year anniversary, has reason to celebrate. The program provides postgraduate fellowships for emerging leaders from marginalized or excluded communities throughout Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Asia, and Latin America. Thus far, IPF has selected nearly 4,000 fellows in 22 countries and will have supported approximately 4,300 when selections conclude in 2010. VOA’s Carol Castiel recently spoke with the program’s executive director, Joan Dassin, about the positive impact the program has had on the fellows and their respective communities. Continue reading here
Source : VOA NEWS
Listen to Joan Dassin, program’s executive director, here
The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
7 Habits of a Happy Expat
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Margarita Gokun Silver of Global Coaching Center has released an excerpt of an online course for expats. It’s a very insightful post where she talked about the importance of keeping an open mind while abroad. We summurized the 7 habits without the details.
1. Happy expats are intensely curious.
2. Happy expats accept others as they come, they don’t judge, and they don’t try to change people to their liking.
3. Happy expats look at everything as an amazing learning experience.
4. Happy expats find opportunities wherever they are and they don’t lament those they’ve left behind.
5. Happy expats know that feeling sad at times is part of the game.
6. Happy expats share.
7. Happy expats stay clear of criticism, sulking, and stonewalling.
We highly encourage you to adopt those habits as you try to make the most of your experience in the United States.
Read the complete post with the details here
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