Extreme leaders take breaks. Living on the edge means practicing what you preach, and a big part of this means letting go of work sometimes. This blog entry will be about blogging for a change.
The best leaders in the world blogs because of publicity, interest and self marketing. What do you blog for?
I recently voted for someone I have never met before for the Malaysian top 50 blogs. He is a running virtual acquaintance - Runwitme - running with passion. His style and approach in blogging is such a pleasant read, plus I also identify with running and photography as a passion, so it was good to see someone who can run so many races, takes photos (nice ones too!) and tell a story, all in one. It beats reading the boring yarn on technology or some other guy in the company talking about the next new technology innovation in the horizon.
Which brings me to why we blog - the human race is about interactions. Through the internet, we have propagated our message of interaction, and the best thing about blogging is that it is self-expression, no one cares about what you write, and yet you care. And it is a great means of sharing too.
I read blogs as a means of taking a break. After weekend races, I sit down to write a "race report" and then I look around for photos of the race of others. Occasionally during work days, I read some of my colleagues' or my old school friend's blogs. I also surf for blogs on my interest areas - photography, running, and gossip in general.
The human need for interaction is as simple and primal as a need to communicate and be part of society, and technology has enabled this through the virtual world of blogging.
I just joined facebook recently. I would not have seen anyone else at my organisation do this at my level. And yet, I could identify with a lot of my school friends who has done this. It is quite interesting to be linked to each other, and I have just begun exploring this degree of separation thing.
Leaders of organisations, set up your own blog site now. Set up a few. It is extremely fun!
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