در سریال محبوب بازی تاج و تخت (Game of Thrones) در قسمتی که سامول تارلی به همراه گیلی و فرزندش کتابخانه سیتادل را در اولدتاون ترک می‌کند جمله‌ای را با خودش زمزمه می‌کند: خسته شدم از بس موفقیت دیگران را در کتاب‌ها خواندم.

جمله‌ی سامول بسیار تکان‌دهنده و انگیزه‌بخش است به ویژه برای کسانی که می‌خواهند برگی به تاریخ بیفزایند که در مورد خودشان باشد.

داستان “رعنا استوری” از آن داستان‌هایی است که به تنهایی پتانسیل یک کتاب پرفروش، یک فیلم پرمخاطب و یک برنامه‌ی انگیزشی را دارد. وقتی به یاد رعنا استوری و خاستگاه آن می‌افتم بی‌اختیار میخ‌کوب می‌شوم و می‌مانم که چگونه انگیزه و تلاش یک عده بی‌ادعا می‌تواند خلاقیت‌های بزرگی را رقم بزند. من متحیرم از این همه شگفتی!

در این باره بیشتر خواهم نوشت، ولی اجازه بدهید در همین ابتدای این نوشتار چند قسمتی، تشکری نمایم از انسان‌های بی‌ادعایی که توانسته‌اند قصه‌ی خودشان را در تاریخ بنویسند:
رعنا جعفری، علیرضا اسماعیلی، حسین جلیلی، رایان جعفری، جمال هاشمی، سینا نصیری امیربنده، مژگان چیت‌ساز، محسن ترسلی، یاسر کازرونی، ندا توحیدفر، سیدعلی هاشمی، امید علیزاده، یونا جاسبی، بهار اسماعیلی، مهراد کازرونی، سمانه ملکی، کوثر کلاهی، علی صبح‌خیز.

گزیده:
تمام رویاهای ما می‌توانند محقق شوند اگر ما شجاعت دنبال کردن آنها را داشته باشیم. والت دیزنی

هنوز در شوک این سخنرانی خانم آنگلا مرکل در دانشگاه هاروارد هستم که چهار روز پیش در 30 می 2019 انجام شده است. لازم است چند بار دیگر آن را گوش کنم.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s address at the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association at the 368th Harvard Commencement on May 30, 2019. (YouTube)

* The Berlin Wall limited my opportunities. It quite literally stood in my way. However, there was one thing which this wall couldn’t do through all those years: It couldn’t impose limits on my inner thoughts, my personality, my imagination, my dreams and desires.

* anything that seems set in stone or inalterable can indeed change.

* And perhaps most importantly, it calls for us to be honest with ourselves. What better place to begin to do so than here, in this place where so many young people from all over the world come to learn, research, and discuss the issues of our time under the maxim of truth? That requires us not to describe lies as truth and truth as lies.

* tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness, for nothing has to stay as it is.

Seminar: Introducing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for Lean Enterprises

ABSTRACT

Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) empowers complex organisations to achieve the benefits of Lean-Agile software and systems development at scale.

SAFe is the world’s leading framework for scaling Agile across the enterprise. Used by hundreds of the world’s largest organisations (e.g. Intel, fitbit, Philips and TomTom), SAFe sustains and drives faster time-to-market, dramatic increases in productivity and quality, and improvement in employee engagement.

Many enterprises —large and small— are getting outstanding business benefits from applying SAFe. These typically include:

* 20 – 50% increase in productivity
* 25 – 75% improvements in quality
* 30 – 75% faster time-to-market
* 10 – 50% increase in employee engagement and job satisfaction

ABOUT OROD SEMSARZADEH

Orod is a SAFe Program consultant, Certified Scrum Master and DevOps specialist. After working in waterfall environments, he is introduced to Agile framework in 2010. Since then he trained people and helped organisations around the wolrds, including Australia, India, Sri Lanka and Philippine, to transform themselves into agile organisations, with applying innovative solutions, relentless improvement and respecting for people and culture.
Orod has strong experience in continues delivery and release on demand, including eXtreme programming principles and practices. Orod is also passionate to deliver the best value and quality for people and society in shortest sustainable lead time.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orod-semsarzadeh-85466529/

Registration: https://evnd.co/eQjZY

سخنرانی فرانک ابگ‌نیل(Frank Abagnale) در گوگل پر است از نکات آموزنده. پیشنهاد می‌کنم دست‌کم نیم‌ساعت ابتدایی این سخنرانی را ببینید. فیلم Catch Me if You Can از روی داستان زندگی فرانک ابگ‌نیل ساخته شده است.

آدرس سخنرانی: Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” | Talks at Google

I was very fortunate because I was raised in a great country where everyone gets a second chance. I owe my country 800 times more than I can ever repay it over these past four decades. That is why I am at the FBI today 32 years after the federal court order expired requiring me to do so. I have turned down three pardons from three sitting presidents of the United States because I do not believe, nor will I ever believe, that a piece of paper will excuse my actions, that only in the end, my actions will.
40 plus years ago, on an undercover assignment in Houston, Texas, I met my wife. When the assignment was over, I broke protocol to tell her who I really was. I didn’t have a dime to my name. But I eventually asked her to marry me. Against the wishes of her parents, she did.
Now, I could sit up here and tell you that I was born again, I saw the light, prison rehabilitated me. But the truth is God gave me a wife. She gave me three beautiful children. She gave me a family. And she changed my life, she and she alone. Everything I have, everything I’ve achieved, who I am today is because of the love of a woman. And the respect three boys have for their father is something I would never ever jeopardize.
There comes a time in all of our lifetime, we grow older. And eventually, if we’re fortunate enough, we have children. And as every parent knows, whether your child’s three months old or 38 years old, when you lay ahead a pillow at night, you’re just about to close your eyes, the last thing you think about, the last thing you worry about are your children. So if you still have your mother, you still have your father, you give them a hug. You give them a kiss. You tell them you love them while you can.
And to those men in the audience, both young and old, I would remind you what it truly is to actually be a man. It has absolutely nothing to do with money, achievements, skills, accomplishments, degrees, professions, positions. A real man loves his wife. A real man is faithful to his wife. And real men, next to God and his country, put his wife and his children as the most important thing in his life.
Steven Spielberg made a wonderful film. But I’ve done nothing greater, nothing more rewarding, nothing more worthwhile, nothing that’s actually brought me more peace, more joy, more happiness, more content in my life than simply being a good husband, a good father, and what I strive to be every day of my life–a great daddy.

Tony:
Just relax and enjoy it.
You know, my father used to say…
“Whatever you do,
do it a hundred percent.”
When you work, work.
When you laugh, laugh.
When you eat,
eat like it’s your last meal.

یکی از بهترین فیلم‌هایی که چند وقت اخیر دیده‌ام، “کتاب سبز” (Green Book) است. پیشنهاد می‌کنم این فیلم را ببینید.
متن زیر بخشی از گفتگوی دکتر دان شرلی و تونی لیپ است، هنگامی که کنسرت دکتر شرلی به پایان رسیده و تونی کنسرت را رها کرده است و بیرون از تالار با جماعتی تاس بازی می‌کند. شاید مخاطب دکتر شرلی، نه‌تنها تونی لیپ، بلکه خودم و خیلی از خوانندگان عزیزم باشند.

دکتر شرلی: دنبالت می‌گشتم
تونی: آره، شرمنده. با این بچه‌ها یه بازی کوچولو کردیم
دکتر شرلی: دفعه‌ی بعد که پول اضافه خواستی، فقط به خودم بگو
تونی: بردنش باحال‌تره
دکتر شرلی: اگه ببازی چی؟
تونی: چند تا کارت بردار، من نمی‌بازم دکی، من نمی‌بازم
دکتر شرلی: پس خم شدن روی زمین و انداختن تاس برای دو زار پول، از تو یه برنده می‌سازه؟
تونی: چرا داری چرندیات تحویل من می‌دی؟ همه داشتن این کار رو می‌کردن.
دکتر شرلی: اونا حق انتخاب نداشتن که بیرون باشن یا برن داخل، ولی تو داشتی