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ock Journalism is People Who Can’t Write Interviewing People Who Can’t Talk for People Who Can’t Read

The musician Frank Zappa said the most shockingly funny quotation:

 “Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”

He believes that the perfect place to say this would have been during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. But I do not know if he really says it anywhere because rock journalism people are now able to write interviewing people, can talk for people and read as well.

Frank Zappa made this remark in 1977 during an interview with a staff writer for the Toronto Star newspaper known as Bruce Kirkland. The dateline of the story was Mount Pleasant, Michigan where Zappa was playing in a concert.

In 1932, the legendary comedian Will Rogers published a funny article that was talking about authors who wrote for the movies. He made a comment that was thematically linked to Zappa’s later observation [WRSR]: The successful author is the one who can write for the ones who can’t read.

In 1958, The Cavalier Daily, a student newspaper reprinted a humorous article from The Arkansas Traveler, other student newspaper. This article incorporated a joke about two prominent periodicals from the famed publisher Henry Luce [CDTL]:

In the Luce stable besides Time, the magazine was designed for a person who can’t think is Life, who can’t read. I think the problem might be that in the past people were not educated that’s why they were unable to write, read and talk.

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 Skill set called leadership

People are born to become leaders; I think Nelson Mandela was born to be a natural leader. There are very few people in the world who could have done what he did. I mean 27 years in prison, and coming out and repairing a troubled nation and forgiving his enemies. He's off the charts when it comes to leadership. I think you probably have to be born Mandela. On the other hand, I think all of us can find our inner Mandela. That is reach more deeply into ourselves to pull out the best parts of ourselves that help us lead. And whether we're encouraged to do that or not has a great deal to do with the culture that surrounds us and the support we get from our colleagues. So yes. With encouragement, a positive culture, and support from colleagues, more people can become leaders.

You should know one thing that you can teach someone leadership skills but you can’t someone to become a leader. Leaders are not necessary educated people, they are people born with a skill to change others to think the way they think. I think some people who are extraordinary are born leaders and they probably showed it from an early age at one end of the continuum. On the other hand, there may be people who could never be a leader no matter what they did. But I think everybody has in them the potential to lead.

Leaders are not just emotionally powerful just because people want to follow them. They're also often intellectually powerful. That is, they have an important idea that thinks beyond the current situation.

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omen in the Workplace: Issues and Challenges

As a student studying BTech in Public Relations Management in Faculty of Informatics and Design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, I decided to write a blog on a number of challenges that women face in the workplace as a result of their gendered status and what can do to improve their chances of getting ahead in the industry.  This blog will help women who need tips and tools in the workplace.  

In the past couple of years, by a number of women trailblazers who have attained high-profile leadership positions in the business world and in politics. There are several new women CEOs in Fortune 500 companies, a woman Speaker of the House, a female major network news anchor, and several women in South Africa who make names for themselves in their industries and they have overtaken well known male roles e.g Prof Nirvana Bechan, Oprah (richest women in the world) same level as Bill gates, Pumzile Mlambo Ngcuka   (Former deputy president)  and Businesswomen Elbeth Gills. if you can look out there, there is still a shortage of women in top leadership positions.  

Although women are attending university and graduate schools in record numbers, and hold about half of the general “management and professional positions” in organizations, but they still include only about 15% of the officer level positions in the largest global companies, are simple 7% of the top wage earners, they hold only about 2.5% of the CEO positions and, on average, that makes only 73% of what men do.

Historically, men have dominated the workplace and established the rules of the organizational culture. As more and more women enter this domain, they encounter ingrained male dominated environments that, to them, are unwelcoming and inflexible.  And no wonder!  woman’s working styles and talents are very different from men’s and the “rules” men have created don’t fit women. 

What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?

My actions/behaviour aren't too influenced by judgement, what people think of me has never been a huge issue really, in saying that though I know I would be different without judgement. One example is what I wear, even though I wear what I wear because I thought it looks good or I like it, I am restricted to wearing clothing that meets society's standards. I mean how much more convenient would it be if I could go out wearing anything I like, it would save me some money too. I'm not sure what else I would do differently, though I am sure my actions/behaviour would be significantly different in some respects.

In the summer, we all know that is very hot when  i go out  and its  early in the morning  lets say i decided to use  an umbrella to protect myself  from the sun. A lot of people probably will think I am crazy. I don’t  care about those who would judge me and  I would just do what I like to do  not what they like. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?

My actions/behaviour aren't too influenced by judgement, what people think of me has never been a huge issue really, in saying that though I know I would be different without judgement. One example is what I wear, even though I wear what I wear because I thought it looks good or I like it, I am restricted to wearing clothing that meets society's standards. I mean how much more convenient would it be if I could go out wearing anything I like, it would save me some money too. I'm not sure what else I would do differently, though I am sure my actions/behaviour would be significantly different in some respects.

In the summer, we all know that is very hot when  i go out  and its  early in the morning  lets say i decided to use  an umbrella to protect myself  from the sun. A lot of people probably will think I am crazy. I don’t  care about those who would judge me and  I would just do what I like to do  not what they like. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."