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If you have followers, they are probably interested in something in your profile. Or perhaps they want to know the answer to your question.This is from Adam D'Angelo's answer on What is Quora, its vision, and its mission?Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question.I am on Quora since the summer of 2011, so that is relatively recent. I will preface my suggestions that looking at your profile, you know your way around the internet and web page navigation, however I will try to write out the steps that I took when I got here. Forgive me if this is redundant.Here are some suggestions on how to get started:Find topics of interest to you by typing the name of the topic into the Quora search bar located at the top left of the Quora web page you are on.When you start typing the name of the topic, a dropdown menu will appear with suggestions based on the first few letters you typed in.When you click on one of the topics, you will be brought to the topic page, where you can see the best questions on the topic, open questions on the topic at the top of the page. You may choose to read and/or answer those questions. To see the question itself and the answers already provided, click on the blue text of the question on the topic page.In the upper right-hand corner of the topic page are the topic photo, and to the left of that, two buttons: Follow Topic and Settings. The Settings button allows you to receive notifications of new questions added to the topic.Below the topic photo is a menu pertaining to the organization of the topic. If you click on Organize Topic, you will to a page that shows Parent and Child topics for your topic.Below the organizational menu is a list of top answerers for the topic. You may choose to follow some of them.Below the list of top answerers is a box that shows all the topic followers.I would recommend doing this for all the topics that interest you, both professionally and personally. It depends on how involved you wish to become. Asking great questions and giving great answers increases your visibility and interaction with an amazing group of people with widely varied interests and expertise.And enjoy!

I'd like to preface my answer by parsing a cliché - change is the only constant. Regardless of how fast a manager rises up the organizational hierarchy (and how high she reaches at the peak of her career), you can be sure that the person's outlook, attitude and personality will undergo changes. In some cases the changes may be so slight that they are barely discernible, whereas in other cases they may be very obvious even to a casual observer.With regard to personality changes, there is no single clear and definite pattern that I have observed across all managers, other than having noted that there is an increased sense of self-confidence and more courage to take on greater challenges and risks. That said, I would broadly categorize the locus of upward mobility into two, and this may be extended to private life as well:(1) Evolution towards maturity and sophistication - such managers are exemplars and role models that earn a lot of respect, and that younger managers try to emulate (see Character and Traits in Leadership).(2) Unraveling of the inner sociopath - such managers are living embodiments of the old adage "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (see Profile of the Sociopath).Depending on the individual's character and ethical DNA (core belief system including values and principles), the individual would exhibit behavior patterns that fall into one of these two categories. There are, of course, shades of grey that offset the stark contrasts at opposite ends, and a significant proportion of the population of managers probably maps on to some shade of grey on that continuum.The word "character" probably sounds quite quaint and old-fashioned in today's business world. However, I believe that there is no substitute for good character in the face of a volatile business environment, as a pre-requisite for a career of eminence. Character is very different from personality. Character determines how a manager responds to increasing empowerment. In the words of Abraham Lincoln: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Frederick Bartlett has given some excellent feedback. A2A, I'll add my own take, since I can see that you are a serious poet. I'm curious about your age since your profile is empty--not a problem, but this does seem like the poem of someone who is fairly early in career with great potential (if I am mistaken, I apologize--it is just an impression.)First, I am really glad you send your work to major publications. The whole publication game is a bit of a racket, and there are an awful lot of little magazines these days. It's really only worth publishing in the kinds of journals that major university libraries carry--and there are quite a few of these, but scores, not hundreds. I think it was Frost who said "write much and publish little," though I could be wrong--in any case, it is a good dictum to follow.You have an excellent vocabulary, though your diction is out of control in this poem right now, and you also have a good sense of line and cadence--there is a kind of iambic backbone that, for me, at least, is essential to making this kind of conversational unmetered verse be something more than prose chopped into lines.I'll get to the diction and overall sense of the poem in a second, but I do want to note that the structure seems erratic. You start with a tercet, which sets up a certain expectation, and then have quatrain, which can work in a way, but then you have two chunks--a septet and a ten-line chunk, that seem, well, a little chunky. Perhaps this is intentional, and I am missing something--the key thing would be that //you// are being intentional in how you organize the poem into parts, and it does seem unclear to me.In terms of overall theme, I do like the "committee"--it is an interesting rhetorical move that interlaces the underlying pastoral of the poem with a sort of modern organizational mode. But like Frederick I am a bit baffled by the title, and the whole poem seems somewhat willfully inscrutable--not inscrutable enough to be a language poem that deliberately resists comprehension, since the syntax and language gesture toward meaning, but just kind of confusing, like when I finished it I was like "now, what was that about?" That you could probably walk me through and explain it doesn't mean, for me at least, that this is not a problem with the poem. Ambiguity and elusiveness are one thing, but the meanings in the poem seem almost deliberately concealed behind private metaphors.This probably would not matter if the poem were not so cluttered with extra words, and it has way too much Latin in it for my taste. Economy is not always a virtue in poetry, although in some MFA programs it seems to have been reified into one (how would O'Hara fare in the contemporary workshop?) But it feels like there is just a lot of extra language in this poem in a way that creates neither meaning, mystery, or beauty--which each seem like potential purposes of the poem, but I just can't tell which you are after.I wonder how many versions of this you made before you sent it out? It does not seem very revised to me. For example, the sentence that begins in your quatrain and continues for 11 lines is actually a fragment--there is no predicate, just a participle ("calculating") as the regulating action of the utterance. Maybe that's intentional--though I am not sure what the intention could possibly be. Instead, it just seems a bit sloppy, like the kind of thing one does in a first draft and then fixes.Usually I try at least five or ten different versions of a poem in its early stages, playing with language, line breaks and stanzas (and rhyme, meter, and diction if I am writing in a form.) Then I will try to comb through it at least a few more times, fiddling with sounds and so on. I mean, sometimes I will abandon a poem earlier than that, and then either come back to it or just leave it for posterity or oblivion. But if I feel like I have something worth pursuing, I will work at it for a long time. I save every version, since sometimes it is version 12, not version 19, that really worked best.Revision can feel like killing your favorite children sometimes, but if you save everything, you can see it as just trying different approaches and moves. If this was my poem, I would start by thinking about structuring it in a more intentional way, and also by eliminating at least 20-30 words, you just have more words than you need, and a lot of the Latin just seems clunky. I'd also make the thought experiment of trying to put the point or theme or meaning of the poem into a kind of elevator speech, like the sort you might deliver as a preface at a reading (e.g., "this poem is about...) and then see how close or distant the actual utterance is from your statement, and how intentional that degree of meaning or mystery is.I've been a bit hard on you here, but only because I do see you have real talent and potential. Usually I don't respond to requests for feedback on poems since my answer tends to be simply "read some poetry," which you clearly have.Though I will say this--you really can't aspire to be a decent poet, let alone a good or great one--until you have a strong working knowledge of the tradition, starting with Old English and then Chaucer, and running at least through the poetry of what I assume is your grandfather cohort--the poets born in the 1920s-40s (my own father cohort.) I am not sure how useful it is to read contemporary poetry until you have a good grasp of what came before.Good luck!