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Game of the People found itself on the frontline on a grey October Sunday afternoon in Budapest. Around 3,000 football fans, drawn from various clubs, including Ujpest, MTK, Honved and Ferencvaros, demonstrated their anger at the proposed introduction of biometric scanning of supporters' hands as they enter a game.
The Hungarian FA (MLSV) is introducing tough security measures that include palm scanning and greater surveillance. It is discouraging the die-hard fans from attending games (Hungarian crowds are already pitifully low). Imagine introducing this in a country like England or Germany – comments like: "Fans have no privacy and no freedom of movement," have some relevance.
It's a radical and worrying development for the game. "Big brother is watching you". Orwellian it is, and contradictory to the event that is commemorated in front of the Parliament building where the demonstration took place – the Hungarian uprising of 1956.
Hungary does have problems with football hooliganism and games between the two top Budapest sides attract a high level of violence. This is a country where the police are very visible, and there were legions of them dotted around central Budapest on the afternoon of the protest. A waspish helicopter buzzed around the River Danube, forming great circles of surveillance that scanned the Buda hills to the majestic Parliament. Quite what the hundreds of Viking River Cruise passengers, most of whom seemed to be elderly Americans, made of it is anyone's guess.
Around 2.45pm, the first real signs that something was happening emerged. Some deep, throaty chanting could be heard east of the Parliament. A few flashing lights could be seen, indicating that the Police were moving. If you stood in the centre of the square, the scene was a little menacing. To the south, Ferencvaros fans were moving forward behind huge banners, from the North, it looked like a mixture of fans, and to the east, Ujpest fans were marching behind banners. Part of me worried that club rivalries might spill over, but they all had a common cause, and enemy.
When they arrived, all chanting the same slogan, smoke bombs filled the air with acrid green (Fradi) and reddish (Ujpest) smoke. It was peaceful but forceful and amid all this, the number 2 tram, which circumnavigates Parliament square, kept running.
The fans wanted to submit a petititon to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, but as these can only be handed in on a workday, they were unsuccessful in their attempt. Worryingly, a spokesperson for the Ferencvaros Green Monsters, who shall remain nameless, said that this would be the last peaceful protest. This may only play into the hands of the government and FA, but it does show the depth of emotion over this issue.


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TMZ TVWhen Hillary Clinton finally makes her White House run official ... we might see a lot more of ex "90210" star Trevor Donovan -- who's become a major Clinton insider.
So if she wins he could assume a position. A shirtless one would be best ... for morale and all.

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We recommend 2 RidedaysWA days to complete this course, however it is not a requirement.
Track Smart is the course with the most intensive level of coaching and is the pathway required for riders who want to progress
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Pit crew and supporters are welcome to spectate
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Powerhouse Road, just outside the beautiful township of Collie. Over-night camping available.
What we offer is a team of friendly, experienced & qualified coaches and officials who will take a hands-on interest in you and your desired outcome for the day.


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I just wrote this to a trader friend of mine. Some personal stuff has been redacted.
Here are two examples of how the current extreme corporate influence over our government winds up hurting you. And I mean YOU, xxxxxxxx. This first story xxxxxxxxxxxxxx found this appalling, calling this, if not illegal, than certainly something that is extralegal - A July 2008 meeting with Hank Paulson giving top money managers inside information on potential future Treasury plans for Fannie and Freddie.
Here's the link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-29/how-henry-paulson-gave-hedge-funds-advance-word-of-2008-fannie-mae-rescue.html
And here's the juiciest stuff (with bolding added):
Over sandwiches and pasta salad, he delivered that information to a group of men capable of profiting from any disclosure.
Around the conference room table were a dozen or so hedge-fund managers and other Wall Street executives -- at least five of them alumni of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), of which Paulson was chief executive officer and chairman from 1999 to 2006. In addition to Eton Park founder Eric Mindich, they included such boldface names as Lone Pine Capital LLC founder Stephen Mandel, Dinakar Singh of TPG-Axon Capital Management LP and Daniel Och of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC.
After a perfunctory discussion of the market turmoil, the fund manager says, the discussion turned to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Paulson said he had erred by not punishing Bear Stearns shareholders more severely. The secretary, then 62, went on to describe a possible scenario for placing Fannie and Freddie into "conservatorship" -- a government seizure designed to allow the firms to continue operations despite heavy losses in the mortgage markets.
Paulson explained that under this scenario, the common stock of the two government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs, would be effectively wiped out. So too would the various classes of preferred stock, he said.
The fund manager says he was shocked that Paulson would furnish such specific information -- to his mind, leaving little doubt that the Treasury Department would carry out the plan. The managers attending the meeting were thus given a choice opportunity to trade on that information.
That was under Bush. And under Obama? Here we go again!
From yesterday's WSJ (no link due to paywall). I'm bolding the important stuff.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Wall Street Pushed Federal Reserve for Europe Action .
By SUSAN PULLIAM
Wall Street executives, in a private meeting with a top Federal Reserve official in late September, recommended a coordinated effort by central banks to remedy the European financial crisis, according to Fed documents received in an open-records request.
The meeting, led by Louis Bacon, founder of hedge fund Moore Capital Management, preceded a joint action Wednesday by the world's major central banks, which banded together to provide liquidity to the markets through cheap U.S. dollar loans.
The Fed, ECB and other central banks took coordinated action to support the global financial system as Europe's rolling debt crisis continues to trouble markets. Vincent Cignarella and Charles Forelle discuss details on Markets Hub. Wednesday's moves involved central-bank coordination to lend to European banks, and it couldn't be determined what precisely prompted the Fed and the other central bankers to act. In the September meeting, the Wall Street executives suggested a different kind of coordination by central banks-boosting the global economy by buying securities or through other methods of injecting liquidity. Coordinated lending to European banks wasn't among their suggestions.
But analysts say Wednesday's broad stock-market rally was partly fueled by investors' expectations that central banks will do more to ease the crisis, such as the kind of central-bank coordination recommended by the members at the September meeting.
Mr. Bacon is one of 12 Wall Street members of a 14-member Fed panel, the Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, set up in the wake of the financial crisis to give New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley a pipeline into investors' thinking.
The Sept. 27 meeting with Mr. Dudley exemplifies the private meetings some Wall Street investors have with top Fed officials, in which they can gain access to potential early clues about Fed actions. Hedge funds have been pushing to get more information about the inner workings of the Fed, according to people familiar with the situation, as detailed in a Wall Street Journal page-one article Nov. 23.
The Fed's meetings with investors present a delicate situation for U.S. officials. They must balance the need for information from investors about the markets against the Fed's internal policy discouraging employees from arranging meetings with investors that would confer a commercial advantage.
The Fed's Mr. Dudley declined to comment. In a statement, Mr. Bacon defended the meetings, saying, "The Fed and Treasury canvass market opinions extensively through a variety of private-sector committees, contacts and trading desks in their task to fund the nation's exploding debt load, stabilize markets and optimize economic outcomes."
Members of the Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets include some of the biggest names on Wall Street, including Keith Anderson of Soros Fund Management; Mohamed El-Erian of Allianz SE's Pacific Investment Management Co.; Peter Fisher of BlackRock Inc.; Joshua Harris of Apollo Management LP; Alan Howard of Brevan Howard Asset Management; Deryck Maughan, a former chief executive of Salomon Brothers who now is at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.; and David Tepper of Appaloosa Management LP.
There is no indication the meeting had any impact on the participants' own investments. Minutes of the meeting obtained by The Wall Street Journal include notes taken by Fed staff members-but no record of comments by Mr. Dudley or any Fed officials at the meeting.
Mr. Dudley previously has said in a statement that he is in "listening mode" during the meetings and that he is careful not to provide "insights into our thinking" during meetings with investors.
He also said it is important the Fed understand investors' thinking during periods of stress and that he filters out investors' suggestions on policy that reflect their own interests. Committee members have said the questions asked by the Fed in advance of the meeting can give clues to the Fed's thinking.
The bulk of the three-hour meeting with Mr. Dudley on Sept. 27 at the New York Fed headquarters addressed the fallout from the financial crisis in Europe. Mr. Bacon, who was asked by Fed staff members to lead the discussion, began by saying he felt a Greek default was "likely" and he believed there was a "sizable risk of an accelerated Greek bank run," according to meeting minutes.
Committee members also said they believed a default by Greece would lead to increased pressure on the already weak position of French banks and create funding strains for European banks, according to the minutes.
The group suggested a number of ways to address the European crisis, including "coordinated credit easing and/or quantitative easing by" the European Central Bank. The group also urged "central bank guarantees of sovereign debt," "investments in European sovereigns and banks," "implementation of capital controls" and "government guarantee of bank funding and/or depositors," as well as "recapitalization of the IMF," according to the minutes.
A draft agenda in advance of the September meeting included questions about U.S. fiscal and monetary policy as well as the crisis in Europe, according to the Fed documents.
The committee members held a conference call Sept. 14 to discuss the draft agenda, according to an email obtained through the open-records search. Following the call, the agenda items relating to Europe expanded, according to the records.
Among the questions of the final agenda: "What steps should policy-makers consider to cushion any adverse market and economic impacts in Europe and elsewhere of a credit event?"
Mr. Bacon has been asked to speak about Europe during meetings with the Fed a number of times. In an email exchange Sept. 20, a Fed official asked Mr. Bacon to lead the meeting. "I was wondering if you would consider leading off the discussion on Europe, as you did at a meeting last year," the official said in the email.
Mr. Bacon responded the same day in an email, saying: "Ok, I will take it on. All Europe, all the time-getting weary."
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Gee, xxxxx, I bet that could have helped you if the government let you attend these meetings. But since you're not the 1%, not part of Goldman, not in the Lucky Sperm Club, you get to make your trades not knowing what these guys know. And you thought there were laws against that!
For me (and it's different for everyone). #occupy isn't about welfare, race, stopping the war or saving the titmouse. We've become too much of a corporatocracy, skewing things too far to benefit the short-term needs of big corporations. Remember, despite the Supreme Court, corporations aren't people; they're just a bunch of legal documents and agreements locked up in a box in Delaware somewhere that say the people signing them are going to endeavor to make money for the owners. Corporations themselves aren't capable of balancing their short-term mandate for profit against the other needs this country has, so they probably should only have a little more influence on government affairs than my cat does.


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What does it take to make a fair state tax administration? The Council on State Taxation (COST) says a fair administration includes:
- Even-handed statutes of limitations for refunds and assessments (no "pay to play" requirements)
- Equalized interest rates on refunds and assessments
- Due dates for corporate income tax returns at least 30 days beyond the federal due date with an automatic extension of the state return due date based on the federal extension
- Adequate time to file a protest before an independent dispute forum (at least 60 days)
- Reasonable and clearly defined procedures for filing amended state returns following an adjustment to a taxpayer's federal corporate tax liability
- Transparency in the form of published letter rulings and administrative/tax tribunal decisions
COST not only describes a fair tax administration, but also rates the states on how they stack up against the criteria. COST has issued the latest version of its Scorecard on Tax Appeals & Procedural Requirements and gives Texas a C+ rating. Texas was downgraded for:
- Requiring taxpayers to pay the tax to gain access to administrative or judicial review
- Not having a truly independent administrative appeal because the Comptroller has the authority to modify or reject proposals for decision issued by the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH)
- Allowing only 30 days to file a protest
- Requiring taxpayers to pay all taxes before pursuing an appeal in court
- A higher interest rate on underpayments than on refunds
- Recurring and significant issues related to inaccurate or multiple franchise tax notices
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So visit their page here to read about everything from a Ska Brewing Company dinner to a Left Hand Brewing Company firkin tapping.
Also, it's worth noting one other brew event that will feature 70-plus beers from nine Colorado breweries, on Saturday, June 30.
The Purple Mountain Brewfest & Billiards will be held at the Event Center at Rustic Hills, with a portion of proceeds going to military charities.
Celebrity billiards player Jeanette Lee, "The Black Widow," will appear, for those more interested in hitting balls than sampling brews.
June brings a number of cool beer events, so here's an early heads-up for your calendar.
• Firstly, newly expanded Trinity Brewing Company will feature five new house saisons on tap this month.
Here's some descriptions of those, in president Jason Yester's words:
Saison Man and Farmhouse 'Three Flowers' are both already pouring, if you haven't tried these Belgians yet you are missing out! Farmhouse Du Tomme was released on May 25th, this golden Saison features a notable spicy character from the addition of a fruity North African pepper, a toasty malt profile from the use of Amaranth, and a light citrus character created by aging the batch on lemon grass. Farmhouse GOPrisais is another 'Nouveau' Summer Saison. For this batch we hand processed 120lbs of freshly harvested apricots and Chardonnay grapes to age this batch on. The result is a light and very refreshing fruited Belgian, it releases on June 15th. If that's not enough Saison for you yet, we're doing a special oak barrel aged batch of our house Belgian, Saison Man. This extremely limited version features notes of toasted wood, hints of coconut, a sharp malic acid profile, and it's all intertwined with an earthy Bretta character.
And also a congrats to the brewery — as Yester points out in his newsletter, it has been named the 24th best brewpub in the world on Ratebeer.com's surprisingly (or negligently?) America-centric Best Brewpubs 2011 list.
• Next, the summer solstice on June 21 ushers in two events.
The first is Great Storm Brewing's celebration of the longest day of the year, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Mark's Midnight Carnival Show will perform and four new brews will go on tap, described here by co-owner Lynn Jacobs:
... our summer seasonal, Midsummer Ale, a light, golden ale aged on lemon, lime and orange zest; Blue Spruce Juice, a small batch dark ale flavored with fresh, hand-harvested Colorado Blue Spruce tips; Assistant Brewer Stephen Shelton's Dark Side Ale, a big malty dark English ale; and CAUTION: Brewing Co.'s Toaster Bat Black, a smoked, peated, robust porter.
The second is Focus on the Beer's next Meet the Brewer event at 6:30 at Front Range Barbeque, spotlighting Poncha Springs' Elevation Beer Co.
The event is pay-by-the-pint, and here's Focus' Eric Steen's descriptions of the five brews on hand:
- Apis IV - 10.7% - Belgian Quadrupel made with local carmelized honey
- Cabernet Barrel Aged Apis IV - see above beer
- First Cast IPA - 6.5% - Hop-forward, west coast style IPA
- Mount Blanca - Belgian Saison - 5.5% - A light and refreshing Saison with white wheat
- Imperial Saison - 8% - A stylistic oddity, reminiscent of a Saison mixed with a Trippel and a Belgian Strong Golden Ale
• Lastly, Focus on the Beer is back at it again two days later, on June 23, with the final round of Battle of the Brewers at Brewer's Republic at 4 p.m.
Entry is $5 to sample the two finalists in a blind tasting plus a half pint from two specialty kegs.
Here's the background and rundown:
We started with eight local breweries, each brewer was given two random ingredients to add to a beer, you did a blind tasting of all the beers and decided which ones were best and which breweries advanced to the next round. We're now at the third and final round, the last two brewers are duking it out on June 23rd. We congratulate Shamrock Brewing and Lone Tree Brewing on getting this point, your beers have been wonderful thus far, but only one brewer will win in the end. What are the two random ingredients for the beer this time? A bottle of wine per 5 gallons of beer, and the use of wood (but not oak).


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What sort of experiences have you had with plotting? Problems, struggles, headaches …. I want to make sure I'm being relevent with PLOT CLINIC. Let me know what's been driving you crazy.
What sort of experiences have you had with plotting? Problems, struggles, headaches …. I want to make sure I'm being relevent with PLOT CLINIC. Let me know what's been driving you crazy.
No more on taxes. All I have to do with this stuff now is put it in a box and send it to my accountant. I'm so glad to have it finished. So no more moping from me, and no more listening to moping for you. Tomorrow I start into the new second and third chapters of the GREEN MAGIC … Continue reading →
I forgot—just flat-out forgot—one huge source of receipts: Stuff I bought via the internet, and for which I received internet receipts. All the other stuff is done, but I'm now going through right at 2000 messages in three separate accounts, looking for everything I spent via the web and dragging them all into their own little folder, and printing them … Continue reading →
I am, I estimate, now about 75% of the way through my tax stuff, and if I'm diligent in the last 25%, I might be able to finish today. I'm not sure that I have ever finished early before. I'll be SO glad to get back to writing. I really appreciate the encouragement.
The second half of last week went kablooey, and I ended up dealing with the sort of crud you hope never to have to deal with. So today, today, I start the income tax stuff. And everything gets pushed back five days. Well, three. I wasn't planning on working the weekend, so I guess I can't count those two days. … Continue reading →
With apologies to Melissa Etheridge. HowManyOfMe.com There is:1person with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? Thanks for this link to my buddy Keely, of whom there are two. … Continue reading →
Okay. The Mac sending mail sound has just echoed across the computer, which means the finished Ruby Key is on its way to my agent, Robin. I'm pretty wiped out, but very happy with the book. It wrapped at 63,000 words, which was well within my target zone, the new ending worked beautifully, (though I was revising and adding and … Continue reading →
63,199 words final count, an ending I love, and the rest of the book tucked away, too. The Ruby Key is finished. … Continue reading →
While editing, I used a word that dinged on my consciousness as having been in the book too often. The word? Looked. Scrivener has a word frequency counter that will tell you exactly how many times you've used a word—one of the things I have been missing and yearning for since the days when I wrote with WordStar. I used … Continue reading →
The question of honor in politics. And an unapproved ad I really like. Could any politician make a difference anymore? I don't know. I like Obama, though. … Continue reading →


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Thinking bigPosted: January 3, 2010 Filed under: Management Comments Off on Thinking big
Love this quote, via Daring Fireball:
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big."
Inteview with Brad BirdPosted: May 3, 2008 Filed under: Management Leave a comment
I'm a big fan of Brad Bird's work. Iron Giant and The Incredibles are a few of my favorite animated films. In a recent interview with him on fostering innovation, the following comment caught my eye:
Walt Disney's mantra was, "I don't make movies to make money—I make money to make movies." That's a good way to sum up the difference between Disney at its height and Disney when it was lost. It's also true of Pixar and a lot of other companies. It seems counterintuitive, but for imagination-based companies to succeed in the long run, making money can't be the focus.
I love the notion of working for passion not dollars. There's too much dollar chasing in high tech. There's got to be more to life than making a buck.
A trailer for a bookPosted: April 29, 2008 Filed under: Management Leave a comment
A career advice book, in manga no less, promoted via a trailer. Cool idea.
Johnny Bunko trailer from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.
Alone timePosted: February 13, 2008 Filed under: Management 2 Comments
One of my favorite sections from the Getting Real mantra from 37signals is the idea of alone time. Working for any sized organization, your day is usually filled with interruptions. Getting Real put it best as follows:
When you have a long stretch when you aren't bothered, you can get in the zone. The zone is when you are most productive. It's when you don't have to mindshift between various tasks.
Getting in the zone takes time. And that's why interruption is your enemy. It's like rem sleep — you don't just go to rem sleep, you go to sleep first and you make your way to rem. Any interruptions force you to start over. rem is where the real sleep magic happens. The alone time zone is where the real development magic happens.
Rem sleep is a beautiful analogy for the benefits of alone time.
Fast Company on GorePosted: August 10, 2007 Filed under: Management 1 Comment
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Just finished an interesting read in Fast Company on Al Gore. The man was worth about $1M after the 2000 election. Today his net worth is around $100M. Not too bad. The more I learn about Gore, the more I like him. Wish we all could have got to know him better in 2000. It would be a different country today. A few excerpts…
On Current TV:
They would give viewers from 18 to 34 the means to create and control what went on the air–a user-generated model now familiar thanks to the likes of YouTube and MySpace, but a shot in the dark for TV back in 2002.
Today, less than two years in, at least 30% of the network's content is viewer generated, called VC2. Amateur filmmakers, some in their teens, upload three- to eight-minute documentary-style nonfiction segments, called "pods," to the Current Web site.
Current TV is now in 38 million U.S. homes via DirecTV, Comcast, Dish Network, AT&T U-Verse, and Time Warner Cable. Its expansion this year to the UK and Ireland on BSkyB and Virgin Media will put it in another 8.2 million homes.
Current TV is making money, about a 10% margin on cash flow, after less than two years, according to analyst estimates; new cable networks typically take four to six years to go into the black.
On Generation Investment Management (investment fund):
Rather than rely on short-term earnings projections, they thought long-term investment potential–and good management–could be better gauged by looking at factors such as whether a company was preparing for a carbon-neutral future. Environmental stewardship, though, is just part of how Generation defines sustainability.
…a pool of about $100 million from himself, Gore, Knight (whom Gore brought in from Met West), and three other founding partners…[turned into]…nearly $1 billion under management, from 15 institutions, plus a few individuals.
There's a lot more in the article. From an entrepreneurial perspective, an inspiring read.
Letting builders buildPosted: June 3, 2007 Filed under: Management 2 Comments
DMAIC is a Six Sigma acronym which stands for: Define, measure, analyze, improve and control. Business Week's cover story this week covers how Six Sigma may not be all it's cracked up to be. Using 3M as a case study, they take a look at what happened to one of the most innovative companies in the world after their GE superstar CEO came on board and Six Sigma-ized the company. While profits went up initially (due to cost cutting on better efficiency in established businesses), most recently they started missing earnings targets.
One insight I had recently is that there's two ways for companies to continue to grow: by building new things or by being more efficient with what they already have. Any fancy manager type would tell you that both are critical. But if you were a betting person, eg. betting where you had a better chance of getting a bonus, would you build something new or squeeze more efficiency out of an existing business? The far less risky approach is clearly the latter. Go with what you know already works, squeeze out more profits by cutting costs and increasing efficiency and you're on your way to a nice bonus.
As a casual observer of corporate operations, Six Sigma type programs seem to be what new fancy CEO types bring to companies they join. Look for a bunch of inefficient operations, cut some cost and money losing programs and see the stock rise. What you don't see as often from mega corp leaders is bringing big new innovations to their businesses. For Apple, the iPod is a great example of a huge new innovation that is financially propelling the company forward. The iPhone will probably be another big driver. But you don't see CEOs driving big new innovations like these products often.
Why not? Why do most large companies with huge resource pools fail to innovate in the same way companies like Apple and 3M of the past? The Business Week article suggests that part of the problem may be the incompatibility of applying Six Sigma to make innovation happen:
Indeed, the very factors that make Six Sigma effective in one context can make it ineffective in another. Traditionally, it uses rigorous statistical analysis to produce unambiguous data that help produce better quality, lower costs, and more efficiency. That all sounds great when you know what outcomes you'd like to control. But what about when there are few facts to go on—or you don't even know the nature of the problem you're trying to define?
"The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, [the more] it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation," adds Vijay Govindarajan, a management professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. "The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different."
This reinforces my own thinking of late that there are two basic employee mind sets at a company: builders and operators. Builders like to build new products or services and are motivated by coming up with ideas no has thought of before. Operators are great at taking something that's been built and adding incremental improvements to increase efficiency or reduce costs. They get a charge out of seeing year-over-year improvements in existing metrics.
Neither type of employee type is fundamentally better than the other. Companies clearly need both to flourish. But which ones get to the boardroom faster and more predictably? I believe the operators do and hence the over focus on operations over innovation in most companies. Why? It's easier to take an existing business and squeeze more profits from process improvements than build new businesses.
Back to the Apple example, Steve Jobs clearly has a classic builder mind set. He loves building new things that transform people's lives. But he was fired by Apple for essentially being a pain in the butt for the professional managers who were trying to squeeze as much profit out of Apple's existing Macintosh business at the time. Apple's managers couldn't figure out how to allow the builder and operator mindset to cohabit the executive suit. After Jobs left, you can see what staying on a path focused on efficiency and costs did for Apple. It nearly bankrupted the company and in an ironic twist, it took Jobs' return (a builder) to turn the company around.
So, what's my meta point? All the talk from corporations about innovation is wasted air if they don't set up an org for builders to flurish. That means a separate incentive structure and even work environment. Managing creative orgs is tough because their output is so unpredictable. Applying a control process of reducing variation to eliminate defects (or bad ideas) in creative focused endeavors kills the random events that are required (in my opinion) for new ideas to be developed. Six Sigma type programs can't motivate builders to do the right thing. I think a better method would be using a investment approach where a company manages new initiatives like a funds manager manages a stock fund. This means having a diversified portfolio of initiatives and new businesses. Kill ideas that aren't going anywhere and when new ideas take off, migrate them to operators who can build new businesses by cutting the fat and making incremental improvements to keep things growing. In both scenarios (success or failure), cut builders loose early and move them back to new idea development. That'll keep both mindsets happy.
Seems one big problem in this model is how to incent builders. Is it by number of new ideas? Is it by number of new products/business deployed? Is it shared revenue/returns over the lifetime of a new business? Also, there's the big problem of taking the brainchild of some innovators and losing the vision when the business is transfered to new operations minded people run. But I think those are solvable problems.
The key for companies is to acknowledge its two different employee mindsets and set up the right orgs for them. Creating startups or skunk works within large companies might be a good place to start experimenting. I'd suggest that they be off campus and have their own orgs but I'm sure other models could work too. Given builders usually go to startups when they get bogged down by operations over focus in large companies, creating a startup world within a large company could retain a lot of talent–especially for folks that aren't interested in the working hours and risk many newly funded startups require. Jeff Hawkins, creator of the Palm Pilot has said "use entrepreneurialism only as a last resort" in starting up a company. If you can fund your idea within a company with resources, that's the way to go according to him.
Startups within large corporations may not be for every entrepreneur, due to the upside limitations if a concept takes off. But there's a lot of people out there that work for the fun of it and want to do other things with their time versus just work. The reduced risk and work hours for startups within large companies could be very attractive to some percentage of employees. Google uses very large grants for big innovations bubbling up from their 20% innovation time allocated to all engineers. I'm sure other similar financial awards could work really well for compensating big new (iPod type) ideas.
Let's hope for some more builders added to corporate executive suites. With the right advocates at the top of companies, I think innovation is possible from large organizations. But it won't happen if the primary conversations for growth are around Six Sigma principles.
Say what againPosted: February 26, 2007 Filed under: Management 1 Comment
Having watched a million boring PowerPoint type presentations, I'm always on the lookout for interesting presentation styles to learn from. I caught a piece linked from Presentation Zen using some Samuel Jackson dialog from (I believe) Pulp Fiction. While this is more of a video, the use of type and font sizes is brilliant. Check it out. (Warning, there's some strong language)


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Confero Headquarters in Path of Hurricane Florence
Sep 13, 2018 by Confero Inc.
Our headquarters in Raleigh, NC is likely in the path of the Hurricane Florence, so there is a chance you may not be able to reach us if we lose power temporarily. If we do not lose power, we will be working as normally scheduled. Please know we will do everything we can to remain reachable, but situations may be such that we simply cannot.
Our thoughts and prayers are with our NC, SC, GA and VA community during this weather event. We hope everyone stays safe!
Customer Experience Measurement Firm Supplies Phone Assessments for Stockbrokers.com Annual Study
Feb 23, 2018 by Confero Inc.
Elaine Buxton, president and CEO of Confero, Inc. (http://www.conferoinc.com), a national customer experience measurement firm, is pleased to announce that the firm provided telephone mystery shopping research for the 2018 annual Stockbrokers.com Online Broker Review
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Confero Warns of Scam Using Confero Name- Job Offer Scam – John Paula- It's a Fake!
Nov 03, 2017 by Confero Inc.
Confero learned about a scam regarding "John Paula" who claims to work for Confero. The fraudster's email was sent out as a phishing scam.
John Paula falsely claims to be an employee of Confero and attempts to recruit secret shoppers (mystery shoppers) through emails. We have no employee named John Paula.
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Confero named Finalist in 13th Annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business
Oct 11, 2016 by Confero Inc.
CARY, N.C. – Elaine Buxton, CEO of Confero, Inc., (www.conferoinc.com), has announced that the national customer experience measurement firm has been named a Finalist in the 13th annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business, and will ultimately win a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award in the program.
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, employees and the companies they run – worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world's premier business awards.
Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be announced during a gala event at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on Friday, November 18. Nominated women executives and entrepreneurs from the U.S.A. and several other countries are expected to attend. The event will be broadcast on Livestream and the pre-show from the red carpet will be streamed on the Stevie Awards' Facebook feed.
Confero earned the finalist distinction in the Company of the Year (Business Services companies with 10 or more employees).
Confero is among more than 1,500 entries
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Confero CEO Elaine Buxton Elected Chair of Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Eastern North Carolina
Jan 26, 2016 by Confero Inc.
Elaine Buxton, Confero president and CEO, will serve as chair of Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Eastern North Carolina's board of directors for 2016. Elaine previously served as vice chair for the organization in 2014 and 2015.
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Cambodia Arrests 3 on Terrorism Charges
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Cambodia on Wednesday charged an Egyptian and two Thai Muslims with terrorism after breaking up a local Islamic group with links to Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian Islamic extremist group connected to al-Qaida, officials said.
As part of the crackdown, authorities closed down a Saudi-funded Islamic religious school and ordered the expulsion of its 28 teachers and their 22 dependents within 72 hours. They are from Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Thailand, Yemen and Egypt.
"This operation has foiled any attempts of terrorist activity" in Cambodia, said Om Yentieng, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The crackdown was carried out "with cooperation and tip from the United States," said police Gen. Sok Phal, who was involved in the investigations. The U.S. Embassy did not immediately comment.
Sok Phal said the school had been run by a local Muslim group, Om Al Qura, of which the Egyptian and the two Thais were believed to be members. The three were arrested Sunday.
The three suspects were identified as Abdul Azi Haji Thiming and Muhammad Jalaludin Mading of Thailand, and Esam Mohammed Khidr Ali of Egypt.
Oun Bunna, an investigating judge at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court who interrogated the three men, said they were charged with "international terrorism with links to JI." If convicted they face 20 years to life in jail.
They are being held in jail pending pre-trial investigations that could take six months, Oun Bunna said. He refused to disclose details about the arrests and the suspects' activities.
The developments come just weeks before major international meetings will be held in Phnom Penh June 16-21. The ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting and the ASEAN Regional Forum is to be attended by ministers and officials of 23 countries including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Sok Phal said authorities began watching the Om Al Qura-run school about a year ago.
"But recently there has been indication that it could have executed any operation, therefore prevention was required ahead of the ASEAN meeting," he said.
He said police have been tracking "money transfers" between Saudi Arabia and the school, "which has links with JI in Southeast Asia."
Jemaah Islamiyah, or JI, is linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror group and wants to set up an Islamic state in Southeast Asia. Its alleged operations chief has confessed to helping plan the Bali bombings last year that killed 202 people, and the group allegedly planned a series of foiled attacks on Western interests in the region.
Most Cambodian Muslims belong to the Cham ethnic minority, who make up less than 5 percent of the country's 12.5 million people in this mostly Buddhist country.
The government had said in the past that local Muslims have no active links to militant groups.
But intelligence sources said last November that a handful of suspected al-Qaida agents traveling on false passports had entered Cambodia in 2001 and 2002, sometimes staying for several weeks as guests of local Muslims.


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Have you ever relinquished a purchase or activity simply because you didn't have the desire to deal with its complexity? It's not that you couldn't figure out how to accumulate the new coffee table you found at your local furniture store; it's that further down the aisle you discovered a coffee table that fits your room just as well and comes pre-assembled. Or how about…it's not that you wouldn't be able to find what you're searching for on one online store; it's that you feel another online store's website is easier to use.
As a culture, we're always looking for ways to save time, which is why we highly value comfort and convenience. Just as you may pass on a product – or a means to purchase that product – for a simpler, less time-consuming option, the same can be said for individuals visiting your dental practice's website.
If a prospective patient accesses your dental practice website, why would they stick around if
- The site isn't compatible with their Internet-browsing device,
- They can't easily access and/or read helpful information about their treatment of interest, or
- They have to search high and low for a way to contact your office.
What would keep them from closing out of your site and finding a more user-friendly resource?
Below are Top 7 techniques you may be able to improve the usability of your dental practice website, ultimately enticing patients to remain on your site longer and eventually take appointment.
#1 Responsive or Mobile Friendly Dental Practice Website Design
With the majority of online searches being conducted via smartphones and tablets, equipping your dental website with a responsive or mobile-friendly design is critical. Patients using these devices to research various dental treatment options aren't going to put up with a website that requires
- Constant pinching,
- Scrolling, and
- Resizing just to read the content.
By implementing a responsive or mobile design, you can ensure your dental website automatically adjusts its sizing and layout to provide the best user experience, no matter the device your potential patient is using.
#2 Easy-to-Read, Informative Content in Dental Practice Website
This concerns to the aesthetics and value of your content. In regard to aesthetics, the
- Font Size,
- Type, and
- Coloring should easily legible.
Any font that is
- Too small,
- Obscure in style, or
- Contrasting in tone with background imagery
may cause people to strain to read your content, which can be off-putting.
Concerning the value of your content, you want to provide enough information that the patient feels informed about their prospective procedure, but not so much that they get overwhelmed. Breaking your content up into easily consumable sections is often beneficial, as is refraining from too much medical jargon. You'll also want to employ an essential content marketing strategy while avoiding spammy, clickbait content that provides little to no value to readers.
#3 Convenient Navigation for Your Potential Patients
It doesn't matter how great your content is if visitors have a difficult time accessing it. For this reason, providing convenient navigation throughout your dental website is essential. In addition to useful linking between complementary pages, we generally endorse an easily comprehensible navigational menu located visibly in your site's design.
Whether you choose a menu that drops down from the header or one that expands and collapses from the sidebar, this effective tool enables visitors to seamlessly jump from one page to another to find exactly what they are looking for.
#4 Appealing Dental Treatment Landing Page Images
Including charming imagery on your homepage and various landing pages attracts people to stay on your website and navigate further. These images can be of models and/or actual patients you have treated, essentially showcasing the look or outcome that may be achieved with certain procedures.
#5 Dental Educational Videos
Many people learn better through visual aids. Providing on-page videos can be an exceptional way to not only reach these types of individuals, but also give patients a chance to hear your voice and feel as if they are establishing a personal connection before ever stepping foot in your office. Additionally, video testimonials offer a great accompaniment to written testimonials, enabling viewers to see the results achieved by your previous patients, as well as truly sense the joy and self-satisfaction you have helped them attain.
#6 Before-and-After Dental Treatments Photos of Actual Patients
People want to know if you truly walk the walk, or merely talk the talk. By including quality before-and-after photos on specific dental treatment pages as well as in an easily accessible photo gallery, prospective patients can get an idea of the type of results you may be able to achieve for them. This simple yet effective method can be essential to having a patient choose you over another dentist who claims to achieve exceptional results but provides no evidence.
#7 Visible Contact Points to Book an Appointment at Your Dental Practice
What's the point of providing all of the excellent elements above if your visitors can't easily contact your dental practice? In addition to having a specific page devoted to
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- Email form should be visibly displayed in your overall website design.
When a potential patient is interested in scheduling a consultation, or even if they simply want more information, the last thing you want is for them to struggle figuring out how to contact you. To avoid this issue, we suggest including your contact information in the
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- Adding a "Contact Us" link or button to every page.
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In the Hindu religion, the term Brahman describes the immaterial, infinite, omnipresent substrate of the entire universe. It is the reality which makes up every possible aspect of matter, energy, time, space, and being. Though many words have been used to describe this concept, it is ultimately regarded as being undefinable by humans. Brahman cannot be described by physical means, nor can we be made conscious of it, because in essence, Brahman is already part of our consciousness, part of our soul (the atman) and thus dimensional perspectives of being such as yoga, nirvana, enlightenment are not necessary to attain it. We can only realize that we are and have always been a part of the Brahman.
Stanislav Grof, a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of analyzing, healing and obtaining growth and insight into the human psyche, uses the Brahman concept to distinguish between two different modes of consciousness. Hylotropic refers to the normal, everyday experience of what we agree to be reality, while the holotropic refers to alternative states of consciousness such as mystical or meditative which bring us in communication with the divine, true nature of the self. He argues that in all cultures of human history, except the modern Western industrialized civilization, holotropic states of consciousness were held in great esteem. Contemporary psychiatry categorizes holotropic behavior as psychotic, while other cultures would have embraced these states and induced them when they wanted to connect to their deities, other dimensions of reality, or with the forces of nature. These states were also used for diagnosing and treating illnesses, cultivating extrasensory perception and obtaining artistic inspiration. Careful consideration and time were spent on developing safe and effective ways of harnessing holotropic states.
Graf believes that a wider acceptance of holotropic consciousness would allow modern humans to fully and honestly grapple with their psychic conflicts, thus leading to the development of new attitudes toward the environment we all share. According to Grof, the deepest sources of the current global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the abysmal level of consciousness evolution of a great majority of our species.
With this project, we combined the theoretical language of Stanislav Grof, with the practical application of modern, secular spirituality seen in the performances of Joseph Beuys, in order to address this idea of Western society's spiritual stagnation as a result of poor consciousness evolution. Creating, for ourselves, a unique holotropic ritual experience using objects and actions from each of our embellished personal mythologies.
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Left forces struggle to get things right
- Constituency sharing
- UML, Maoist Centre facing hard time dividing seats among constituents
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Oct 11, 2017-
A week after announcing a left electoral alliance, two communist forces now are finding it hard dividing constituencies among the partners with too many aspirants and limited number of seats.
As per a deal reached between the CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre), which on October 3 formed a left electoral alliance along with the Naya Shakti Nepal (NSN, the two large forces are to share constituencies for the upcoming polls in 60:40 ratio after allocating some seats to the fringe forces, including the NSN.
A taskforce led by UML General Secretary Ishwor Pokhrel was supposed to complete the job of dividing constituencies by Sunday, but it has failed to make much headway even until Tuesday.
The parties had earlier said dividing constituencies among the partners would not be "that difficult" as the electoral alliance was anyway a precursor to a unified communist centre, but in practicality things are looking different.
Maoist Centre leader Barsha Man Pun said the taskforce would sit for discussion again on Wednesday.
Amid delay in finalising constituencies for the alliance partners, NSN Coordinator Baburam Bhattarai held discussions with UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday, seeking clarity on the number of seats to be allocated to his party.
Leaders of the left alliance admitted that parties were facing difficulty in dividing constituencies. "There are many aspirants while the number of constituencies is limited," a UML source told the Post, adding that the issue, however, will be sorted out within a couple of days.
As per the 60:40 deal, the Maoist Centre is supposed to get 66 constituencies (out of 165) to contest in the parliamentary polls. However, since the UML and the Maoist Centre have to accommodate the NSN, the number of seats for the Maoist Centre is likely to come down to 56. The parties in the left alliance will face a similar difficulty while sharing constituencies for the provincial polls as well.
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Over the years I've learned to take family legends with a grain of salt. Someone will swear black and blue that the family are descended from the Duke of Suchnsuch, or that the famous artist Whosit Whatsisface is a cousin, and so on. I love these stories because they give you something to work towards - it's easier to find a connection if you know to look for it - and they may turn out to be true... but often, they are not.
A branch of my family was said to be related to a famous sporting personality, but I've been unable to find a connection between the two families. My gut feeling is that his unusual surname has made someone in my family say "We must be cousin", and that's been repeated on down the line as "We are cousins" until little ol' party pooper me came along and got facts all over the story.
My Great Great Great Grandmother Howard is, according to some members of the family, descended from THE Howard family - the Howards that produced Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard (the two Queens of Henry VIII who exited the marriage shorter than they entered it). That's a really interesting family to be related to, but I have my doubts. One relative told me they thought perhaps our ancestry included someone who worked for the noble Howard family and took their surname when one was needed, which would fit in with what we know of our ancestors being of substantially more humble origin than THE Howards. That's the theory I subscribe to: some long forgotten ancestor of mine was the Howard's washerwoman.
My mother has a bowl, an heirloom with a story attached. It came from her mother's family, the Robertsons. The legend is that the bowl came to Australia with the Robertson family when they first emigrated here in the 19th century. It has been handed down from eldest daughter to eldest daughter ever since. There are several things wrong with that story:
* If it is always handed on from daughter to daughter, then how is it the Robertson bowl? Surely the surname of the owner would change every generation.
* My mother's mother is the eldest daughter... of the youngest son. There are four sisters (and three brothers) ahead of him in line for the bowl. Why did they break tradition and give it to him?
So there was already a little niggle in my mind about the the bowl. I took it to a local antique dealer to ask if he could tell me anything more about it. He identified it straight away, and showed me a picture of an identical bowl in a book. The two big details about it that stood out to me:
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So... the Robertson family bowl, brought over from Scotland in the 19th century and handed down from eldest daughter to eldest daughter ever since... and nothing of that can be true! It's still a family treasure, and the truth hasn't diminished it any in my eyes. It is now my go-to story for the inaccuracy of family legends.
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A mediaeval manor house that has been renovated several times through the centuries. Within the 1000 acre estate there are many paths but we had come to see the 12 acre formal garden, which was rescued from neglect in 1994. Over a 10-year period it has been remodelled and restored. It is hard to know what is original and what is new but the 150 year old wisteria tunnel is definitely genuine.
Arriving just before the10:30 a.m. opening time but a dark cloud and light rain persuaded us to open a flask of coffee and the newspaper and wait. Some time later the rain cleared and we unloaded my wheelchair and set off to the car park toilets. Arr… there were three steps and no hand rail. A quick dash to the ticket office, no concessions for electric wheelchairs but manual wheelchair carers go in free. "Where is the disabled toilets?" Was my urgent question. Through the gardens and across the park to the tea rooms was the answer. And off I dashed. May be it was under a quarter of a mile but it felt like a half mile. Therefore for those of you who cannot climb three steps without a hand rail and can't travel very quickly you need to plan your comfort stop well in advance.
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There are two walled gardens with a third smaller one enclosed on one side with a thick hew hedge. Entering into the first there is a large vegetable growing area, and not just a token kitchen garden as in many country houses because this one group produce for the garden restaurant. The regular visitors that I spoke to praise the quality of the fresh food served straight from the garden. I was fascinated by the different crops and their management. At the other end of that first garden fruit trees under sown with wild flowers attracted more bees and moths. The second garden is quite formal in layout with an attractive water feature running right through the centre. Tall poppies mixed in the herbaceous borders provided the informality that I found so enjoyable.
There is a third smaller herbaceous garden before crossing the open parkland towards the tea rooms. A small sunken garden is not accessible to wheelchairs but it is possible to run along the lip and see most of it. There is also a large yew maze but when we reached the entrance a very dark cloud loomed overhead; not wanting to get lost in a maze in the rain we headed back for the car and a cup of tea.
Celia decided to wait in hope that the lights would improve. She wanted some photographs for her talk on famous gardens. "These are not famous gardens". Says I. "But they will be". Was the reply has Celia set off with her cameras. Leisurely retrieving my wheelchair from under a big umbrella I realise that I had done it again. Too many cups of tea and comfort was about quarter of a mile away. Just opposite me behind the three steps loo was a large lime tree with leave laden branches trailing down to the floor. Ha……. comfort is where you find it.


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