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October 02, 2015
In 2000, I attended my first sales kickoff at Yahoo!. Our company (broadcast.com) had been purchased by them, and I had just moved to California to lead a sales-enablement/swat team. Little did I know at the time, but this kickoff event would change my life.
Usually, you'd think that the kickoff's purpose was to introduce new products, arm us with new tools and motivate us to hit the phones or bricks when we got home. But in this case, a single piece of advice changed everything. "Make some friends in unusual places," our Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Anil Singh told me. "Make our international managing directors feel at home. Huddle with the content development guests we've invited -- get outside of your circle." He explained that these relationships I'd force at sales conference would later be important as I worked with global brands on big deals where they needed all of Yahoo!'s capabilities brought to the table.
From the moment I stepped on the kickoff hotel's property, I shook hands and made friends. My new contacts included managing directors from Yahoo Japan, Italy, Korea, Brazil, Canada and United Kingdom. They were easy to engage with, and told me about promotions and products they'd built for their clients. Many of them were news to me! I sought out our non-sales guests, especially those we frequently relied on for post-contract delivery. I told them I wanted to understand more about how their groups worked, so I could pursue revenue but not create problems for them. At first, they filled my ear with concerns about various programs we were selling, but by the end of conference, they were suggesting new ways we could help our advertisers without compromising the user experience.
Over the next few years, these relationships were rocket fuel for our deals with global brands such as Sony, HSBC and Toyota. Because I'd developed relationships with international and non-sales leads at kickoff, I knew more about how they could drive a global relationship. Our post-conference conversations built up enough trust so that we could bring them into the sales process early, so they could help us tailor the global deal to each regions unique way of doing business. When I was promoted to Chief Solutions Officer, I looked back at the 2000 sales conference as my launch point.
If you are in business-to-business sales, you'll likely attend a kickoff early next year or Spring. Don't miss out on the opportunity to network and create a solutions web for future clients. The more you know about your company's total capabilities and the unique facets of each market it serves, the better you'll do at creating winning recipes for your customers. Here are some rules of the road for sales kickoff networking:
1. Set A Goal - I decided that I would connect with at least 10 new people during the 3 day kickoff. Having that goal kept me focused on adding at least three people to my network each day. Create your goal based on the unique strategy of your sales organization. If you are focused on global selling, focus on connecting with international attendees. If improving delivery is the goal, focus on connecting with non-sales leads. If sales collaboration is the priority, meet account execs and managers in other markets or product categories.
2. Go Outside Of Your Work Group - You see these colleagues every day, so don't be lazy and hang with them for convenience at kickoff. When you eat, find a new group to join. During breaks, look for friendly but unfamiliar faces. Think wide.
3. Establish Common Ground - During your encounters, seek out connection points. The best ones are common customers, common sales challenges (product/industry) or common sales opportunities. Don't be afraid to connect at the personal interest level either. I've connected over my love of World Cup or electronic music to open up the discussion...usually leading to frank work related conversations.
4. Contract - Strike up some agreement for post-kickoff follow up. It could be information sharing or a conference call based on the business common ground you've established. Don't let new contacts end with the conference. (Now that we all carry smart phones, it's easy to share contacts or simply take a picture of someone's badge or business card for follow up later.)
5. Follow Up - Send a note after you get home, keep any promises you've made and schedule a future time to reconnect. Putting a process around internal networking ensures that you keep the first burning and establish credibility. If you've been told about a concern that needs support or attention, be the messenger and marshal resources ... especially if you work at headquarters and have access to internal influencers and power brokers.
6. Expand From This Base Of New Contacts Over the Coming Year - Ask your new contacts, "Who else should I meet and spend time with?" You'd be surprised at how many introductions they will make, sometimes over email or conference calls. Whatever goal you set for kickoff, add a zero to that number for the networking you'll do over the coming year. The more you grow this circle, the better you'll be able to serve your customers.
The sales kickoff is important beyond any education or product introductions that happen there. They can be the social operating system of a sales driven organization, where loose ends are tied and a company truly comes together as a customer-focused team. Don't waste the opportunity to expand your network ... because it drives your company's net worth!
September 25, 2015
It's that time of year when publishers release copious amounts of business books. You've probably seen them popping up in the airport book shops. As a voracious reader and blurb-giving-author, I have the opportunity to review dozens of them between July and September. My interests range from sales & marketing to leadership to futurism to success. I look for a book that challenges conventional wisdom, offers a rich perspective grounded in fact and most of all, advice that I can put into practice.
This fall, there are three books in particular that I'm excited about and highly recommend:
The Challenger Customer by Brent Adamson, Matt Dixon, Pat Spenner & Nick Toman: This is the follow up to the fantastic Challenger Sale. In this book, the CEB team reveals how difficult it is for companies to buy services or change suppliers. This is due to a rising number of decision makers involved in every major purchase, and the disfunction that comes from diversity of agendas. Their solution is for marketing to create challenger content that acts as "a dog whistle" which attracts mobilizers inside prospect companies. These mobilizers often display signs of skepticism or demand action as go-getters. But they are the key in driving consensus and ultimately change. This is a must-read for any B2B marketing or sales professional. But note: The authors will challenge your current attempts to establish your company as a thought leader with barrages of content. In their eyes, "looking smart" isn't nearly as effective as "proving you are wrong" when it comes to content marketing that finds the mobilizer.
Vaporized by Robert Tercek: This book will take you on a journey of technological disruption, which few companies have mastered. Tercek is a certified futurist, with a career arc that spans from founding MTV International to consulting with the most elite tech and digital media companies in the world. He chronicles the vaporization of print, television and all types of media ... and why companies either found success or failure in the transition. Then he explains that "anything that can be infrastructure will be," using companies like AirBnb to illustrate the unfair advantage that comes from being digital. He reveals insights into the App Economy, Peer-To-Peer media and Big Data. But unlike most futurists, he won't leave you hanging. The end of the book offers a solid blueprint for navigating the vaporization of all things service, and how you can convert disruption into a game changing opportunity.
Grit To Great by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval: This book is all about the power of pluck and determination when it comes to leading others, being an entrepreneur or succeeding in the face of adversity. The authors reveal the attribute that Michael Jordan, Alibaba's Jack Ma and Michael Bloomberg share: Grit. In a world of look-at-me or stand-out-in-a-sea-of-sameness, Thaler and Koval offer a different viewpoint: Grit is about sweat not swagger. You are nothing special. Grit is cultivated over time and is the result of practice and design. The book lays out a series of steps, mostly decisions you need to make, that lead to a higher level of grit, which is easily converted in greatness (confidence, effectiveness, innovativeness). From the Lead To Learn conference, Thaler offers a glimpse into the book's content in this video clip.
September 16, 2015
There are many ways we can improve our ability to drive employee engagement and loyalty. We can pay people more (that doesn't scale), let them off easy (that's bad for business) or play tough-coach with them (that's bad for your employership brand.)
During the course of my career, I've found a better way to manage or lead: Turn up that noticing knob to 11! By that, I mean that we should go out of our way to notice contributions and thoughtful deeds. Giving recognition for the little things makes a big difference, especially for Gen Y (Millennial) employees.
It's not something that comes easy, though. We live in a world where non-stop news cycles, full inboxes and social media clamor for our attention. We work heads down, only noticing that which can be measured. But most contributions at work are not obvious. When one of your employees rallies a team to solve a big problem, do we notice this leadership exercise or do we wait to see if the problem is solved? When someone mentors a co-worker, do we notice that?
Then there's the two clicks down problem of recognition. Too often, we only notice what our direct reports (or favorite employees) do. But a leader should engage with all of her followers, not just the chosen few. At Barton Protective, CEO Tom Ward made a daily practice of "catching someone doing something right!" That's how he practiced management by walking around. Whether it's a custodian or cashier, turn up your noticing knob to spot laudable performances. Recognize people publicly too, as it only magnifies their pride-at-work.
There's a side benefit to turning up your noticing knob: You'll realize how many loyal and talented people you have on your team. Their efforts, noticed, will send a powerful message to you: You are not alone in this battle! This is important for leaders too, because confidence in team translates to confidence in general. And that's rocket fuel.
One way to turn it up: Every morning, instead of jumping on email when you first wake up, take 10 minutes to recollect the previous day to identify someone who's made a contribution worth recognizing. In the beginning, this exercise will identify the same old crowd, but if you do this long enough, heroes at work will emerge from the edges. This practice not only helps you start off your day with an attitude of gratitude, it viscerally forces you to keep your eyes open every day for people that are making a difference.Tweet
August 12, 2015
Ask a strategic consultant about the value of a strong organizational culture and she'll likely remark: "Culture eats strategy for lunch!" Her reasoning is usually based on the consistency of behavior that strong culture creates - enabling every associate to make "the right decision" even when the leader is not around. The name of the game in business growth is scalability, growing steadily without sacrificing consistency in quality (whatever that means to you.)
Org-culture is a conversation, led by leaders, about "how we do things here successfully." It's built up through hiring, on boarding and successions practices. It's reinforced through rituals and stories, often shared at the group level. The more leaders punctuate the conversation with action, the more the followers march in lock step with them.
But here's the problem: Every idea is based on an assumption, and similarly, every culture is based on a set of values. When transparency is a key value, the culture requires sharing information and avoiding secrecy. When someone violates it, they are shunned, punished or coached. The word 'transparency' is often embedded into internal communications and in some cases, the market facing branding. While few would argue against transparency, I would take issue with whether that value is a leader's personal value or a business driver.
The purpose of an organization is to produce customer/member value, which in turn is captured in order to sustain and grow it. If culture drives consistency, then it should be based on values that drive the business by producing a unique value proposition. In other words, your culture-driving values should differentiate a company in a way your customers care about. That's the real reason that culture has become a focal point of leadership development and corporate performance.
When Zappos put a supreme value on "Delivering Customer Happiness," it separated them from other apparel e-commerce providers. They redesigned call center rules, adopting unconventional KPI's to ensure that reps spend ample time with customers and display empathy and a sense of humor. They enforced the culture heavily throughout hiring an on boarding, famously offering briefcases of money to those who were willing to quit (and leave the Happiness Culture). In this case, the value drove the business.
But in too many cases, values are often created in a cramped conference room by over-worked founders or later in the life of the enterprise, by corporate communications during a turnaround. There is little or no formal training on how to vet a value for business output, it's usually just a random process where words or phrases are thrown around until the group forms a consensus.
That's why companies have chosen "Fun" or "Fair" or "Agile" as their values - making them the foundation of the culture they are building. And it's hard to debate the value of fun, fairness or agility from a personal or even professional standpoint. Why not? That's why they are often adopted. But what if the company is in the financial services market, where "Meticulous" is valued by the customer more than "Fun"? What if the company is in a risk-averse business, where customers value "Best-To-Market" instead of "First-To-Market"? In those cases, Fun and Agility are not business drivers, they are pet values, which are likely to build more of a cult than a strong corporate culture.
So here's the prescription: Test the values that you base your culture on for business value. If you choose "Honesty" for example, ask yourself, "is this a market space where deceit is a customer concern? Is this a lead story in our industry?" If it is, then this value will drive the business through differentiation. If not, then you are basing your culture on a foundation that could lead to a me-too market position. If your competitors are honest, then why is this a business driver value and not just "good business practice"?
You might be thinking, "What's the harm in including obviously good values in our culture mix? Why exclude "Fun" or "Honesty"? I thought that way too for a long time, but when I went to work in human resources, where values are a part of the talent lifecycle, I realized that you have to pick your battles, and limit yourself to a manageable group of norms you want to create.
Limit yourself to 3-5 values, the less the better. Much like phone numbers or login passwords, the longer the list, the harder it is to call up when you need them. Culture is all about living a set of values everyday, and if you throw in the kitchen sink, your associates will have to pick and choose, and that's where a culture starts to get weak (read: inconsistent).
It's never too late to go through the business driver value process with your team. If it leads to a new conversation about "how we do things around here moving forward," it just may help your company jump out of the pile, and rise to the top of the customer's mind. Just like a company can outgrow its founders, an organization can also outgrow its founding values.
Note: The recent holocracy movement at Zappos is based on the founder's value of self-management. It's yet to be seen as to whether that's a pet value or a business driver (their relative customer experience levels will be lifted). In the long run, the fate of the company's market position will be an acid test of my theory about picking personal or business centric values to base a culture on.
Watch: Culture Is A Conversation by Tim SandersTweet
August 05, 2015
Napoleon Bonaparte believed that the leader's role is "to define reality, then give hope." Within this prescription lies a formidable challenge to leaders. How can you focus on the challenges and opportunities of today and, at the same time, maintain the spirit and effectiveness to lead your team forward?
In today's business environment, there are high hurdles that stand between you and leadership success. The ability to leap over them through lifestyle design and talent development separates the truly effective from the ambitious or charismatic. The three hurdles are:
Distraction: Today's technology makes it nearly impossible to work without distraction. Think about right now. Some of you are reading this post, and will stop to check your email that just dinged. Before you can get back to reading this, a text comes through on your smart phone, requiring a quick call. After it, you return to grazing on a budget spreadsheet, which you were working on before you booted your internet browser, clicked around and found this article. Sound familiar? You may call this multi-tasking, but really, it's LWD (Leading While Distracted).
SOLUTION: Work on one task at a time. Turn off email notifications and instead, schedule times during the day to read-respond (and only do that during that time!). Put your smart phone in Airplane Mode. Push back on anyone that invades your scheduled focus time. For more on this, read Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
Abstraction: Too often, leaders rely on verbal communication to convey complex ideas. They often do this via email or written memos. Words often don't work, and in turn, there is confusion, requiring you to repeat the attempt and grow frustrated. You cannot define reality or give hope if you cannot reduce abstractions into concrete ideas. Your bullet point slides don't solve the problem, they just summarize your wordy attempts to get through.
SOLUTION: Show them, don't tell them. Find visual ways to express your ideas. You can find images on Google or iStockPhoto. Better yet, create prototypes of a proposed process or product. They could be simple diagrams or rough sketches. At innovation consultancy IDEO there's a saying: A prototype is worth 1000 meetings. For more, read Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work by Dan Roam.
Dissatisfaction: This is the highest hurdle, especially if you've been leading for a while. Skillsoft's Taavo Godtfredsen has spent time with hundreds of leaders and leadership experts during his career and has discovered that career dissatisfaction (burnout, resentment) is a supreme challenge to effectiveness. Long after the luster of the title and power has faded, the pressures of leading and chasing made up goals crushes the best of leaders. Never assume you'll stay motivated!
SOLUTION: Find work-life balance, even if it means more delegation. Design you lifestyle to recharge your spirit as well as physical health. Revisit the purpose of your organization, and periodically read your 'fan mail' to understand the significance of your work. For more, read Fully Charged: The 3 Keys To Energizing Your Work and Life by Tom Rath.
July 07, 2015
Years ago, I discovered a technique for converting every meeting, conversation or interaction into a success-building opportunity. I followed a maxim, taught to me as a child: Everywhere you go, always bring a gift. It had long been a part of my social style, but when I applied this to my business life, success quickly followed.
Whether you are a leader, manager, sales professional or entrepreneur ... gifting drives success.
You see, success is not a place you arrive at, but instead, a direction you traverse over your career. That direction is forward, where everyday brings new opportunities and produces incremental progress. During each day, most of us have several interactions with other people: Associates, customers, prospects, partners, suppliers and people we meet in transit or at events. Too often, we treat these transactionally, as opposed to looking at them as opportunities to give to others. If we instead inject a gift into each conversation, we deepen relationships, build our brand and create momentum.
There are two key gifts you can bring to every conversation, and both are intangible (and scalable):
If you always bring a gift to conversations, you'll deliver high Return on Attention to others. You'll find that they value time with you, they want to introduce you to their connections as well. After all, you've differentiated yourself from the rest of the pack, which often brings needs, complaints or give-and-takism to their conversations. Besides standing out, you'll find that in most cases, your gift is reciprocated with helpful advice and encouragement, just when you yourself needed it the most.
Video Clip: Everywhere You Go, Bring a Gift (from his BBST 2015 keynote)
April 01, 2015
Too many <entrepreneurial> people I know are constantly multi-tasking in their careers.
Sure, when Benjamin Franklin endorsed pursuing "a network of enterprises," he was promoting career and interest diversity. It was good for our creative thinking. But he emphasized they be "networked" with each other.
Lately, I've wondered if our constant spreading out of business ventures is good for our level of quality. Some have a career consulting, supplanted by writing, overlaid with blogging, and then they develop myriad products on top of that. The result? A thinner voice and less you can sink your teeth into.
I've taken a new approach lately: My projects must feed each other to remain on my calendar. Since I've started writing my next book (more on that later), you might have noticed that I've stopped blogging. In fact, this is just a short break from my singular focus on the book to tell you I'm alive and well...and that I'm trying a new tact in life by focusing on the book above all.
Sure, I still do my speaking engagements (which have either been about Love Is the Killer App principles or my new book subject). But other ventures, not so much.
You should give this a try also. Look at your calendar or your To-Do list or your project list and ask yourself: Are they all connected to the point that work on one improves the quality of the other?
This is beyond time management. It's about the quality of our work in a try-everything society.Tweet
October 21, 2014
It's late October, the heart of the Fall season where we finish off the year and set strategies for the next one. Of all months, it's the crunch one that counts. By mid-November, you are into the holiday season and before you know it, January is pressing down on you asking, "What have you done for us lately."
You are only as strong as the voices around you. You think you can resist their message, but you are only human, and will succumb to their tone eventually. Everywhere you turn, there are voices broadcasting gloom, doom and misery. Your attention might be trapped by current events (Disease, Recession, War, etc.) and you can't focus. You are unable to work-on-your-work.
As a leader, you are flailing at your job. Napoleon Bonaparte was often quoted as saying that, "the leader's role is to define reality, then give hope." And those voices go way beyond recognizing reality - the crush hope by conjuring up end-0f-your-world messages. Those voices are often internalized, becoming your voice...which is not moving the conversation at work forward.
You are only as hopeful as the people you listen to. Think about the voices around you: The cable newscaster, the radio announcer, the people at work, the stars/celbs you follow, your social media feed. Are these positive or negative voices in your head? Are you getting smarter and better at your job from ALL of them?
You should be as careful as to what you put into your head as what you put into your mouth. Voices of doom are toxic to your confidence and creative thinking capacity. So vanquish them. Shun them. Dismiss them. Ignore them.
Although all of that sounds simple enough, you'll have a hard time managing these voices. So let me help you. First, turn off the TV. These days it is literally the boob tube. There is NOTHING there for your as a leader or a contributor. Next, scrutinize the radio shows and podcasts you listen to. Are they constructive, helpful or are they newsy (bad, mostly). Keep listening to just the ones that pass the "reality, then hope" sniff test.
Next, reduce your time grazing online. Whether it's blogs, news websites of social media networks...there's bad stuff out there waiting to infect your mind and drag you down. I'm only on facebook these days to post helpful content. Any time spent surfing leads to Ebola or stock market or ISIS hysteria and various link-baiting headlines on fear-aggregation sites. Be intentional about how you use the internet...make it a tool and not a mentally carciogenic habit.
Finally, clean house when it comes to the people you hang out with at work, home and in your community. Give them a warning, and if they persist beating the drum, cut them off. You can't be any good to anyone when you let them bring you down.
Managers: Don't reward Chicken Little for his or her declarations that the sky if falling. They aren't adding value. Tell them, "You can't be freaked out enough to improve our Customer experience 1%!." In fact, it's during times of turmoil that all the great innovative leaps happen (read Hanging Tough for the proof.) This is your time to shine, not shirk in horror.
If you feed your mind good stuff, even during these times, you will be part of the solution instead of a source of the problem. See this video (Chicken Little Must Fry!) for a clip of me talking about a potential solution for managers at embattled companies during tough times.
September 25, 2014
If you've attended a conference or visited the business section of a bookstore recently, you've likely been encouraged to bring your creativity to work. There are dozens of books out, promising help you get unstuck and start your creative juices flowing. Almost half of the lectures involve a discussion on the pressing need to be innovative and creative to survive. A recent piece on this in the New Yorker (Creativity Creep) quotes a 2010 IBM study of 1500 executives to identified creativity as the #1 attribute they valued in employees.
It makes sense, actually. The business world is more complicated and turbulent than ever, putting pressure on everyone to "think outside the box." This reminds me of all the marketing and branding books that came out at the turn of the 21st century, along with the proclamation that "Everyone is in the marketing department now!" The best of those books (The End of Marketing As We Know It) finally defined marketing functionally, which empowered readers to actually become effective at it.
We are at that point with the business creativity boom. We know we need to be creative. What most people aren't clear on is as to exactly what the heck 'being creative' means in a business context. I'm writing a new book on creativity in the sales process and doing quite a bit of research along the way. I've been looking for a very practical definition of creativity that applies to professional life. And I think I've found a good one.
In The Handbook of Creativity, Cornell professor Robert Sternberg offered a crystal clear business-centric definitinon of creativity: "The ability to produce work that is both novel (unexpected) as well as appropriate to the situation (useful)." While other creativity experts argue that any new idea should be deemed creative, I like Sternberg's framing of the concept. Like any other piece of business acumen, the proof is in the pudding.
If you are creative at work, you produce the unexpected, the new...but it solves the problem and doesn't produce complications. Notice I didn't say that creativity required completely original ideas as there is no such thing. It's all about approaches that are unexpected.
The reason we need to produce unexpected work (processes, products, ideas) is because people quickly develop tolerance to our expected approaches (often termed "best practices"). Think of the joke that you laughed at the first time you heard it, chuckled a little the second time you heard it and then didn't even respond the third time you heard it. That's how a prospecting or closing technique plays out with customers. That's how products become stale with customers, creating opportunities for incumbents to be disrupted with a fresh approach.
The opposite of creative thinking is reproductive thinking. This is where you use a conventional approach to reproduce success. Your tried-and-true products yields customer delight. Your conventional sales tactics yield revenues. In the past, best practices had a long shelf life. Companies could hatch them quicker than customers grew tired of them. But those days are long gone. To be successful, we have to take it upon ourself to produce the solution and not just rinse-and-repeat.
What does it take to produce unexpected work that is appropriate to the problem at hand? Sternberg points out that creative work stems from ordinary thought processes that happen to produce extraordinary results. It's not divine inspriation or genius thought processes. Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile describes creativity as the "Confluence of intrinsic motivation, domain-relevant knowledge and creativity-relevant skills." That's it.
If you care enough, learn enough and develop chops relevant to the problem space, you can produce creative work. You can solve the problems that stand between you and success. Creativity requires a lot of hard work on your part, and it starts with a clear understanding of your product, your customer and the processes that drive your business. If you have the motivation to do all of this work, the fresh and useful ideas will emerge.
In the end, regardless of your desires or effort, you'll need to be objective about the efficacy of your ideas. You need to be able to test them for usefulness and be ready to jettison the out-of-the-box-never-been-done-before ideas that don't solve the problem. They aren't creative. They are merely imaginative and that's not what the CEOs in IBM's study were looking for in their talents.
To borrow from designer Tim Gunn's lexicon, "Be the new, but make it work!"Tweet
September 09, 2014
Quick, name a Hall Of Fame player that was also a head coach. It's quite rare, actually. but if you take this test on a company's sales or product group, the answer would be different. We often graduate the rock stars of business to middle management and beyond. That's the bench strength program of the average organization.
Too often, though, the Peter Principle applies as the new manager struggles to make the leap from Rock Star to Director. Why? Because most stars are deeply scripted to focus on their personal improvement above all, so they can outwit and outlast. Many stars are also good team players, but that's more about the give-and-take of strategy than it is coaching.
Occasionally a star player exhibit's otherish tendencies, and that's when and only when they should be promoted to coach the team (manage a group). Michael Jordan, who should know, once said: "It's one thing to get better and better, it's another to make everyone around you better."
To offer a football analogy (It's Fall, after all), that's why so many of the top coaches in history were not rock star players: Bill Belichick, Tom Landry, Pete Carroll, Nick Saban, etc. Sure, they all played football in college, but they were not Pro Bowl caliber. Why were they selected to lead others? In every case, they were spotted as having two key coaching talents early on: They lifted up others' performance and had a high football IQ.
That's what should drive our management assignments. We should learn to ignore the individual performance and zero in on that leadersish style, combined with a strong sense of the business. When Jordan talks about the ability to "make everyone else better," he's talking about the ability to deliver the following:
Marcus Buckingham, co-author of the management classic First Break All the Rules, directly applies this thinking to cube-farm living. He once told me that the superstars soar with their strengths, while the average performers struggle to conquer their weaknesses. The superstar manger, on the other hand, it the one that focuses the superstar on his or her strength to begin with.
Here's the takeaway for leaders and HR professionals: Before you promote that superstar to the next level, question his or her leadership strengths. You might be robbing the system of several more years of top production, just to fill a mangement role with a strong resume. What you are looking for will not usually show up on paper, which means your ability to pick managers is going to be driven by your eagle-eye on others' ability to lift up others rather than break records.Tweet


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Germany's oldest zoo was opened in 1841 to designs by Martin Lichtenstein and Peter Joseph Lenné. With almost 14,000 creatures, it's one of the world's most important zoos, with more endangered species in its collection than any in Europe except Antwerp's. It's beautifully landscaped, with lots of architectural oddities, and there are plenty of places for a coffee, beer or snack. Enter the aquarium from within the zoo or through its own entrance at Budapester Strasse 32 by the Elephant Gate. More than 500 species are arranged over three floors, and it's a good option for a rainy day. On the ground floor are the fish (including some impressive sharks); on the first you'll find reptiles (the crocodile hall is the highlight); while insects and amphibians occupy the second. The dark corridors and liquid ambience, with tanks lit from within and curious aquarian creatures floating by, are as absorbing as an art exhibit. Elsewhere, the baby polar bear Knut has become one of Berlin's major tourist attractions.
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But does Quad SLI live up to its practically built-in hype? Can running four GPUs in tandem catapult you into a zone of pure extremeness, where new frames flow like water, object edges are feathery smooth, and textures are so perfectly mapped to surfaces that you're utterly convinced they're real?
I dunno. I'm just making this stuff up as I go along. But we have tested Quad SLI in order to see what it's like to play games on a quad-GPU system. We've also popped open the metaphorical hood on Quad SLI to see how it works. Along the way, we found a few unexpected things, as well.
Quad SLI basics
You may remember the 7950 GX2 from our review of it a while back. The GX2 has two G71 graphics processors onboard, each with its own 512MB pool of memory. This product is essentially "SLI on a stick," a dual-GPU solution that plugs into a single PCIe x16 slot. All by itself, the GeForce 7950 GX2 is the fastest "single" video card on the market. Quad SLI involves taking a pair of these cards and running them together in an SLI configuration, bringing the grand totals involved to four G71 GPUs, 96 pixel shader processors, 2GB of DDR3 memory, 153.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and over $1100 in video cards alone.
We wanted to outfit our test system with this outrageous config, and we already had a BFG Tech 7950 GX2 from our initial GX2 review. Fortunately, MSI offered us its version of the GeForce 7950 GX2 for review, and we were in business.
As you might have guessed, the MSI NX7950GX2 is quite a nice video card. It comes with all of the requisite cables and plug converters, has HDCP support, and ships with CyberLink PowerCinema for movie playback. MSI also includes a copy of the King Kong movie game, just to make a point. We had no problem throwing this card into a Quad SLI configuration with our BFG Tech card. (SLI brand commingling has been kosher for a while now.)
You will need an exceptionally fast CPU and an SLI-ready motherboard for a Quad SLI rig. We chose the Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe for its ability to host an Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor. The other big concern with Quad SLI, naturally, is finding an adequate power supply. We chose an OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU for our test system, which just so happens to be on Nvidia's list of SLI-certified PSUs. I would give you some more general PSU specification recommendations for Quad SLI systems, but Nvidia seems to prefer pointing folks to its list of certified power supplies for this application.
With this bundle of components, we were able to set up a Quad SLI system with relatively little drama. Unlike some early Quad SLI configurations that came from system builders, going quad with a pair of GX2s requires only one SLI bridge connector between the two cards.
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Julia is in my Lincoln family tree as the daughter of James Ward Lincoln and wife of Elhanan King That is the same information that someone added to the memorial. So I would say her maiden name is definitely Lincoln
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Hi Sandra,
Thank you so much for creating and adding the additional info for this memorial. This is a person on the far reaches of my tree, so no need to transfer to me. Just came across the info and thought I'd add it for others since she was a tad hard to uncover due to several misspellings in various records.
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Hi Sandra,
You wouldn't by chance know where Almira Cahoon (Hoit), the sister of Louisa Currier, is buried somewhere in the area of Green Lake county? I have had luck finding most of her family, but Almira Cahoon and another sister whose married name is possibly Frances F. Cahoon (Hoit), have been tough to find. Almira and husband William are on the 1860 plat map there near her farm and that of her father Joseph and brother Nathan, but then (?).
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I'll correct. Some trees list his birth in New York and some Canada and when I saw the immigration from New York to Canada for a Thomas Harrington Jr. I didn't pay enough attention to the date. Which spelling is correct, Herrington or Harrington?
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Sandi awoke. Hard to believe that I released a mischievous genie yesterday, she thought. She got out of bed, and walked to her door. She opened it and looked down the hall towards the guest bedroom, where Jean was supposedly sleeping. Maybe I should have had asked her whether she has to sleep or not, she thought. She gathered her clothes and towel out of the closet and went to the bathroom.
Stacy was racing along in a tremendous hurry, indeed as she turned a corner she crashed into Daria. They both fell, with Stacy ending up on top of Daria.
Stacy, Watch where you are going!
Oh! Im so
Stacy said, in apology, starting to hyperventilate as she got up. Daria also got to her feet.
No big problem, just watch out. A car might be backing out. I also must say that Quinn and Tiffany are waiting. They may have already started without you.
Oh no! I hope that they will fill me in on what they have discussed. Sometimes when I am late to a Fashion Club meeting, Sandi wont tell me what I have missed.
I am sure that they will. Tiffany only got there 5 -10 minutes ago, at just about the same time that I left.
Stacy thought for a moment. Good! Bye, Stacy said. She then ran off towards the Morgendorffers house.
Daria looked back at the hurrying Stacy. I hope she doesnt crash into anyone else. She then continued towards Casa Lane (as Jane called her house).
Back at the Griffins, Sam Griffin (the middle child) saw Sandi go into the bathroom. Time for some investigating, he thought. He then tip-toed to Chriss door and looked inside. He saw that his brother was still asleep. Good, I can investigate without his annoying interference.
He then went into Sandis room...
He soon found what he was looking for, the emerald! What is so special about this stone, that Sandi is suddenly carrying it wherever she goes? he thought. He gave it a rub, and then another. When Jean appeared out of thin air, sitting on Sandis bed, he was frightened out of his wits!
Eep! He let out as he promptly fell to the floor.
Stacy narrowly avoided being hit by a car that was backing out as she ran along the Glen Oaks Lane sidewalk. Watch where you are going! the driver said.
Sorry! Stacy shouted back. She could now see the Morgendorffer residence up ahead.
When Sam came to, he could see Jean sitting at Sandis computer. You know, Sam, this internet is very interesting. It is a veritable treasure trove of information from all around the world, where people can communicate without knowing each others real names. Oh, I also gave your family a free broadband connection rather than that rather slow dial up she said.
So you are a genie?
Sandi found this and you are now granting her wishes?
She found it on Wednesday. I started granting her wishes yesterday, after she was scared in a similar manner to you.
Really? Sam asked. He thought about it. I remember Jean arriving on Wednesday, but I didnt actually see her until yesterday. I guess that the exchange student cover was a wish by Sandi.
Yes. There was some chaos occurring at the High School as a result, but nothing too serious, Jean said.
What sort of chaos? Sam asked, now curious.
Oh, pool water in classrooms, people floating in the air, time anomalies... Jean said.
Sam was surprised. Oh, I guess Sandi would do those things, if she had reason, he said.
No, that was me being mischievous. I made Sandi float in the air and later filled her English classroom with water. Sandi wished for Voice Recognition software, and for better bowling skills, Jean said.
I can believe that, Sam said, remembering most of the Griffin family bowling games where Sandi would get a low score compared to the rest of the family.
So, do you wish for anything? You do have the emerald, anyone holding it has unlimited wishes.
Sam thought for a moment, he was sure of one thing. He didnt want Chris to share in whatever he wished up. Ok, I wish for a scale model of this house made of LEGO.
Granted, Jean said, with the usual gesture and sound. A large LEGO model of the Griffin residence appeared in the middle of the room.
Cool! Sam said as he looked at the LEGO model, looked very much like the house, the bricks having the same colours as the bricks and tiles of the house. He looked into the window that corresponded to Sandis room. He could see a couple of LEGO people, dressed like him and Jean and a model of the model.
Samuel Josiah Griffin! Sandi had returned to the room. What are you, like, doing in my room? she asked, with her voice raised, though not quite shouting.
Jean! Did you tell him? the look on Sandis face implied that she knew what the answer was going to be, but wanted it anyway.
Sam! Give me the Emerald! Sandi said, she jumped over the LEGO model, and began wrestling with Sam for the emerald...
This will be interesting, Jean thought.
Stacy ran up to the Morgendorffers front door and pounded on it. Quinn quickly opened the door. Relax. Stacy; Tiff and I havent discussed anything yet, she said.
What is all that racket? Jake asked as he came down the stairs.
Oh my gosh! Did I wake him? Stacy thought to herself. Oh no! Did I
you, Mr Morgendorffer?
Jake could see Stacys distress. Dont worry. I was up. I have a meeting with a client at nine, he said.
Thats ok. Stacy said as she entered the house. What have you been talking about? she continued.
Oh, we have been comparing Mario and Sonic, about how they are so heroic in defending the innocent from Bowser and Dr Robotnik, Quinn said, as she lead the way into the living room.
Sounds cool, but dont the fans of those two series dont like each other? Stacy thought. Cool! I hope you havent been fighting... she said.
Why would we be fighting? Quinn asked.
I heard that Nintendo fans and Sega fans dont exactly get along, Stacy said.
That was news to Quinn. Ok, she said as she entered the kitchen.
First order of business, I need to tell you of a horrifying possibility. Two actually, Quinn said.
What are these horrifying possibilities? Stacy asked.
Either Sandis Mom or Ms. Li could get their hands on the emerald! Quinn said.
Oh no! Stacy said, as she hyperventilated yet again. She fainted onto the kitchen table.
I knew this would happen, Quinn said, as she got up.
Why bring it up? Tiffany asked.
Because we need to consider the possibility! Quinn said, as she tried to revive Stacy.
Sandi managed to grab the emerald off Sam. Ha! You little brat! she said as she climbed onto the bed. Her hair was a mess, but she could see that Sams pyjama top was torn.
I wont tell anyone. Mom and Dad wouldnt believe it anyway and why would I tell Chris? He sucks!
Sandi thought about the last sentiment. Why
her brothers get along? Life would have been a lot easier if their sibling rivalry wasnt so intense. Thats good. Now, like, get out of here!
What about the LEGO model? Sam asked. The LEGO in question disappeared. What! he continued.
It is now in your room, Jean said.
Good! Sam said Ill see you at breakfast, he said to his sister, as he went out of her room. Sandi closed the door.
It is only a matter of time until the rest of your family finds out, Sandi. I suspect that it would be Chris next. I am sure that he would be more of a blabber than Sam, Jean said.
Sandi leaned against the door. I shudder to think of what might happen if Mom found out! she lamented.
Jean shuddered on the bed. She would certainly change Lawndale for the worse! she said.
Good that she agrees with me on that! Sandi thought. She considered her next action. She needed some way of keeping track of the wishes that were made. She then thought of such a way. She was still holding the emerald. I wish that all of the wishes that have been, like, granted by you and this emerald since yesterday until further notice would be recorded somehow, She said.
Thats easy, Jean said, and granted the wish. A book appeared on Sandis bed. Sandi went over and picked it up.
Book of Granted Wishes, she read from the cover. She opened the book and saw a list of granted wishes starting from the second page.
List of Wishes granted on September 18, 1999
Sandi Griffin wishes for: Jean Jenner to be remembered by Tom, Linda, Sam and Chris Griffin as an exchange student.
Sandi Griffin wishes for: Jean Jenner to be in all relevant enrolment records at Lawndale High.
Sandi Griffin wishes for: All the computers at Lawndale High to have voice recognition software and the components necessary for that software to work
Sandi Griffin wishes for: Jean Jenner to know what to say to Principal Angela Li
Sandi Griffin wishes for: Herself to be let down by Jean!
Sandi Griffin wishes for: An extra floor on Lawndale Highs Science Block
Sandi Griffin wishes for: Herself to be elsewhere in Lawndale High
Sandi Griffin wishes for: Herself to be in her next class
Sandi Griffin wishes for: The water in the classroom and the corridor outside to go back into the pool
Sandi Griffin wishes for: The people in and just outside of the Language Arts classroom would be dry, that their clothes, hair, books and stationary would be as if they had not been underwater.
Sandi Griffin wishes for: Time to slow down for a while
Sandi Griffin wishes for: Help with Ten Pin Bowling
List of Wishes granted (so far) on September 19, 1999
Sam Griffin wishes for: A LEGO model of the Griffin Residence
Sandi Griffin wishes for: A way of recording wishes made since September 18, 1999
Cool, Sandi said. She put the book and the emerald next to the computer. Now I have to get ready again! she said as she went out of the room. Jean sighed.
Quinn handed Stacy a piece of toast with strawberry jam on it. You know that this has carbs, right? she said.
It is healthy, unlike cheese. Anyway, as I was saying earlier, we need to consider the possibility of Ms Li or Mrs Griffin gaining control of the emerald, and what we need to do then, Quinn said.
But, Qui-inn, we havent figured out what to do about Sand-di having the gen-nie yet! Tiffany said.
She has a point, Quinn, Stacy said.
That is true, Quinn said. She then asked Stacy to recount their discussion from the previous afternoon.
Of course, Stacy said, taking out a notebook.
Good thing she has eidetic memory, Quinn thought as Stacy began.
Daria arrived at Janes house and knocked on the door. There was no answer. Maybe she is still asleep, she thought. She knew that Jane wasnt a morning person, often requiring coffee to properly function. She found that the front door was unlocked. figures, Trent forgot to lock the door, she thought.
Jane was on level 156 of
when Daria entered her room. Did you and Trent play games all night? Daria asked.
A ghost got Janes Pac-Man, bringing an end to the game. Yo Amiga! Jane said, getting up stiffly and ensuring that she didnt disturb the sleeping form of Trent not that it would wake him anyway, she mused.
Not all night, just the last hour and a half. I couldnt sleep and he had come back from practice with Mystik Spiral. He fell asleep, of course.
Of course, Daria said. To say that Trent Lane fell asleep was practically a tautology.
So, what is this about a Genie and what has it got to do with what happened at school yesterday? Jane asked.
Mom asked us about what happened at school and Quinn says that she wouldnt believe it, Daria said.
Mom then asked Quinn why wouldnt she believe it, and Quinn said that the events were
fantastical, which they were, Daria began. She then repeated everything else that Quinn said (with more sardonic commentary).
Jane then told Daria about Tom and herself running into Sandi and Jean at the bowling alley and her 11th birthday present from Trent.
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Less than 30 minutes from Montréal, as you enter the Laurentides, this club is known for its magnificent scenic views. You'll be equally delighted with the warm welcome extended by the Alarie family. Golfing fun in an enchanting setting!Course: 18 holes - 6,000 yards - par 72
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Situated in a tranquil area overlooking the Yangtze River, The Westin Wuhan Wuchang forms part of the Wuhan Wanda Center, a popular shopping and dining destination. It is also within easy reach of numerous corporate offices as well as the city center. Evening entertainment abounds in Wuhan, especially on colorful Jiqing Street, home to many intriguing restaurants, street food served from pushcarts, and street performers.
The bustling city of Wuhan is the provincial capital of central China's Hubei Province. Dating back some 3,500 years, this city is deemed one of China's cultural gems. Wuhan is home to numerous museums and landmarks, including the Hubei Provincial Museum, which showcases fascinating artifacts, ancient music, and dance performances. Also worth a visit is the Rock and Bonsai Museum, featuring a collection of mounted stones and a peaceful outdoor bonsai garden.
For panoramic city views overlooking the Yangtze River, visit the famous Yellow Crane Tower. Dating back to 223 AD, this historic landmark is one of the Four Great Towers of China. Along with examining its displays and age-old inscriptions, visitors can also strike the temple's large bell. More serenity can be found at the Guiyuan Buddhist Temple, an important shrine with splendid architecture and sculptures.
Wuhan has the largest lake within any city in China. Perfect for nature lovers, East Lake boasts many scenic spots along its shores including verdant parks, plum gardens, a bamboo forest, a bird sanctuary, and recreation areas.
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- Yellow Crane Tower 3.2 km/2.0 miles
- Hubei Provincial Museum 8.1 km/5.0 miles
- Central China Normal University 8.3 km/5.2 miles
- Wuhan University 8.5 km/5.3 miles
- Guiyuan Buddhist Temple 10.6 km/6.6 miles
- Huazhong University of Science & Technology 14.6 km/9.1 miles
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- Yangtze River 0.0 km/0.0 miles
- Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge 0.5 km/0.3 miles
- Mao Zedong Villa 2.0 km/1.2 miles
- East Lake 8.0 km/5.0 miles
Nearby Destinations
- Wuhan City Center 6.9 km/4.3 miles
- Jiefang Avenue 20.0 km/12.4 miles
- Wuhan Department Store 9.0 km/5.6 miles
- Wuhan World Trade Plaza 9.5 km/5.9 miles
- Wuhan Plaza 9.6 km/6.0 miles
- Wuhan Lingjiaohu Wanda Plaza 10.0 km/6.2 miles
- Wuchang Railway Station 5.0 km/3.1 miles
- Hankou Railway Station 11.0 km/6.8 miles
- Wuhan High Speed Railway 20.9 km/13.0 miles
- Wuhan Tianhe International Airport 35.0 km/21.8 miles
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Wow, was that a dramatic month or what! I quit my job, went to India for vacation, had a gala time in Goa/Gokarna and still managed to read about 6 books. I am back in Seattle now. The annoying thing about traveling is, once you start it, it is hard to stop. Now I am itching to travel in the US, but alas, it is expensive. :( You can see how the automobile/aviation industry has altered the course of travel in the US by how expensive and time-consuming it is to travel from Seattle to Portland, if you do not posses a car or are traveling by air. Anyone "backpacking" in the US will definitely feel like a 5-star tourist in Asia and elsewhere. I guess, I would have to make do with exploring Seattle!
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When I met Udhay Shankar in Bangalore, he was cleaning out his book shelves to make way for new books and I scored this book and the First book of Mazlan. Orion is a pretty interesting story of science-fiction/mythology/fantasy. It tells the story of God-like beings who have evolved from men over several centuries and their attempt to control their "destiny" by meddling in the evolution of humanity. It sounds complicated, but it is all explained very engrossingly well (with a romantic side-story to the boot).
Midnight Tides: First book of Mazlan
Every page of this book reminds me of Dune and Call of the Cthulu mainly for the flowery, fawning prose used to describe the protagonists. If you really love fantasy, you might like this book, but it is not for the mildly curious.
Making things happen
I am an avid reader of Scott Berkun's blog, but never read any of his books till recently. Making Things Happen is the newer edition of The Art of Project Management. It does not matter if you are freelancing, or work in a start-up or a big company, every word that Scott mentions is worth thinking about how to translate to your day to day work. What I love about his writing is he attempts to write without bias, and indicates bias when he does think there is one (and not to mention the solid work of references and footnotes). I wish all writers wrote in this manner. My only complaint is, some of the "failures" he cites from his experience did not seem like failures to me (maybe they do to someone else in a similar position). This book makes me think Scott Berkun must be quarter vulcan :)
Universal Design
I was given this book by Matt May (and I had him sign it in Arabic :) It is a very short book, that you can quite possibly read within a hour or so. The trouble with technical books, such as this one, is that by the time it gets published, it goes out of date. The authors have tried to mitigate it somewhat, but unfortunately, web standards are in a constant state of flux.
All the examples use the XHTML Strict doctype, though I would have appreciated if a rationale was given why they went with it. This slim book, also has code examples that are two pages long, which are best shared online than on paper (and probably could have been used to explain ARIA more?). I also think, a book about Universal Design, could also have covered a bit on RDFa or Microdata.
This is a good book for anyone who has this question "WTF is Accessibility?", but I do not think it addresses anything beyond that. I wish it did though.
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It is a collection of essays and articles by Ruskin Bond about his life in Landour. Some of these are outrageous (like when he describes seducing a teenage girl) but somehow it all sounds normal when he describes them. There is, as always, an underlying thread of melancholy for times that have gone by. This book is a good read on a lazy sunday afternoon, when your thoughts turn towards the good times you had as a school-going kid.
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This is a very thin book, and I should warn you that the book is literally what the title says - a story. The book feels like one of those stories your annoying grandpa has the habit of narrating just when you have something important to work on (and you feel guilty for not listening). It has some interesting insights about how the staple food of India came about, but unfortunately there are no footnotes or references for any of the statements he makes. Thankfully, there is a set of 10 reference books at the end which should likely throw more light on the history of Indian cooking.


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The first person up can make a cuppa on the gas stove and light the coal burning stove if it's chilly.
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STANFORD, Calif. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, is a devastatingly cruel neurodegenerative disorder that robs sufferers of the ability to move, speak and, finally, breathe. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes have used baker's yeast a tiny, one-celled organism to identify a chink in the armor of the currently incurable disease that may eventually lead to new therapies for human patients.
"Even though yeast and humans are separated by a billion years of evolution, we were able to use the power of yeast genetics to identify an unexpected potential drug target for ALS," said Aaron Gitler, PhD, an associate professor of genetics at Stanford. "Many neurodegenerative disorders such as ALS, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's exhibit protein clumping or misfolding within the neurons that is thought to either cause or contribute to the conditions. We are trying to figure out why these proteins aggregate in neurons in the brain and spinal cord, and what happens when they do."
In 2008, Gitler received a New Innovator award from the National Institutes of Health to use yeast as a model for understanding human neurodegenerative diseases and as a way to identify new targets for drug development.
Gitler is the co-senior author of the research, which will be published online Oct. 28 in Nature Genetics. Robert Farese, Jr., MD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, is the other co-senior author. Stanford graduate student Maria Armakola shares co-first authorship with Matthew Higgins, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar at Gladstone.
Most cases of ALS have no clear-cut cause. However, it has recently been shown that an RNA-binding protein called TDP-43 accumulates in clumps in the cytoplasm of spinal cord neurons in many people with the condition, and mutations in this protein have been found in some people with the ALS. Researchers li
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