tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22019274546370129252024-03-13T09:11:46.210-07:00John Mulhall - The BloggerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473035330973397048noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2201927454637012925.post-73338039351782907472017-10-10T06:41:00.000-07:002017-10-10T06:41:30.656-07:00Learned Lessons – Developing a MVC 9V2.0 Full Stack ASP.NET Application called MulderbertPX<h3>
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experience from being on the team at College for V1.0 and then doing V2.0 as a
solo developer!</span> </h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So, yesterday I was a very satisfied Software
Developer for finishing the development and launching <a href="http://mulderbertpx.azurewebsites.net/">MulderbertPX</a>, the V2.0 release
of the full stack ASP.NET application. This release brings it to the next stage
of its development as a project. You may have seen this trailer for yesterday’s
application launch on Github and Azure, which was going around Social Media
sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The application’s stack is a nice full
stack iteration I would recommend to anybody developing a Minimum Viable
Product (MVP) and is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Layer</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">ASP.NET in C# using cool features like
@Razor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Layer</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Native XML DB for Contacts & SQL Server
for Customer Details/Transactions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Azure Cloud Deployment with configuration
at Storage and Network layer making the application more efficient and secure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So, yesterday’s launch was totally awesome
but what’s new in general terms for V2.0? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Application Reengineered from a Database First design</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> –</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> I re-engineered the application with data modelling (database)
tables moved up-to the application layer as modelling Enums.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>The V2.0 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">code first</i> approach and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MVC
design pattern </i>made sense as a redesign decision given the decreased
pressure on database calls for information in processing transactions in
particular. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">More Structured Data</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> – </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">Data generation for transactions has been mainly transferred from database
tables to app layer Enums, which also provides flexibility for future
development direction keeping data accuracy high and customer effort low. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Database Redesigned</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> - </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">As I’m still a poor student
in spirit (and pocket), I could not afford to have a larger SQL Server instance
on Azure so a thrifty architecture for the application made sense making the
SQL Server instance as small as possible. By Microsoft Azure’s pricing tiers
go, I cannot make the database resource any smaller, which is good news for my
empty pockets and also good direction for anybody looking to develop an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Minimum Viable Product (MVP)!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The new features for this re-engineering
orientated release is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stages (768px/500px) of responsiveness are styled so this MVC application can
render just enough resources to be presentable at screen sizes less then a general
desktop. This includes a hamburger menu in the restricted states, which is run
on JavaScript functions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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technically a developed feature, the use of customer details (e.g. Customer ID)
in a box like presentation along with options applicable to the logged in and
logged out state are a basic but useful feature to have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As the project is Open Source, you can
check out my code on <a href="https://github.com/johnmlhll">Github</a> at at <a href="https://github.com/johnmlhll/CSharp-MulderbertPX">Project MulderbertPX</a>.
Below is a 7 minute 50 second feature movie demonstrating the application’s
features with wonderful ambience music from <a href="https://www.biography.com/people/pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky-9503375">Pytor
Ilyich Tchaikovsky</a>… hope you like it!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The main lessons learned from this
experience has been that:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">ASP.NET</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> still has great abstracted functionality to do cool things
concisely such as @Razor Enums helper methods, which streamlines “View” code
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Good
Software Architecture </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">is incredibly important, as
you don’t want to struggle with technology access like I have done. I completed
my SQL Server instance on Azure using a Mac and had no view of my DB internals.
I started developing this project on Windows machines at Dublin Business School
(DBS) working on SQL Server Management Studio<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(SSMS) with full view of my DB internals. When my access to DBS
resources finished 29<sup>th</sup> of September, the last part of the project
was done on Azure’s brand new SQL Server Query window. I enjoyed the SQL coding
BUT missed looking at how many tables, attributes, views, stored procedures and
indexes I had. So please consider this my “Dear Santa” letter as Christmas is
coming…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Dear <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Microsoft</b>, I would
like SQL Server Management Studio for Mac please? Will you be my Secret Santa
this year???”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Good
Programming Practices</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> like abstraction,
encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism are kernels that support clean,
neat and reusable code! Considering these concepts was how I developed the
application so its understandable that mirroring the service and product’s coding
paths may look like an inefficient implementation. However, future development
may see the customer journey diverge on goods versus service products or maybe
a phased introduction of an online payments service is required. Both scenarios
are likely making separate implementation paths in this release a good idea.
It’s a judgement call based on the V1.0 frontend design, which hopefully will
prove useful in future developments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Version
Control</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> is your friend. The extensibility of the application
was apparent to me and working as part of a multi skilled team would be the
only way to develop larger and scaled future versions of the application. Also,
if everything goes up in smoke on my Mac (I call her “Debs!”), using version
control like Github is the only option!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">SEO
Counts</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">. It’s a good idea to ensure your metadata is
working and you register the application with Google and Bing especially if
it’s a real e-Commerce site. There is an impressive array of API options
available for Facebook and Twitter so taking time to understand what they are
is a good idea!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I guess as I start my next application
(ASP.NET Core app) to showcase my projects to date, I will remember this
application as a fun development experience that was loaded with learning for
the future!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Despite how we start off in life, we are
truly the product of our own decisions and what we do as a result of them!
Where our decisions come from is as important as where we are going in life.
The joys, the sorrows and everything in between enrich our “inner selves” on a
daily basis. It projects forward into the person we are becoming, which often
varies from the person we aspire to be. Yet should we discard our dreams, hopes
and ambitions, we could say we have survived life but feel cheated by not
living it; looking from afar at what could have been whilst cast out to sea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Bearing this in mind, we often talk to the
ones we love about such inner thoughts growing up and as adults. One of my
kernel inspirations has being my dear mother whose humility, strength, wisdom
and fortitude has inspired me as a small boy to adulthood and onwards for long
as I live. In light of her passing in the early hours of Wednesday 26<sup>th</sup>
2016, I can categorically say that her love, guidance and counsel have earned a
place in my heart, which I will always be grateful for. To understand why I am
sharing this story about one of the strongest influences on my own views of
life, leadership and love; allow me to share my mother’s story from humble
beginnings as a small farmer’s daughter to the night superintendent of one of
the most respected private hospitals in Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Born in September 1929, she was one of five
children and was raised in a loving home that worked hard and lived frugally as
a way of life. My mother’s first incarnation with the wider world came during
World War 2 working in the county home as a Nurses Aid (caregiver). She found
it hard to talk of her time there but from what I can make out from talking to
her on the topic, she was deeply appalled at what she saw. She was resolutely determined
to input humanity back into the caring of others. She went to Bradford in the
United Kingdom and trained as a nurse just after world war two. Once again, she
dealt a caring hand to the horrendous injuries the war had inflicted on
civilians along with the fighting men of the British and Allied Armies. Her
life eventually returned to Ireland taking all the lessons she had learnt in
the 1940’s and applied them all the way through to her retirement in the 1980’s
as the operational head of Nursing for the </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.materprivate.com/"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Mater Private Hospital</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> at night. She effectively practiced </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.excellentcultures.com/servant-leadership-defined-expounded"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">servant leadership</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> running a private hospital’s nursing staff by night and was a
busy mother by day!! Doesn’t she sound like a superhero?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my eyes she was a true superhero and
always will be!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So, you can see why I would feel a tad
selfish withholding some of the leadership and life lessons my mother thought
me so in her honour, it is my pleasure share with you what she shared with me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the kernel lessons I learnt from my mother through the years, which I still
hold dear today:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is not he who inflicts the most that wins, it is he who endures the most who
is truly victorious</i>” Susan Mulhall, August 1979 peeling carrots over the
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money and wealth yet we manage to live to tell the tale. Never let life’s
little defeats seem big and never give up! A better day will eventually come!</span></div>
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circumstance, integrity will shine like a light in you for others to see.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This article is dedication to my dear mother,
Susan Mulhall RIP, 1929 – 2016! May all that is good in this world and beyond
celebrate her life! For those she leaves behind, she has earned a special place
in the hearts of everyone who knew her and will never be forgotten!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan Mulhall RIP 1929 - 2016</td></tr>
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See my coverage on Irish Tech News of Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland's September 12th Big Data Event in association with Oracle. Outstanding speakers and an outstanding turnout made for a successful event! More can be found at: </h2>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 2.1rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">Check out my second article for Irish Tech News on process design and management. Its a focus on sustainable process management as a business approach and why it matters for company sustainability in the modern world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.0pt;">The fantasy epic Lord
of the Rings takes a close look at how evil and despair seed the doom of all
unless courage is found to check it! Does the “real world” need to take note?</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I’m sure everybody knows the epic middle earth
adventures of Frodo, Gandalf and the fellowship of epic heroes fighting the
forces of the evil Lord Sauron and his cohort; the deceptively evil sorcerer
Saruman! </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The character </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000143/bio"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Gandalf the Grey</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">
as played by </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ianmckellen"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ian McKellen</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">
was a wise and powerful wizard on the side of good against such evil that
corrupted the hearts of men to dominate middle earth and herald in a dark age
that would have no end. In the first movie “The Fellowship of the Ring”,
Gandalf was under the control of his mentor and friend “Saruman the White” who
deceived and misdirected him in his quest to destroy “the Ring” of darkness
that dominates all other rings given to Men, Wizards, Elves and the Dwarfs of
middle earth. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The storyline continues to a point where our hero
Gandalf becomes suspicious of Saruman’s deception; confronting him in an epic
battle of good versus evil. Saruman challenged by Gandalf tries to appeal to
him to join him! Saruman does this by using the overarching power of Lord
Sauron and how pointless it is to oppose him due to a “misguided sense of duty”
to his friends and the people of middle earth. He plays on the odds of losing
to try and create a sense of </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">learned helplessness</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">
in Gandalf and weaken his resolve to oppose him. Gandalf, who appears less
powerful but committed to his sense of morality cries foul of this betrayal and
makes a stand regardless of the odds against him. He loses the battle but
allies with other good men, elves and dwarfs to battle the dark forces opposing
them, which leads our heroes to ultimate victory.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So, even in a fantasy based story like this, can we
draw parallels to the real world of business? Does the use of over arching
power to override core values with learned helplessness and take away hope by
dominating those in important positions under such influence actually happen?</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A worthy question, which is hard to answer in my view.
It is definitely possible but it depends on the person, their sense of self/character,
their core values and their situation in life.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">So here are some indicators to look out for the signs
of learned helplessness and what to do in your company to be the unsung hero of
the day saving it (or you!) ultimately from itself!</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Be practical</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">!
Know what your company is in practice as well as on paper. Has it a
hierarchical, clan, adhocracy or market culture? Where does the customer,
employee, manager and leader sit in the hierarchy? Are employees engaged and
listened to? Are good decisions for the greater good cheered or punished based
on ethics/longer term benefit v short term cash return? If those answers are
inherently negative and paint a picture where employees are treated as mindless
tools in a corporate toolbox only capable of only doing their strictly enforced
job descriptions, then it’s likely that learned helplessness is the only coping
mechanism employees have to survive an oppressive management regime. If one
reaches such an opinion from their research, it’s better to walk away from such
a company, which by design eats itself from the inside out and is content with
a shortened company lifecycle!</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Know yourself! </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Be
true to yourself in matters of the heart, which includes the wish to be happy!
If your vocation in life lies elsewhere, giving up on where you belong because
you don’t know yourself or trust your abilities is just wrong! We are all part
of something bigger and will only feed the darkness by being unhappy and
feeling trapped in a life we made and only we can really change! Know yourself,
take responsibility for yourself and then you can change anything about your
world you need to for a better future in life!</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Moral Courage. </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A
shiver goes down my spine when I think of how many times I have heard of
outrageous and grievous actions taken by bad people against good people whom
had leaders that lacked the moral courage to defend their people and/or
position against the ill intent of the wicked! Moral courage builds your
character and your reputation. It shapes your future and tests you to the ends
of your beliefs and your wits! Win that inner battle and your path ahead will
only get better, lose that battle and you allow the forces of darkness to roam
unchallenged in a more subtle yet similar fashion to its advance in the Lord of
the Rings</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Priorities… where you belong. </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Just
like the heroes of the Lord of the Rings, we should consider others before
ourselves yet never stop our quest to find that place where we belong! Despite
what some ‘gig economy’ proponents say, we all must find our place in this
world. If working on a company’s payroll doing what you love for that company
to the best of your ability, then so be it! Such a contribution is not a “cost”
to any company; your above average performance is a contribution to that
company as much as it is to yourself because you have found your place in life
to excel at being you!</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Associate with link minded peers! </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Edmund
Burke once said; “</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/edmund-burkeon-in-action.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">When bad men combine,
the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice
in a contemptible struggle</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">.” This is as true today
as it ever was, which is why doing nothing carries such a tragic cost for those
too weak to dig deep and associate with linked minded peers for a greater good
outcome! If you think dark self serving interests will not find you, then you
are already found and under its influence. Context of situation and associated
remedy is only possible through networking and peerage. Even the great “Gandalf
the Grey” established a like minded peerage to succeed in life. I argue we are
no different especially in today’s world. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With wealth distribution narrowing along with the
tolerance for constructive dissent and sustainable business practices, thinking
of the longer term consequences of our actions is as critical as it ever was!
We need to carry our self past the pettiness and politics of the day to
associate with like minded peers and bring back the balanced approach to love,
life and the pursuit of happiness. It will carve out a sustainable future in
business leaving only good intent to dwell as our proud legacy!</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/edmund-burkeon-in-action.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/edmund-burkeon-in-action.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Official twitter account of Sir Ian McKellen: </span><sub><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 6.5pt;"> </span></sub><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ianmckellen"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://twitter.com/ianmckellen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Character Bio ‘Gandalf the Grey”: </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000143/bio"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000143/bio</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Learned Helplessness definition: </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 12th’s return by HUG Ireland in association with Oracle... A September Special for all Big Data lovers…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whilst the team at HUG Ireland took an event moratorium in August, we have not wasted a minute in setting up a cracking Autumn 2016 schedule for our members, which forms Dublin’s premiere technical Big Data community. November and October already have confirmed speakers covering areas of Data Science and Data Pipelines that should not be missed by one and all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have also been busy with the team at Oracle to bring you a great lineout for September 12th at the </span><a href="https://www.google.ie/maps/place/The+Morrison,+a+DoubleTree+by+Hilton+Hotel/@53.3466752,-6.2681787,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48670e83401492d5:0xdc556b1fc3ff0b3b!8m2!3d53.346672!4d-6.26599" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morrison Hotel on Ormond Quay from 6pm</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Two quality speakers are speaking on the evening on </span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/hadoop-user-group-ireland/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Future of Analytics, Oracle Big Data SQL and The Three I"s of Big Data</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with a bar on premises, so we can all catch up with each other on site on what’s new; before and after the quality presentations by </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrittman?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=3wfo&locale=en_US&srchid=2114422741471963406937&srchindex=1&srchtotal=3&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2114422741471963406937%2CVSRPtargetId%3A2087871%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark Rittman</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, CTO of </span><a href="http://www.rittmanmead.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rittman Mead</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-sharp-03a3835?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=-usr&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A15847534%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-3-3%2CtarId%3A1471963329454%2Ctas%3Aian%20sharp" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ian Sharp</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Director of Data Science with </span><a href="https://www.oracle.com/uk/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oracle UK</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is CTO and co-founder at Rittman Mead, an Oracle (and more recently, Cloudera) Partner specialising in BI, big data and data warehousing implementations, training and support. Mark is an Oracle ACE Director, author of two Oracle Press books and leads Rittman Mead's customer projects around Hadoop, cloud and machine learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ian</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a Data Scientist at Oracle with over 15 experience helping customers deliver insight and innovation around business intelligence, Data Warehousing and Big Data. He has worked across industries with organisations such as Worldpay, Sky, NHS, BT, HSBC, AVIVA, the NHS, Bord Gais and the Discovery Channel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/hadoop-user-group-ireland/events/232702102/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">agenda</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the evening from 6pm looks like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Future of Analytics, Data Integration and Data Driven Applications on Big Data Platforms by Mark Rittman, CTO of Rittman Mead </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Up until now thought of as a cheap storage offloading layer for more capable relational data warehouses and BI tools, Hadoop is fast maturing into the default platform for all analytic and data integration workloads. In this session we'll look at how technologies such as Apache Arrow, Apache Kudu and Apache Drill will bring in-memory, column-store BI functionality to Hadoop but extend that to cover flexible-schema data held in data lakes and NoSQL databases; we'll see how Apache Spark, Apache Kafka and real-time streaming functionality coming to vendor ETL tools such as Oracle Data Integrator will enable real-time loading and integration with traditional relational databases; and finally we'll see how a new generation of e-commerce, logistics and customer applications will take advantage of the machine learning and predictive analytics capabilities provided by Hadoop to add smarts and intelligence to day-to-day operational applications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using Oracle Big Data SQL to add Hadoop + NoSQL to your Oracle Data warehouse by Mark Rittman, CTO of Rittman Mead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oracle Big Data SQL 3.0 extends the Oracle SQL dialect, security framework and advanced analytics capabilities of the Oracle database to big data platforms, initially just for Oracle Big Data Appliance but now made available for commodity Cloudera and Hortonworks clusters. Complementing basic Apache Hive but competing with other next-generation SQL-on-Hadoop solutions such as Impala, Presto and Drill, Oracle Big Data SQL lets you work with big data sources as if they were another set of external tables – and can bring Exadata style query offloading to this significantly lower-cost platform. In this session we’ll explore at a technical level how Big Data SQL works (including the key limitations and “gotchas”), see how features such as storage indexes and storage handlers introduced with the 2.0 release significantly improve what the product can do, how statistical and advanced analytics features in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition can also be used on Hadoop sources, understand at a high-level what bringing Oracle security Hadoop means – and see if it’s really now possible to use Big Data SQL without the previous Exadata and BDA prerequisites. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Three I"s of Big Data, Insight, Innovation and Identify by Ian Sharp, Lead Data Scientist with Oracle UK </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Insight and innovation aside, Big Data Social Media is increasingly about Identity; who we are, who we aspire to be, and in the case of Fraud and Theft, who we pretend to be. Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning have emerged as the prime technologies and disciplines to distill nuances and value around these identities. This presentation discusses the challenges and opportunities of big data analytics against polyglot sources, the evolution of new languages and frameworks such as R, Python, SciKit Learn and Zeppelin and the operational settings around wider BI consumption, Streams and Apps APIs. Using leading edge reference cases, we will explore the stories and focus on the challenges for integration, governance and stability faced in their transition from Hadoop driven Innovation to Mainstream business success. Finally we will highlight some up and coming trends for the industry to watch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, </span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/hadoop-user-group-ireland/events/232702102/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RSVP</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> today and check out our twitter hashtag at #HUGIreland for the latest from our community. Looking forward to seeing you all on the 12th!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15pt;">Planning for the future in uncertain Times…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt;">Whether you are a
multinational or a private citizen, what planning direction to go in after
nearly a decade of economic and financial turmoil is a real challenge! The
narrowing of wealth distribution tops the list of macro economic maladies
affecting corporations and the working man alike. Unfortunately, this sets the
stage for future economic crises that will carry our current problems forward
should the pattern of behaviours at all levels not change.</span></div>
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of anybody planning should be the direction of future activity that is
beneficial to the individual and/or the organisation. It is not possible to get
all things right but in general terms, the following should be borne in mind
for strategising on future spending and direction:</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Economy</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> - understand economic growth that
correlates to real world metrics separating statistical inconsistencies that
skew the picture of growth on the ground from more accurate metrics showing the
state of the economy. For example, Ireland on the ground is experiencing growth
of about 3-4% GDP whereas the central statistics office reported 26% GDP over
the same period. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/corporateinversion.asp"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tax Inversion</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> has effectively distorted Ireland’s growth
trajectory, which if taken at face value can lead to a dangerously positive
outlook on big decisions. Economic upturn in fact can transform into fantasy.
GDP against GNP, % of Sales Tax/VAT to overall tax, jobs created to unemployed
registers are all good metrics. They provide a broader macro economic view of
the economy where one can reasonably assess future expectations.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the management of the economy and its infrastructure? Also, how committed
are they at stimulating growth? Is there any help for a direction you may take
and how will government react if it all goes wrong for you? </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and will capital markets pose any risk to your plans directly or indirectly via
wider economy impact of currency and/or trade movements? Will the basics in
life become dearer, cheaper or remain relatively stable? If in exports as a
business, how will currency movements affect trade and what exposures are
present in goods transit and/or associated costs? If a multinational, what
capital controls are likely in territories where you have assets in the form of
cash and/or manufacturing centres, etc. Are you <i>locked in?</i></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weaknesses of your plans? Are your risks both positive and negative cataloged
by their likelihood to happen along with the impact of it actually happening?</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to achieve your plans bearing the above environmental factors in mind. E.g. Are
finance, logistical, educational and technical supports in place? Do you have a
plan b, c and so on if unforeseen problems block your progress?</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s not easy in our
complex and sometimes volatile world to be ready for all eventualities but our
chances of success only get better with understanding of the world around us
through engaging with it and developing a thorough approach to planning. In
times of calm, it allows us to sail better than our unplanned and unprepared
peers. In adversity, it allows us to be more focused, flexible and successful
in the game of life. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473035330973397048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2201927454637012925.post-85825980999157042492016-08-16T06:11:00.000-07:002016-08-16T06:11:26.169-07:00Irish Tech News: My First Article on Sustainable Capitalism<div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 32px;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473035330973397048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2201927454637012925.post-27191017357862989232016-07-27T04:35:00.001-07:002016-07-27T04:48:47.346-07:00InterConnection - why Brexit business needs to look forward <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.0pt;">Leaving the EU is a mistake for Great Britain yet
could become a mistake for European business if not handled with utmost care</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a manipulative political campaign by fringe parties and an arrogant laissez
faire approach by the establishment, which has left Europe with Europeans questioning
the EU’s real worth? Combine this with poor planning for refugees/immigration
at an EU level along with an unconsidered reaction to the new reality of a
Middle East in crisis, the plight of the lucky European becomes a very real
issue for so many. The material focus of the pubic is often a result of
national politics trying to redirect attention to these issues at the cost of other
more local issues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In the UK, there was a
stagnant and disenfranchised north (England) ignored and made suffer in some
areas whilst others in the south (England) accessed services, opportunities and
wealth with much greater ease. Where there is inequity and narrowing of wealth
distribution, social tension always rises. Add a dolip of dirty politics in
this case from the UKIP, terrorism from a handful of delusional ISIS terrorists
and manipulation at a national level et voila!!... the UK south falls asleep
and the north succumbs to cruel manipulation by far right whack jobs looking to
take us all back to the 17<sup>th</sup> century, where they of course are
fiefdom Kings and Queens.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s my opinion that
great British resolve was replaced by bitterness and anger in the north at the
south’s apparent affluence, whilst they suffered economic recession. Business
encapsulated in the south’s bubble of affluence never imagined a Brexit
win. Arrogance took over whilst the fringe elements of UKIP struck chords with
the disenfranchised members of British society yet was still discounted as
brinksmanship that could not sway any right thinking voter. The rest is a
matter of history, which brings markets and economies all over Europe to a
state of anxiety as EU member states head once again into unchartered
territory. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The majority of (multinational)
Corporate America and AsiaPac corporates are being build upon a cost effective
centralisation model in a preferably English speaking country that is talent
rich, tax friendly and pro business. This trio of likes has seen UK gain a huge
share of centralised Multinational trade, which combined with the enormous
Financial Services hub in London accounts for a substantial chunk of the UK’s
economic machine. With Brexit, the trade side of their international business
seems to now be in peril regarding Europe so why stay in Britain at all? Are
they locked in? What will it cost to stay and what to leave?</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">They are all good
questions which cannot be answered until UK triggers article 50 of the EU
treaty to leave the EU. The detailed guidelines make it non legal for Britain
to make trade deals with anyone until they have left the EU and are legally
recognised as a “third country”. In this context, the UK is at a manifest
disadvantage as are every multinational goods company that has international
operations in the UK. So, as a way forward, the best thing to do is to risk
assess in a logical manner the situation bearing the following in mind.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bilateral negotiations in principle whilst they exit the EU. If Europe
cooperates, the profile of UK trade access internationally will be
significantly enhanced from the disastrous isolation it is effectively asking
for under article 50 of the EU treaty. Bear in mind some of the bellied rascals
like Boris Johnson who weighed in behind UKIP lies and innuendo on Brexit are
now in key positions. It’s a point not lost on Brussels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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risks of transborder trade, including tariffs, capital FX controls and taxes
such as retention tax will be elevated as a risk consideration.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and assets such as R&D and labour are not clear thus should be considered
as an elevated risk element to be quantified when the level of concessions
Europe gives the UK on exit are known.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Britains and Europeans. How restrictive this is depends on the deal to be struck
with the EU. This is another part of the risk assessment that should be
carefully considered. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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capital flights, trading shocks and of course any new regulatory rules on
capital and FX controls that affect international trade vehicles like FX,
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UK has shown the potential downside even in favoured approaches in
international business. That said, for every problem, there is a solution and
he who does not panic gets a head start on he who does. Maybe clear vision will
change the landscape when deals are finally made making haste the highest of
risk elements to be avoided at all costs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Chris Lawton at <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/QPOaQ2Kp80c">https://unsplash.com/photos/QPOaQ2Kp80c</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everybody has being shocked and outraged at the needless deaths of African Americans at supposedly routine police stops along with the deaths of the Police Officers by a deranged killer in Dallas, TX over most of last week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wondered at why such instant rage was tapped into so immediately when the girlfriend of the first man killed by police in Louisiana released the footage of the incident on Facebook? How can so many people be so ‘instantly’ angry underneath the calm demeanour of everyday American life? It would reason soundly that should it be the case, then the general public is segregated into two main groups, those who are affected by injustice (majority) and those who are not (privileged) making for an unbalanced and volatile nation. Yet, following that line of thought, it’s hard not to think about the injustices of 19</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 8.799999999999999px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> century autocratic Europe and how we moved on after learning very difficult lessons. Europe has many social and political problems but is a fairer place to live in today than at any time in its history! Surely, progressivism is alive and well in America with a well oiled legal system that can address such injustice? Isn’t the American dream still alive and coming true for many Americans as it has done in the past?? Afterall, isn’t America the land of opportunity for all?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fast forward to today and apparently the fantastical glorification of the Confederacy can be found in current US School books, which paints a violent, oppressive and racist movement as folk heroes striving for what is just against the big bad old Union Government. As this is untrue and brazen to say the least, why does America want to make its people ignorant of their own immediate past? Its down to this in my view. A powerful yet dark hearted and malevolent group of Americans have a neofascist worldview that has its origins in Confederate misinformation post Civil war. They see it as their seat of power, which they will fight to maintain and grow through transformational leadership of people already intellectually and emotionally weakened by the lies, innuendo and mistrust that traces its lineage to Confederate America. Nobody wants to confront it yet everybody feels it everyday when they size a stranger up by race, gender, religion and/or net worth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There is no doubt in my
mind that I have made as many mistakes as I have made good decisions in my life
thus far! In fact, I would argue that ‘the more I learn, the less I know’ as my
world view widens and deepens with the years. Needles to say, this is nothing
new, which is why I wonder at how folks become irrationally afraid of failure
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The answer is complex
with things like societal attitudes, culture and external circumstances playing
an important part in shaping our view of the world but ultimately is outside of
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that depreciates our contribution by not ensuring we collectively benefit from
our efforts in a fair and reasonably distributed manner?</span></li>
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tales to tell, I can say this! If we respond to the above with “I will do it
anyway” and not change our outlook to one where we recognise the uncontrollable
elements for what they are; then possible success turns into a certain failure.
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the external forces at work in our environment and not dwell on things we truly
cannot change</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">.
Steve Jobs did not reinvent Apple by obsessing over the poor treatment he
received when he was removed from the company. He looked to himself, changed
from within before returning to Apple as a ‘hero’ so many years later. In
essence, he learned to let it go to a point where he could achieve his goals!</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our minds when making big decisions at big junctures in life</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">. Ever sit back and wonder about what you
could have achieved if you had just listened better, remembered something or
sought better understanding before deciding friends are enemies and enemies are
friends? I know I have some regrets on poor decisions but undeterred by social
taboo, I have chosen to learn from them. A good tip is to learn to meditate for
5 to no more than 30 minutes a day for leaner, stronger and a more controlled
mind. It remembers more, processes information quicker and provides a better
sense of well being. Even if you do not meditate, when you consider your
position on an important topic, try to focus on 2-3 good breaths, then focus on
the topic at hand excluding all background noise in your mind. Quieten your
thought process to a single thread of the matter in front of you only.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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challenged, pure focus must be </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">fuelled</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> by pure belief</span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">. If you are right, but don’t assert your
beliefs, then you will fail. Those opposed have to by definition play a dirtier
game to rewrite the definition of correct... so don’t let them! Firstly, be
clear on what is needed, be sure of what you are doing then use your belief to
ensure a genuine ‘win’ is realised after finding out what is right for the
situation, compelling others in consultation with your belief and stepping past
failure to success with a ‘group’ effort. A solid approach like that with pure
focus delivered by pure belief cannot be easily derailed. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Too often, folks fall
prey to the temptation of bitter recourse for a situation that “may” harm one’s
enemies but ultimately will harm themselves. Gandhi once said “<i>If you change
yourself you will change the world</i>.” I like to think we can… all we have to
do is believe and our journey starts from within illuminating the road ahead.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We all love the thought
of an easy life; one where we don’t worry about bills, money in our pocket or
why we have to (v ‘want to’) use the bus to work in the morning! Our career
journeys are often primed to identify “independent thinkers” that are destined
in our eyes to interfere with our plans for a domestic utopia; with us taking
remedial action at the earliest possible opportunity. This phenomenon is more
common then one might think and in enough numbers can often lead to a malformed
clan culture in companies where protectionism rather than visionary insight
dominate the company culture and arguably its destiny… </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So, in walks the fear of
losing one’s job, being relegated in career progression to the guy with deeper
insights and/or just not succeeding like one feels they should ‘cos that guy is
just doing better…’ It may sound like a case of jealousy, but it is a herald
for more serious organisational issues especially in a company(s) where
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unchecked ends ups a management issue that can often lead to a rounding on the ‘trouble
maker’ to suppress his or her “performance” or even expel them from the
organisation in the name of employee satisfaction. A direct chase to the finish
line of bad management practice is obviously not the way to go, which is why I
would recommend to any manager the following:</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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question a balanced independent thinker, a whiner/neigh-sayer or an out and out
trouble maker??? You will find such issues always boil down to the initial
person of interest been accused of being one or more of the three. So quick
definitions of the three and what to do:</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Independent
thinker:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Articulate, outspoken,
creatively intelligent, passionate about topics and can exude an air of
confidence that at times may intimidate some. Issues often arise due to misunderstandings
and/or folks becoming threatened by their willingness to think and step outside
of the corporate box on issues. Defying conventions can lead to ‘witch hunts’
so beware of folks trying to manipulate events to paint a person like this in a
bad light. If there is ever a need for creative types, it’s in this information
era where innovation happens at an ever faster rate. Direct such engagements towards
mutual accepting of each other’s value to the organisation and to each other.
After all, absent one, the other will be eventually be out of job when the
company fails. Creative and process driven employees make a successful company
in partnership with well rounded leadership of both! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Negativity:
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Negative, passive
aggressively forward in meetings and backbiting anybody they feel like behind
closed doors. Such personalities often seek to deflect attention from
themselves by targeting an outspoken independent thinker with the traits they
actually display. They are arguably the master of ‘dirty politics’ and most
difficult to spot as they “seem to be liked” more by the silence of others then
by direct compliment. They are socially active in groups spreading gossip and
an innuendo in an apparently gleeful manner. They are the proverbial ‘wolf in
sheep’s clothing.’ If the person you are informed about is charged with such
transgression, I recommend you evaluate the complainant as much as the initial
person of interest for signs of deception and follow up for signs of social
interactivity that indicate narcissism and a sense of grandiose. Getting them
talking about their correctness in an issue at an appropriate time can be
revealing in this regard. Be sure that after completing your investigation, the
results are impartial and the real narcissist is identified as an issue, which
should be symptomatically addressed in a firm manner as they will raise issues
due to their inevitable (future) infractions, which affords you remedial
reproach. That said, always be impartial but never forget who you are dealing
with.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Trouble
Makers: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The need to see how a
bad employee behaves can be subtle like the negative employee or down right
threatening like the argument makers. I had a crazy guy work for me who at a
team meeting in an open space with our team and two senior managers in guest
attendance told me to “lay off the drugs” in a loud disrespectful manner when I
talking. The counselling session afterwards lead to more verbal abuse on his
part where a verbal warning was his prize. If someone makes a claim about
someone you know to be like that, then be sure to not jump to conclusions but
be ready to follow the prescribed disciplinary process of your company after
your initial investigation is complete. The results from the investigation can
start the disciplinary process. People like that are not worth the effort and
arrogantly detract from a team’s effectiveness and longevity in a real way.
They need to be removed and if management don’t support you on it, then find a
new job!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So, you can see that
independent thinkers are the lifeblood of any company's longevity but if you
let bad ones in that carry the traits of negativity and/or trouble maker, then
be prepared to act for everybody’s benefit and future. A “good cultural fit”
often misses this at selection letting in the bad ones and keeping the good
ones out. As a manager, it then becomes your problem to fix it and fix it we
must! </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">About the author: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnmlhll"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">John Mulhall</span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> is a Community Manager and newly Minted
Software Developer. John is also a committed blogger and from February 2016
onwards, will be publishing blogs every second week on topics around
Technology, Leadership and Sustainable Capitalism.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.0pt;">Ensuring Adaptability and Happiness Dance with Passion
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Are you loving Life?… So
what’s next?? A promotion, a new job, hobby or even a new chapter in your life???
Or maybe none of the above??? Maybe it’s better to wait until a better time
economically to think about oneself and reflect on such questions? Maybe status
quo is ok?? Maybe it is.. But what is certain is that they are piercing
questions, which demand exploration!!!</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Too often, good folks
move along </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> without really thinking about what they are looking for from
psychological needs to self actualisation. On that note, I recall a talk with a
life coach who talked of a very successful Merchant Banker and self
actualisation. He was trained at a young age as a clerk in the bank, which was
led and co-owned by his father. His father, the President showed him no favour
in his career making him work hard for every promotion, sometimes trying many
times to get promoted until he climbed every rung of the ladder to the top of
his profession as President of a Merchant Bank many decades later. He lamented
to the life coach about how hard he worked and how successful he was, yet when
he reached the top of the ladder, he realised the ladder was facing the wrong
wall to truly fulfill him as a human being! On paper, his success was
incredible yet in his heart, he felt a gap where his true passion was left
unfulfilled. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A sad story of enormous
success may leave some slightly confused as to why he can be sad at all? He
doesn’t have to worry about a roof over his head or food on the table, right?
Very true, but his success is testament to the fact that we are all human and
at a human level have very similar needs in order to be whole in this life no
matter who we are! We need “to be”, not “nearly to be!”, which is about
remembering that life’s true bounty is in the journey, not the destination.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So how does that
translate into career ambition and choice? In my view, there is a direct
correlation between our work and our lives as the former is such a dominant
feature in the latter. If we just follow the societal viewpoint, we will select
role and compensation that reflects on what standing we think we deserve in
society. In all this focus and decision making, where does happiness and
passion fit? Do we dismiss it as folly or embrace it on equal terms with
ambition and adaptability in a world that is changing every faster than it did
before! I think it would be wise at every career juncture to map out choices in
the following areas and rank them from negative to positive as one sees fit!</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Passion</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">: Is my passion stirring great interest in
the role description and/or proposition?</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Purpose</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">: Do I see purpose in what is been done at
the company and/or industry and/or profession? Also, does this purpose give me
a “feel good” feeling that I cannot fully describe when things go well? Do we
make a difference?</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Culture</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">: Does the company and/or industry have a
culture that relates to my core values or at least does not offend nor
challenge them at a core level?</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Adaptability</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">: Am I prepared to be adaptable to my
circumstances whilst maintaining my core values as a human being? Will I think
outside of the box when it comes to planning my future in a structured manner
allowing me to see threats and opportunities in a clearer and more structured way?</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Ambition</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">: Does my ambition align to my passion,
purpose, (company) culture and/or adaptability? Will it override who I am as a
person or develop who I am into a better version of myself?</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Self-Actualisation</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">: Will all my efforts from this point on
lead to me becoming successful, happy or both in life?</span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">If your answer to the
self-actualisation question is “both”, then you are truly lucky to have gained
the vision to see what you want to become as a whole package and the courage to
see it so! If like so many, you are effectively asked to trade happiness for
success, then I leave you with a quote from Steve Jobs in his Stanford 2005
graduation speech: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If you haven't found
it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll
know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better
and better as the years roll on.”</i> When we look back on our life, we just
want to see a full heart that was made whole by our decisions in the here and
now. We are the culmination of these decisions and who we are should ultimately
reconcile with who we want to be. When they reconcile, we take our place in
this world as we have seen ergo our legacy is not an echo of what could have
been!</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.en.wikipedia.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">www.en.wikipedia.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://stocksnap.io/photo/NVEEDW9B33"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://stocksnap.io/photo/NVEEDW9B33</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.zengardner.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">www.zengardner.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Credits:</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs by Simply Psychology at </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Steve Jobs quote from
Standard Speech in 2005 by Goodreads.com at </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/445070-if-you-haven-t-found-it-yet-keep-looking-don-t-settle"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/445070-if-you-haven-t-found-it-yet-keep-looking-don-t-settle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.0pt;">How relationships can help you find the curve drivers
for employee churn</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The old saying
“employee's leave a bad manager, not a bad company” may have allot of truth to
it but it’s not the full story. A leave decision by an employee is often
made after considering a wider set of criteria internal and external to the
company including points of a more personal nature. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Did you ever note that exit
interviews often provide a “nice” picture of the company by the exiting employee
with a less flattering account on Glassdoor? This begs the question, what
drives an employee to leave the company? Bad Manager? Sure.. this is a regular
reason but not the only one… What about role, environment, organisational
structure, peers, subordinates, other “silos” in the organisation, customers,
3rd parties, under use of talent, over use of talent and of course
compatibility with company culture??? Do they factor in the decision to leave?</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2015/10/10/why-do-employees-leave-their-jobs-new-survey-offers-answers/#66ed2d0956a9"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Forbes ran an article</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> producing employee survey results where 31% of
chronically overworked employees thought of leaving the company for another job
and 15% of employees who ranked company culture poorly were of the same
mindset. So, spinning up the correlation engine, what element has a strong
correlation with everything else in the decision for an employee to leave?
“Relationships” is the answer. How they are structured is critical to
understanding and addressing the reasons for employees leaving, which range
from small issues to structural issues within the organisation. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Does the fix sounds like
a big task? It sure does but if you approach it from an angle of starting with
the end in mind, you will see how your organisational structure, management
style, business process management infrastructure, leadership styles,
environmental management (Facilities & HR) and resulting company culture
impact the employee’s ability to conduct and maintain relationships in the
workplace. Contrary to popular belief, a normal person does not want to be a
millionaire at all costs, they want to be happy by making a positive impact on
their company and society in general. In order to be happy, an employee needs
to be reasonably able to maintain relationships in support of this overall
disposition within their company’s paradigm of existence. This is where
relationships come in with peers creating a good atmosphere and managers/leaders
supporting this through consultative leadership. This includes tactical
delegation of the appropriate amount of tasks that are framed in a genuine
manner as meaningful and important to the company. Many overlook this due to
“been busy”, which is counter productive as a valuable employee moving on will
make the leader even more busy coping with the loss of the employee and filling
their shoes in an unplanned manner! Good leaders count as does a good company. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In my quest for
understanding in new leadership roles over the years, my high level approach
implementing the above in a functional role has been the following:</span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Know
Your Team</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> - Know your
team, what frustrates them, what makes them happy and what creates obstacles in
getting the job done (start with the end in mind)</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Know
Who Interacts with your Team - </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Introduce yourself to management and leadership peers,
find out what makes them happy, excited, frustrated and sad. Find out how they
interact with your team</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Understand
the process </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">-
understanding the business processes around what your team does and how it
interacts with the company internal and external to customers and 3rd parties
noting bottlenecks, inefficiencies and pain points for your team</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Research
the Company culture and organisational structure - </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">from experience there is no real point in
creating an adhocracy sub culture in a company that has a dominant dictatorial
culture. You will only be targeted at best by other “silos” if you succeed and it
could send your team into even more disarray if you fail. Loosely align best
practice to culture before you start to make changes as this factors into the
happiness (& productivity) of your employees.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Be
a genuine leader</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> -
I have met many pretend leaders who care only for their own interests and come
across as fake leaders out for themselves. Don’t be that guy, your employees
cannot have a genuine relationship with a fake leader!</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Build
together</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> - as a believer in
consultative leadership, I can tell you from experience that sustainable
processes which work are built when collaboration (versus coercion) happens
within a team in developing a process from the ground up. Its acceptance and
deployment are far more successful then when a process is designed and deployed
by force upon a team. We need to feel important in our roles and employees feel
the same way, which is why inclusion not imposition needs to underpin any new
team venture. After all, we need to know that what we do matters!</span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s a hard sell to some
and an easy sell to others based on belief and leadership orientation. Even if
you reject the above approach, just be consistent with your approach knowing
that relationships are key to employee retention. If you do, you become more
effective from the get-go leaving rest up to you… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">About the author:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnmlhll"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Mulhall </span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">is a Community Manager and newly Minted
Software Developer. John is also a committed blogger and from February 2016
onwards, will be publishing blogs every second week on topics around Technology,
Leadership and Sustainable Capitalism.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><b><u>Sources/Credits:</u></b></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pics;</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.insperity.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">www.insperity.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.blog.hubspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">www.blog.hubspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Credits;</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05473035330973397048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2201927454637012925.post-74695157684712607132016-05-04T04:17:00.001-07:002016-05-04T04:17:20.657-07:00Open Source Software (OSS) - Let's Show The Love<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We all love those stand up guys who volunteer first, arrive early and are last to leave from meetups, collaborations and indeed anything software related. They are sharing the passion, they are showing the love!! This is the good side of software as defined by the people within the industry who seek a better world through software using their passion to drive progress in an impressive way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These channels of passion ultimately lead to the open source movement and in recent years have transformed the industry into a collaborative landscape where more and more software professionals are building their own products. They are contributing to more and more engineering led projects that are “pure” software in terms of process and culture. Many in established business are not comfortable with this as the threat of disruption is ever present when you have a collaboration of highly skilled software professionals in a room focused on a single problem. This may in part arise from the need for management ‘control’ (v ‘influence’) in allot of company cultures. This has often caused culture clashes between software professionals and management trying to stamp a traditional leadership style on a team leading to resistance and culture clashes to boot. It’s my view that this lack of understanding coupled with passion for software is one of the elements that has fuelled the transition to the open source model where software professionals freely collaborate over common problems they are passionate about leading to real world solutions that often carry commercial value.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enable</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a better quality of life with a life long commitment to the open source movement and the real world problems it solves</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Widen scope</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from the selective and often poorly structured curriculum of education, which produces newly minted software developers and engineers. This should be done by providing entry points into software through community education free of charge for those aspiring to be software professionals</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> continuous learning and development for established software professionals in upgraded and newly released products via community learning and education</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">facilities</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> free of charge to identified open source community groups that engage in community education and learning for new as well as established software professionals</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Understand</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> what </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">actually</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> makes a good software professional and identify these personalities upon entry into a the community education network ergo the community will retain and develop such individuals as part of OSS succession planning.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Work</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with industry under a common mission statement on what makes for a successful partnership with the open source software movement</span></li>
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are great ones hard to find?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Given today’s world and
the commercial realities of supply and demand, I think it is reasonable for us
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Bad
Consultants </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">do
not exist in the marketplace as most bad consultants burn more bridges then
they build making themselves ultimately redundant. The few well connected
exceptions should be set aside for purposes of this article.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Consultants</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> are defined as primarily working for an
agency and/or for themselves with purpose to offer consulting expertise in
business areas and/or areas of IT like software, big data and infrastructure.
That said, most of the below article applies globally to the consulting industry
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So, a good consultant,
how can he or she be defined? </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/consultant.html#ixzz46HEjQpIk"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Business Dictionary</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> defines the term “Consultant” as follows:</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Experienced
professional who provides expert knowledge (often packaged under a catchy name)
for a fee. He or she works in an advisory capacity only and is usually not
accountable for the outcome of a consulting exercise. </span></i><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I think this definition
is a traditionally accurate and encompassing one, which has given rise to a
generation of good consultants. In my view, they have the following key traits
which are pointers to personality and professional standing in terms of
motivation, modus operandi and cultural propensity. A good consultant
today is expert at reading any person or situation (i.e. High EQ), a prolific
networker, technically savvy in their chosen area along with been expert at
protecting their own interests and that of their company/agency in a tripartite
situation. These impressive traits make for a good consultant but is it enough?
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I don’t think so, which
is why it’s so hard to find a great consultant who has that X factor trait.
Personally, I think a great consultant understands and possesses the traits of
a good consultant but refuses to be defined by them. He or she will balance
these elements against the higher traits of strategic awareness with view to <i>true
value creation </i>(not just “on paper gains”) , <i>sustainable design
practices </i>and a good level of <i>ethics</i>. Sometimes it’s better to shake
a prospective client’s hand and say goodbye rather than accept a high earning
fee for a job that is setup to fail. Picture a prospective client who is
convinced a problem lies in <i>x </i>part of their organisation whereas the
problem really lies in <i>y</i> and <i>z</i> areas. This client won’t entertain
the notion of been wrong; would you accept his money or just walk away? Good
consultants may accept his money and find a way to mitigate the risk posed by
the intrenched position, whereas great ones would care to share the reality and
then walk away. Such a stance may not be good for the bottom line in the
shorter term, but karma is still king and great reputations in consulting rely
more on the higher strategic suite of traits when on the lower level of
tactical traits every good consultant has.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So leaving what is often
the easy way to one side, maybe more great consultants will rise with new
motivational drivers found in these higher strategic traits rather than been
purely tactical in their careers and accordingly, how they professionally
define themselves. Unlocking such potential with a different view and approach
to consulting would have a seriously good return for all involved in my view.
What do you think? Leave your opinion today...</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">About the author</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">: </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://jmulhall.azurewebsites.net/">John Mulhall</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> is a newly Minted Software Developer and Community Manager. John is also a committed blogger and from February 2016 onwards, will be publishing blogs every second week on topics around Technology, Leadership and Sustainable Capitalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.0pt;">Is company culture serving as a platform of control or
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Continuing from </span><a href="http://jmulhall.azurewebsites.net/company-culture/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">part one</a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">, it is
important to engineer your company culture through the understanding of the
already existing culture within your company walls along with the people who
shape the organisation into a living, breathing entity! Digging a little
deeper, one should consider the following as very important:</span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Vision</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - Know what you want as a company of 5 so
when you reach 50,000 employees, your company culture has evolved </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">continuously</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, not ‘changed’ on the management orders of the day. Company culture is the personality of a company and does not swap out when you exceed
10,000 employees for a “big company culture”. Understand what you do, who you
are and what values you collectively hold as a company. Then set the collected attributes
as a cornerstone of company policy so you can build your organisation around it</span></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Employee
Value </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">- Know what personality
type makes the best type of skilled and unskilled employee for your
organisation. Match the personality propensity (creative/analytical/etc) with
the role, team, department and division that makes up your company. What makes
them feel like they belong and are part of something great? Management and
leadership styles should seamlessly integrate with company culture to answer
this question.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Giver
Taker Culture - </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/givers-take-all-the-hidden-dimension-of-corporate-culture">Know
what it is</a> and what mix of giver/matcher/taker you need in your organisation
to be great. Insert safeguards to ensure the mix you need and have mapped out in
your organisation is actually deployed and protected.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Feedback
</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">- Make sure you engage
your employees meaningfully and management have alignment in belief,
personality and training including the same style of leadership. Foxes in the
henhouse are still dangerous!</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Hire
the most suitable, not the “best”</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - we all love to hate pre-Madonnas, but the truth is
the best are not always the most suitable for our organisation. A brilliant
mind with a low tolerance for micromanagement will not last long in a company
that thrives on hierarchy. Conversely, an individual who is reliant on the
security of being micromanaged will not last in a company that values
independent thinking and self direction. Remember... Einstein on paper was a
Clerk… he also said </span></span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."</i><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The fact is that value creation comes all shapes and forms. Be sure your company knows what it needs and is able to embrace those value creating employees correctly.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b>Flexible By Design </b>- Design your organisation in a manner that protects and grows company culture. Starting with the vision of the founding management team, a well engineered company culture will have processes to observe, define and react to the constantly changing culture over time. Be sure your design features allows company culture to prosper in your growing structures and be protected from harmful forces of all kinds.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Despite the
difficulties, if you embrace the above variables and tips, be flexible in your
vision for your company that is communally shared; take cultural aspects and culturally
based concerns into your decision making processes, you will influence a
company culture that is true to the kernel tenants laid out for your company at
the beginning! What defines a great company is not its great products, but the
great people within its walls. Everything else flows from that… </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">About
the author</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://jmulhall.azurewebsites.net/"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">John Mulhall</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> is a Marketing Technologist and newly Minted Software
Developer. John is also a committed blogger and from February 2016 onwards,
will be publishing blogs every second week on topics around Technology,
Leadership and Sustainable Capitalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.0pt;">Is company culture serving as a platform of control or
as a platform of empowerment for employees? Part One of a Two Part Special…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ever wondered how the
guy who spends all his time backbiting every honest soul that was unlucky
enough to cross his path ends up becoming the success story and poster boy for
the company that you love? We often attribute such a success to an unforeseen
factor that propelled him to stardom, maybe he “has what it takes” or maybe
management have being fooled by a clever operator who knows how to manipulate
his way to the top! </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Regardless of the
reasons, it would not be possible if company culture did not support such
behaviour. Let’s map the behaviours out in this use case:</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Exhibit
A </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">- ‘The Hotshot’: A
narcissistic taker type who has only time for himself and feels no fellowship
with his workmates nor empathy towards them. He is expert at feigning concern
when it is useful to achieving his own ends and makes some employees who are
more ‘warm hearted and caring’ very nervous for reasons they cannot really
explain.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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B </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">- ‘Management’: They are
a mix of old and young that are all ambitious, uncomfortably trusting of each
other and locked into a common goal of running a company to make the most money
possible. They share in a command in control mentality and are very harsh with
neigh sayers, problem raisers and independent thinkers whom they view as ‘trouble-makers’
and a threat. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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C </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">- ‘The ‘ordinary’ Employee’:
They are a mix of personalities whom are attracted by the paycheque and being
disengaged, they stay for the paycheque. Any other personality type just
doesn’t cut it at the firm. When something unethical happens that offends their
sensibilities, their first thought is “oh, glad it was not me that got it”
rather then “how dare they do that to my fellow workmate”. The ordinary employee
is disengaged and does exactly what management asked for without question but not
an iota more. Learned helplessness aka ‘oh, what can I do about it?’ is a
common coping mechanism for workplace issues, which allows them to ‘let it go’.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So, Exhibit B
(management) sets up a workplace culture that allows Exhibit A (hotshot) to
prey upon Exhibit C (everybody else) gaining favour with Exhibit B (management)
allowing Exhibit A(hotshot) to become more powerful and climb the ladder at the
expense of ???</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">If it sounds familiar,
then you have practical experience with the downside of classical management theory.
The fact is that company culture can make or break your company as it
grows/declines over time. This is why you should tune in to my next blog post
in two weeks time about tips on engineering your company culture…</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">About
the author</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://jmulhall.azurewebsites.net/"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">John Mulhall</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> is a Marketing Technologist and newly Minted Software
Developer. John is also a committed blogger and from February 2016 onwards,
will be publishing blogs every second week on topics around Technology,
Leadership and Sustainable Capitalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Technology has evolved
over the last 60 years and today we continue our lightning fast journey through
time with technology by our side. The term “big data” has been used by many to
describe data analytics which are often compiled from spreadsheets. They say
‘(Microsoft) Excel is an accountant’s best friend’ yet it comes with a lot of
limitations that cannot be overlooked in today's world. The evolving nature of current
data driven decision-making at senior levels in organisations places a huge
burden on departments responsible for analytics and management reports. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We as a race have
produced more information in the last 2 years then we have in the last ten
thousand years making data analytics in today's operating environment a real
challenge. The evolution of big data has seen technological breakthroughs
in streaming, batched pipelines, distributed clusters and data centre
management. If we are to capitalise on opportunities presented by big data, we
need real time or near real-time streaming along with batched data ability that
is indexed and easy to transform so we can analyse it producing insights in
support of the management decision making process.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Open
source</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> with it’s
democratisation is truly the king of big data. Harness the power of the open
source community and collaborate in the evolution of big data that will service
your needs</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Big
Data Architecture </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">i</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">s the looking glass into the future. Think distributed computing in two
ways, what works and what works for you. Scalability comes at a price... make
sure your solution comes with the appropriate flexibility in partitioning and
try to keep one data layer only in your big data stack.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Data
Management</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">
should determine your security protocols ranking your data in layers of
sensitivity. Ensure parity between your policies and your big data architecture.
Allow this to drive things like storage solutions (in-house, cloud, hybrid),
design, deployment, etc.</span></li>
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visualisation should become more “visually orientated” with a data on demand
mindset. Create a higher level of abstraction based on visual filtering for
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working data pipeline servicing your needs through a big data stack that
presents useful tools and analysis for use, make sure you use it. Package your
end result in an easy to understand format with visually driven reports from
one of your most valuable resources, which is the large volumes of data you
collect every day! Now is the time to transform your future with big data that
will not only create awareness and understanding, it will create value for your
company both now and into the future.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Developer. John is also a committed blogger and from February 2016 onwards,
will be publishing blogs every second week on topics around Technology,
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Why reputation feeds happiness and enables success</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x-ySCJft7IA/Vshp-zpo0SI/AAAAAAAAE4E/6pRS-j2-F8Q/s1600/imgtrumpArgue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x-ySCJft7IA/Vshp-zpo0SI/AAAAAAAAE4E/6pRS-j2-F8Q/s320/imgtrumpArgue.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We all have being shocked of late by the extremist sound bytes coming from Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election campaign where apparently dirty politics, insanely imbalanced thinking and a neo conservative thrust for power has affected reputations both positively and negatively on all sides.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Donald Trump somehow managed to build a business empire in spite of some colossal errors in judgement and even more spectacular business failures that he has on his resume. He did so for many reasons including the fact that he managed his reputation astutely keeping an eye on how the world viewed him along with reconciling this intelligence to his goals and objectives. All was apparently well enough until his aspirations for higher office seemed to have sent him off the deep end in reputation management by thinking his extremist rhetoric would not have consequences. As the Presidential Office becomes apparently out of reach to Mr Trump, what are the lessons we all should learn from his performance in the management of our own reputations:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embrace who you are </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- True power in society by definition always lies within the group. By understanding the dynamic of your group interactions, you can understand who you are to ‘your world’. Its their impression of you, not your impression of yourself that matters in reputation management. If you are it, own it and understand the shrewdest of networkers and reputation managers know they can only ascend in the social order so far thanks to inherent ability and/or their situational dynamics.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Its an obvious
statement, ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">look after our environment
and our environment will look after us’</i>. This piece of common sense is
present in nearly all cultures over thousands of years yet the relative few
still seem to be hell bent on breaking our environment in a state of madness
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I am of course referring
to the </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/us/supreme-court-blocks-obamas-limits-on-power-plants.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">intervention of the US Supreme court</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> just last week that issued a decision on
President Obama’s effort to empower the EPA in America and bring carbon
emissions under control through enforcement. Politics is just plain crazy in
America these days and I try to not listen to the barrage of extremely
polarized rhetoric on all sides. It seems to stem from powerful forces in
America with divergent options that not only are worlds apart, the extremes
defy logic and common sense in most cases. Seriously, does anyone care about
the “normal” American anymore? GIven the questionable decision of the US
Supreme court last week, I guess the latest victim of runaway polarisation of
US politics is the environment for our children’s children. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Needless to say, the
battle of forces behind closed doors continues but to drive so forcefully
against good practice is baffling to say the least. The children of the extreme
right in America share the same land with the children of those who are on the
left, the centre and of no political persuasion at all. By upping the game of
sustainable practice, aren’t all the children of today not going to benefit? The
plan is a long play after all so maybe revisiting it in this light will help… ??</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In closing, I always
admired the native American Indian culture for its respect of the land and the
priority placed in its preservation for generations to follow. An old Native
American saying comes to mind <i>“<b>Treat the earth well: it was not given to
you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit
the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”</b> </i>I hope
the energy industry along with the US Supreme court takes note for despite the
incredible power of certain people in certain positions, we all grow old and
die. What we leave behind is our legacy, which is set in the land we claim to
own, but to be frank have yet to prove we love! A great place to start is
supporting the efforts to protect it by political ally and adversary alike. A
successful outcome will benefit all our children! </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Balance</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Balancing work and personal life is never easy but if you need to take a break from your personal life to make a work dream come true (or vice versa), make sure it’s short term and is defined by a plan to achieve a detailed objective. It invariably requires sacrifice, so be sure the cost is worth it. For example, I have sacrificed much to train up as a Software Developer and at this early stage am starting to see a return for my sacrifice in increasing competency in programming along with an increasing thirst for more knowledge in the software area. Such change is a very tough yet rewarding process. That’s part of ‘my journey’. What’s yours?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flexibility</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Like all things in life, our intended plans rarely go as planned so be prepared to be flexible based upon your deep seated core values. Maybe a career setback becomes an eye opener as you see a chance to find your way to a career you love, not tolerate “a job” for a paycheque! Being flexible in a grounded manner is a way of life, which demands sacrifice to say on the right path. However, if you travel the right path, opportunity will invariably come knocking and being flexible is key to grasping it in whatever form it takes. Many paths lead to the oasis of happiness!</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.0pt;">When looking at the world through abstract lenses,
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We all at some point
love and hate life, see it in different shades of both extremes and seem to
never question what we have come to take for granted. From the air we breathe
to the evenly applied angles of petals on a daisy, it is simply life, part of
our world, which allows us to achieve what we have set out to achieve within
its boundary paths.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With the impressive
march of technology and time, my own journey has been revealing more and more
patterns in life. I was once ignorant of these patterns but now ponder them
with excitement and interest. To explain my developing interest in the patterns
of life, I often wondered how some folks do better than others after a paradigm
shift in “their world”. Who adapts, who fails, who succeeds, who changes the
picture completely once again??? This is man made and sits against a world that
is more and more connected to itself. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So, enter nature and one
begins to wonder about the patterns of uniformity and synchronicity… why do
they happen? Who makes it happen? Is it part of nature’s “DNA” for it to
happen? Maybe our world is bigger and wider than we once thought? The patterns
and mechanics of nature are often mimicked by man, thus we have microwaves,
computers, antibiotics, central heating and so on.. A profitable relationship
wouldn’t you agree? What if we push the boundaries of this relationship with
the world around us, within us, above us and beyond us?? What could we discover
and seek to understand, which could help our children’s children on their journey
through life?</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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things I think are gateway areas to future progress, creating a progressive
technological window to tomorrow’s world today:</span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Quantum
Computing - </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/quantum-computers-could-be-next-great-leap-for-mankind-1.2411733"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Eric Ladizinsky, CEO of D-Wave gave a great talk on the current
progress of quantum computing</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://ems.tcd.ie/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Trinity College Dublin</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> late last year where he was able to
confirm production of 1000 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2245"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">qubit</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> quantum processors. An amazing breakthrough indeed. Map the progress of
this technology over the next 10 years and one can expect to see
parallelisation in computer processing power increase many fold within the
start of a paradigm change in computer science. This positive disruption to the
technologies that run our world today will open a gateway of possibilities for
tomorrow’s world! Exciting times indeed!</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">DNA,
Big Data and Disease - </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">As society becomes more comfortable with the concept of mass data flows,
big data analysis and genetic research, the ability to produce more and more
insights leading to cures from diseases ranging from <span id="docs-internal-guid-45a56c69-990f-64c0-ff50-817db9065826"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">haemochromatosis</span></span> to cancer
will escalate the pace of medical technology innovation. At the heart of this
innovation, data science will lend a critical hand in the identification of
patterns and probabilities that will aid the unlocking of answers to some of
mankind’s deadliest diseases.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Artificial
Intelligence - </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">What
if every robot, mainframe and distributed cluster had its own AI controller.
Imagine a core that you could converse with, understand emotions, right/wrong
and then execute self augmenting programming to capture a better outcome for
the process. This is a flash of what could be achieved with such technology.
Responsible adoption of course is key and should lead all development projects.
These outcomes can create the AI reality of the future which will positively
impact society at that point.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Energy
- </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Fossil fuels will soon
come to pass and the experimentation with “alternative energy” is something to
be explored by disrupters. The fact is that the iron grip of the energy
industry over fuels will soon “run out of gas” as the ability to generate
energy from solar protons via panels will become so effective, a new age of
energy will arise in the quest to have self generating cells that last a
lifetime and harness the power of nature to tend to the needs of man.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Propulsion</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;"> - We need to travel to the stars. We
won’t go far on a tank of gas, so with a developing understanding of the world
around us, we can expect to see that new forms of energy, navigation and
propulsion will be unlocked by our intrepid minds that don’t accept that status
quo as fixed. The quest for knowledge and understanding is a powerful one in a
universe that carries us forward with the arrow of time allowing us via entropy
to never stand still.</span></li>
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merely survive life, we must live it to understand our time here and how we fit
into the world around us. If we open our hearts and minds to the possibilities
that surround us, we commune with a universe that will help us find our way
turning a land of illusion into a land of hope for a better day! </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/quantum-computers-could-be-next-great-leap-for-mankind-1.2411733"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.irishtimes.com/business/quantum-computers-could-be-next-great-leap-for-mankind-1.2411733</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start like you mean to finish</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Plot out what you want to become in success with a start up. Is it the next multi billion dollar company or a business to support you and your family with no wish to expand the business beyond a “mom and pop store”?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If successful, will you sell your business?</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> If so, when will this be? Plot a company size in revenue, employees and asset size (value of assets to turnover of business) when you will start considering offers to be bought out.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embrace modern Risk Management</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Risk mapping, risk registers, risk assessments, 3rd party country risk, financial risk reports are all useful and are a good way to see your mapped future unfold as you build your business. If done from the start, you build into your structure a culture of risk management and thus information awareness.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scaling Systems</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. If you want to be the next billion dollar enterprise, you need to think about how IT infrastructure, systems design and development will fit into this vision. Will it be costly or seamless to scale your IT resources to fit business needs? Bootstrapped startups have great opportunities to develop low cost scalable systems using cloud and hosting providers. How it’s designed and built however will determine its true worth in availability, stability and scalability.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your digital brand</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Market yourself for credibility, expertise and leadership as a Founder. Build your social media profile and creds with consistent high quality posts, blog articles and actions online that reinforce your digital brand message. If you approach a VC for funding, they will investigate you thoroughly including social media because in a startup, it’s the people, not the products that make the bew business successful.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Network Network Network</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. You need to find co-founders, business partners and indeed potential customers in the marketplace. Meetup.com is a great start in your networking efforts that you should approach strategically.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Community</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Make sure you build bridges with your marketplace but also with the startup community. The access to people and shared experience is incredibly useful especially to a newly minted entrepreneur.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marketing</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Build your marketing efforts based on tested Marketing models such as the 4P (Product, Price, Place, Promotion) and seek inputs on how you can develop a marketing strategy and a marketing mix that fits your startup</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finance. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are not funded, be sure to bootstrap everything you do, make sure your efforts are within a projected finance curve (ie. within budget) to where your business will start earning money for itself or you can reasonably expect to get VC capital on board so you can develop your business into a self sustaining entity.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create Value, then create Customers</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Make sure your market research and everything you see from that point on is consistent with your products and services creating value for the customer. Qualitative approaches to service quality influence pricing and also create repeat customers. If you cannot create value in your customer's eyes, you will not have any customers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stay Flexible</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Start ups often start with a great plan and product. When the marketplace interacts with the start up, it often turns into something very different. Be sure your startup is structured flexibly so you “touch base” with your customers in a manner that creates value for them in what you do.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disrupting a market? </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If your product revolutionises a market place by its disrupter effect, then be ready to capitalise upon it. Have base plans for this type of dynamism in place so you don’t waste time wondering about what approach to take to capitalise upon it. Large companies act fast in protecting their market share from disrupters, so be sure to have a plan.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></li>
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