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Only One Type of Bankruptcy Is Fatal

And it’s not financial

Tons of people have gone bankrupt and succeeded anyway. It’s because they avoided the one type of bankruptcy that would have ended it all. And it has nothing to do with money.

The following Presidents all went bankrupt financially:
Abraham Lincoln A bunch of really bad general stores
Ulysses Grant After he was President
Thomas Jefferson Multiple times before and after being President
William McKinley Just three years before becoming President.

A very few business people who went bankrupt and were still successful:
Henry Ford His Detroit Automobile Company went bankrupt in 1899. Henry Ford Company was failing when he left in 1903 to start Ford Motor Company.
Walt Disney Bankrupt in 1922, created Mickey Mouse in 1928, and in the 60’s had to go to 302 banks before the 303rd would give him money for his insane idea to start an “amusement” park called Disneyland.
Milton Hershey Went bankrupt twice trying make candy, then hit it big with Hershey’s Chocolate.
H.J. Heinz In 1875 his horseradish company went bankrupt. The next year he started a ketchup company that does $10 billion a year now.
P.T Barnum Bankrupt in 1855. Then in 1871 at age 61 he started a circus. a stupid idea no bank would support, especially with a guy who had been bankrupt. It raked in over $10 million in today’s dollars the first year.

Commitment Bankruptcy
I personally know a number of people who went bankrupt financially, but they all share the same trait as those above; they never went bankrupt personally.

I don’t mean personal financial bankruptcy, I mean “commitment bankruptcy”, which would have destroyed their personal vision, personal motivation, personal willingness to pick themselves up and do it again, and as a result, their personal commitment to keep going.

Looking at the example of these people’s lives, financial bankruptcy is clearly never fatal. But if you lose your vision, stop believing you can do it, or just get tired and quit, you’ve suffered the only bankruptcy that is permanent – Commitment Bankruptcy.

Gradually, Then Suddenly
Stay in the habit of getting back on the horse regularly. If you quit the small things, it will create a habit of quitting that can lead you to quitting the big things. We suffer Commitment Bankruptcy the same way we suffer financial bankruptcy – gradually; then suddenly.

Financial bankruptcy is temporary. Commitment bankruptcy is fatal.

Get back on the horse today and ride.

Why Studying Exceptional People Doesn’t Help Us

Process vs Result

We all have a desire to be significant. Yet few of us feel we are creating the rules that will get us there. So we study “exceptional people” to find rules for success. But we almost always miss the one rule that makes them successful; struggle.

While we idolize our hero, too often we lose sight of what got them there. With very few exceptions, it wasn’t talent, but struggle. Is it possible that deep commitment to the effort it takes to get to your Big Why is what actually creates meaning, joy and success?

Joy in the Journey
Are we too focused on the result achieved by “exceptional people” to understand how they got there? Why do athletes, music heroes, and business people who are already at the top of their field and financially secure keep going? Why don’t they retire as soon as they get there? Is the result their focus?

I believe it is because they have found the secret (such an over used term) of success. They understand that meaning and joy are not found in the destination but in the journey, and that love of the process of persistent struggle is the key to joy.

Love the Persistent Process
How did your star athlete get to the level they are at? By persistent struggle on the weight machines, on the track, and daily work at perfecting their craft. Relentless, consistent, persistent struggle. And a deep love for that process. Yo Yo Ma, world famous cellist, once told my daughter “The key to becoming a world class musician is to learn to love to practice; to practice every day as if you’re sitting on stage at Carnegie Hall for your debut concert.”

Do you love the Persistent Process, or are you focused on the result? Measure the result, but focus on the process and building your mental muscles through it. Learn to love the process and the ongoing development of both your craft and your business.

You will find the most meaning and joy in having made it through the tough times and having created success by loving the Persistent Process of getting there.

Your heroes didn’t get there by talent. They got there by learning to love the process of getting there. Take the things you learn from them with you into the real world, get beat up, fall down, get back up a little stronger, and do it again. Build your mental muscles one at a time, but relentlessly. Unfailing commitment to the process of getting there is the only thing that will get you there.

No Exceptional People, Just Exceptional Commitment
We get what we intend, not what we hope for. Intend to embrace the process in order to get the result. Don’t read books marveling at people who have achieved great things. Don’t study their result. Marvel instead at the fact that these otherwise very common people were dedicated and sold out to the long process of getting there, no matter their circumstances.

Circumstances don’t make me who I am. How I respond to them does. Respond with tenacity and commitment to the long view. That will get you there! Do what it takes to build a business and a life of significance!

Joy is not found in the destination, but in the journey. Love the journey, the Persistent Process, and success will follow.

Discipline will not make you successful

The tortoise wins.

I ran a marathon 30 years ago. While training, my wife, Diane, started casually jogging with me at the end or beginning of my runs. A few weeks before the marathon she ran a half-marathon with me.

Since I had never run more than three miles, I had a five month schedule for preparing for the marathon. I was very disciplined about it, it didn’t matter if it was late at night or raining, I kept to my schedule for those five months and finished my marathon.

20 years later I was only running casually one or twice a week, sometimes less. I was able to keep my exercise going with other sports, but really didn’t have a long term commitment to running. 20 years after the marathon Diane was running four to five times a week faithfully, every week.

Discipline vs. Diligence
I had been DISCIPLINED to prepare for the marathon for five months, but Diane was DILIGENT to keep running a few miles every day, year after year. We hear a lot of talk about discipline, but diligence trumps discipline every time, and is much more desirable in growing a business that lasts.

Tony Robbins says we over estimate what we can do in a month, and greatly underestimate what we can do in a year. Diligence takes the long haul into account and sets us up for long term success. It’s about being the tortoise, not the hare. Diligence keeps us from getting distracted by each new shiny object.

Discipline is motivated by short-term goals. Diligence is motivated by long-term goals, deep values and belief systems.

Discipline is about building a habit. Diligence is about building and sustaining a life and a legacy.

Discipline is about WHAT WE DO. Diligence is about WHO WE ARE.

Things are great; things are not great; things are great…
Why are there so many peaks and valleys in businesses? Too often it’s caused by being too committed to very short term impact (discipline) and not having a good grasp on how to do anything about the long term (diligence).

The priority – the long term
Henry David Thoreau said “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” In business, we get a shot at quiet desperation every time we commit to a short term shiny object that we just got excited about. Emotion and shiny objects are a great for recipe for short term shooting stars, but diligence keeps us grounded, stable, shooting for something significant with our business.

Short term goals that aren’t connected to any significant future for our business contribute to quiet desperation – moving from one short term, random, unconnected objective to another. We can look very disciplined about short term goals and never get anywhere. Longer term objectives for our business get us focused on something significant and create quiet resolve.

Investor owned and publicly traded businesses rarely get the opportunity to actually build a business on what would be good for the long term. As a privately owned business, you have the ability to build something that will make an impact for decades to come and create a great legacy by simply being diligent to make decisions that are best for your future, not just your present.

The tortoise really does win. Keep moving, plod along, never give up, stay the course – be diligent.

Diligence beats discipline every time.

Why Africa (& the world) should reject Gladwell’s “Outliers”

Victimology doesn’t work.

I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book”Outliers” while in the poorest part of the poorest country on earth. Gladwell’s theory of success will not help Africa, or you. It’s actually dangerous to those who CHOOSE to live a life of significance.

Circumstances don’t make me who I am. How I respond to them does.

Gladwell disagrees. He says circumstances are largely to blame (or credit) for who I am.

Never has a book engendered such a reaction from me to make me review it. I don’t review books. I use them to change who I am, or discard them as interesting (entertaining, but not transformational) or not interesting. I loved Gladwell’s Tipping Point and use it regularly in my work and life.

But Outliers is not just “interesting”. For those who choose to embrace it, it could be a transformational compendium of victimology that gives excuse after excuse for not choosing to live a life of significance.

If it was by an obscure author it could be ignored. But because Gladwell has laid such a great foundational reputation with his other works, people have bought into this without critiquing it. Many people loved it and recommended it to me, which is how I read all my books. I was very disappointed by what I read. I hope you are, too.

Which 90/10 Rule Do You Live By?
My belief is that 90% of life is what you make happen and 10% is what happens to you. And you have two possible responses to the 10%: 1) Fascinating! How’d that happen? Let’s make lemonade! and 2) I’m a victim of my circumstances, background, legacy, great grandmother, the Duke of Wellington, Atilla the Hun or some outside dark force that rules over me.

Gladwell apparently believes 90% of life is what happens to you and 10% is what you make happen. And for the 90% that happens to you, he subscribes to ONLY response #2 – you’re a victim. Poor babies. You should lay down and die. Give up. It’s understandable. You had an ancestor 300 years ago that made a bad decision or was unlucky, or you were living in poverty, and you’re never going to live it down.

And if you’re successful, Gladwell says you also didn’t have nearly as much to do with it as you think. It’s luck, circumstance, legacy, the Duke of Wellington, Attila the Hun and a thousand other things outside you that nearly pushed you unwillingly over the edge of success. You nearly had no choice but to live the life of Riley.

I say CHOICE is 90% of the formula for success. Gladwell says CIRCUMSTANCE is…50%? 90%?. I say a difficult background makes you even more successful if you CHOOSE to respond to it well. You’ll be stronger than most. Gladwell says hardship makes it very unlikely you can succeed – it’s almost not your choice at all. In Gladwell’s world, hardship and a lousy background aren’t sources of fertile ground for building a unique and wonderfully powerfully story for you. They’re something to get over, if you can. Good luck with that.

Lies, Damnable Lies, and Statistics
Disraeli said there are three kinds of lies: “Lies, damnable lies, and statistics.” Here are some of Gladwells:

1) He cites Roseto, PA as “proof” that where you are FROM has more to do with success (health, lower crime, suicide, etc.) than your choices. Then he ignores the research that shows the reason the town was so healthy was exactly because of their 1) choice to live in close knit relationships, 2) choice to be spiritual, 3) choice to live by fundamentally sound values, 4) choice to respect elders, etc. Even the town they came FROM in Italy and others from that town that didn’t CHOOSE to live like the Rosetans didn’t have the same health and crime. The Rosetan’s CHOICES made them who they were, not where they are from.

2) He cites Canadian Junior Hockey stats showing 40% of the 10 yr. old all-stars were born Jan-Mar, 30% April-June, and only 10% Oct.-Dec. The age cutoff is Jan 1 so those kids born early in the year are playing against younger kids and get chosen to go through to the all-stars, even though they’re not better, just older (therefore appear better when chosen as all-stars). He wants a separate league for the poor babies born June-Dec. Get over it.

I won the city batting championship three years in a row in Pony League w/ a left-handed batting average of .555 and an on-base % of .695. I could draw a walk as easy as getting a hit. As the youngest and smallest tenth grader at high school baseball tryouts I was cut without swinging a bat. The uninformed coach lined us up by height and cut the bottom five in the first five minutes of practice. He was looking for football players for the fall. I was easily the fastest center fielder and the best hitter there (and a prized left-hander), and when I filled out to 6’ 1″+ a few years later it turned out I might have been a pro prospect. Wah, wah, wah. Life is not fair. Michael Jordan was cut from ninth grade basketball. He CHOSE to not give up. I CHOSE to give up and do something else. It’s about choice.

Apparently pro hockey players agree. The 40% born in Jan-Mar in kid hockey is reduced to 31% in the pros, and the 10% Oct-Dec. is doubled to 20%, just five percentage points below “fair”. An awful lot of those poor babies who didn’t make the All Star teams first time around CHOSE to not give up. Life isn’t fair, nor should it be. We would lose all our drive to succeed. Gladwell didn’t show us the pro stats. Because they demonstrate that circumstances don’t make me who I am. How I respond, does. Choice.

3) To debunk the ridiculously over-worked role of talent, Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours to succeed – that at the highest level, work is more important than talent. I couldn’t agree more, except that having correctly correlated success more with hard work (choice) than with talent, this debunks most of the rest of his victimology as well. I have a choice to succeed. Working my tail off is the biggest part of that, and that is a choice.

4) He also correctly debunks the role of “genius” by showing many smart people don’t make it. I couldn’t agree more, but the reason isn’t because of their background. It’s because of their choices. He actually gives the smartest man in the world a pass for giving up on getting published because his background obviously was too difficult to over come. Poor baby. It took me 19 years to finish college, but I’ve started and run seven businesses. I’m not smart, I’m just relentless. Choice.

Gladwell goes on to talk in the same terms about legacy, heritage, deep ties to people you never met in the old country a hundred years ago that allow you to live a life of significance or keep you from experiencing it. But he gives almost no time to the most important characteristics of success: personal vision, personal choice, and personal commitment to get there no matter what. Burn the bridges, sink the ships, shred the parachutes, I’m all in. This is nothing more than background noise in the book, which he only recognizes as an annoying fact but not as the source of success.

My best lesson from all of college came from one of the Women’s Studies Courses I took. The female professor asked the one other guy in the 200 person class to come up front, gave him a toy gun and told him to hold her up. At first it was comical, but she kept belittling him and instructing him until he held the gun to her head and screamed at her, “Give me your f-ing money or I’ll blow your f-ing head off!” She congratulated him for eventually becoming convincing, and asked him to sit down.

Then she asked us a stunningly simple question, “At what point did I become a victim?” Her answer – “I never was.” And she said, “And at what point would I have become a victim? Only when I gave him control of my mind or he took control of me physically.”

She went on to say that the problem with victimology is that it gives us a pass from taking charge of our lives, and allows us to blame our circumstances for forming who we are. I never forgot that lesson from 30 years ago. Those who read Gladwell’s book should use it as a filter as they read.

As I road on the back of a motorcycle through the bush for 8 hrs in the middle of the rainy night, then spent 10 hrs with the Chief, and 10 hrs back last night without sleep (four flats, a blown gear box), my African friends on that trip were incredibly resilient. There wasn’t a victim among them. Together we plan to build a first world country on the backs of these incredible people. If they read Gladwell’s book and embrace it, they don’t have a chance.

Circumstances don’t make me who I am. How I respond to them, does.

Don’t be a victim. Chose to live a life of significance. It’s 90% choice and 10% what happens to you (and you have a choice how to respond to that 10%).

Risk what I risk, not what I say.

Grab the flag. Lead the charge.

Recently a client and good friend said, “I would be willing to bet a smart guy like you with a lot of success in your past wasn’t in danger of losing your house when you started your business, even if it had failed.” She’s wrong, but she’s not at all alone in believing that. Why?

Does anybody lead by example anymore?

For years I’ve ranted about going all in, burning the bridges, sinking the ships, shredding the parachutes, being willing to lose it all to be successful. I’ve shared all the research I can find on this, and my own experience in five businesses of waking up at 3am in cold sweats wondering if we would make it.

Yet it’s still hard for people to believe that I actually lived at risk in any of these businesses. For some of them I didn’t, but for the ones that were most successful (including this one) I was at the most risk. That correlation between success and risk is not surprising to me, because when we don’t have a back door, we are more likely to be successful. Survival is a very strong instinct.

Risk and commitment go hand in hand and are fundamental to success.

So why don’t people believe me? I’d love your thoughts. My own two cents:

  1. We have apparently lost most if not all connections between what leaders say you should do and what they themselves actually do. We’re indoctrinated with the academic model where information goes from head to head, not life to life. The professor spews info and goes home.
  2. The “training” and “success” industries follow the academic model. I know a number of trainers who were hired to learn to impart tools and tactics for how to live life who never did any of what they taught. And I know success trainers who have never been successful. In many if not most cases, it’s not even expected.
  3. We’ve gotten use to separating the private and public lives of actors, politicians, big business CEOs and others as if who we are in public is magically different than who we are in private.
  4. “Experts” and “Gurus” have created images of themselves that are nearly messiah-like, where they can’t be seen to ever struggle or do dumb things. So they spout the “miracles”, “secrets”, and “5 easy steps” they used to make life so easy that they have no problems any more. We actually believe these people don’t struggle (they make more money when we believe that).

I struggle. I have bad days. I have to work at seeing everything as “fascinating!”. And I risked everything in a number of businesses when I truly believed it was worth doing. I’m not an expert, or a guru, and I’m not smart, I’m just relentless. It’s how successful business owners build businesses.

The Conative Filter

Stop Thinking: Conation, not Cognition.

Conation is one of the 1,000 most obscure English words and yet the most important business word you’ve never heard. Want to know if you’re doing well and going where you want? Filter everything through the word conation:

Conation – the will to succeed that manifests itself in single-minded pursuit of a goal.

Or my definition:

Committed Movement in a Purposeful Direction

It’s nuts that this word has been buried in the lexicon, but there was too much “doing” in it for the academics to feel comfortable, so they let the word drift into obscurity. These Thinker/Cognaters love cognition because it allows them to justify sitting around thinking things to death without taking any action. Conation is scary to them because it requires action and metrics of success, not just pontificating.

But if you bring Conation back into your life and business as your main filter, and use cognition as a faithful servant of your Conation, you’re going to be a lot more successful. Conation is way more important to your success than cognition.

The Conative Filter

  1. Commitment – Affection/Passion – are you sold out to what you’re doing? Willing to go down with the ship? Do you have “quiet resolve” to succeed no matter what? If not, your chances for success are low. Commitment, utter abandonment to the cause is the foundation of success.
  2. Movement – Activation – Doing – are you sitting around cognating (thinking) about what great things might happen if you ever did something? Or are you moving forward and figuring it out as you go? Doers get things done while Thinkers are thinking about doing something someday.
  3. Purpose – Cognition – Discipline/Plan – Do you have a plan for the highest and best use of your time (Yield per Hour)? Cognition is ONE of the things you need to be doing to be successful. It’s a faithful servant of conation.
  4. Direction – Vision – Just because you’re going flat out doesn’t mean you’re going the right direction. Do you have utter clarity about where you want to end up, exactly what it looks like, and when you want to be there? You get what you intend, not what you hope for.

Conation is all four, not just two or three. Direction, Purposeful, and Movement without Commitment will not sustain you. Commitment, Purpose, and Direction are useless without Movement. Movement, Commitment and Direction are of no value without Purpose (a plan to get there).

Want to know whether you’ll be successful, or why you’re not? Use the conative filter to see if you’ve got all four attributes going at once. If not, shore up the one that needs your attention. You’ll make more money in less time and make a bigger splash in the world around you.

People with committed movement in a purposeful direction make history. Cognating dreamers write about them later.

Business is like Surfing

Don’t Float. Paddle Hard. Catch the Wave. Enjoy the Ride.

A long time ago I lived on the ocean and while describing the cycles of business to somebody last week it dawned on me it’s a lot like surfing –

The first thing you have to do is jump in and start struggling against crashing breakers and strong currents. You’re swimming against the tide, diving under the breakers, getting knocked around endlessly, holding your breath too often, and not seeming to make much progress. And you’re dog tired as a reward. Starting a business or any new initiative in an existing business gets you pretty much the same response, doesn’t it?

Once you get past the breakers you are still paddling like crazy against the tide and up the swells and rollers. Most of the time you can’t see much farther than the next wave coming at you and even though you’re paddling endlessly, there are almost no reference points for whether you’re making any progress. Business is the same – once you’re past the initial struggle, the long slog to success doesn’t seem to have any context – is this getting me anywhere? Oh, and you’re tired.

Once you’re finally out where the big ones are forming, you turn around, point yourself at the beach, and after all the paddling against the waves, now you have to paddle even harder WITH THE WAVES in order to catch one going in.

This is where most businesses miss the wave. We paddle so hard against the momentum that when we finally catch some good times and the current is with us, we relax, turn over on our backs and catch some rays. It’s an instinctive reaction and after all we deserve to goof off – we’ve worked really hard to get there. But you’ll never catch the wave that way.

The reason most business owners don’t ever get off the treadmill isn’t because they don’t have the opportunity, it’s because every time they catch some momentum they start floating. When we get momentum, we should be paddling harder then we’ve ever paddled before. When we do, we can catch the wave and at that point you don’t have to paddle anymore, just ride the wave, pose for the cameras and enjoy the ride.

If you’ve got some momentum, don’t float, paddle harder. There is nothing more rewarding or exciting than finally catching the wave. Do you want a business that has enough momentum to regularly make money while you’re on vacation? Wouldn’t it be great to have a business that prints both time and money for you?

The don’t call it “catching” the wave for nothing. It doesn’t just happen. You get out in front of it and paddle like crazy. We create our momentum, THEN we enjoy it when the business gets a life of its own.

Don’t float. Paddle Hard. Catch the wave. Enjoy the ride.

Commitment is the Engine of Your Business, Not Motivation

Committed people make history.

Imagine building a boat without an engine or a sail. We call that a raft. You could build a gorgeous multi-million dollar 60’ cruiser, but if there is no engine, it’s still just a raft. And if you actually want to have some control over where you’re going, drifting around aimlessly in a raft isn’t the best way to get there. Or the fastest. Or the safest. You get the idea. You need an engine.

In 30 years of building my own businesses and in watching other people build hundreds more, I can tell you without reservation that the foundational thing that separates the successful business owner from the always-struggling business owner is commitment. The bigger their engine of commitment is, the better chance they have at getting where they want to go. And the quicker they are likely to get there.

Motivation is not Commitment.

That’s an important distinction. I’ve seen plenty of people pound their chests, do their chants and mistake “motivation” for commitment.

I’m not a big fan of motivational stuff. Motivation too often masquerades as vision, but is almost always based in emotionalism – seeing the promised land on a map, hearing the music, dancing the dance, hugging somebody, then going home and settling back into our regular routine.

So motivation is too often based on how I feel, not on whether I’m committed to really doing something. Commitment is unaffected by feeling, and only uses feelings to help understand what has already happened. After all, emotions are a much better indicator of what has already happened then what might happen in the future.

We should be responding to business more like a stream running down hill. It doesn’t need to get emotional to get moving and when it hit’s a beaver dam, it doesn’t get emotional, either. It just turns left and keeps finding a way downhill. A stream has quiet resolve.

Commitment is demonstrated not by excitement, or by spending time in the office, or even by dollars invested, but by full on abandonment to getting to the goal, and daily plodding to get there. Commitment is much closer related to steely, quiet resolve than to ginning up the “right” feelings.

Quiet resolve is committed movement in a purposeful direction.

Do you have quiet resolve to get where you want to go, no matter what you run into along the way? If you do, you’ve got a great shot at going from survival right through success to significance, both in your business and in your life.

We Don’t Find the Sandbars With An Anchor in the Water

Our desire for safety is paralyzing. We’re so afraid of hitting a sandbar that we’re willing to just sit in the harbor for years on end. Then we have the audacity to wonder why our business never grows up.

Think of the Steering Wheel on a boat as “Purposeful Direction”, and the Engine as “Commitment”. I’m a big fan of both commitment and purpose. One without the other is of no value. Nothing is more important to how quickly you will get where you’re going than the size and fitness of your engine combined with ongoing attention to the helm. Most of us don’t pay attention to either. We’re just sitting at anchor most of the time.

The single biggest factor in getting somewhere is the steering wheel of your life and business – a purposeful direction (see last week’s post). But if you know where you want to go and you aren’t committed to getting there, I mean fundamentally sold out to that end game, the journey will take a very long time and you will likely lose steam before you ever get there. If your engine of commitment isn’t big enough it’s likely you really don’t have a clear understanding of where you want to go – the steering wheel has no direction.

The only way to find the sandbars in life and in business is to get the ship moving and then start taking soundings. And if you’re commitment is big, you’ll get where you want to go a lot faster and easier than those who are puttering around with little outboard engines.

It’s all about committed movement in a purposeful direction. Lack of committed movement is failure.

Are you fully committed to moving in order to find out what works, or are you sitting around wondering where the sandbars are?

Planning won’t even get you a good plan, let alone success.

Stop thinking. Get moving.

Planning does not create success or even the best plan. It also doesn’t create action. Most planning just creates paper, spreadsheets, complexity, doubt, paralysis, and dream-dampening. There are two things that create a far better plan than planning itself.

If you believe that meticulous and detailed planning of every possible contingency is the best way to create success you won’t like this post. To make matters worse, I’m probably going to accuse you of living in a dream world.

How many SUCCESSFUL businesses were started from a highly developed business plan? Next to none. And of the very, very few I’ve found that were started from a business plan, when asked how that worked out for them, most laughed but none said that reality had followed their excel spreadsheet plan.

Yet we keep slavishly promoting an antique practice that has almost never done anything for anyone except get someone an “A” in an MBA class on how to build a business plan. Oh, and it will get you into debt, because banks are still requiring business plans so they have a teddy bear to hold while they give you money. None of those work out either, but most banks haven’t figured out there is a much better way to see if someone is going to be successful.

This isn’t a blog on the attributes of success (maybe I’ll do that one next week), but creating a 30-page business plan isn’t one of them. To the contrary, the simpler the initial plan, the better, because it’s going to change anyway.

I advocate a 2-Page Strategic Plan (never do another classic Business Plan unless you have an antique bank asking for one). A simple 2-page Strategic Plan is set up to change, adapt, and be clarified every one to three months – you know, sort of like life.

It shouldn’t take more than a few hours to do it because, again, like life, it’s going to change very quickly. The only part that is likely to not change is the objective – what do we want to see as a result? The rest of it is up for grabs – anything that gets us to that result will be added and anything that isn’t will be removed.

Once you’ve got a simple plan, the two keys to making it into a great plan are:

  1. Commitment (to the objective, not a plan)
  2. Movement (in a purposeful directions toward the objective, not “activity” based on a plan)

It is NEVER how good your plan is that creates success, but how committed you are to the bad plan you’ve got and how willing you are to get moving on it NOW. As you move with absolute commitment in a clear direction toward the objective – that commitment and that movement will work together to make your so-so plan into a world class one.

Commitment and movement create success, not a tortured 30-page document. And a simple 2-page plan will become brilliant over time if there is enough commitment to the objective and enough movement to inform you what to keep doing and what to keep changing.

Stop thinking, get a clear objective and get moving with abandoned commitment toward that goal. Use the movement to make the plan better all the time. You’ll make more money in less time by committed movement than you will by sitting around trying to figure out what might go wrong.


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Few of us can afford the serenity and luxurious of a business class cabin, bereft of sure kinds of disagreeable passengers. There are some individuals who discover it necessary to change into voluble at excessive altitudes and insist on making conversation with you even should you politely express your disinterest. I once met a girl travelling for the first time who was coping with her nervousness by telling me all about her vast household tree and her recent restoration from an ear infection, until I pointedly informed her I wanted to get some rest. She did not take the trace till I asked the stewardess for earplugs.

3) Verify your airline’s website to get an updated listing of prohibited items. Personally verify every suitcase before giving it the seal of approval. Explain various aspects of security protocols, akin to removing their sneakers when requested, or putting their belongings on the conveyor belt. This contains blankies and stuffed animals.

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You can’t have been on a flight the place there wasn’t a minimum of one precious little angel crying its lungs out for no obvious motive. Flights and bawling babies are like strawberries and cream. I believe most infants are sensible enough to realize that it’s sheer stupidity to pay cash to be suspended mid-air with the opposite 4 annoyances and that’s the reason they make their displeasure identified. Cooing dad and mom will stare you down when you so much as think of protesting. Moms really ARE clairvoyant.

Egypt is well known for its archeological sites and history and desires no introduction. Cruising on river Nile is an experience full of pleasure and pleasure. The posh cruises have so much to supply to their vacationers to take pleasure in whereas, on the other hand, the historic websites on the banks of Nile present for a perfect holiday expertise. The historical buildings and Bardo Archeological Museum of Tunisia takes one into nostalgia while the magical Morocco pleases its friends with its delicacies and procuring whereas it also has scenic locations to be visited. Algiers in Algeria is a phenomenal place to visit which is a combination of every little thing from all cosmopolitan facilities to history and culture.

What makes Virgin America among the best, though, is its attention to element. The First Class seats (eight per cabin) function leather upholstery and complimentary food and beverages. Foremost Cabin Select passengers are additionally supplied a complimentary menu. Nicely, that bottle of water or packet of food has been caught traveling with no ticket.

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A view of the famous Kokoda Track that crosses the Owen Stanley Mountains of Papua New Guinea from Port Moresby in the west to Buna on the east coast. In 1942, Imperial Japanese forces invaded New Guinea, then a territory of Australia, in a bid to capture Port Moresby. In a bitterly contested campaign fought along the Kokoda Track from July to November 1942, the Australian Army turned back the invasion and eventually forced the Japanese back to their starting point. Ammunition and supplies were trucked 45 km (28 mi) from Port Moresby to Owers Corner where they were repacked in Uberi, a major supply base just beyond the Goldie River. From Uberi supplies had to be hand-carried along the tortuous track ahead. Native Papuans provided invaluable assistance in carrying supplies forward and evacuating casualties to the rear area hospitals. Photo courtesy of the US Marine Corps/ Lance Cpl. Jesus McCloud.


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According to the Department of Homeland Security, 31 percent of all cyber-attacks targeted small businesses, and nearly 59 percent of small and medium-sized U.S. businesses do not have a contingency plan for responding to a data breach. Typically, during a data breach, a computer screen will go blank and a message requesting money, usually in the form of Bitcoin—an online currency—will appear. Bitcoin transactions are untraceable, making it perfect for hackers to perform cyber extortion.

Upgraded network security, backup systems and improved data storage protocols and contingency plans can protect a firm’s information from being lost or stolen, however, only to a certain extent. Cyber liability insurance policies can offer businesses protection by covering costs associated with cyber-attacks, including network and digital damage, business interruptions, credit monitoring, legal defense and any loss resulting from identity theft. Policies may or may not cover costs associated with reputational damage. There are a growing number of insurance carriers offering cyber and privacy liability coverage.

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At Ciber locations across the globe we are looking for talented people interested in exciting opportunities. So whether you’re new to the workforce or simply making a new start, we offer everything you’ll need to succeed and advance, professionally:

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These 5 Audio Tricks are Amazing

Learn how to capture better audio and create more dynamic in your videos with these 5 simple tips and tricks for sound design and audio post processing.

What’s better to start the week then a cool Creative Tuesday. But this weeks Creative Tuesday isn’t only cool it’s also very important for filmmakers. And you can already feel me coming with my sound is important speech, which really is guys. That’s why these 5 audio tricks can help you with your next film project and take it to the next level.

Like I just said, sound is very important and will help you with setting the mood of you video. A great example for this is a horror movie, which heavily depend on sound. Now imagine a horror movie without any sound, it will lose most of it’s tension and scariness. This is because they use scary music and sounds to build that mood and atmosphere. And you are probably saying how can sound be that scary. Well picture yourself alone in an abandoned house, it’s completely silent and suddenly you hear a creaking sound and a child laughing. Super scary no? And this is all because of that creaking sound and the laugh.

Of course without any sound it would also be scary, because you don’t know what’s out there. Here the lack of sound and the image will contribute to the scariness level. But this is the beauty of film making, combining images and sound in the best why to create the perfect mood and atmosphere. The possibilities are endless. And that’s why sound is also super important in you videos.

Affordable audio solutions for filmmakers. Saramonic introduces the SmartMic+, a directional pocket mic for your android or iOS device. The SP-RX9 is a super small package able to receive 2 wireless lavalieres, connect an XLR microphone with phantom power and 2 mini-jack inputs.

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  1. Thanks for posting this. I bought one of those Saramonic Mics because of this video and it rocks! I’ll be taking this on a Portugal trip in a few weeks and look forward to seeing how light I can travel while still making some cool little videos.

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 Three tips for negotiating with large suppliers - Supply Management

Three tips for negotiating with large suppliers

Suppliers come in all shapes and sizes. The majority of us have worked and negotiated with local suppliers who understand our markets, business needs and constraints.

Every once in a while, you may need to negotiate with a larger supplier – this could be a multinational company, a niche product manufacturer or a sole-source supplier with near-monopoly for a product or service.

The key characteristic in such deals is that the balance of power moves from buyer to supplier. Big suppliers know their market power and don’t hesitate to flex their muscles to maintain the status quo.

These conditions arise in markets for various reasons or a combination of factors which may influence supply chains. In some markets, the majority of suppliers have been eliminated due to tight competition, giving the remainder significant clout in the market.

You need to tread carefully when negotiating with a large supplier as playing hardball simply may not work, and could backfire in some instances. Knowing you’re more or less dependent on this supplier due to market, technical or commercial constraints, it may be worth looking at the negotiation in the following way:

1. Pitch your business as a “blue ocean”– a new or untapped market. Large suppliers tend to have tunnel vision and do not always focus on the big picture due to the transactional nature of their dealings. If framed correctly, an opportunity to enter a new industry or market segment is often too good to pass up for large suppliers. Finding out what might entice your supplier could take some time and will require creative thinking on both sides. To sweeten the deal, you could also potentially look at increasing the length of the contract to further de-risk the relationship.

2. Be prepared to negotiate well. Negotiation is a process and should be treated as such as it could takes weeks or months to achieve the desired results. Here is a list of some common negotiation tactics you should be prepared for when dealing with large suppliers:

Limit of Authority. During negotiations, you will often hear that taking a decision is above their authority and must be approved by a VP/CEO who is based overseas or unavailable at the time of negotiations.

All or nothing. A supplier may demand that you must contract for all the products and services or none, in an attempt to reinforce their market power.

Indifference. A ‘take it or leave it’ stance, claiming it makes no difference to them whether or not you go ahead with the proposal.

Be creative with your counter-tactics when dealing with a difficult supplier. Tactics should ideally be developed with input from a cross-functional group of commercial, technical and strategy people.

3. Consolidate your demand. Combining your company’s spend into one contract/purchase order is not only a logical way to spend, but is also an effective way to boost your corporate negotiation power. The only caveat is that you need be able to collaborate internally to assess the total demand across the business.

If you work in a small company and you do not have the right demand profile to negotiate with a large supplier, you may also consider joining a local small-business purchasing consortium to help boost your buying power.

Large suppliers are perceived as a challenge because of their inability to adapt to buyer needs and react in a flexible manner. With the right negotiation tactics, not only you will be able to anticipate and respond to such suppliers, but you can also turn these challenges to your advantage.

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Supreme Court Showdown: Carvin Files Opening Brief in King v. Burwell

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Michael Carvin, counsel to the petitioners in King v. Burwell, filed his opening brief before the Supreme Court on December 20.  King challenges the Obama Administration’s claim that it may subsidize the cost of individual healthcare policies even in states that have not created state healthcare exchanges.   On December 22, the Supreme Court announced that it will schedule oral argument in the case on March 4.  Signaling the importance of the case, the Court said that it would hear arguments only in King that day instead of its usual practice of hearing arguments in two cases.

King is one of two cases in which CIR filed an amicus brief on behalf of several members of Congress arguing that the law creating Obamacare was clear: subsidies are available for individuals only in states that create exchanges.  If the Supreme Court reverses and holds the law to its plain language, Obamacare could not survive in its present form: without subsidies, many individuals could not afford the insurance and only the sickest would sign up, forcing premiums to increase further, which would only speed the flight of the healthy out of the reach of Obamacare.

The possibility that the system of incentives and subsidies that was supposed to drive the majority of Americans into federal health insurance could collapse into a death-spiral of ever higher premiums resulting in fewer and fewer enrollees creates a political conundrum for the new Republican Congressional majority.  It could decide to let the system collapse completely in the hopes that the blame would fall mainly on the White House.  Or it could undertake the arduous task of reconstructing Obamacare with greater deference to individual choice and free-market principles.  Or, finally, it could get the federal government out of the business of general health insurance entirely, reserving for the federal government the limited task of providing for the medical needs of the small set of truly uninsurable.

Current politics will not make the task easy.  President Obama is likely to insist the new Congress simply change the law to endorse the Administration’s view that subsidies should be available for all.  If the Republicans resist, the media will focus attention on the individuals who will suddenly lose their subsidies — and their insurance.  Republicans will find it just as difficult to please their own constituents, who will insist that anything less than a full-scale repeal of Obamacare amounts to a sell-out.  Further complicating matters is that Republican governors will come under to create state exchanges in the thirty-six states where they don’t now exist so that citizens in those states can take advantage of the subsidies provided under the original law.

In an recent editorial, the Wall Street Journal advised Republicans to focus on the fundamental problem with the “Affordable Care Act,” namely that the insurance it requires people to buy is not really affordable to many.  If the federal government stopped insisting on selling “three-sizes-fits-all” insurance and instead let any insurer sell any configuration of insurance to anyone, anywhere, insurers would have an incentive to sell insurance individuals wanted and could afford, such as stripped-down, catastrophic insurance for younger, healthy individuals.

One thing is clear: the Constitution does not permit the Executive Branch to unilaterally re-write Congress’s laws to continually adapt them to changing market conditions.  That is, the Constitution probably makes unworkable the sort of top-down, command and control of one-sixth of the economy that the Democrats undertook with Obamacare.  The sooner the Supreme Court makes this plain, the sooner the other branches can get to work fashioning a health system based on stable, written laws passed by Congress and enforced, not re-written, by the Executive Branch.

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“Am I, Or Am I Not, A Geek? And What Does It Have To Do With My Marketing Plan?”

Aug 09

If you’re un-accustomed to my ramblings, the first part of this post may not seem relevant to you, but I get there eventually — I always do. You can skip to the point by clicking —> here, but all the fun bits and Easter Eggs are along the way.  Also? I didn’t write this for Geek Week.  That’s just a happy coincidence – a coincidence that I’ll take it as a sign of approval from the Net Gawds. Anyway, let’s get started, shall we?

Why is the Ph of YouTube so stable? It constantly buffers!

A few weeks ago, I spotted this video:

It made me smile. A lot.  A WHOLE whole lot.  See, I’m all about encouraging people to boldly be themselves, and refusing to being put into (or kicked out of!) boxes. It’s sorta one of my things.

So I dutifully shared the link on both Twitter & GooglePlus. I started to tag a few especially geeky friends, to bring it to their attention, and then it hit me… If I tagged my “especially geeky friends”  I’d have to tag pretty much, well, EVERYBODY I KNOW!

Here’s what my social media following looks like:

What do you get when you divide a Holstein's circumference by its diameter? A: Cow pi!

Huh. That’s weird.

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The Great Gmail Freak-out of 2013: An Open Letter To Email Marketers

Jul 24

It's A Flourish! Not much of a secret message, I know, but I can't be brilliant all the time.

Dear Email Marketers,

I wanted to share my experience from the last few days
with you. It went something like this:

“Oh look,” sez me, “Gmail has changed it up again; there are tabs on my inbox! Let’s see, here’s my main inbox tab, and here’s a ‘social updates’ tab for notifications of new Social Media stalkers — I think I like that!

“And what’s this one… Promotions? Oh, here’s a coupon from the craft store, great. A sales flyer, a newsletter, and, wait, what’s this?”

That’s when I saw it: a baker’s dozen of emails from various Marketers. Combined, they looked something like this:

Gmail Tabs: It's Like The Sharknado of Email Marketing, a viral unnatural disaster that's going to kill us all with bad CGI!

Seriously? I mean… SERIOUSLY?

For the love of MailChimp, take a deep breath and count to ten!  Remember who you are, remember the lessons you’ve been drilling into your audience for however long you’ve had an audience.

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Using Pinterest For Fun & Profit (Without Being A Dweeb)

Feb 17

So. You bought into the hype about Pinterest (Um. Sorry about my part in that!) You got yourself all signed up, and you’ve pinned a cake recipe or two.  You’ve stared at endless wedding planner collections. You ‘ve declared that you WILL try the DIY lightbulb terrarium project, and maybe repaint your end tables a loverly shade of blue.

But you’ve got no clue how to make this work for your business.

Don’t worry!
I’m here to inspire you.
Or maybe confuse you.

But either way,  I’m here!
And I have a plan! Granted, it’s a mostly untested plan, because like almost everyone else I’m pretty new to Pinterest. But I have ideas, IDEAS I say!

Step one in the plan?

DON’T approach Pinterest as a “marketing tool”. Forget about the traffic you’ve been promised from Pinterest, and start a personal account. Use it as a tool for inspiration, for both work and personal projects. Use it for relationship building. Use it for research. Use it as the creative porn visual crack eye-candy curation tool it was meant to be.

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My Part In The Great Pinterest Pile-On

Feb 04

It's A Flourish!

Over the past a week or two, every Social Media guru, tech site and small business blog exploded with articles about using visual bookmarking site Pinterest to drive web traffic, each of them screaming “If your brand isn’t on Pinterest, you’re leaving money on the table, Baby! ”

And though I haven’t seen any stats, I’m pretty sure that there were more blog posts written about Pinterest than there are actual Pinterest users. Seriously. I can make up the statistics if you’d like…

Ok, fine. Since you asked:

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The Great Pinterest Pile-On of 2012! (Click to Embiggen)

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How To get Heard, Even During Holiday Launch Overload

Nov 29

"They've got stars upon thars!"
It’s the holiday season, and that means big, overwhelming things are afoot in the Internet Marketing world. Mostly, it means my email and social media streams are full of high-pressure messages, limited time discounts, big promises and offers from affiliates that pretty much pay you to sign up through them.

How can you compete with that, if you’re the newest Quirkipreneur on the block, trying to bring some attention to your quiet, reasonably priced little holiday offer?  Or as the loverly Michelle of Let’sRadiate put it yesterday,

“How do you promote your holiday special without slamming peoples’ inboxes and making them want to punch you in the nose?”

Damn good question.

Damn good question, with a lot of potentially damn good answers.

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Of Soup, Circuses & Quirkipreneurs (part 1)

Sep 13

A Quirk That ThinksSomewhere in last week’s series on Gossip Drama Soup, I promised to explain how the whole internet marketing scandal relates to Circus Serene & the merry band loosely identified as Quirkipreneurs. Since both concepts are still evolving, I’ll start with how I currently define them:

>>> The Circus Serene (this site, yay!) is largely about process – the process of creating a fun, creative, successful business that reflects our identity and ideals.  So a lot of the content here follows thought processes, creative processes, productivity processes, or anything else that develops and evolves. (I just figured this out yesterday, so there’ll need to be a bit of tweaking done)

>>> Quirkipreneurs (still more an idea than a thing) is about business identity & community; an identity & community that supports people like me in our unique, sometimes difficult to define goals. A community that helps us find services geared to our needs, a community that inspires, instructs, troubleshoots, networks, and helps promote.

But this Gossip Drama Soup, everyone-is-a-scammer scandal thing? It’s made me second guess the whole idea of what I’m doing, and brought them up a whole lot of issues worth examining.  I’m going to tackle them one by one, over the next few days.  This first one I already ranted about, but it’s worth revisiting:

Issue #1:
Realistic Business Models & Expectations

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Gossip Drama Soup: Resources For Reputations

Sep 10

Have A Big Bowl Of Drama Soup! It's "Um, Ooooh!" Good!

Hopefully? None of us will find ourselves front and center in our own editions of Gossip Drama Soup, but it can happen to anyone,  even when the water isn’t ethically or morally murky.

All it takes is one determined, disgruntled customer,  a former employee or ex lover with an axe to grind, a crazy neighbor who doesn’t like the color you painted your house, or a frustrated family member, and voila!  The rumors start, then turn to smears, and pretty soon your reputation is being hammered.

So what do you do when someone takes aim at you and your business?  I thought some resources might come in handy, and give us something  productive to talk about.

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Gossip Drama Soup Illustrated: The Sheep Edition

Sep 10

Fleece me like you MEAN it, Baby!!

It's A Flourish!

And that’s all that needs to be said, right?

Unless of course you’d like to leave a comment.
Which would be  just awesome-possum.

It's Another Flourish!

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Gossip Drama Soup: Running A Business Ain’t A Pipe Dream, Dammit.

Sep 07

Among all of the dirty laundry and accusations that make up what I’m calling Gossip Drama Soup?

There’s an absurd claim being made that there is no such thing as a successful online micro-business.

It’s just a pipe dream, you see, and those of us building our own businesses? We’re chasing a mythical beast, like a unicorn.

And since there’s (supposedly) no such thing as a successful online business, anyone who sells anything to support the online small business market is clearly a scam artist, right? Their customers are defrauded victims and fools. We’ve been lied to. Oh woe iz us!

Or that’s the story that’s being told, anyway.

And that story?
It really, REALLY ticks me off.

Because the last thing most of us need is someone tearing apart our efforts in the name of “protecting” us.

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Gossip Drama Soup: The Sins of Internet Marketing

Sep 04

Gossip Drama Soup! Now playing on Channels 5, 6, And Infinity!
So, the other day I wrote a post about the Dunford-Droid-NavarroFamily mess, henceforth known as Gossip Drama Soup.  The pot is coming to a boil, and honestly, I’m still not really not certain of all the ingredients that add to its… erm…  distinctive aroma.

Whew, that is one stinky soup.

But among the personal drama about mortal sins and mouthy broads and failed businesses? There’s a whole other topic that isn’t being discussed much yet, and it’s the one that might actually be sort of relevant  here on the Circus:

<cue over-dramatic music>

The Sins!
of Internet Marketing!

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Online Architectural Design

Using an online Architectural Design service for all your planning and building regulation requirements is fast becoming the way forward.  People all over Gloucestershire are now looking for quicker and easier ways to improve there living space and the team at CK Architectural Gloucester have the knowledge and expertise to walk you through the process to realise your homes full potential.

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Technical Support – Our technical designers will be dedicated to your project throughout the design process making sure you are kept informed every step of the way, with a fully staffed support team you can be assured that we keep you updated.

Why do I need a feasibility assessment? –  You will know more than we will about what you want to achieve, and what your budget is.  We however will offer you practical advice and affordable designs.  When we have done your assessment, we will then send you an easy to read report on our findings.

When all the required information is received, we will produce your assessment report and it will include the following and more:

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It all begins with a few simple questions and a quick self-survey – Don’t worry about completing your self-survey we know how daunting this can sound but we offer an easy step by step guide on how to do this and remember your designer and our support team are on hand to help.  We will always make sure we have the right information from you to begin your concept designs.  Just a few quick measurements and a handful of photographs of the area along with a very brief description of your project will get us in the right direction and we will be able to work for you in making that dream extension become a reality.

The Designs – When we begin on the design phase of your project we will provide you with the existing layout / elevations for your property this information will be provided by you from the self-survey pack, we will then work with you to produce your concept designs we can do this via email, telephone, Skype or even WhatsApp.  Choosing the best design options for you before submission to planning and building control


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Clairfield advises Ser.Nav Group on sale to Customs Support, a Castik Capital portfolio company

In a deal highlighting the reach of Clairfield’s business services team, Ser.Nav Group, an Italian leader in customs brokerage, was acquired by the Dutch group Customs Support, a Castik Capital portfolio company.

The transaction involved team members in Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany working in concert to bring the best buyer and terms. With the Clairfield business services group, serious potential buyers were located in seven countries. Castik, a Germany private equity group and recent new owners of Customs Support, moved quickly to exclusivity as Ser.Nav was a perfect fit for its buy-and-build strategy.

Ser.Nav Group provides services in customs operations, customs brokerage, and shipping agent operations to more than 300 clients. Ser.Nav has built its presence in 17 main strategic locations across Italy.

Customs Support provides customs brokerage services with 500 customs specialists and 100 Brexit experts. The company is currently active in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Poland. With this transaction, Italy is added to the list.

Clairfield International acted as exclusive financial advisor to Ser.Nav Group.

“We are excited to become part of Customs Support. Both companies have a shared culture of focusing on seamless, high-quality service and providing the best solutions to our clients. There is clearly a great fit for our customers and the people working at Sernav. We strongly believe that Sernav and its customers will benefit from the European network of Customs Support and combined efforts to advance technological innovation in the customs sector.”

— Mr. Biffignandi, Mr. Stanzione, and Mr. Pisano, shareholders in Ser.Nav

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Eddie Quillan Overview:

Actor, Eddie Quillan, was born Edward Quillan on Mar 31, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Quillan died at the age of 83 on Jul 19, 1990 in Burbank, CA and was laid to rest in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, CA.

Eddie Quillan was a bright-eyed, dark-haired, effervescent American juvenile lead. He was well at home in collegiate comedies, in which he later developed into a useful supporting player in both comedy and drama. At seven years old he was on stage with his family's vaudeville act; he came to Hollywood at 19 to feature in comedy shorts, but it was in 1940 that he got one of his best roles, as Connie Rivers in The Grapes of Wrath. He played increasingly smaller roles in post-war years, but kept acting up to the early 1980s. He never married.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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Eddie Wright: Just bury me with one of your swell hamburgers on my chest.
Bessie Wright: With onions?
Eddie Wright: You oughta know by now.

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Ann Reed: Are you sure your friend doesn't need any help?
Bob Moore: Oh, not him. Anyway, if he needs help he'll yell for it.
Joe Riley: Hey, goldbrick! Do I have to handle this detail all by myself?

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LEGO Mindstorms EV3-NXT Compatibility

ev3-software-on-laptopDid you know you can use your existing LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics hardware equipment with the new LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotics software? It’s true! All the training you received in our LEGO EV3 Robotics Camp is applicable to your NXT equipment you may already have at home!

While the new EV3 hardware has some new motors and sensors, you don’t have to throw away your existing NXT robotics kit. LEGO made the two products (NXT and EV3) compatible.

The only thing that isn’t compatible is that you can’t use the LEGO Mindstorms NXT software on the EV3 hardware. And you wouldn’t want to do this anyways, as the new LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotics software is vastly superior and easier-to-use than the older NXT robotics software.

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Time for a career change? Health care experiencing strong job growth in Houston

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Houston's health care industry is experiencing strong job growth. Local employers posted 254 new jobs over the past week and 926 in the last month, ranking second among local industries, according to ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace.

The health care industry also came in third in terms of local employers adding new jobs. In the past month, 250 companies listed open jobs for Houston-based workers in that area.

Top companies hiring locally in health care include Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care, Team1Medical and Circle of Care Therapy.

Jobs posted by Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care in the past month in Houston included registered nurses, speech language pathologists and occupational therapists, while Team1Medical was hiring registered nurses, technicians and medical assistants, and Circle of Care Therapy sought speech language pathologists, occupational therapists and physical therapists.

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This App provides real time updates to utility crews from GE's PowerOn™ outage management system during weather events and other outages. Since data can be shared between crews and office staff in real time, outage restoration times can be reduced and service to customers improved. Live dashboards provide additional information about the extent of the [...]

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Most solutions that bring spatial data to the field all bring the obvious functionalities, however, some like to call them 'extraordinary' or the 'most powerful.' That’s simply untrue; they aren’t the best solutions out there!  We hear that end users don't like those products, that implementation times are lengthy and costly for their customized application [...]

Databases are from the past! Search is the future!

Over 75% of the US population uses the internet nowadays. Mostly to find stuff. That information does not reside in databases, but in indices. Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc. all use indices to find the information relevant to you, fast. So...why are you still using databases in your back office? We at Cliffhanger are applying the [...]

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a disabled athlete? Would the sports that you play be more difficult? Would you tire out easily and give up, or continue through the pain? Few able-bodied people know that the disabled are capable of playing sports....

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As I go down the aisle of the plane toward the bathroom in my wheelchair, I can sense the stares of the other passengers. This is one of the challenges of traveling with a disability. I have cerebral palsy and have been traveling since I was about nine years old.

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We go about our lives on campus not knowing if we will see the Student Union and other buildings actually completed. With the expansion of the Student Union, students will get features such as a new food court, theater and student program space.


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Just for Dad

Posted on: June 17, 2021

Father’s Day is fast approaching and Cloverdale has all you need to help you find and choose the perfect gift for Dad!

The Well-Suited Dad
Dad deserves to look and feel good in a brand-new suit.  Throw in a pop of colour with a button up shirt to help him take his dapper style to a whole new level.  Taylor Somers is here to help you find that perfect look and style for Dad.  Curbside pick-up is available.  Give Claudio at Taylor Somers a call at 416.239.3586 for advice on the best gift ideas to ensure dad is well-suited!

The Shoe Fanatic Dad
Summer is around the corner.  It’s time to whip out some cool new shoes.  Walking on a Cloud has shoes for every occasion.  From comfy summer Birkenstocks to hikers by Merrell to Rockport dress shoes to go with the suit above, they’ve got you covered.  Now all you need is his shoe size.  Shop online or call Walking on a Cloud at 416.231.2192 to place an order for same day curbside pick-up.

The Always Styling Dad
All Dads (just like moms) deserve shiny treasures too.  Perhaps a new chain or a new watch that will keep him on time and in style.  Call Adere Jewellers at 416.239.3316 to find that perfect gift for dad and pick it up curbside just in time for Father’s Day.

The Sweet Treats Dad
Does Dad have a sweet tooth?  Head to Bulk N Bits and create a sweet gift filled with and assortment of Dad’s favourite candy, chocolates and more.

The DIYer Dad
There is nothing dad can’t do!  Saws, hammers, sanders, drills and more Cloverdale Home Hardware has all the tools Dad needs and more.  Shop online at www.homehardware.ca or call 416.234.0601 for same day curbside pick-up.

The Always On The Go Dad
Is Dad always on the go?  Purchase a personal blender online at www.kitchenstuffplus.com and pick it up curbside.  Then, head on over to Metro to get Dad his favourite fruits and surprise him with a super smoothie on Father’s Day!  A personal blender and an assortment of fresh fruit is a great way to help dad stay healthy and nourished while always on the run.

Once you’ve picked out your gift for Dad head to Rexall Drugstore to find the perfect words to tell Dad just how much he means to you with a Hallmark card.

With same-day curbside pick-up and safe shopping at our essential service retailers, Cloverdale has you covered!

Happy Father’s Day!

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How to Get the Best Vacation with Your Club Points

Have you taken the time recently to consider how you might use your Club Caribe points to your best advantage? Did you know that your club points offer you a variety of ways to enjoy a vacation in Mexico? How about a family bonding vacation in a luxury resort of your choice or a raucous time with your closest friends? Or perhaps some soul searching alone in a tranquil beach resort or a romantic getaway with that special person?

With a single membership, you can experience various types of vacation every year, each one boasting a different flavor to the last. Let’s take a quick look at 5 truly exciting vacations you can experience with just 2550 club points or less. (Haven’t got 2550 points? Don’t forget your Preferred Points or the option to borrow?)

1)  Family Vacation in a One Bedroom Suite

A perfect vacation for the whole family is what awaits you in Cancun, Mexico. You need a mere 2,550 points and presto, you’ll be basking in a plush accommodation fit for you and your dear ones. Enjoy the comfort of staying in a One Bedroom Suite for an entertaining week at Villa del Palmar Cancun where you know the facilities are amazing and the sun shines every day. Expect an elegant stay for up to 4 adults or 2 adults and 2 children in a unit that makes you feel like you have arrived home. The suite is furnished with a separate en-suite bedroom and a comfortable Murphy bed in the living room, full kitchen, dining area and a balcony with a hammock. You are guaranteed quality time with your family where comfort and space is the key.

2)  Chic Romance for Contemporary Lovebirds

How about celebrating your anniversary in Puerto Vallarta with an unforgettable love escapade with your better half. With only 1,280 points, a weekend getaway at Hotel Mousai is a dream tryst for any two loving hearts. Watch romantic sunsets followed by moonsets at dawn over the vast ocean with a bottle of red wine while indulging in your jetted hot tub on the private Mousai Suite balcony. At just 1,280 points, you could repeat a romantic escape more than once a year or put the remaining points towards a delectable meal plan applying the Points Redemption Program. A Hotel Mousai getaway is a treat that will cement any solid love commitment.

  1.  Summer Getaways with BFFs in a Three Bedroom Suite

A few days away in Mexico with your best loved friends can be a blast. Reminisce the past where you would vacation with your pals before kids and responsibilities arrived. With your Club Caribe membership, you can maximize your points for one memorable summer with your best friends together with your respective partners. Stay in a 3 Bedroom Beachfront unit at Garza Blanca Preserve and spend 4 nights and 5 days in one of the most popular beach resorts on the Pacific Coast. Reserve during the weekdays, from Tuesday to Friday and have that luxurious experience for less than 2,550, or use your Preferred Points to stay longer (applicable from May through October).

4)  Treat your In-Laws with Separate Units

Treat your in-laws to an idyllic resort getaway without having to share a suite. It’s time to polish your reputation as a good son- or daughter-in-law. No need for living in each other’s pockets, reserve two separate Beachfront Studios at Garza Blanca Preserve Resort & Spa using 1,114 points per unit this coming summer and you will spend only 2,228 club points. Each Beachfront studio can accommodate 2 adults and 2 children under 12 or 3 adults, so there’s room for the kids too, with club points left over.

5)  Regular Mini-Breaks for Busy People

Last but not the least, this last option is for those members who still have a long way to go until retirement and who want to relax away from the hassles and work stress of everyday without taking such a long vacation. You can have multiple vacations throughout the year in the destinations of your choice, taking advantage of the low seasons and midweek getaways to optimize the number of short breaks you can take. Travel in summer and you can also use your Preferred Points for an extra mini-break.

So, be sure to take a moment to think about how you can maximize and customize your Club Caribe membership to match your vacation needs. Your membership is designed to give you the flexibility you need to tailor your own vacations. Don’t forget, you can always combine Preferred Points where possible as well as bank and borrow points for special occasions.


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Big Boy Brand Book

Before we jump into the stories our brand tells, we have to ensure that we understand who our brand is.

The Big Boy Brand Book takes the knowledge that the team shared during the Provocation Workshop in Detroit in late November and crafts it into a story that anyone who picks up this little book will understand and know how to enact.  It looks at where we've been as inspiration and lays out a path for where we want to be in the future as we evolve our brand.

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The project is the development of Salalah Airport MC 5 which includes 25 buildings of varying size from the Terminal Building to smaller ancillary buildings.

CML are employed by Larsen & Toubro to carry out the Commissioning Management and Document Management (production and technical authoring of the O&M Manuals) of all the Mechanical, Electrical, ELV, Public Health and Specialist Engineering Services.

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A convertible car being driven hands-free by a woman - driving higher education's CMS needs concept
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The education sector has been one of the most affected by COVID-19 pandemic. It has forced higher education institutions to make unprecedented shifts in the use of technology, especially when it comes to publishing and distributing content to students, faculty, and staff.

For most higher education institutions, a content management system (CMS) has been the neural center that has made that transformation possible, keeping information centralized and enabling them to publish content faster. In fact, according to research from NYC Design, 83.8% of the 4,000 surveyed higher education institutions are currently using a CMS.

Overall, across institutions, three CMS dominate the market: WordPress (40.8%), Drupal (19.5%), and OU Campus (9.5%), with the rest of CMS garnering less than 7% of adoption. To uncover the state of CMS usage and what decision-makers in the higher education sector expect from a CMS, we've asked the experts.

The Impact of the Pandemic Over Higher Education's Information Management

The main goal of educational institutions is to ensure that education's quality stays the same, even during these kinds of circumstances. To achieve this, most universities have adapted to new methods of content delivery for students and faculty. One example of this is the integrations of CMS with Alexa for voice content delivery.

Also, the lack of face-to-face interactions has enhanced the value of data. The more data about the students you have, the better experience you can provide, especially in terms of better classes and increased outcomes.

For example, according to Arbazz Nizami, Director of Digital Marketing for Enrollment at Claremont, CA-based Claremont Lincoln University, "prior to the pandemic, universities were very much reliant on the status quo, and students have been demanding reforms that would increase equity and inclusion. Now, we understand we can't rely on the status quo we have to innovate. Content management systems must incorporate as much data as possible into the student experience to create a customized experience that caters to various types of learners."

Similarly, as a consequence of the pandemic, digital transformation has reached more higher education institutions, bringing increased agility. Rick Merrick, CIO at Chicago, IL.-based TCS Education System, "Higher education institutions can be overly bureaucratic. A CMS that is lightweight, flexible, future-proof, and secure is necessary to make them more agile."

Related Article: Learning to Adapt to the Pandemic-Induced Educational Crisis

CMS and the Future of Institutions of Higher Education

Higher education institutions' needs are quite different from those of an eCommerce or a B2B company website. That means that higher education has become a distinct market in the eyes of CMS vendors. In fact, recent research by UX Collective revealed that CMS are targeting post-secondary institutions with tailored solutions designed specifically for them.

Therefore, it's probable that CMS and DXP will become even better at understanding the needs of students and faculty in the near future. However, for that to happen, content management systems will have to disrupt themselves too. Merrick believes that "CMS need to evolve from just content delivery technologies to DXP. CMS need to be easy to integrate with other cloud technologies to ensure the student digital experience can be replicated across the entire lifecycle."

Also, Merrick is of the opinion that C-suite executives in the higher education sector need some disruption too. He says, “it's not just about selecting a system that is easy to manage, administer, and create content, but one that makes the student experience meaningful and convenient."

Similarly, Annie Koh, Professor Emeritus at the Singapore-based Singapore Management University, believes that, for higher education institutions, the future lies in "creating a learn from everywhere education system.” She explains that the pandemic has only accelerated a trend towards more digital, collaborative learning, and that is one benefit which must be embraced.

CMS and DXP have the tools to help higher education institutions deliver more personalized learning experiences to students. Headless CMS, in particular, have the potential to deliver AI-based personalization and omnichannel experiences for students, so they have access to educational materials, announcements, and can maintain communication with faculty members.

Potential Roadblocks

Nevertheless, this future isn't free of roadblocks, Scanlan believes. For instance, "universities haven't really begun to use artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to enhance their student journey.”

“CMS of the future will understand student behavior at a micro level, and use very sophisticated algorithms to understand your student enrollment trends and data. Even helping put students in classes based on what's best for their journey," she says.

With that in mind, what do higher education institutions need to ask from their CMS?

  • Granular personalization
  • Omnichannel content delivery
  • Headless or hybrid architecture
  • Support for NoCode or LowCode
  • Integration with third-party softwares

Besides technical features and support, higher education institutions need a vendor with enough product vision to show them why its CMS will enable them to wade through the specificities of the post-secondary education market. Last, it needs to be a constantly evolving product with versions appearing regularly and a roadmap that benefits your institution.


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It is the only museum in Zhejiang which specializes in collection, research, exhibition and education on flora and fauna, ancient living forms and rock specimens. Formerly the Natural Division of Zhejiang Museum before 1984, it now displays over 110,000 exhibits, which are divided into eight subjects, including dinosaurs, sea animals, ancient living forms, and flora […]


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The Dashmount 71244 non-damaging, no-holes mounting bracket is vehicle specific and designed to provide a safe and secure platform to mount your hands-free car kit, mobile phone holder or other mobile communications device.

The no-holes dash mount brackets fit to the vehicles dashboard without the need to drill any holes resulting in a damage free installation.

Made from top quality steel that has a special black powder coating to ensure a neat finish. Suitable for most common hands free car kit cradles and phone holders on the market.

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Downloading Media Workshop @ Kernersville

Learn how to browse, select, and download books from our growing virtual library. Audiobooks and ebooks are perfect for road trips, time on the beach, or just about any relaxing activity. Our workshop introduces you to the thousands of free titles found in the North Carolina Digital Library collection and our online catalog helps you confidently download library materials to your digital listening device.

Participants need to have an email address and valid library card. You are also asked to bring a laptop and any additional downloadable device to do a download in class.

Register at www.forsythcomputertraining.org or call 336 703-3079. Stop by our branch for more information, or email hollancd@forsythlibrary.org.

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Learning About Medical Freezers

Most of the medical freezers are found in many health centers and are very necessary as they greatly help to preserve and protect various materials both scientific and medical which are considered to be of high value especially in the laboratory operations. To choose a good medical freezer that will fully satisfy the needs of the laboratory operations requires a proper research and the person to hire the freezer to have the right knowledge on the best medical freezer that will ensure that all the operations are not minimized due to lack a right place to store the medical or other scientific materials which are valuable. A good and a reliable medical freezer should have the ability to properly regulate the temperatures and also other necessary features that should make it have the ability to fit all the needs and requirements of the laboratory.

When looking for the right medical freezer, there are various factors that you should consider before going for the right medical freezer for the storage and protection of some of the valuable medical and scientific operations. It is recommended to first consider the size of the medical freer before selecting a medical freezer for hire to use it in the laboratory operations.The size of the medical freezer is necessary to ensure that there is enough space for the preservation of enough medical and other valuable materials for your laboratory operations and hence minimizing the in the availability of lack of enough space for storage enough medical materials. The location of a medical freezer in the laboratory or any other health facility is a factor that should also be considered when before purchasing a medical freezer. Medical freezers should not be located in places which have a lot of warm since they do not operate in the necessary or required way as their compressors are overworked and hence this reduces their lifespan and because of this one is required to know the needs of the medical freezer before purchasing them.

To ensure that there is free circulation of air within the medical freezers it is necessary to ensure that the medical freezers are kept free from anything else around the laboratory room. It is not recommended to place the medical freezers against the laboratory walls or near or close to other equipment as it is likely to make the medical freezers overheat and hence resulting to their failure in their operations which generally leads to improper preservation and protection of various useful and valuable medical or other scientific materials stored.

It is also recommended not to place too many medical freezers in the same place within the medical room or inside the laboratory since too many medical freezers at the same place lead to increased warmth which may result to too much overheating hence making the freezers not to operate efficiently.The other factor that should also be considered when buying a medical freezer is its ability to regulate the temperatures to ensure proper preservation and protection of various useful medical products.

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How to Achieve Maximum Success with Freezers