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Job performance and parental leave in Covid-19

Working from home has created all manner of challenges as has the Covid-19 crisis itself. How should employers react in terms of the expectations of their employees?

Welcome to Plugging the Gap (my email newsletter about Covid-19 and its economics). In case you don’t know me, I’m an economist and professor at the University of Toronto. I have written lots of books including, most recently, on Covid-19. You can follow me on twitter (@joshgans) or subscribe to this email newsletter here.

Today’s post was triggered (and I think that is the right word) by this article in the New York Times on the backlash from some people over the extra leave time granted to their co-workers with children. The article also recounts how employers have reacted to other dimensions of employment policy including the suspending of employee reviews. None of these issues are new but, as with all things Covid-19, they have been laid bare again by the extreme events. This is one of those times where I think everyone is getting it a little wrong and I’ll explain why.

The NYT article is about technology companies so let’s make sure we all understand that they have issues that are different from many other workplaces. They are wealthier companies, they aren’t losing much (if any) ground because of the economic crisis, their stock options are doing well and, as it turns out, they were both prepared and able to have all of their employees work from home without real disruption. Except that is, for parents. If you had children of school age, you now had them all of the time. What’s more, even though that is left unstated in the NYT article (frustratingly so), the burden of that would fall mainly on women. I’m sure that men with children no doubt had new challenges but we all know how these things go.

Parental leave

The companies in the article — mainly, Facebook, Salesforce and Twitter — reacted to this right away. They granted parents time off. Salesforce gave them six weeks of leave, Facebook ten. These were obvious moves. As were the consequences. The NYT lists many complaints from those without children seeing this as unfair.

As companies wrestle with how best to support staff during the pandemic, some employees without children say that they feel underappreciated, and that they are being asked to shoulder a heavier workload. And parents are frustrated that their childless co-workers don’t understand how hard it is to balance work and child care, especially when day care centers are closed and they are trying to help their children learn at home.

And it is unfair. But then nothing about all this is fair. And using a term like fairness isn’t going to help anyone. It is better to ask, what if they hadn’t done this?

If parents didn’t have more leave, then you would have expected them to be working as per normal. You would then end up with canceled meetings, missed deadlines, disruptions during meetings, lower productivity and confusion. In other words, offices run smoothly when people understand not only what is expected of them but what is expected from their co-workers. What these companies were saying, don’t expect too much from your co-workers because we cannot provide them an adequate work environment.

Was this communicated? The NYT doesn’t say but one expects that it may not have. I’ve been in enough large working environments to know that sensible communication is not an abundant commodity. But there is also another underlying ripple. The divide between those with and without children is not new. In academia, many bristle when pre-tenure fathers are given an extra year before tenure review if they have children — the same as pre-tenure mothers. The bristling comes because there is suspicion that they don’t really need it. That could be true but I doubt that uneven parental leave policies are the way to overcome the real gender disparities we see. Instead, I would argue that it is incumbent on department heads to make sure people are using parental leave for its purpose and are not also traveling to conferences, coming into the office, etc., at the same rate as a normal year. If we are going to accept that we want to hire people who make different and consequential life choices and work with them, then we can expect working conditions to be the same for everyone all of the time. Academics have plenty to bristle about and suspicion that parenting is somehow not productivity reducing should be really low on the priority list.

Performance review and bonuses

What really got me, however, in the NYT piece was this policy from Facebook:

Every Facebook employee would receive bonus amounts usually reserved for very good performance scores, irking some childless employees who felt that those who worked more should be paid more.

First of all, FFS! Facebook foresaw that everyone would be working more and bumped everyone’s pay up for no real performance review. That was the way it decided to handle the disruptions they knew were coming. And then people complained that it applied to everyone. Heavy sigh.

The NYT reports about a contentious Facebook meeting. It is always hard to tell from second-hand reports but here is a bit.

When Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, hosted a companywide videoconference on Aug. 20, more than 2,000 employees voted to ask her what more Facebook could do to support nonparents, since its other policies had benefited parents. …

Ms. Sandberg said she “disagreed with the premise of the question” that the leave policy and freeze on performance ratings were primarily benefiting parents. She added that larger-than-normal bonuses had been given to all employees and that everyone had received a $1,000 stipend to buy equipment for working from home.

The employees persisted. In a written comment, one said more than a thousand people agreed with the premise of the question and asked that Ms. Sandberg answer it again. She did, adding that Facebook has tried to design its leave policies to be “inclusive.”

“I do believe parents have certain challenges,” she said. “But everyone has challenges, and those challenges are very, very real.”

This is sort of “all lives mattery” in the response as reported. It shows the problem with arguments that accept that fairness is the premise of a policy. Leaders should avoid being drawn into it and be willing to profess and acknowledge that things may be unfair.

What the NYT did not discuss is whether it was, in fact, a good idea to give everyone pre-emptively a high-performance score and go from that. Remember the reason performance reviews and bonuses exist is to ensure that those who perform well are paid more. What Facebook and others were communicating was that would not be a criterion for the short-term. But if you think for a moment how screwy that is. They are not using explicit incentives for performance as a criterion precisely when every other mechanism they have for ensuring that people perform well has disappeared. There is no supervision. No real peer monitoring. No checking who is at work and who is not. And all this at a time when you really need people to do some incredible things to keep the whole operation going in an unprecedented crisis.

This is a common issue with incentives. I used to teach a case about a Boston manufacturing plant and how the plant manager was going to get their annual bonus. There was a whole exercise in accounting and benchmarking. Students spent their time obsessing over sales figures. And then they come to an item about the Blizzard of ‘78 (I may be getting the year wrong) that shut down the plant for a month or so. Should the plant manager be held accountable for the lack of production over that time?

Invariably, all students say no. It wouldn’t be fair. The plant manager didn’t cause the blizzard. It wasn’t their fault.

Of course, this is also the hook. “The issue is not the blizzard,” I tell them, “but how the manager responded to it.” Did they adjust the targets for the re-opening month because we expected the manager to make up for lost time? Did they consider what the manager needed to do beforehand to close the plant down safely? Yes, the blizzard was a hit but how the manager responded to it would really matter. Did you really want to tell the manager that should a blizzard hit, they are off the hook for their performance?

And herein lies the issue for employers with Covid-19. It made sense to calm the ship by removing anxiety over performance reviews. Whatever system they had in place wasn’t going to be able to cope with the crisis adequately anyway and so would be a waste of energy. But, at the same time, surely they did want to send a message that performance would matter and would be noted and would be acknowledged precisely because superior performance was needed. And do we really think, even if that wasn’t communicated, that performance won’t matter in some way? I think not. And then parents will be in the boat they often find themselves of being told an organisation is friendly to them and responsive to their needs when that isn’t the case.

There is no easy answer to any of this. It is what makes management hard and shows that thinking that you can ‘adjust the program’ and have things work out is a fantasy. In the end, the companies that had, I dare say it, a ‘culture’ where everyone understood that things are subjective and that it may take time for short-term shocks to be smoothed out and distributed more evenly, are the ones who will prove more resilient to major events like Covid-19.

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Can’t take sleep to the bank

I took two weeks off work and slept 10-12 hours every night, but now that I’m back at work, I’ve discovered that you can’t put sleep in the bank. One full workday, and I’m exhausted. Two full workdays, and it’s time to take another two weeks off! Argh.

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    Hmmm … 2 on, 2 off … seems right to me!

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Amazon advertisers will increase their use of marketing automation tools in 2019

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Earlier this year, Amazon released its Q3 earnings to announce a 123% growth to $2.5 billion for the quarter. The online retailer is now the third largest digital ad seller in the US, outperforming Microsoft, and sitting just behind Google and Facebook (eMarketer).

For e-commerce marketers who have concentrated their ad spend on Google and Facebook, it’s now time to consider shifting focus and upping digital ad spend on Amazon. Next year marketing automation tools will not just be a nice-to-have to help marketers manage their ad campaigns, but they’ll be a necessity.

A study conducted by Third Door Media reveals that companies are increasing their ad spend on Amazon, and in 2019 plan to use marketing automation tools to run their campaigns. Within the next 12 months, 44% of marketers say they will increase how they use marketing automation and move on from traditional marketing tools. When compared to marketing automation software like Autopilot, traditional tools have limited capabilities and don’t offer a way to optimize the entire customer journey.

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The key strategy for marketers who are advertising on Amazon is to understand how customers make a purchase. Most purchases on Amazon are made from shoppers who are at the bottom of the funnel (Third Door Media). Therefore, marketers should create bottom of the funnel content to persuade prospects to make a purchase or take a specific action. It’s at this stage where a customer becomes a buyer.

When shoppers browse Amazon, most likely they’re already at the stage of knowing what they want to buy; it’s just a matter of finding the right item, at the right price. On Amazon, marketers should focus on designing ads that accelerate deals and instill brand confidence. Ads that are actionable and assertive will achieve higher results with shoppers who are ready to make a decision.

In 2019, Amazon advertisers are planning to increase their spend on the platform by 80%. With larger budgets allocated to advertising, it’s essential that marketers look towards optimizing every ad campaign with marketing automation software (Third Door Media).

Advertising with marketing automation tools

On average 51% of companies are currently using marketing automation tools to manage the customer journey (emailmonday). Automation tools like Autopilot are already producing marketers who are faster, smarter and better at their jobs. Next year, autonomous marketing will continue to improve the capabilities of marketers on every platform, including Amazon.

With marketing automation software, marketers can achieve the following:

According to VentureBeat, companies who use marketing automation software report an 80% increase in leads and a 77% increase in conversions. This software is not only to automate the customer journey and replace labor-intensive tasks but also to drive customer acquisition, retention and ROI.

Already, 22% of Amazon marketers are using marketing tools to manage their ad campaigns and by next year we should see almost two-thirds adopting the power of automation. To become a data-driven marketer, start implementing marketing automation software today.

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It’s Saturday morning. You stumble into the kitchen and pour yourself a cup of coffee. You sit down at the table and push aside some remnants of yesterday so you can sit with your cup of ambition for a moment before the kids get up.

You know the house needs to get cleaned up. Monday will come all too soon and there will be no time until next weekend. But, oh baby, you do not want to spend your Saturday cleaning.

I’ve been in this position more times than I can count and I’ve come up with a few tips that might help you out. My occupation for about 5 years was cleaning houses and offices and that experience has served me well in managing my own home. Staying focused and positive is what it’s all about.

So let’s just dive in…

First thing you’ve got to do is clean up your attitude.

Yup, that’s what I said. I know, I know, you hate to clean. But for now, put that on a shelf. That thought drains your energy. You can use your mind to much greater effect and use all that “I hate cleaning” energy to get ’er done. Put on some music you love. It will distract your mind.

Next, simplify.

Move quickly around your home and do a general sort of picking up. Get things off the floor, sofa, table, desk, etc.

This is not time to sort. Sorting is too distracting you will never get the cleaning done. Make a pile of stuff that belongs to each person. Put the mail and various household papers in a box and deal with them later. Sort roughly if you must… school papers in one stack, mail in another, but don’t get hung up on tidying. We are aiming here for a general unearthing of the surfaces you are going to clean. Don’t take more than 15 minutes or half an hour to do this.

Wring every bit of water possible from a dampened dust-free cloth. With this slightly damp cloth, dust everything you can get to. Remember, for now you are done sorting and tidying. Just dust what you can.

Now I know you may still be  struggling with your “I hate cleaning” attitude?

Focus in on what you are doing. Look at the surfaces you are cleaning. Notice how your hand holds the cloth. Notice how it slides over the table, chair, etc. Notice how the cloth feels in your hand. Notice everything your body is doing. Really look at what you are doing. If you really focus in, you will forget about hating anything. You might even begin to marvel at the sensations in your hands, at the wonder of moving around, in the miracle of another day to live and breathe and love. Is this moment really so bad?

Now you might be thinking this sounds really weird, but just bear with me and give it a try. If you didn’t do it before, put on some good, upbeat music.

Now on to the bathroom.

Spray a little window cleaner, Comet cleanser or a bowl cleaner of your choice into the toilet bowl and brush it out. Spray window cleaner on the rim, the outside of the toilet, tank, base and surrounding floor and wipe it down with paper towels. Paper towels remove all those bits of hair and dust that stick like glue to porcelain. Spray some window cleaner in the sink and wipe off the sink and faucet with a fresh lint free rag. Spray down the shower and wipe it clean with a rag. If it needs a thorough cleaning, make a note of that and the need to get some turbo bathroom cleaner later. Your objective here is to not get bogged down. Your objective is to get the house reasonably clean in as little time as possible.

You can wait and mop the bathroom floor later when you mop other floors, but i find it easiest and most effective to simply wipe the bathroom floor down with window cleaner and a rag. I find it is too hard to get into all the nooks and crannies of a bathroom with a mop.

Now move to the kitchen. Do the dishes. Wipe down the counters. Wipe off the stove. Wipe out the microwave.

With all this done, you are ready to vacuum, sweep, and mop the floors. Vacuum or sweep hard floor surfaces, as you wish. Vacuum all the carpets and scatter rugs. Now mop the floors. Voila ! You are finished! And that wasn’t so bad, was it?

Now if the kids get up in the middle of all of this and they are too young to help, get them what will hold them over for a bit and keep on your task. A fresh diaper, a piece of toast or a bowl of cereal might be just fine for now. If they are old enough, see if you can enlist their help. If that’s just not going to work, get them in front of a movie, perhaps, for just a bit while you finish up. We will talk about enlisting the help of the kids at another time, because I think all of us struggle with that at one time or another.

There are probably things you have not addressed in this once over cleaning, but look around you. Things are considerably brightened up and you can make notes on more thorough cleaning that needs to be done and set aside a time for that. In a like manner, lets discuss another time… cleaning products — what’s effective, what’s “green,” what’s unreasonably expensive for what you get out of it, what is worth the cost.

Drop me a line and tell me if this helps, what you would like more information on, what problems you run into, whatever is on your mind…

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One of the most common things we get asked about is web hosting. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of companies offering web hosting but they range from the super cheap to the expensive and they range even more so in terms of quality.

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In a nut-shell, there are two forms of website hosting available. The first is self-hosting, which is commonly used by large companies with larger budgets and managed hosting which is used by smaller companies.

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71st Meeting - La Jolla, CA, USA - JPEG Initiates Standardization of Low-latency Lightweight Coding System - JPEG XS - February 26, 2016

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JPEG Initiates Standardization of Low-latency Lightweight Coding System - JPEG XS

JPEG XS — Today’s industrial applications often imply transport and storage of uncompressed images and video. This is for instance the case in video links (SMPTE Serial Digital Interface), IP transport (SMPTE 2022 5/6 & proprietary uncompressed RTPs), Ethernet transport (IEEE/AVB), proprietary transports, memory buffers, and omnidirectional video capture and rendering. In this context, the JPEG Committee has started a new standardization project, JPEG XS, referenced as ISO/IEC 21122, that targets a low-latency lightweight coding system aimed at supporting higher resolutions and frame rates over these channels while assuring high visual quality and keeping power and bandwidth consumption within a reasonable budget. This effort should result in a highly interoperable solution.

A public workshop on JPEG XS was organised at the JPEG meeting in La Jolla on February 23, 2016. The proceedings of this workshop are published on the JPEG website at

The JPEG Committee released a Call for Proposals that invites candidate coding technologies. Interested coding experts and codec providers are encouraged to participate in this standardization activity and submit proposals. The deadline for an expression of interest and submissions of proposals has been set to May 23rd, 2016, as detailed in the Call for Proposals. The call for proposals, as well as the proceedings of the JPEG XS workshop, organized during the 71st WG1 meeting in La Jolla (US), are publicly available on the committee website.

JPEG XT — ISO/IEC 18477-6 and ISO/IEC 18477-7, JPEG XT parts 6 and 7 have been published as international standards. Part 6 of JPEG XT allows to extend the bitdepths of JPEG images from 9 to 16 bits, modernizing the well-known JPEG format to satisfy the needs of the 21st century.

JPEG XT part 7 allows to extend the dynamic range of images even further by allowing floating point samples; a typical application for JPEG XT part 7 is high-dynamic range photography. JPEG XT part 7 improves the compression factor over existing solutions by a factor of three to four without any visible loss of image quality.

As for all of JPEG XT, parts 6 and 7 ensure compatibility to existing JPEG applications, all JPEG XT images - regardless of their dynamic range - can be decoded and viewed by any JPEG decoder. Reference implementations for JPEG XT are ready for download in source code form at

Two additional parts - for lossless image compression and coding of alpha channels - are currently under preparation by the ISO committee and are expected to be available as international standards in July 2016.

JPEG Privacy & Security — A second public workshop on JPEG Privacy & Security was organised at the JPEG meeting in La Jolla on February 23, 2016. The proceedings of this workshop are published on the JPEG website at The JPEG committee continues investigating solutions that will empower end-users to protect their privacy when sharing JPEG files or to allow professional and cultural heritage archives to signal for example ownership rights. JPEG will kick-off the standardization process for JPEG Privacy & Security later this year.

"Enabling seamless interoperability for exchange of image data within and across applications has been the main objective of JPEG committee. JPEG XS breaks new grounds in this direction by providing a large number of existing and emerging imaging application, efficient and interoperable solutions in environments where lightweight and low-latency are among top requirements." said Prof.Touradj Ebrahimi, the Convener of the JPEG committee.

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The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is a Working Group of ISO/IEC, the International Organisation for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission, (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1) and of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T SG16), responsible for the popular JBIG, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, JPSearch and more recently, the JPEG XT, JPEG XS and JPEG Systems families of imaging standards.

The WG1 group meets nominally three times a year, in Europe, North America and Asia. The latest 71st meeting was held on February 22-26, 2016 in La Jolla, CA, USA and was hosted by INCITS L3. The next (72nd) WG 1 Meeting will be held on May 30-June 3, 2016, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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But yeah. Tonight, was pretty much the same as any other busy Thursday night. The only difference(s) were that I was on line and Manoah was on drive through (for the first couple hours, at least), we were there 'till quarter to 5 in the morning, and I also ended up taking over drive through for Manoah at 11, when normally I would've much rather stayed on line. Just because it was really busy, and I was tired, so I'd end up making everything for an order except for the fries, then clear it, then walk over to the fry dump to get the fries, and forget just what I'd planned on doing between the two :p It might've been amusing were we not busy, but yeah...

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A Visit to Callaway Gardens

I find it relaxing and inspiring to take day trips to areas around Atlanta to discover new places. My husband and I visited Callaway Gardens and saw some beautiful vistas and gardens.

As we visited the various gardens, I caught glimpses of patterns and shapes that I found intriguing and took a few pictures.

I find it’s important to take time away from my studio and experience new environments that may or may not lead to inspiration for new work. How about you? What do you do to relax and/or inspire yourself?

The size contrast in these green leaves was quite nice! The overlapping oval shapes and pattern of the smaller leaves makes me want to run to my paints.

Mr Cason’s Vegetable Garden in Callaway Gardens photo by Karen Phillips

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Karen conducts workshops in fiddle, tin whistle and banjo covering beginner, intermediate and advanced levels and to date has taught at:

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  • Pipers Tionol (Proitzer Mühle, Wendland, Germany)

  • Comhaltas na Breataine Convention – Glasgow and Leeds

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  • Michael Shanley Festival (Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim)

  • Rhine Valley Feis Ceol (Alsace, France)

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  • Wigmore Hall

  • London Irish Music School

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Karen has worked in schools as a workshop leader to introduce children to traditional Irish music, song and dance – most recently at Essex Primary School to celebrate ‘Refugees Week’ – 3 days of workshops, culminating in an 8 minute public performance by a year 5 class.

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In this Shaker Heights, Ohio home office remodel, we took a little-used spare bedroom and transformed it into a stately study, including a built-in desk, crown moldings, and glass-fronted cabinets, all painted white to create a bright, airy feel.

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Features:Built-in desk, crown mouldings, glass-fronted cabinets

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Kat’s Closet: Shift of Season.

Back in the red, white and black and it feels so good! Preseason has kicked off and I’ve dug out the Raptors colours that were tucked away until next season. Tomboy chic is my comfort zone so a pair of tapered track pants and heels just makes sense. I like adding business pieces (like the crisp white vest) to chill gear for the best of both worlds. Pulling together an outfit for games is just another part of the gig I adore. 42 games to go. To the court, batman! -k

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak. – Rachel Zoe

10710906_764601183871_2231948289654795673_nRaptors T-shirt – Real Sports Apparel
White Vest – Zara
Track Pants – Adidas
Heels – Aldo

Kat’s Closet: I Said A Hip.

My red and black garb has been hanging in my closet for two weeks now. I’m going through a bit of post season withdrawl. My jerseys have found their summer spot again on my bedpost and my fave game day red heels are asleep under my bed. It’s ‘me time’ time for a short bit because I think it’s healthy and Kat’s closet on my blog has been suffering because the truth is, I’ve been living in sweatpants and gym clothes and ponytails and a fresh face. The two loads of laundry I did tonight proved that. But this little gem made me pretty happy. It’s just a sweatshirt. But it’s pretty damn cool. My passion for fashion has been biting at me bad and in that moment a fun little project came up. I’m gagging with passion over combining exactly the above: fashion + sports. Rock it to the bang, bang boogie. -k

Kat’s Closet: Game Gear.

And it’s down to the last three…

I see the finish line. I can’t believe the end of my seventh season is within view. It’s a mad eight months  of so much colour, hype, high energy and passion. When you love what you do you throw your whole heart into the game. You wear your team on your sleeve. Not a week goes by without the Raptors logo splashed somewhere on my 5’8″ frame. Game night consists of two outfits; a broadcast appropriate piece and then I sub out a shirt and/or blazer for some in-arena gear.

Here’s a recent in game special. -k

photo-80Hoodie: Adidas, Real Sports Apparel
Jean Vest: Mendocino
Jeans: American Apparel
Heels: Nine West


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Startup Sales Decks for Founders

As you can see, my hair is amazing...And yes, this tie is cornflower blue.
I spent ten minutes looking for the douchiest stock photo of a sales presentation I could find. This was the winner.

So my buddy Rick Nucci asked me to take the Sales Decks chapter from Founding Sales and turn it into…wait for it…a deck to present at the Philly Founder Factory event in December.

It was well received, and has been passed around pretty heavily, so I figured I’d put it up here so folks can refer to it as needed.

The goal of the presentation is to provide a helpful framework and examples of what a beginning sales deck could look like for an early stage B2B offering, along with examples from real life sales decks! OMG.

The observation being that there isn’t a lot of documentation out there to help founders and early sales staff in putting together a killer sales presentation…which often leads to some pretty big opportunity costs and errors.

Of course this information shortfall as relates to sales presentations is a sub-case of what inspired the writing of Founding Sales. So if you like this, check out that.

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YouTube video of presentation (with slides cut in on cue):

Now read this

Pitching Practice: Public Relations Launch Checklist for Early Stage Startup Founders

Who’s ready for some pitching practice? The post was inspired by my buddy who’s approaching a launch. I wanted to document 4 years of startup PR learnings for him. At TalentBin, we’ve historically been pretty good at PR (some examples).... Continue →


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Academic Staff Executive Committee Agenda 01-25-18

ASEC Agenda
2:00 – 4:30 p.m. Thursday, January 25, 2018
53 Bascom Hall

2:00    Call To Order/Agenda Review

2:01    Automatic Consent Business

Approval of ASEC minutes of Thursday, January 18, 2018

2:02    Guest: Mary Luther, Office of Human Resources, Title and Total Compensation Study

2:30    Guest: Sarah Mangelsdorf, Provost

3:00    Announcements/Updates/Good Works

3:05    General Reports

•    Chair – Kevin Niemi
•    Secretary of the Academic Staff – Heather Daniels

3:15    Liaison Reports

3:20    Convene in Closed Session Pursuant to Wis. Stats. 19.85(1)(c), and (f) to Discuss Appointment to Health Care Advisory Committee and Nominations to the Nominating Committee Slate and Distinguished Prefix Committee

3:25    Business

•    Appointment and Nominations-for vote
•    Freedom of Expression Resolution
•    February Assembly Agenda
•    Report on Academic Staff Promotional Exercise-Questions for Next Week
•    Topics for Provost
•    Next ASEC Meeting, February 1, 2018
-Nominating Committee Slate
-February Assembly Agenda-for approval
-Resolution on Title and Total Compensation Study Leveling and Job Families/Sub-Families
-Guests: Sarah Mangelsdorf, Provost; Michael Bernard-Donals, Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff; Catharine DeRubeis, Compensation and Titling, Office of Human Resources
4:00    Guests: Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on Title and Total Compensation Academic Staff Communications

4:30    Adjourn

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Local News

PRINEVILLE, OR -- Woodgrain Millwork is holding a job fair today for more than 200 laid off and soon-to-be laid workers, after the roof collapsed, shutting down that mill.  Human Resources manager Regina Luna says the company organized the job fair as a way to help during this difficult time. "This event was not expected and it was not in our control. It was devastating for everybody. For our employees, for the community and for the company. We are committing ourselves to make the transition from our employment to new employment as smooth as possible."

Luna says they've received an overwhelming response from prospective employers, "We have had a lot of interest in this. I have 30 employer representatives who are coming, so there are several different businesses and a lot of jobs."  She says, "The job fair was organized specifically for the Woodgrain employees who were displaced from their work.  Having said that, there are a lot of employment opportunities, as well as opportunities for training and education available at the fair.  And, anybody who is without a job will not be turned away."
Luna says job seekers should bring a resume' or job history and be prepared to meet with a variety of companies who will be on hand.  More than a hundred employees were laid off last month after that roof collapse.  Another 85 are slated to lose their jobs by the end of the year.
Today's job fair is from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Carey Foster Hall at the Crook County Fairgrounds.

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• Date: 27/08/2016
  • Show Type: Open/Limited/Sanction
  • Judge: Alanna Johan Blaney Contact Judge
  • Published Date: 07/04/2019

West Bromwich & Wednesbury Canine Society

West Bromwich & Wednesbury Canine Society – 27.08.16

Thank you to the show society for their invitation and hospitality. I was delighted by the quality of my exhibits, with good temperaments throughout.

Alaskan Malamutes

J (2, 0 Abs)

1. Windley’s Royaltaylor Catwalk Queen

A delightful 9 month old seal & white bitch; substantial all through and wearing a thick, harsh jacket. Skull still to develop, so still very much a puppy in expression, but lovely dark pigment and well furred, neatly set ears giving her evident type. Good length of neck and topline coming on well. Nice length of leg and chest well developed for her age giving a nice straight front viewed face on. Good layback of shoulder and stood on strong pasterns. Balanced angulation in rear and finished off with a great waving plume. Won this class on her movement which showed good reach in side gait and neat footfall coming and going.

2. Windley & Taylor’s Royaltaylor Crown Jewel

Grey & white sister to my class winner and very close up in type, also possessing good substance, nice dark pigment and correct harsh coat. Head is a little bit more developed at this stage, with good depth of muzzle, a lovely almond eye and small, thick ears, giving a very feminine expression. Good arch of neck and well balanced in angulation with strong, compact pasterns front and rear, stood on lovely snowshoe feet. Unfortunately she seemed to struggle with the flooring and was not as fluid and settled on the move as my class winner, so had to concede on this occasion.

PG (3, 0 Abs)

1. Loade’s Snowolf Black Ice Buddy. BOB & WG1

This 20 month seal & white boy stood out to me for his impression of overall balance and power. Broad skull with small, well placed ears and the darkest of eyes. Large teeth with correct scissor bite, and nice bulk to his muzzle. He gives an unmistakably masculine outline in profile, with a nice arch of neck leading into a strong, sloping topline; good depth of chest and tuck up, with correct layback of shoulder and balanced rear angles. Heavy bone but still giving an impression of athleticism, he was presented in a dense, harsh coat and in good condition all through with a nice waving plume when he chose to use it. His movement reflected his muscle tone, with a steady, effortless sidegait, clean coming and going and holding his shape well from every angle. BOB and was thrilled to see him top the Working Group, also.

2. Ballington-Graham’s Catua Snow Patrol

3 year old grey & white boy and another exhibit with good substance; larger in type than my class winner, with an abundant coat not lacking in texture. Well developed skull with a correctly proportioned muzzle, although I would prefer a darker eye. Strong, sloping topline and leading into a nice croup and tailset. Well angulated in the rear with neat, compact hocks that he used to advantage on the move, moving with drive from the rear and good extension in his sidegait. Preferred the front of my winner but a lovely boy nonetheless.

3. Windley & Taylor’s Royaltaylor Black Pearl. BP.

9 month male, littermate to my Junior class exhibits and with that bit more bone and height, as you might expect. He shared the same fantastic coat, good pigment, correct layback of shoulder and balanced rear angles, but edged his sister in the puppy challenge on topline and movement in the final run round, where he showed just a bit more drive. Happy to see him take WPG3, also.

O (5, 2 Abs)

1. Mort’s Arcticbreeze Lady Imocara. RBOB

Was genuinely shocked to discover this grey & white lady would be 11 years old in a month’s time. As much as my BOB was masculine she was feminine, more compact in shape with a lovely dark eye, small ears and correct dentition. Her profuse, harsh coat means you have to really get your hands on when checking length of neck, and topline, both of which were correct and reflected her good proportions all through. Not in as hard condition as some of the younger exhibits, but perfect footfall coming and going and still showing the economic, ground-covering movement I would expect with no weakness in pasterns to suggest her age. Couldn’t deny her the class and RBOB.

2. Kay’s Kaytoo Antartic Riki

4 year old, grey & white boy of very different type to my other exhibits but unmistakably Malamute. He came in his Summer attire, but what was there in coat was harsh and stand off. Nice expression with good pigment and almond shaped eyes. Correct scissor bite and great depth of muzzle. Good sloping topline leading to a correct tail set although tendency to hold it tight on the stand. Good straight front, and depth of chest; not lacking length of leg and I loved his tight, snowshoe feet and strong pasterns. Well muscled all through with a broad thigh and developed shoulder; I would prefer a touch more angulation but he was balanced which gave him an impressive side action showing evident reach & drive.

3rd. Windley & Taylor’s Kaskae Let’s Get It On At Royaltaylor

Siberian Huskies

J (0, 1 Abs)

PG (1, 0 Abs)

1. Tinker’s Zaltana Raindrop’s On Roses At Lolotea (Imp Pol)

23 month red & white bitch, with a foxy, feminine expression with a nice shape of eye and correctly set ears on a good wedge shaped skull. Good length of neck leading into well developed shoulders and a good chest with plenty of heart room and sufficient tuck up. A nice straight front viewed straight on with neat feet. Correct croup with a well carried tail. Nice stand off coat and presented in good condition, she tended to move a touch wide in the rear on this flooring, but her clean front action and light, easy sidegait earned her RBOB.

O (2, 0 Abs)

1. Tinker’s Zaltana Direwolf At Lolotea ShCM (Imp Pol)

3 year old grey & white male, heavier in construction than my other exhibits but not to his detriment or to detract from his breed type. Good head shape and nice shape of eye. Well set ears and correct dentition. Good length of neck and layback of shoulder leading into a strong, straight topline with correct croup and tailset. Well balanced in angulation with strong pasterns. Presented in a dense coat and good muscle throughout, he had a powerful but fluid action on the move, with good footfall from all angles and holding his shape well in profile. BOB & WG4.

2. Gillman’s Esquimaux Chase The Ace At Mytilene

5 year old black & white male with a delightfully mischievious expression and nice overall proportions. Good shape of eyes and well set ears. Correct length of neck and straight topline. Nice spring of rib with a good tuck up. Good croup and a well constructed rear with powerful, compact hocks. Presented in a good condition & a nice stand off coat, he was very light on his feet in side gait but I preferred the front action of my class winner today.

Alanna J Blaney (Fenrirkin)