CONTACT ------^ 0 [DEEPER THAN DEATH ] 0010101001

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXJLQntCP0

LET'S GO TEAM!!!!

LOOKING FOR WORK, OR LOOKING TO WIN??

As all of us do, I've experienced job disappointments and job rejections. But then I think this way:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your reply. I hope you find someone to fill the role. Meanwhile, I will studiously seek those who WANNA CHANGE THE GAME..

When "we" get started, the world will never, ever be the same again. Good luck to you.

Sincerely,

Winners, not worker XX

WE'RE A YOUNG COUNTRY - LET'S ACT LIKE IT!

One thing we do very poorly in Australian business is youth development. Perhaps this reflects the gross inadequacy in our political leadership, an oxymoron if ever there was one.

Australians benefited, to some degree, from imperial preference and the Deakinite Settlement. Over time, however, industrial relations reform has been our Achilles heel. Business pundits, economists and especially Liberal politicians tend to focus on supply-side labour reform. The ALP, on the contrary, now wishes to entrench penalty rates and reregulate 457 Visas and outsourcing. And so we rehash the tired old arguments of unionised labour in contradistinction to neo-liberal/laissez faire economics.

This is not a strategy for success, A G Lafley and Roger Martin can show us, in an era where marketing and strategy will intersect in a dynamic ‘reconverging’ global landscape – to borrow Prof Niall Fergusson’s term.  

In light of the skills gap, therefore, I would argue that we need to develop – REALLY develop – our next generation of leaders. And this requires business to step up to the plate and take risks on their underutilised assets. With an aging population and without the sovereign wealth to sustain our commodities boom, we could end up with “Japanitis”. (Abenomics or no, Japan seems to deflate into the distant horizon). Our big banks and resources companies are stuck with Anti-Strategy, cost-cutting infinitum without new leadership teams and innovation to replace falling growth.

Too often, it seems to me, Aussie business executives take the short-term, quarterly road to revenue through cost-cutting, consolidation and/or streamlining operations and back-office functions without developing their future executives and middle managers. Their ‘bench’ is left on the bench without the ability to stretch their skills and the opportunity to compete. Unsurprisingly, large companies and mid-level businesses cannot find talented protégés to take the baton.

This trend can only decline, in my view, toward industry mediocrity, bottlenecks and depleted international and regional margins. On this basis, Australia will not be able to compete with Asia or service the Asian regional supply-chain. As such, Australian industry needs an action plan to bring promising youngsters up to speed and, in so doing, expand our regional business strategy.

C’mon Australia, we are a Lucky Country.. But luck eventually runs out without the planning to replace old industry practices with new growth.. I know we can do better than that.

"LET A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOOM, A HUNDRED SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT CONTEND"

HERE'S MY CARD: "OUR VALUES WERE [Sic] VERY GRANULAR, AND VERY REAL"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzkWKNsuyD0


PACKAGE OF NONSENSE : ( {} contains, inter alia:

We've always done things this way.

I've always done things this way.

Let's face it, those grunts don't know anything

I own this department

I've been here 10 years: I have tenure. I get a raise

They better not fail. I'll teach them a lesson

The top? They don't know anything. Never mind that mission, strategy crap

Development? Yeah we'll make a speech about that. That should shut them up for a while

I'm just here for a wage.

Those values. They're so vague. I wouldn't worry. Just hit your numbers

That girl's a problem. She's achieving results but she makes us look bad

We all know X's team has to win. I don't wanna cross them

Don't talk back. Your process improvement is stupid. Anyway, I set the metrics. Just do as I say

etc..

YEAR OF THE "CHARMED" SNAKE{Ssss]: http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682363/how-to-know-if-youre-working-with-mammals-or-reptiles-and-why-it-matters-to-your-creativity

"If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?"

~~~~\^/???

Is your workplace Reptilian or Mammalian??

Prof Geoffrey West has written that large, complex systems almost invariably die through a surfeit of success. They do not adapt to an adapting world. Corporations are no different.

So, why do rare roses (or beds of roses) rise from the ashes and replenish the garden?

Because they enjoy change, and see it is necessary.

***

With the collapse of the Marxian production model, the Soviet Union and bipolarity, "we" can thrive in unique threat-reduced environs. Risk is real, but there are more opportunities for those who seize them.

Reptilian thinking is bad for companies. Though dependent on the competitive landscape, we are closer to Canaan than we are to a desert. For those groups with the desire to stretch and grow.

Reptiles are actually doing a disservice to their colleagues. They, in fact, increase the likelihood of failure.. Lost jobs, lost income, lost hope, lost vision.. Quarterly returns of destitution. Tracking inevitably to disease and demise with each falling profit forecast and margin report.

***

Call out the reptiles. And help them to warm their blood. But place your hopes in the mammals, those furry, fuzzy networks that will replenish your nest.

To reptiles, the choice is stark. Eat or be eaten....

To mammals, the future is 'prosocial', full of trust, full of candour, full of joy..

So, disssss - abuse your reptilian mates of their fallen ways. The music's changed, the vibrations are real.

Thus,
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CHOOSE WISELY  ; ) ~~~~\^/ *

ON MENTORSHIP ~ "EVERYONE's a tip"

!!x!! ~ HOT CHILI WOMAN ~ !!x!! ..

His Chiliness, Senor Homero

THIS ROAD AIN'T EASY

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
And try to love the questions themselves.
Do not seek the answers that cannot be given you
Because you would not be able to live them
And the point is to live everything
Live the questio...ns now
Perhaps you will gradually without noticing it
Live along some distant day into the answers."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

TOTO, HOMER SO FAR FROM HOME

"The Fool is a character known in many cultures. In Native American traditions, Heyoke is the sacred clown, and Coyote or Raven are tricksters. The Hawaiian mischief-maker is called Kolohe. Baubo is a lusty greek female clown who made Demet...er laugh in her grief. Baubo also appears in ancient Japanese myth. Traditionally the Fool combines the spontaneity and innocence of a child, the power and surprise of a wild animal, the crazy wisdom of a clown. In Tarot, the Fool is an androgynous figure, pictured as a playful child walking on her hands, a disgruntled jester with a dog pulling on the seat of her pants, or a romantic visionary wandering with her head in the clouds about to walk over the edge of a cliff.

Using her guidance, we engage the mystery of life wherever we meet it, to become all of who we are. She asks only that we follow the path of heart and be true to our Spirit selves. With Fool as our guide, we get to raise questions; we do not have to know the answers."

~Excerpt from We'Moon, Introduction to the Theme

Thanks to Facebook : ) and http://www.facebook.com/#!/thespiritthatmovesme

 

 

WE, NOT ME ~ 'IN FUTURE, THOSE WHO DO NOT COACH WILL NOT BE PROMOTED'

http://www.welchway.com/

Do your supervisors, managers and upper managers have the 'generosity gene'?


If the answer is no, you may not be playing your A Team - and that's not a recipe for success..

Great leaders don't treat their reports like children. Hell, they may even be smarter than you, the boss. If that's true, GREAT!!!

Your people are not "metrics", "processes", babies or anything else impersonal or derogatory.


THEY'RE YOUR GREATEST ASSET..



So, I'll ask you, the ones appointed to develop your people ~ ARE YOU AN ASSET TO YOUR REPORTS???

BUSINESS IS FAST, FUN AND FURIOUS.

BUT WINNING IS HARD.

Cultivate winning teams. Employees must drive their own career thru overdelivery.


AGENDA

#Relentlessly build your teams.

#Kiss and luv ur best, but always develop the rest. They are important to your business.

#'The day you're promoted, it BECOMES ABOUT "THEM" ~ THOSE FOLKS WITH HOPES AND DREAMS.


~ GIVE THEM A CHANCE. INSPIRE AND STRETCH THEM. REACH FOR THE SKIES

IF THEY AIN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR U, MAYBE THE CONVERSE IS TRUE..

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"In future, those who do not coach will not be promoted"....

OF MICE AND WOMEN/MEN

"A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep".

I DON'T CARE WHERE PEOPLE CAME FROM, I CARE ABOUT WHERE WE GO TOGETHER

\O/ \O/ \O/ \O/ \O/ ` THE SHARING MARKET ` \O/ \O/ \O/ \O/ \O/ \O/

"The greatest gift of these, is Love"..

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpPlAPvPFCLG_w4Od42XI_CFmS8GciF-h; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7z8sKpr8T4

'Claustrophobic, crawl out of this skin High explosive, reach and pull that pin Fear thy name ‘extermination’ Desecrating hail of fire
So we cross that line Into the crypt, total eclipse
Suffer unto my apocalypse
Deadly vision, prophecy reveal Death magnetic, pulling closer still
Fear thy name ‘annihilation’ Desolating hail of fire
So we cross that line Into the crypt, total eclipse
Suffer unto my apocalypse My apocalypse, go!

Crushing metal ripping skin Tossing body mannequins Spilling blood bleeding gas
Mangled flesh snapping spines Dripping bloody valentine Shattered face spitting glass
Split apart Split apart Split apart Split Spit it out!
What makes me drift a little bit closer? Dead man takes the steering wheel What makes me know what time to cross over? Want to repeat until I feel
See through the skin, the bones they are rattled Future and past, they disagree Flesh falls away, the bones they all shatter

It's past time to see the end in me See the end in me!
Claustrophobic, climb out of this skin
High explosive, reach and pull that pin
Violate, annihilate, lose into my eyes
Obliterate, exterminate, if not accept, deny
Fear thy name as hell awakens Destiny in hail of fire
So we cross that line Into the crypt, total eclipse
Suffer unto my apocalypse
Tyrants awaken my apocalypse
Demon awaken my apocalypse
Heaven awaken my apocalypse
Suffer forever my apocalypse'