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Reel WorldCinematic Conference--On Dec. 1 and 2 at the Hotel Santa Fe (1501 Paseo de Peralta), the New Mexico State Film Office will host its first annual NM Filmmakers Conference. This two-day event will feature networking opportunities plus practical seminars and workshops designed to help local filmmakers sharpen their craft. Seminars and workshops are free, but space is limited, so pre-registration is required. A full schedule of events is posted online at www.nmfilm.com. Registration began online on Wednesday, Nov. 1.
Film ReviewBorat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of KazakhstanFaux documentary tries to be offensive and funny, manages 50 percent of its goalsIs British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (creator of "Da Ali G Show" and the face behind phony journalist Borat) funny because he's an annoying jerk or is he funny because he's pretending to be an annoying jerk? Either way, the end result is the same--which leads me to this review's preemptory confession. I don't find Cohen funny. I've never found him funny. Madonna thinks he's hilarious, but that's just one of the many differences between us. So it should come as no surprise that I hated Cohen's new movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The film is crude, juvenile and rancidly offensive. I didn't so much as crack a smile while watching it. Plus, I felt kinda queasy afterward.
Film ReviewFlushed AwayEnergetic British toon shows what happens when the cat's awayFlush with the success of their last outing (sorry, had to get that out of my system early), the fine folks at England's Aardman Animations have decided to follow up the international hit Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit with a rather surprising technological upgrade. Having mastered the art of clay animation, Aardman now tries its hand at tinkering with computer-generated toons. Although the 2006 box office has been inundated with CG animals, Flushed Away is easily one of the sharpest and deserves a rosier fate than the one that befell Ant Bully, Barnyard, Open Season and others.
Idiot BoxNo Soup for You!NBC punishes bad viewers with bad TVEarly last week, NBC CEO Jeff Zucker took a cue from his network's long-gone hit, "Seinfeld," and turned into the Soup Nazi. Facing the unappealing prospect of having to cut 700 jobs and $750 million from his floundering network, Zucker came up with the brilliant idea of punishing runaway viewers by giving them nothing to watch. "No emotional medical dramas for you!"
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The opening of the free-standing Panda Express now under construction near the Grape Road Meijer will not affect a nearby location.
The University Park Mall restaurant will remain open even after the new free-standing Panda Express opens early next year at 5020 Grape Road, Mishawaka.
A tentative Jan. 15 opening date is planned.
"We are keeping both stores open because they serve different customers," says Jim Tarpey, regional real estate manager for Panda Express, which is based in Rosemead, Calif.
In fact, Panda Express is planning additional restaurant locations in our region as the company that serves a menu of Asian-inspired dishes looks toward further local expansion.
"We believe we could build another two to three locations in the South Bend designated market area," Tarpey says via e-mail.
The new 2,400-square-foot Panda Express near Meijer will offer 52 seats indoors, as well as outdoor patio seating and drive-through service. Panda Express will employ between 15 and 20 workers.
Opening announced for new pizza shop
A mid- to late-January opening is planned at Tony Sacco's Coal Oven Pizza.
The restaurant is now under construction at 201 Florence Ave., Mishawaka, at Toscana Park shopping center. Tony Sacco's, which is based in Fort Myers, Fla., will feature a unique 7,000-pound, 1,000-degree coal-burning oven in the middle of the restaurant.
Rue 21 plans apparel store in Plymouth
Rue 21 is entering the Plymouth market.
The national retailer plans to locate a 4,500-square-foot store in the former Blockbuster space at 1445 Pilgrim Lane, at Pilgrim Place shopping center.
A state construction report indicates remodeling work will be under way soon.
The retailer is based in Warrendale, Pa.
Rue 21, which specializes in trendy fashions and accessories for teens, also operates locations at 1290 E. Ireland Road, South Bend, as well as in Michigan City, Goshen and Warsaw in our region.
Mattress Firm will open two stores
The planned new Mattress Firm store in Mishawaka, announced in our column a few weeks ago, will not be the only area location for the growing company.
In addition to the store planned at 221 W. Day Road, near Del Taco, the Houston-based retail company is planning a south-side South Bend store.
That 6,600-square-foot store will be located in a new multitenant commercial building at 1245 E. Ireland Road, according to a state construction report. It will be slightly larger than the Mishawaka store.
There will also be room for a second store or a restaurant in the new building. The company currently operates more than 1,100 stores in 28 states.
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AutoZone will build a 7,100-square-foot store at 4500 Michigan St., near the intersection of Ireland Road, South Bend, a state construction report reveals. ... Kohl's Department Store has filed paperwork with the state for its planned 55,000-square-foot store located along U.S. 20 in Michigan City, at the longtime Dunes Plaza. ... Join our next live chat at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Barneys Links With Pantone for Collection
The retailer is the first to sell the Pantone Universe Colorwear men's wear line.
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Handvaerk Launches With Luxury Underwear
Launched via an e-commerce site in October, the New York-based company was founded by the husband-and-wife team of Esteban Saba and Petra Brichnacova.
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H&M Sport to Compete in Activewear
The Swedish high-street retailer will reveal today that it is launching an expanded activewear concept on Jan. 2 in all its markets worldwide.
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Burton Unveils U.S. Olympic Snowboard Look
The Vermont-based brand has been tapped to dress the U.S. snowboarding team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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M: The Making of the Hermès Tie
This is how it's done, from the ateliers of Lyon to the shop window.
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Ulysse Nardin Opens New York Boutique
The 500-square-foot corner location within the Ritz Carlton New York hotel is the watchmaker's third U.S. boutique.
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What's your favorite "Holy Sh*t!* horror moment from a film?
What's your favorite "Holy Sh*t!* horror moment from a film?
WytchOfTheNight on Monday, March 11, 2013 - 8:12pmHostel:
The man tied to a chair begging to be let go. Another guy taking a surgery knife & sliced the man's heel & told him to walk out! He stood up & started to step foward & you could hear his muscle ripping apart & his feet seperating from his legs as well as see it! It was mind blowing graphics! I was scared to walk at least 20 minutes after that scene!
Night Of The Demons:
The guy goes into the bathroom & the girl dressed like a cat spooks him sitting on the vanity. She asks him to take her lipstick & fix her whiskers. He tries to & she said not there! Then takes the lipstick, shoves it into her nipple & with the camera on her hand, show her reaching up her her baby making area & pulling it out! I didnt know what to think the first time I seen that!
Final Destination: (Cant recall which one)
A black man working out on an arm weight thingy. The spring in the back of it pops & the two weights that lift & come down, came down & smashed his head, the graphics & sounds were awesome! I wont look at a gym the same way again!
At the end of the original
sumikoska on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 3:01amAt the end of the original "Carrie" movie when the arm jumped out of the ground and grabbed her friend I jumped back in my seat. I'm sure that's not the only one - it just was the most memorable one because it was the first.
I also loved the first head exposion in "Scanners"
And although it's not horror - that melting nazi face in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
These are all really old, aren't they?
That's an easy one: Kathy
John Dodds on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 8:20amThat's an easy one: Kathy Bates hobbling James Caan in Misery. Kathy was the iconic psycho of the 1990s, I feel.
- John Dodds, author of the crime/horror novels, Bone Machines and Kali's Kiss, audiobooks narrated by Robin Sachs (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Galaxy Quest, Torchwood, Bablyon 5, and more)
i have to say the part were
Cynthia_Guevarra on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 10:45pmi have to say the part were the mom jumps out of the car in the movie Dead End and you see her rubing her brain... now that people was awsome!!!!
One of my first " Holy She
Mictros on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 7:32amOne of my first " Holy She-ite" moments was watching the ORIGINAL " When a Stranger Calls" and hearing the killer answer the question. When she screamed " What do you want!!!!?" He had the best answer I've ever heard uttered. Chills down your spine and a vivid mental picture are guaranteed! The actor in the remake never came close! Granted, the original plods and is dated as hell, but he was one creepy actor and still plays out as someone ya don't want to set down next to ya and offer to buy you a drink!
In the same vein? "When A Stranger Calls Back"? In the final scene. When the killer reveals WHERE he is in the room with Jill? Is the BEST REVEAL OF A KILLERS HIDING PLACE I'VE EVER SEEN. That reveal flips me out every time I watch it. Slow mo the DVD and watch frame by frame. It is epic. Much creepier killer than the first one had for sure.
Halloween H2o. When she cut his head off, I was sure it was over!
Mine would probably be the
Bokonon on Saturday, May 25, 2013 - 5:18pmMine would probably be the nurse scene from The Exorcist III.
Just about all the movies
MRROK01 on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 9:32amJust about all the movies that play on Fearnet have their Holy Chit moments!! I like the Rob Zombie movies with the dysfunctional family and Captain Spaulding!! And lets not forget Sherri Zombie and her revealing outfits!!!! Ahhhhhhh, nothing like a few corpses hanging around, lol, lol.......
exorcist crab walk got me the
rift267 on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 2:00pmexorcist crab walk got me the first time i watched it...kinda played out now...but got me... idk y but also tale of two sisters when i think its su mi pulls the chick out from the armoir..idk if thats how u spell it
Saw: the final cut, when the
shizuku.mizutan... on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 2:22amSaw: the final cut, when the dude in the car has to peel his skin off to free himself.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Dear Cindy,
In my exercise center, I am seeing more and more older people working out, which is great, and wish my parents were active like those I see. I am about to turn 50, and I wonder what kinds of programs there will be when I'm their age. I would love to think I'll be as active when I am 70 or 80. Are there specific things I should be doing to give me a head start on this? -- Sandy
Dear Sandy,
The number of older adults interested in becoming active is rapidly multiplying. When you consider how Baby Boomers are feeding directly into this market, it's easy to understand why these silver-haired health seekers give the fitness industry plenty of reason to study the mature market.
Fitness -- coming of age
The International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association says older adults make up about 23 percent of all fitness memberships. The Medical Fitness Association reports they account for 43 percent of all hospital wellness center memberships. This is obviously a demographic that deserves attention, and may explain why the American Association of Retired People and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently studied health behavior in the older adult, as it relates to physical activity.
Marketing to the mature
The studies sought to answer two key questions: What motivates older adults to be active; and what barriers in their lives keep them from being physically active. The groups believe this information is extremely valuable and could help guide the fitness industry toward appropriate programming and messages that could entice the hearts and minds of older adults. After all, this is not a one-size-fits-all demographic.
The senior market represents a wide range of experiences. Millions of stiff joints and mended hearts are making their very first appearance in a fitness arena with exercise veterans who have been active all their life. For seniors to exercise successfully, the experts must appreciate and be sensitive to the demands and special needs of each individual. That is why these types of findings will influence how physical activity, and all it encompasses -- equipment, programming, training modalities -- is promoted to older adults.
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As Kent State Ashtabula students approach graduation, they have reached a point in their lives where they've done more than study and work hard. Now, the hard work will be rewarded on commencement day. This online guide to graduation and commencement provides answers to many of the questions and concerns of soon-to-be graduates.
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Not bad for a girl who was ultimately looking to focus more on a film career. Sure, her music has praised for its cinematic sound and references to pop culture. Yes, she draws influence from the likes of Elvis Presley, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Nirvna, Bruce Springsteen and so many more. She's clearly reaped the benefits of doing her own thing. That's why she won the Q Award for "Best New Thing," a BRIT Award for "International Breakthrough Act" and yet another for "International Pop Female Solo Artist."
Did we mention that 2013 was also Lana's year to score her first Grammy nominations? They came in the categories for Best Pop Vocal Album for "Paradise" and Best Song Written for Visual Media for "Young and Beautiful."
Though Del Rey was "snubbed" by the Motion Picture Academy for a potential Oscar nomination for "Young and Beautiful" (which appeared on the soundtrack to "The Great Gatsby"), she has other events already penciled into her calendar for 2014. In fact, the neo-torch singer will perform at this year's Coachella Festival, it was recently announced. She is part of a huge list of performers for the three-day, two-weekend festival to be held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California on April 11, 12 and 13. The entire festival repeats the following weekend, April 18-20.
Her music wasn't 'Born to Die' (Created March 20, 2014)
Lana Del Ray has lived well beyond her years, coincidentally packing her heart and soul into an album she would call "Born to Die." That release came in January 2012, but the story of Lana and the puzzle pieces of her life fit together in a much more complicated way.
Now a singer, songwriter and Vogue cover girl, the childhood of Lana (born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant) is in stark contrast to the fame she now enjoys. By age 14 she was dealing with an alcohol dependency, had been sent away to boarding school and ultimately attended Fordham University in New York City to study metaphysics. Picking up her first guitar ultimately changed the course her life would take from there on out.
Grant began performing in clubs around New York City under various names, including her birth name, as well as Sparkle Rope Jump Queen and Lizzy Grant and the Phenomena. At age 20, she signed a record contract for $10,000 and moved into a trailer park. When the album was shelved, she began working in homeless outreach, drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
It wasn't until fall 2011 that Grant rebranded herself as Lana Del Ray and signed a joint record deal with both Interscope Records and Polydor. It came after another false start (with 5 Point Records) and a full-length album that was quickly yanked from circulation. But the third time would prove to be the charm, as Lana put a few tracks on her YouTube channel. Her debut single, "Video Games," accumulated in excess of 20 million views in its first 5 months of upload, and by the time "Born to Die" was officially released in January 2012, Lana had her vision re-directed yet again.
Now partnered with NEXT Model Management agency and with dreams of pursuing a film career, Lana has made music just a small focus of her overall appeal. Her third EP, "Paradise," is currently being supported by a tour that will take her through France, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Austria and many other countries in 2013.
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So, what are the Six Disciplines?
If you're evaluating far more opportunities than your team can realistically handle, it's time to do a serious screening of those initiatives. According to Robert W. Bradford, President/CEO of the Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, your organization should only take on between 3 - 10 strategic opportunities, depending on the size, breadth of your team and its resources. (We've found the fewer, the better.) Bradford recommends a senior team exercise in which you simply ask the team to rate each opportunity on two dimensions – resource requirements and strategic impact on the organization.
"Why is strategy execution so difficult? …Let's look at managing change. It should be hard: success means growth, growth means change, and change means uncharted territory. If these more obvious changes aren't enough, every individual in your organization is growing and changing, too. Also the industry and your competitors are growing and changing—and you can't afford to be left behind. "Without change," warns C. William Pollard, Chairman of The ServiceMaster Company, "there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable."
But, in the midst of all this change, how do you keep everyone on the same page? (My family of five can't even agree where to go for dinner!) When we consider each business individually, we might conclude that the obstacles to executing strategy aren't just complex, they are downright daunting."
- Six Disciplines Execution Revolution by Gary Harpst.
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To achieve the benefits of Baldrige faster, Six Disciplines provides the perfect complement to the Baldrige framework, by showing you exactly how to implement a performance excellence program.
Those who have worked both in small and large organizations have a much better appreciation for how fundamentally different large companies are from small ones. Each has its strengths, and the savvy small business owner understands what those are and takes advantage of them aggressively. They include:
1. Connecting People to Purpose
People are creatures of emotion and reason. The best performers want to belong to an organization that's on a mission, and they need to see how they're contributing to that mission. Small businesses have an enormous advantage in their ability to help people connect to the purpose of the organization, AND enable them to see that what they're doing is contributing to that purpose in a meaningful way.
This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with "Sandy," who recently moved to a much larger organization. She commented, "It's just not the same. I feel like a number. It seems like nothing I do will make a real difference in anything. And if it did, it probably wouldn't be noticed."
Another businessman understood how to use this advantage. He set up a 50% profit-sharing program in which a portion of the profits was retained by the employees themselves and the remainder was given away by the employees to charitable causes. This small team was one of the most productive, spirited and lively groups I've ever known.
2. Effective Communication
Someone wise once said, "The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."3 The larger the organization is, the greater this illusion becomes. As organizations grow, communication challenges grow, as well; in fact, they grow dramatically faster (exponentially) than the organization headcount does. To illustrate this, the following table shows that when there are only three people in an organization, there are three possible communication combinations (persons A&B, A&C, or B&C). However, if you grow a 3- person organization to 25, there is an 8-fold increase in the number of people but a 100-fold increase in the communications combinations! A 100-person organization is 33 times the size of a 3-person organization but 1650 times more complex from a communications perspective.
Organizations respond to this increased complexity by creating business units, divisions, departments, groups, etc. In other words, more layers. When you add to this challenge the fact that experts believe that 55% of communication takes place through nonverbal body language, it becomes clear how great an advantage it is to be able to gather everyone together in one place quickly and easily.
3. Timely Decision-Making
Decision-making is also dramatically different in smaller organizations. As organizations increase in size, the leadership team moves from generalists to specialists who are responsible for a particular business area. Because top decision-makers in a larger organization are more insulated from the day-to-day activities of the company, they no longer have the first-hand knowledge to make decisions without the input of several other specialists. The result is slower and often lower-quality decisions.
In small businesses, however, there are fewer decision-makers, and they're so close to customers, employees and daily operations that they can get a sense of whether a decision is right or wrong very quickly.
4. Customer Intimacy
In smaller organizations, a much greater percentage of employees work with customers directly. This includes the leaders in the organization, who frequently are still involved in closing sales or supporting clients. This kind of closeness to customers means the people in the company know customer issues and they can spot changing market needs earlier. And because their decision-making is more timely, they can act on those trends earlier.
5. Attracting Team Members
Small businesses don't have to take a back seat to larger organizations when recruiting top people (and they shouldn't). The advantages already discussed—connection to purpose, effective communication, timely decision-making, and customer intimacy—when explained very carefully to all candidates, can provide a great draw to the most talented prospects. It's important to recognize that many people who haven't worked in large companies may not understand these advantages. Yet for people who are experienced in larger organizations, the advantages will be obvious and often quite welcome.
The point of all this isn't that small businesses are better than big businesses, but that they're different than big businesses. And learning to leverage differences is what competitive advantage is all about. Yet many small businesses don't consciously develop strategies that use their advantages. As you read on, you'll begin to see how the Six Disciplines Methodology helps small businesses systematically take advantage of their strengths.
-From Gary Harpst's Six Disciplines for Exellence
Even though small businesses collectively generate $5 trillion in sales in the U.S., the biggest challenge of an individual small business is "survival." 80% of all new business start-ups are out of business within five years. And if that doesn't get your attention, 80% of the 20% that survive the first five years don't survive the second five!2 That means, on the average, 960 out of 1,000 businesses that start this year will not be around in 10 years. This is proof that you're in an elite group if you've just survived (let alone "thrived")! What makes it so hard?
After working with thousands of small businesses for many years, we've learned that the top issues small businesses struggle with can be grouped into the following general categories:
At times, these challenges can be daunting, indeed overwhelming. It's encouraging to know that the struggles we encounter every day are normal. All small businesses face them. And like other "heroes," we continue the fight because the cause is worth it.
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Organizations everywhere are looking for ways to effectively and efficiently meet their missions and achieve their visions. Thousands of organizations use the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence to guide their enterprises, improve performance, and get sustainable results. This proven improvement and innovation framework offers your organization an integrated approach to key management areas:
The Baldrige Criteria can be adapted to fit your unique challenges and culture and help you evaluate performance, assess where improvements or innovation are most needed, and get results. By taking the Baldrige journey, you become part of a national effort to improve America's performance and its competitive standing in the world. You can be proud to know that your employees, customers, board members, and other stakeholders are all better off—and that America is better off.
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By implementing the Six Disciplines Total Performance Excellence program, Hollington says it allows CapitalWorks the ability to have a productive owner/manager relationship without micromanaging each acquisition.
Six Disciplines' program combines continuous business improvement methodology based on proven best-practices, an innovative add-in for Microsoft Outlook, and coaching services to increase self-leadership effectiveness. One of the initial steps in the Six Disciplines process is analysis of the Business Performance Assessment (BPA) service. BPA is one of the most powerful methods available for determining an organization's health and planning for improvement. It brings clarity about the performance of an organization; identifies strengths and "at risk" areas; and gives immediate focus and attention to a problem area that needs to be fixed and a way to correct the issue. CapitalWorks companies have seen a significant increase in each organization's level of performance excellence.
Eric Kurjan, President of Six Disciplines, said BPA maps directly to the Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award Performance Excellence criteria and is the quickest, most effective way for a leadership team to rate its organization's performance on the dimensions of: leadership/culture; strategy; customer focus; measurement/results; people; process; and key metrics.
In all seven categories, Bluffton Motor Works has seen a marked improvement. One of the largest areas of growth is the key measurables category where Bluffton scored a 13 in 2010 and is now at 40 out of a possible 60 score. In the leadership area, Bluffton currently achieves a 23 out of a maximum 25 score. Prior to starting the program, Bluffton scored at 15.
Measuring Success
Kurjan says the BPA allows for immediate outcomes by identifying strengths and weaknesses as the process identifies priority areas for improvement. After identifying the shortcomings, those areas are prioritized and solutions determined.
While Bluffton Motor Works has several years of data to analyze and measure results, the other CapitalWorks companies—KKSP, Gallo and Magna-Tech—are in the beginning stages of the process, but have already seen a steady climb in numbers.
For Hollington, the proof of the importance of Six Disciplines philosophy is easy to measure.
"The difference between Six Disciplines and other strategy consulting firms is their focus on execution and accountability. They achieve this through their software tool that creates a management tool to track progress and their ongoing coaching. This keeps the strategy from collecting dust on the shelf and teams execute their plans," Hollington said. "It is not an easy process to undertake and takes a significant commitment from the CEO and leadership team of the business. With that commitment, there are substantial results. I highly recommend their process for organizations aspiring to improve performance."
Bluffton Motor Works in Bluffton, Indiana, is a global leader in custom-engineered fractional electric motors. The company serves a wide variety of OEM manufacturers and industrial production facilities.
KKSP Precision Machining in Glendale Heights, Illinois, is a manufacturer of high-volume, precision made-to-print automatic screw machine products for automotive, medical/veterinary, appliance, HVAC and aerospace markets.
Gallo in Cleveland, Ohio, is a marketing communications company providing design, engineering, production and service of three-dimensional exhibit and digital displays for museum, tradeshow and traveling exhibits.
Magna-Tech in Muncie, Indiana, is a premier provider of vacuum impregnation of castings for automotive, marine and electronics markets.
Bluffton Motor Works has been involved with the Six Disciplines program for the longest period of time, implementing its program in the beginning of 2010.
In the first stage of ownership by CapitalWorks, performance strategies were developed internally, but never really put into practice. Then, the Six Disciplines program was initiated and continuous improvement of the manufacturing operations, the commercial sales strategies and the development of the sales force have taken place.
"It is very hard for CEOs to stay focused on these kinds of things because there is so much that demands their attention," Hollington said. "Management teams need to continue to stay focused on a plan. It's one of the things Six Disciplines does best, monitoring progress and results to make sure the path is clear, well defined and within reach."
David Nussear, President and CEO of Bluffton Motor Works, agreed.
"Several other companies provide strategic planning services. Most of those help you develop the plan and leave it with you," Nussear said. "With Six Disciplines, it's a process. They not only help you develop the plan, but they stay with you during execution of the plan. It's easy to have a plan, but not always easy to put it into practice. The coaches are great as they help you crystalize a plan and execute it."
With 300 employees, Bluffton Motor Works relies on strategic planning daily.
"The Six Disciplines plan creates alignment throughout the entire organization. It creates a unified vision and goal," Nussear said. "We are all busy and this ensures we are all working on the same goals. We have a 10-15-year vision that is broken down into segments. We have an annual strategic review, monthly reviews and weekly goals that all go back to the master 10- to 15-year plan."
CapitalWorks, a private equity firm located in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood, has found its niche in the Midwest market. Primarily focusing on acquiring manufacturing and distribution companies in the lower end of the middle market, CapitalWorks learned it needed to offer a management program to help these acquired companies achieve growth and success. They have found measurable success with Six Disciplines' Total Performance Excellence program. Defining Goals
Dick Hollington, CapitalWorks President, is the first to admit it is sometimes difficult for the management teams of the acquired companies to develop and successfully execute strategic plans for growth.
"Our belief is that many of the businesses we work with are under-managed," said Hollington. "A lot of what we can bring to the table is management discipline. We want them to develop a clear strategy and hold them accountable to that strategy. Six Disciplines provides one of the best coaching programs out there.The program allows for development of a strategy and mentors the tools on how to execute and monitor the results. "
Currently, four CapitalWorks portfolio companies have implemented strategies by Six Disciplines with impressive results. All portfolio companies are presented the option of working with Six Disciplines, but it is up to each individual company's management team to make the commitment to the process and program.
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Excellent small businesses should have three primary attributes. First, they should be learning organizations. Individuals in the organization should be like members of an Olympic team, where the best keep learning how to get better.
Second, excellent organizations should have clearly defined areas in which they have chosen to be leaders, and they should be relentless in their pursuit of those areas.
Third, the ultimate mark of business excellence is the ability to sustain success—to handle the difficult times well and to continue to grow stronger and better. As you read on, you'll learn a step-by-step approach that helps your organization learn, lead and last.
Over the next three weeks, I will be going more in-depth with these three attributes.
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Excellence, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Different people have different standards of excellence. If you're serious about pursuing excellence, you must decide what excellence means for your organization. You also need to be prepared to have your definition change, because as you learn and grow, your expectations will change as well. For businesses, it's useful to think of excellence in terms of two broad categories. The first is customer excellence and the second is business excellence.
Customer excellence has to do with those attributes that are of direct interest to customers, such as quality, price, reliability, taste, speed, etc. This is the type of excellence that wins product reviews and is featured in advertisements and promotional material. One of the primary functions of business strategy is choosing the dimensions of excellence in which the company will pursue leadership. For example, some businesses may focus their efforts on price leadership, some on full service, or some on convenience.
In contrast to customer excellence, business excellence is more transcendent and includes characteristics which are valued and highly desirable, regardless of business type: growth, profitability, predictability, longevity, etc. Business excellence and customer excellence are mutually dependent, because neither can be sustained without the other. In other words, satisfied customers drive business success and business success enables investment to satisfy customers.
We can learn much about achieving excellence—not only for our customers, but for ourselves—by taking a lesson from franchises. The franchising concept has been wildly successful over the past 40 years. The appeal of a franchise is rooted in two promises. First, there's a very clear promise to the customer that's reflected in the brand. What comes to mind when you think of Starbucks?
Second, there's a promise to the business owner (franchisee) of a well-considered and proven business model that delivers on the customer promise. The result is two-fold. It delievers something of excellence to the customer—a steaming hot, fresh-brewed cup of coffee. It also delivers something of excellence to the business owner—a predictable return on investment, established business procedures, employee training, staffing plans, marketing strategies and interested customers.
The point isn't that all businesses should be franchised; the point is that all businesses would benefit from taking the same holistic approach to excellence that franchises take. Franchised businesses recognize that there really are two products—the product or service which the customer buys, and the business which the investor buys. The goal of Six Disciplines for Excellence is to help business leaders work on their businesses so they can be as satisfied with their businesses as their customers are with their products.
-Gary Harpst in Six Disciplines for Excellence
A methodology, or method, is another name for any step-by-step approach to getting something done. We have methodologies all around us at work and at home, even though we may call them by different names. A recipe for baking a cake is really a methodology. The design and construction processes for building a house constitute a methodology. Most professions have a variety of standard practices to follow to arrive at long-term success. Software developers, architects, engineers, even physicians all have standard, repeatable practices they follow to complete their work successfully. These tried-and-true methods usually emerge as a result of best practices, standards, rules, and procedures developed over a number of years.
Just as the purpose of a home-construction methodology is to build excellent homes, the purpose of a business-building methodology is to build excellent businesses. In Chapter 6, we pointed out that customer excellence caters to the end-user or the customer. In the home-construction example, an excellent home caters to homeowners' preferences, including style, comfort, energy efficiency, and price. Similarly, a business building methodology caters to the goals of business owners: profitable and predictable growth, engaged employees, strong reputation, and a large and loyal customer base.
The initial success of a business depends primarily on the ability to build top quality products or services. An organization's enduring success depends on building the business itself, in addition to its products and services. Understanding this distinction is critical. You must use a methodology that's designed for whatever it is you're building if you expect to achieve consistent results.
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The critical question for every business leader is, "How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?" Or to rephrase the question using the business excellence model, "How can we spend the maximum amount of time in Quadrant II, balancing the right directional choices with the ability to get there."
The answer: it takes a complete program. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements. Technology alone is not enough. Training, by itself, is not adequate. Simply reading best-selling books won't do it. New leadership by itself is not the answer. Retaining better people won't make the critical difference. Hiring an executive coach by itself will not overcome this challenge. No, the answer lies in taking a more profoundly holistic approach. Our field research has shown us that singular piece-meal approaches just don't last. Sustainability, the capacity of an organization to maintain the necessary balance between strategy and execution, and doing so while overcoming the Expertise hurdle, economics hurdle, and the Human Nature hurdles, requires a complete program consisting of four tightly-integrated elements.
· A Repeatable Methodology to drive organizational learning and understanding
· Accountability Coaching to nurture and nudge to stay the course
· An Execution System to engage everyone, every day in real-time alignment
· Community Learning to share and reinforce best practices and accelerate learning
Different experts may use alternate terms for these concepts, but rather than fixating on terminology for now, it's better to focus on understanding the underlying principles.
Six Disciplines has been able to create a program that contains all four of these elements. Click Here to learn more.
"In the pursuit of excellence, figuring out the right things to do isn't nearly as difficult as continuing to do them over the long term. One of the most persistent challenges we face as humans is to narrow the gap between knowing what needs to be done, and actually doing what needs to be done. In fact, as business leaders, we collectively know quite a bit about what needs to be done. We've read the books, taken seminars, and listened to management gurus. We've even earned business degrees in understanding what needs to be done. Yet the challenge to somehow bridge this gap continues.
Think about this knowing-versus-doing gap in your own life, and how it relates to dieting, for example. Or let's consider the 40-year old business called Weight Watchers, which generated worldwide revenues of $3.0 billion in 2006. The core of the Weight Watchers approach is the weekly meeting that promotes weight loss through education and group support, in conjunction with a flexible, healthy diet. Each week, 1.5 million people attend approximately 50,000 Weight Watchers meetings, led by 15,000 classroom leaders around the world.
In the Weight Watchers business model, the counselors talk to you, weigh you, and educate you through group involvement about food and exercise. Essentially, they give you the kind of advice that you probably learned in grade school. And, you pay them for it! In my experience, its money well spent, because when I stop going to the weekly meetings, I gain the weight back. My point in this example is simple. What happens at Weight Watchers are things we already know how to do—in other words, we already know to eat right, exercise and weigh ourselves. Yet on our own, do we?"
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For the Execution Revolution to occur in small and mid-sized businesses, the acquisition cost equation for adopting a strategy execution program based on proven best practices must be proportionate to its outcome. No program can be practical if the cost to implement it is prohibitive.
Larger businesses spend about two percent of sales to maintain their IT operations. Assuming this same rate of investment, a $10 million company would invest $1 million over a five-year period and a $1 billion company would invest $100 million. Clearly, there is much more opportunity to invest in best practices when the budget is large.
Remember that investments in software and technology are, in essence, investments in more effective business best practices. Small and mid-sized businesses simply don't have the economies of scale to invest in the array of technologies and programs described in Chapter 4, not to mention the expertise to integrate and utilize it effectively.
The sobering conclusion is that mastering even one of these business improvement disciplines requires a substantial investment. None of them comes cheaply, and there are no shortcuts. In the past, taking your company from good to great in one or more of these disciplines required money, time (maybe decades) and expertise (in-house experts or external consultants). And until now, these developments were only affordable to big business.
Coaching is a mainstay of corporate organizational development and has experienced a long evolution since its beginnings in the late 1950's. Growth of the coaching industry was rapid in the 1980's, when it was hailed as a management tool for improving work performance and for building teams.
In a 1996 Newsweek article, Thomas Leonard, considered to be one of the fathers of business coaching, estimated there were 1,000 coaches nationwide. In 1999, the first year that member numbers were recorded, the International Coach Federation (ICF) had 2,122 members. By 2008, ICF membership exceeded 14,000.
Executive coaching services are an extension of the coaching industry, and their growth in popularity can be explained by our modern-day business environment. Executives are required to manage greater complexity, risk, and pressure at a faster pace than ever before. In order to perform effectively, they need a way to accelerate learning, improve performance, and modify behavior accordingly. Of the executives who have worked with an executive coach, 93 percent reported that it was a positive, sometimes life-changing, experience.
Despite the preference by some business coaches to conduct their services by phone, clients express a strong preference to do so in person. Sherpa Coaching released a study that showed an overwhelming 96 percent of those who had worked with an executive coach say in-person coaching is the best.
Unlike stand-alone training programs that cover a particular issue or topic, coaching is an ongoing, consistent process that focuses on specific performance-related goals. As an Ivy Business Journal article expressed in 2000:
Coaching simply speeds up a process of change that would most likely occur anyway, if an individual had enough time. Without a coaching program that forces a client to focus and make time, people sometimes miss the real issues they need to focus on.
In 2004, a Harvard Business Review report summarized the reasons why executive coaching works:
• Executive coaching engages with people in customized ways that acknowledge and honor their individuality. The essentially human nature of coaching is what makes it work—and also what makes it nearly impossible to quantify.
• In most organizations, lasting change usually occurs slowly, one person at a time, gaining momentum as more people buy in.
• To accelerate change and make it stick, they recommend systematically coordinating one-on-one coaching interventions that serve a larger objective.
• There's another advantage of starting at the top: once senior leaders have changed their behavior, it's easier for them to influence the rest of the workforce to do the same.
Related to the executive coaching industry are CEO advisory groups such as Vistage International, TAB (The Alternative Board), and, more recently, online CEO groups such as PeerSightOnline.com. These advisory groups use a peer CEO coaching framework to offer support and advice among their members. As such, the participants, themselves, are essentially CEOs helping other CEOs. In a way, it's peer to-peer business coaching. There's much to be said for this approach, since as peers, fellow CEOs can offer a beneficial "been there . . . done that" perspective. There's a level of trust and belonging within these CEO peer groups that is difficult to gain in other ways. Business coaching has emerged as an industry that has proven its value. The model of bringing outside expertise and accountability to organizations and individuals within organizations works.
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What Newcastle beat Chelski? They seem like they are having a pretty good start to the season so far and their 2nd goal was struck perfectly. Thats how you take a free kick from just outside the box. Great contact and placement. Yeah that PK was total BS, Dowd is a real stinker these days, especially w those 2 yellows that suspended song in the game vs. Sunderland. Total w****r, he doesn't have what it takes to ref at the highest level. Few of the EPL officials do, but there needs to be some consistency here with the officiating, because right now it is all over the place.
Newcastle with the stunner, what an exciting match thanks to the BS penalty that brought Chelsea back into contention yet Newcastle being able to finish in the final minutes is huge. Great game.
this reminds me of the old newcastle,whith a gret team spirit n always gave us hard times, watch out for them!!!
van Aanholt looked decent but it has to be said, Chelsea's youngsters are a LONG way off Arsenal and Manchester United's I have no idea wtf Paul Merson was talking about when he said Chelsea had the strongest grass routes in England. The mans a joker!
Anyway good win for Newcastle's reserves.
Anyway good win for Newcastle's reserves.
because chelsea's youth just won the youth cup..?..no..?..we dont have too worry too much,if those youth arent performing well they still got time to mature cos all of our big stars are doing their job very well..
I was at the game and i've got say the youth showed great fighting spirit to come back into the game when they looked dead and buried, van anholt was gr8 goin forward and needs to get tighter defensively, and josh mceachran, WOW wat a talent, so calm and composed on the ball...Turnbull needs to go!!
i thought the youngsters looked pretty avg to be honest
lucky you guys have a billionaire owner so you dont have to worry about training up good youngsters.
just let the other coaches do the hard work for you!
then buy buy buy.
lucky you guys have a billionaire owner so you dont have to worry about training up good youngsters.
just let the other coaches do the hard work for you!
then buy buy buy.
And good thing y'all have money if not ya'll wouldn't be in the top 4? The youngster just won the cup last year...
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Carina Glastris is now listed on Icepartnersearch. She skated Senior at 2012 Nationals with Kevin Allison.
Is Baker known to be looking for a partner?
All the split rumors make me but I understand it happens for one reason or an other. Anyway I've been checking the USFSA site periodically to see if there have been any announcements. Have not found any but I did notice 2 dance teams that disappeared out envelopes. They have bios on Ice Network and both have been updated with split announcements.
Isabella Cannuscio & Ian Lorello
Anastasia Olson & Jordan Cowan
Both enjoyable teams to watch and have had success. Whatever the reasons I hope they find much happiness with their new paths.
How sad. I liked both teams very much. Cannuscio/Lorello seemed to have benefitted from better programs in the future, which they would not obviously have any longer.
I am at a loss as to the Olson/Cowan split. I thought that they showed great promise/potential at nationals.
I am anxious to find out each person's future plans. Meanwhile, best of luck to all four of them; thank you so much for lighten up my days with your skating.
^^ This is sad =( I liked both teams.
Ah, re: Ian and Bella..Liked them a lot..
Surprised about Olson/Cowan. They had a good season.
So, would Anastasia or Bella make good matches for Keiffer?
I heard Keiffer is with Anastasia and perhaps, Cowan with Charlotte?? Maybe rumor?
So Vanessa with Ian Lorello to complete the circle?
Not so surprised about C/L but very, very surprised about O/C. What a fantastic Nationals they had, they were so promising.
Hmmm...there would only be 5 ins. height difference between Ian and Vanessa.. He's an inch shorter than Paul if Wikipedia is to be believed.
It's kinda funny that Bates ditched Samuelson to skate with Chock, and they finished lower at Nationals than he did when recently skating with Samuelson. I don't think they really have that much potential either, Chock and Bates. The top spots at US Nats will probably be taken by D/W, the Shibs, and the rapidly improving Hubbell/Donahue in the coming years. If D/W retire there's always Kriengkrairut and Giulietti-Schmitt too.
From Isabella Cannuscio:
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Archaeological and art historical scholarship of the past two decades has firmly established the reality of a ritual reform in mid-to late Western Zhou times. Proceeding from an analysis of Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, Shijing ritual hymns, and Shangshu royal speeches, the lecture takes the issue further to reflect on the nexus of material and textual aesthetics, on the newly organized space of the ancestral sacrifice and its relation to political administration, and on the performative qualities not only of the ritual hymns but also of the inscriptions and royal speeches. In this context, the royal speeches will be considered not as utterances of their purported speakers, the early Western Zhou rulers, but as commemorative texts through which the mid- and late Western Zhou royal court, at a period of political and military decline, retrospectively imagined and idealized the founding heroes of the dynasty.
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