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my five tips for surviving change
23 months ago I took on the mantle of Director of Invention at a hallowed ad agency here in LA. I assumed a title no one had ever heard of before, took what was my first gig inside an ad agency proper, and set about (with considerable help) to re-engineer a perfectly good, highly successful factory to produce an entirely new kind of output – marketing as product.
Since, rightly or wrongly, I've been asked by clients and outsiders how to manifest change within a big organization. My first reaction is that change is innate to any organization that continues to survive (because our job as managers, like our job as a species, is to co-evolve with our environment) – so no single person manifests change, change is something that happens to you whether you're prepared or not. My job is nothing as profound as manifesting change. My job is to simply help the organization survive change – and for advertising that means surviving a splintering of attention, a more active consumer, more involved clients, the technological means to actively ignore messaging, negative public perception, and increased demand for talent, among a host of other factors. After 23 months, I still feel ignorant, but I cling to the following as a man thrown overboard is wont to do.
Invest in people who can create demand for their own services and can weather the storm.
Change is a numbers game. Some will embrace its nature, some will resist it, but most are waiting for it to be worth their effort. I've been fortunate to stumble across a small brilliant team that have been invaluable to me in my efforts and its not only because they are far smarter than I am (which they are) – they have created internal demand for their services and have shown a remarkable persistence in the face of what some days can only be described as organ rejection. They create a welcoming face and calm demeanor for everyone else, which makes them the best proselytizers for our little church of change.
Focus on building the new thing not on destroying the old thing.
When I took the gig, I wanted to burn the building down. Well, not really, but if there were a room with our travel booking and time tracking systems in it, I would have at least set fire to that room. Going from David to Goliath, everything about how we worked seemed inefficient. In a startup, you're trying to maximize the output of every single square inch of resources. In a big company, you're trying to intermingle a host of specialists and silos (who are separated by geography and culture) in order to reduce manufacturing errors. Almost by design this is inefficient, but the only recourse is some kind of draconian process (which creative firms tend to reject). Ultimately, my opinions meant very little until I had my own culture and process in place and had demonstrated (over and over) its success. No one is going to help you dismantle the business that's paying for their mortgage or their kids' college education – but they will help you build something that they believe can offer them even more advantages.
Hate to lose but don't count the losses.
When I started this job, I literally marked a calendar with 'W's and 'L's (wins and losses) based on whether or not I felt I had made headway that day. This turned out to be incredibly de-motivational. Learn from your losses, just don't carry them too far. Related, don't draw too big of a conclusion from any single loss (hindsight is rarely 20/20).
Don't let the bastards get you down.
Change is frightening for most and threatening for some. If you wear the change agent target on your back you're going to be the object of some hate and fear. It sucks. A lot. And it rarely comes from a personal place, but it sure feels personal. You'll tell yourself that trying to please everyone is the only sure-fire way to fail, but no one wants to be actively disliked. Within my first week on the job, I was pulled into an EVP's office and chewed out for an organizational decision of which I had absolutely no role in. I was just the most convenient target at the time. Every member of my team has had a similar experience during their tenure. It's been inevitable. My best advice is to remember what success is (it isn't pleasing the un-pleasable) and …
Finally, have a life outside of work.
I'm a person driven by purpose and I seek out accomplishment. I want my efforts to mean something and to produce something meaningful. And I tend to hire a like-minded sort. The challenge is remembering to diversify your efforts outside of your work life. With this job and its lofty purpose, I also was able to rent an apartment on the beach and I've worked very hard to be emotionally and physically available to an amazing woman, Britt, and her wonder-dog, Indy. In a big company, working for even bigger clients, there's so little I have control over and my life outside of work has taught me that control isn't a path to happiness.
26 Jun, 2013 – leave a comment
the most convenient currency
In human organizations, individual behavior is tuned and optimized to profit by the most convenient currency. Convenience being the ability to accrue, exchange, and display said currency.
Sometimes that's simply money, but more often than not in profession-based institutions, money is secondary to something else, whether that's authority, seniority, resources, office space, parking spots, etc.
If you want to impact individual behavior, look beyond monetary compensation and modify what currency is king in your organization.
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the rise of the hardware startup
Our Invention team headed to CES and SXSW this year to produce our second volume of Emerging Trends at the Intersection of Technology and Culture. Overall, this is the year the hardware startup gained critical attention at both events. In the report, below, we document several trends among the hundreds of startups present at both events.
Give it a read (and a share, if you please).
Emerging Bets at the Intersection of Technology and Culture, Vol. 2 by Bud Caddell
14 May, 2013 – 2 comments
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Google, in all of its lack of wisdom, is shutting down Google Reader on July 1st, obviously to pour its resources into the social blockbuster that is certainly not Google+.
That means if you're reading this post right now in Google Reader, come July 1st you won't be getting updates from WhatConsumesMe anymore. Epic sad face.
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03 Apr, 2013 – leave a comment
how a challenger brand behaves
Challenger brands provoke culture into making a choice. They recognize that indifference is failure.
They find an enemy and they pick a fight. Over and over.
The best ones zero in on a single truth (e.g. Redbull, Nike) or dedicate themselves to fixing what's broken (e.g. Zappos, Simple).
They're also fun as hell to build.
01 Apr, 2013 – leave a comment
scaling invention
Classically, the marketing department's role within the larger organization has been to spread value. To take the raw product of the organization and to distribute a product or message across geographical boundaries and into the hearts and minds of a target market. Today, more and more, the role of the marketing department has become one of creating value (from entertainment to service). Market shares have solidified, mediums have matured, attention spans have shortened – and novelty and utility, in one form or another, are the antidote du jour to consumer apathy.
My team helps marketing departments develop digital products and services to solve their business problems. Until recently in my career, that battle was mostly fought to produce a single new product or service for a client. Lately, however, we've been confronting a new problem – scale. Clients are hungry for more innovative ways to reach and engage people, but the marketing department was never designed to scale in terms of Invention. Invention simply requires new processes and paradigms beyond the purchase and production of media vehicles.
As we have approached this problem with existing clients, I've been slowly cataloging behaviors and traits required to achieve scale of Invention within an organization and humbly submit these conditions for your review and dissection.
define the purpose
Modern organizations need to shift from an obsession with growth to a pursuit of fitness with their current environment. Growth is merely one strategy within seeking fitness – one that if followed too passionately can have dramatic negative consequences. On a smaller scale, organizations should seek Invention for a variety of reasons: strategic advantages, press, intellectual property, and long term fitness. Invention, however, is a poor short-term bet. Organizations need to expand their time horizons when pursuing such novel opportunities (let's not forget that it took over 70 years for the telephone to reach 50% household adoption in the U.S. from its first emergence as a commercial product).
Speaking of purpose, organizations with a mission beyond profits have a conceptual advantage beyond their bottom-line driven counterparts. Purpose makes a blue sky easier to navigate. One of our clients approached us with the organizational purpose of "helping people make smarter decisions through data," which immediately gave our Invention team fertile ground to plow for new product and service ideas. The best Invention concepts prove the organization's mission – and, not surprisingly, are less likely to be culled at the next budget meeting.
prepare the environment
You can't drop a seed on a linoleum floor and expect it to grow.
Invention is not possible, at scale, without say-so from the C-suite. Inventions require considerable internal resources and may expose the organization to unexplored legal risk. In my experience, the timeline of inventing in seclusion is finite and once the veil is pierced, work is delayed or halted entirely. Invention ideas and passion often come from the bottom, but, in large organizations, resources come from above. With that reality in mind, I've found the following critically important:
Holistic Goals
Related to purpose, successful organizations work from the same set of guiding principles which exist in harmony with one another. Harmonized goals require an organization to truly face the realities of their strengths and weaknesses within the current market.
Implicit Permission
It's one thing to require approval from the C-suite, it's quite another to have to seek that approval with regularity. Leaders should empower their Invention subordinates with implicit permission for sustained periods of time (at least 6 months) so they can direct their efforts toward fulfilling their goals, not retailing their efforts.
Geographic Distance
Plenty of studies have shown that physical distance from the C-suite actually benefits innovation; it's pretty simple to understand why: Invention requires longer time horizons and protection from day-to-day fire drills and political whims. These groups are typically labeled as labs, skunk works, or R&D groups. Of course, there are political consequences to creating a special group within a larger organism. It's critical to not entirely firewall this group from its peers and it can be beneficial to use other groups to feed problems or ideas into the Invention process.
The only way you can achieve implicit permission and geographic distance is with a charismatic and competent leader who takes ownership and responsibility for Invention. The right candidate for this type of position is typically someone who is practiced at an organization's internal politics yet is comfortable working outside of that structure to get things done.
Dedicated Budgets
As critical as distance, Invention requires a defined budget, one that cannot be decimated at the first sign of trouble. We typically instruct our clients to set aside 10% of their marketing budget (production + media) for this effort.
Team Structure
We operate as a partner to our existing Fortune 500 clients, so our structure might be different than if wholly executed within an organization. In comparison, we operate at a price premium, but we offer technological knowledge and experience along with the benefit of geographic distance. At the end of the day, a lean cross-functional team that has proven chemistry is ideal, but the ideal team is rarely available.
Generative Relationships
This is a term plucked from the study of complex systems; generative relationships are an approach to relationship building which asks participants to build connections within organizations and beyond before there is a clear motive for it. At any time, a successful Invention practice should be cultivating a host of relationships beyond the walls of the organization that don't necessarily fit today's strategy. When I worked on the original Fiesta Movement, many of our never-been-done-before media executions were a result of generative relationships which had been established far before our need for them.
develop a pipeline
Finally, in order to juggle multiple Inventions at once, organizations are benefitted from adopting a pipeline structure similar to the methodology used in the pharmaceutical industry. For example, in pharma, new drugs move through a 3-stage process that validates and prepares the drug for widespread use. In Stage One, early-stage drugs are tested simply for efficacy; does the solution demonstrate some level of impact on the problem? Stage Two is where dosage is defined. How much of the solution is required to have maximum impact with minimal side-effects? Stage Three is when scale is finally tested to uncover unforeseen side-effects or unintended consequences. Admittedly, this is an over-simplification of the drug process in order to demonstrate its application to marketing Invention. In my experience, though, this has been a fruitful model to mimic in our practices. But beware, as has been said, "all models fail, some are simply more useful than others." Most important of all to remember, the goal of the pipeline is to fail/iterate early and cheaply in the service of retaining more resources to scale any successful bets.
Stage One – The Pitch/Prototype
- Goal: to cheaply determine if an Invention is capable of solving the problem for which it is designed
- Form: Minimum Viable Concept – whenever possible, a pitch (video, Launchrock page, Adwords campaign, etc.) or prototype that lands the overall idea
- Feedback: if desired groups engage/spread pitch, feedback from user-testing of prototype
- Threshold Consideration: best if determined by a scale goal (e.g. move the 3 best performing Stage One concepts to Stage Two every six-months)
Stage Two – The Safe-Fail Pilot
- Goal: go-to market with a safe-fail pilot program to test user acquisition, engagement, and sharing
- Form: Minimum Viable Product (for sake of complexity and development, restrict A/B testing of functionality at this stage but explore A/B testing of user acquisition strategies), limit pilot by quantity of users or size of geographic area
- Feedback: Analytics and feedback from a select group of users within a qualitative program
- Threshold Consideration: best if determined by budget and resources compared to cost-projection of entering Stage Three
Stage Three – Scale and ROI
- Goal: to uncover/overcome the risks and opportunities of incrementally scaling the product
- Form: Feature-complete Beta, which is slowly opened to a wider user base
- Feedback: Analytics, bug reporting, and qualitative feedback
- Threshold Consideration: ROI projections
Stage Four – Osmosis
- Goal: to bring the product into the offering and support of the larger organization
- Form: Release candidate, vetted and approved version 1.0
- Feedback: Analytics, bug reporting, and feature request
- Threshold Consideration: from here, products can evolve or they can be sun-setted
As in the pharma world, organizations should pay attention to the distribution of Inventions throughout the pipeline and their overall hit-rate vs cost-to-bring-to-market. Again, the goal is to maximize the organization's hit rate while minimizing the cost-to-bring-to-market. Over time, any organization will find that this involves a careful balance of efficiency versus adaptability.
So, that's our learning to date. As we continue to advise clients in scaling Invention, I plan to impart more of our learning and our failings here.
20 Mar, 2013 – 2 comments
my every experience with a recruiter
Oh, recruiters … why are you still a thing?
26 Feb, 2013 – leave a comment
real-time fails
The network assimilates faster than the institution aka marketing fads age inexorably faster on the web.
H/t @jessbrightman
21 Feb, 2013 – leave a comment
dear leader
I had the pleasure of talking with some UCLA ad students tonight. I walked them through our Invention Filter and how we use it in our process.
A student asked (I'm paraphrasing, emphasis mine), "Most of what you do is look at what's wrong with the organization or business, how do you get away with that? In our program, we're taught to treat the client like God."
Dear ad schools, you're doing it so wrong. On too many levels to even know where to start …
21 Feb, 2013 – leave a comment
making invention work
When we launched Inventioni.st we had our fair share of haters. It made sense, honestly. We put out a vision lean on results. And we've still got plenty of work to do to prove that big ol' agencies can learn new tricks and do the hard work of developing and maintaining digital products.
But as a former Chicagoan, I subscribe to Daniel Burnham's maxim, "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood."
Whether you're a hater or not, if you want to learn more about our work and our mindset I highly recommend a recent HBR piece by my boss, Winston Binch, on why advertisers must become inventors. Here's an excerpt:
One of our clients, Pop Secret, doesn't have the luxury of big TV budgets. We worked with them to define a new approach. Instead of putting the majority of the dollars into paid media, we put it into the production of ten lightweight digital experiments designed to connect the brand with home movie watching in pop culture. The campaign is only two months old, and we've only released a couple of experiments, but we've received $322 million of mostly earned impressions and 1 out of 10 mentions of the brand online are connected to movies. Previously it was 1 and 100. Additionally, we hit a 12-month organic search high in January. We've already seen that there's power in small, PR-worthy, experimental utilities and content.


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> Fons, a question. In the framework you've described, would it feasible
In the normal case the host would be e.g. the DAW which I
suppose is running on 'the main daw box', so the plugins
will run there as well - they run inside the host process,
this is not a 'jack rack' even if it looks like it.
It would be possible to make a 'jack-rack' style host
(i.e. and app that does nothing but being a plugin host),
and very probably the 'reference host' will be something
like that. But even on the same machine that would mean
extra latency, and if you go over a digital audio link
or the network even more.
The whole point of 'plugins' in contrast to e.g. standalone
Jack apps, is that they run *inside* the host.
In the current design the 'rack' (the GUI application) has
to be on the same machine as the host (the DSP part). But
you can always forward the X11 connection and have it display
where you want it.
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|Last fall we moved to our new home on five mostly wooded acres. The woods had been untended for many years and are overrun with multiflora rose. Should I remove it all? Found lots of birds nests and rabbit tunnels during the winter. Is the wildlife habitat worth considering vs. the seemingly uncontrollable growth of this stuff? We spent much of last winter cutting huge Oriental Bittersweet and Grape vines that were overwelming the trees.
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- Posted by nywoodsman (My Page) on Sun, Jul 30, 06 at 19:52
|Grandaflora rose is famous for rapidly overgrowing open fields,turning them into inpentrable thickets,producing a great haven for nesting birds and small rodents in the process.Unfortunately native successional growth is suppressed as a result.I think the firt step to restoring a woodland area is to ID and remove all the nonnative growth,and grandaflora rose is definately on the list.But,be advised,the process of clearing away any overgrowth is always going to result in other weed problems.The bare soil exposed around the base of the removed bushes will probably produce a bumper crop of whatever annuals that are in the area,and any desirable shrubs or saplings you expose from amoung the roses will definately be targeted by the deer,But any aesthetic goals you have in mine with your property requires the first step,get the weeds out.How about leaving the thorney brush in large piles to temporally provide cover for small animals,also allow the native brambles,that will surely sprout forth,to quickly recolonise the disturbed area as a foil to the deer,and cover for any plants you might be trying to reintroduce.
|Multiflora rose is not without value as wildlife habitat, but I think the value you get is not worth the space it takes - even if you have unlimited space. Multiflora rose provides cover for birds and small animals that like dense shrubs. However, lots of native shrubs also provide that type of cover. In open, woodland edge conditions where Multiflora rose thrives there is usually plenty of cover, so removing the rose usually won't cause any problems. Multiflora rose also provides hips ("berries") that are winter food for a wide variety of birds. Many berry-eating birds eat the hops, and seed eating birds often tear them open and eat the seeds. Again, there are lots of native shrubs that also provide winter berries, and the fruit of most other shrubs seem to be preferred over Multiflora rose hips. THe big problem with rose is that is crowds out native shrubs and/or converts grasslands, woodland glades, and meadows into shrublands. It does support some wildlife, but does it support more than the habitat that would be there instead? I don't think so, and it is very aggressive in many parts of the country, actively spreading and crowding out native plants. The nail in the coffin of this plant is that it is miserable to walk in or around, so I am trying to remove all the multiflora rose from my property and urge you to do the same.
I'd also get rid of ASiatic Bittersweet, but I'd keep those large Grape Vines. I have seldom seen grapes actually kill a tree, and they provide lots of fruit, insects for birds, and add a new dimension of woodland habitat.
|I would definitely attack the asian bittersweet first. Asian bittersweet is a major threat to your trees and everything else. Mature trees take a long time to get that way so whack the bittersweet first (cut high, cut low and repeat).
I also vote for getting rid of the multiflora rose. The ecological costs outweigh the benefits as the other commentators have noted. If you keep chopping it, it will greatly reduce in quantity. Let the cut remains thoroughly dry out and then you can trample or flail them into little pieces. Try to get it before it goes to seed but whack it whenever you can.
Clearing the multiflora rose does open up opportunities for other pests but it also opens up opportunities for good natives to volunteer in or be planted by you. Clearing out the multiflora rose also makes it more feasible for you to access more of your property to address other problems.
I would leave the grape alone except where it is a real hazard. I chopped some grape when I confused it with the dreaded porcelain berry and I regret it now.
|Multiflora rose is the host for a virus which affects cultivated roses - another reason to get rid of it. RRD (Rose Rosette Disease) is spreading rapidly in this country after being imported by our Dept of Agriculture (the same Dept that originally imported the multiflora rose) as a control for multiflora. Unfortunately RRD also kills all other roses and is going to make growing ornamental roses very difficult. The Dept of Agriculture was warned about this but decided that it was more important to eradicate multiflora which is swallowing thousands of acres of pasture and crop land.
|just a note - multiflora rose is the mockingbirds favourite food. so if you have mockingbirds it might be a reason - if not - get rid of it.
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The Zoo World OrderSubmitted by zooamerica on Tue, 02/19/2013 - 23:48
Were they trying to tell us something 20 years ago?
"Zoo Station"
Standby for Transmission
System Test
At 56 seconds in, a very loud trumpet blows, and then a Nazi drummer boy starts beating a disturbing drum.
The crowd claps in unison to the march of the beat as the giant television screens light up and come to life one by one...cheers all around, the audience is in an uproar....they love them some ZooTV!!
At 3:50 in, with Beethoven's, "Ode to Joy," blaring, The Fly (a man in disguise playing an evil entity) rises upon a platform (on the left) behind a TV Wall of UN blue with the European Union stars shining brightly, and then they all abruptly fall to the sound of rock n' roll.
I'm ready, I'm ready for the laughing gas.
I'm ready, I'm ready for what's next.
I'm ready to duck, ready to dive
I'm ready to say I'm glad to be alive
I'm ready
I'm ready for the PUSH
In the heat of the night
In the warmth of the breeze
I'll be crawling around
On my hands and knees
Oh yeh...
Zoo station
I'm ready, I'm ready for the gridlock
I'm ready, to take it to the street
Ready for the shuffle, ready for the deal
Ready to let go of the steering wheel
I'm ready, I'm ready for the CRUSH
Zoo station?
We're all in it now, this is it - craziness, stupidity, apathy, ignorance, corruption, greed, death, destruction, lies...all of the devil's favorite dishes all wrapped up for us to consume like a TV dinner. Yummy!
Mainstream Media television is like McDonald's - it's fast, it's easy, it's cheap...but it causes serious health problems in the long run.
The next dishes being served are....betrayal, injustice, gun confiscation, treason, lawlessness, chaos, civil war and anarchy in the USA.
They're just two stops down the line....it's everything the communist international ever desired in order to destroy the United States of America.
With your face pressed up against the glass....
(special thanks to Michael Nystrom, please forgive me for the spelling!)
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Dominion: Why do many SR players not like it?
EDIT 3: I'd like to give a sincere thanks to everyone posting in this thread for keeping the discussion on topic and civil. I had a question, you guys are answering it, and everything has been kept pretty tame.
EDIT 4: In addition to answers to my initial question, I am getting a entirely new perspective on both SR AND CS from the responses to this thread. As a new player, I'm fully aware that there are aspects of SR that I don't get yet, and many of the responses I've read here are like a full-fledged meta-tutorial.
So, while I'm waiting (again) for my data to process, I thought I'd ask the question that has been nagging at me for a while.
As SR players, why do you not like Dominion?
My primary thought is that, everyone here came here for SR. That was the initial draw so why switch now? If that is the case, though, I don't get why people feel the need to add such virulence to their Dominion commentary that I frequently see. When the conversations remain civil, though, I've heard a ton of different answers to this question, but the three that really floor me are poor balance, low skill requirements, and boring game play.
Poor balance is probably the most frequent, which I kind of get, but I still don't see. Lots of folks just disregard Dominion saying you only see Rammus, Jax, Akali, Shaco, Poppy, or Heimer over and over again because they are so OP. Well, until last night, I hadn't seen Rammus in two weeks. Jax has been a no-show for close to a week. Are they OP? Well, yes, if you know how to play them they are very easy to get a win with on Dominion. If you don't though, you become an instant liability. I've seen more people play Jax and Akali and end up with **** scores than I have seen end up carrying the game. Rammus is great for disrupting, but throw some thornmail on, take some CC, and he becomes a silly turtle-looking guy who just rolls his way into unwinnable fights really really quickly. Add to the fact that, now that we know that these are strong picks on Dominion, people are now learning how to fight them, so they do not run away with games nearly as easily as they are made out to.
Now... are they OP if the player knows how yo use them? Yeah, probably. But, is that not the case on SR? How many "Akali OP, nerf now", "Cait needs nerf now", "OMG Skarner godmode after buff" threads pop up on GD every day? So, honestly, what's the difference?
The skill requirement is, perhaps, the one argument that I can actually agree to. Is Dominion more casual than SR? Absolutely. Was it meant to be? ...Maybe? Is that terrible, though? Keep in mind, though, this is said without acknowledging the completely different skills required to excel in Dominion. SR demands last hitting, patience, coordination, good teamfighting skills, etc. Dominion requires the ability to adapt to unexpected developments, smart use of sustainability, tactical use of minion pushing, good teamfighting skills, etc. Does playing Dominion make you a worse SR player? Yeah, probably. I know I've had to get back into last hitting mode when I switch back to SR, but it has also made a **** of a lot better at teamfighting and adapting my builds to suit the situation.
The boring argument may be the one that confuses me the most, though. Now, take this with a grain of salt, since I'm new to the genre, but it seems that so much of the typical SR game is already decided before the game even starts that a lot of the actual game play is mechanical repetition. The current metagame seems to rule over every early game decision in terms of who to ban, what types of champs to choose, who takes what lane, when to gank, etc. I have, honestly, read threads on this forum where players have described, in detail, the first several minutes of completely hypothetical SR games stating that, that's how it would go because that's how the game goes.
That just doesn't sound fun to me. I understand that that is how some people here gauge skill, but I would, personally, much rather play a game where things are much more open to improvisation. The Dominion version of the above SR example is, obviously, four top (one stop for mid) and one bot. After that, though, everything seems much more fluid than the typical SR game. There are windmill pushes, bot pushes, ninja mids, and any combinations of the above.
tl;dr: Why do SR players not like Dominion?
EDIT: It hasn't been brought up yet, but, for what it's worth, I really, REALLY do like SR. It does have a more tactical feel to it, but I suppose I just see SR and Dominion as two games that compliment one another and not two that compete.
EDIT 2 (copied from page 4): Alright, from a number of the responses, a thought just occurred to me.
How many veteran SR players consider League to be synonymous with SR? As in, Summoners Rift IS League of Legends.
Perhaps this is my biggest problem since, being a new player, I'm looking at League as an umbrella under which there is SR, TT, and CS.
It's mindless drivel, you're literally doing next to nothing engaging. It's just WEEEE OH I KILLED YOU WOOOO NOW WE GET THE POINT YAAAAY.
Only the tl;dr really needs to be answered; Dominion requires less skill, and people want to work on their e-peens.
I've been playing on the same map for I don't know how many years...I'm glad that we finally get something different. And it's certainly more balanced than TT is.
Balance issues.
it's not the gameplay we came for.
etc etc,
Basically if i wanted to play domination i'd play it on cod
It lacks depth IMO. SR feels more tactical and has more room for actual player skill making the difference.
I don't really like dominion because A. It feels more unbalanced than SR, and B. It feels more like a game of tag than anything else.
I was told to expect fast-paced PVP action, and instead its OH HELLO ENEMY YI LETS IGNORE EACHOTHER AND JUST GO CAP DEM POINTS MMKAY? :c
Also, the only thing anyone wants to do is "Cap 3 and hold" which is boring as ****.
If I wanted to play Dominion I'd renew WoW and spam play Arathi Basin, as someone who ground their way to Battlemaster, I have no interest in doing so.
i personally like it, what i've heard from people who dont like it is that:
-no / less satisfaction from getting kills
-lack of laning phase
-only played a few games, never got the hang of it
To me Dominion just feels less epic than SR. It's true that it's much easier for beginners to play, but I still enjoy it from time to time. But because the games are so short it gets really old really fast.
I have a love affair with the purple caster minions from SR.
They don't like it when I cheat on them with those dominihoes that call themselves minions.
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BOB R. is a field technician who works for a telephone company in a southern state. Bob's employer has recently "reengineered" its maintenance process to make the process more efficient. At the heart of the new way of working are small teams of field technicians, each of which is responsible for keeping a group of customers happy: fixing their phones when necessary, conducting preventive maintenance, and even selling add-on services. These technicians schedule their own work and make their own decisions when they show up at a customer site. Here is how Bob describes his new job: "I've been at the company for twenty-three years, and I always thought we were overmanaged, overcontrolled, and oversupervised. They treated us like children. We're having a very good time under the new system. They've given us the freedom to work on our own. This is the most intelligent thing this company has done in years. It's fun." (All people quoted here are specific individuals, not composites. They were interviewed in the course of preparing this review or for my book Beyond Reengineering.)
It is fortunate that Bob has not read The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, because he might discover that his new job is actually very bad for him. In this impressionistic essay, part philosophical rumination and part political tract, Richard Sennett, a professor of sociology at New York University and the London School of Economics, asserts that "the qualities of good work are not the qualities of good character." Work in the modern world of business, he says, "corrodes trust, loyalty, and mutual commitment," inflicts "demeaning superficiality" on human relationships, and even destroys people's very identity and sense of themselves by "threatening the ability of people to form their characters into sustained narratives."
The root cause of these problems, according to Sennett, is change, inflicted on workers by the usual suspects: rapacious capitalists chasing a quick buck.
As we know only too well, the stock prices of institutions in the course of reorganization thereby often rise, as though any change is better than continuing on as before. In the operation of modern markets, disruption of organizations has become profitable. While disruption may not be justifiable in terms of productivity, the short-term returns to stockholders provide a strong incentive to the powers of chaos disguised by that seemingly assuring word "reengineering." Perfectly viable businesses are gutted or abandoned, capable employees are set adrift rather than rewarded, simply because the organization must prove to the market that it is capable of change.
Sennett maintains that in this world of change everything, especially work and workers, becomes purely short-term. There is no continuity or predictability to one's work life, so fashioning a personal history around a career of work becomes impossible and the result is a "sense of aimless drift." Work in this new regime is so fragmented that it is reduced to "simple, mindless tasks," and so dependent on machines as to make it incomprehensible: "her understanding of work is superficial; her identity as a worker is light." Modern work deprives jobs of any meaning; in a system that "radiates indifference," the question "Who needs me?" has no answer. The amorphous and ambiguous character of careers and organizations makes rational calculation about risk-taking impossible; one has a hard time knowing where one is in the modern organization, let alone how to navigate through it. People lose the ability to create a coherent narrative of their past that allows them to understand their failures and improve their character.
The nonbureaucratic organizational forms -- networks and teams -- that capitalists create to operate through change also "weaken character," Sennett writes, "character as Horace first described it, character as a connection to the world, as being necessary for others." The empty and superficial communication on which teamwork relies corrupts personal interactions, creating a "fiction of community" that turns human relations into "a farce." These mechanisms also offer management the opportunity for "concentration of power without centralization of power," for exercising control behind the scenes without taking responsibility for it, thereby hiding management's domination from workers and creating the "fiction ... that workers and bosses aren't antagonists." Teamwork is especially insidious, because it offers workers the appearance of control without its substance, preventing them from engaging in "straight talk involving demands for higher pay or less pressure to boost productivity."
THESE are just the major sins for which Sennett believes "work in the new capitalism" must answer. He also mentions increased income inequality, age discrimination, and decline in parental authority. There may be others, but it is hard to say, because this book is more an expression of angst than a coherent argument. Full of unsubstantiated assertions, non sequiturs, random digressions, and logical dead ends, it serves primarily as an opportunity for Sennett to express his distaste for "modern capitalism." There are in fact important changes occurring in the world of work, but they have little to do with the "capitalism" that figures so prominently in Sennett's title and throughout his book. These changes are not driven by the stock market or by who owns the means of production, and they are taking place in government agencies and nonprofit organizations as well as in corporations.
To begin with, outside Sennett's fantasy world investors are not so deranged as to reward random change, and managers are not so intent on exploiting their workers. Both groups are far more concerned with a fundamental phenomenon that is reshaping business and work -- one that receives virtually no mention in this book: the ascendance of the customer.
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Dr. Ispas and her staff are great! They were very friendly, informative and professional and there was not a long wait in the lobby. Dr. Ispas is very kind-hearted and you can tell she really cares about her patients and their well being. There are a lot of allergy places in town and I am happy that I am connected with this office because they definitely have integrity and set themselves apart from the rest. I highly recommend them!!
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"Preggers" finds Quinn Fabray, you guessed it, pregnant. The big question: Who's really the baby daddy? Rachel's dealing with troubles of her own when Will gives Tina the latest solo in the glee club, which may lead her to quit. Kurt joins the football team to cover up his spandex-wearing ways from his father, adding a lot of flavor to the team. Meanwhile, Terri hatches a scheme that just may get her a baby of her own.
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The fourth episode of the series kicks off with a rousing rendition of "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," which comes after a slightly infamous disaster at the VMAs. Beyonce, I'm going to let you finish, but Chris Colfer rocks his spandex and your song like nobody's business.
Kurt's dad, however, isn't too fond of his son getting down in the basement to the hit single. With the help of Brit and Tina, Kurt's able to convince his dad that he's in spandex because he's the new kicker on the football team. Tina also has to play his girlfriend to keep up Kurt's façade.
Over at Will's house, he and Terri are practicing Lamaze because she'll soon be "pushing a watermelon out of her boy howdy." When Will steps out of the room, Terri reveals to her sister that her baby bump is actually padding. Her sister keeps her from confessing the truth to Will, saying they're going to have to get her an actual baby.
The next day, Will, Emma and Ken become a threesome for lunch, to the detriment of Ken. The topic of discussion: Sue Sylvester has her own segment on the nightly news called Sue's Corner. Predictably, Sylvester promotes corporal punishment, because that's how "Sue sees it." Sue brags to the trio that she's busting out of her box.
At glee's rehearsal, Rachel has the opposite problem. Will takes away Rachel's solo, passing it on to Tina, who could use a boost in the confidence department. Rachel is not pleased and storms out, thus knocking down the first domino that will lead her astray from the club.
Kurt takes this distraction as an opportunity to ask Finn for a favor. "Thanks, but I already have a date to the prom," replies Finn. Actually, Kurt just needs Finn to get him an "audition" for the football team, which shouldn't be too hard since they're the worst team in the state. At tryouts, Kurt makes a faux pas by bringing Beyonce onto the football field. His fix of "Single Ladies," dance number included, does score him a field goal, ensuring him a spot on the team.
The news station becomes concerned with Sue's ability to win nationals after learning that some of the cheerios have defected to glee. Her job now depends on the cheerios taking nationals. Sue's first course of action is to team up with Sandy to lure Rachel Berry away from the glee club, making sure they fail in their attempts to make it to regionals. Using blackmail on the principal, Sue gets Sandy a job as the Arts Administrator, having control of the arts programs, including glee.
As part of their plan, Sandy sets auditions for a high school musical. Cue Rachel belting "Taking Chances," by Celine Dion. Lea Michelle is flawless while singing on this show. Bravo girl. Will tries to convince her not to leave glee, but Rachel's lack of popularity keeps her wanting more.
First huge reveal of the night? Quinn tells Finn she's pregnant and the baby is his. Now this would make sense if they had ever had sex, she just makes him believe sperm can travel in hot tubs. Poor kid doesn't know his teammate, Puck, deflowered his girlfriend, which is the second revelation in "Preggers." Puck later finds out from Finn that Quinn's expecting.
Tina finally gets to step out and show her strengths. Showcasing "Tonight" from West Side Story, she makes a pretty great Maria, but the happy moment turns sour when Tina realizes she needs to give up her solo to get Rachel to come back. As she exits, Finn comes crying to Will in a very father-son moment. He's knocked up his girlfriend and now he needs advice. Finn doesn't want to become a townie, stuck raising a kid, and working at the supermarket. He asks Will to help the football team loosen up so they'll start winning and he can get a football scholarship.
The third big reveal of the night comes after Will tells Terri that Quinn is pregnant. Light bulb! Terri just needs to convince Quinn to hand over her baby and Terri will be all sorted.
In the climax of the episode, the McKinley High football team finally wins a game after the team busts out the "Single Ladies" choreography on the field. Distraction is everything. Kurt's dad is there to witness the routine, and it later opens up a discussion between the pair that lets Kurt come out to his dad. Pops tells him that he's known since Kurt was three and he accepts it. The team's big win also brings three new members to glee.
The final reveal of the night, Rachel has quit glee club. Ruh-roh, what are they going to do now?
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