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10/23/2011 at 5:21 AM
I'm thinking and acting just the other way around: had computer-crashes several times -with Ms-dDos, Window, etc, -in my professional business network and lost a lot of relations and because of that my financial base. So circumstances changed for I could not give them the service needed & had several people to work for me on a 'juridical lifelong' employment contract. And you have to pay your secretary every month in Holland, that's law, democracy & order. So I do NOT trust software, browsers and so on, but instead I hope that GENI has enough bankers & share-holders to be financial secure for a global organisation and is able to develop in time client-friendly & -trustworthy sales & AFTERsales... Groet'n van greet, uut the Netherlands, jMu.
10/23/2011 at 2:12 PM
I've had computers crashed on me, too. Thaat's why I have several backups in different locations. Yuu will never be 100% sure of how secure any online software will be, since you are not in control. While on my own PC's I'm in control. The possibility that our 4 computers in the household should crash at the same time is almost 0, and on top of that I have 2 backups in other parts of the country, so I'm feeling pretty safe. And my backups are of the whole database, all information included (pictures, documents, sound- and videofiles), which is a lot more than a gedcom file could do.
What would you do, Jeanette, if Geni went down and the only copy you have is a gedcom-file. Gedcoms are very bad as backups since they usually store less than half of the information that is on a persons profile, and it doesn't matter if your gedcom-backup comes an online or an offline source, since the gedcom file plainly isn't good enough as a backup-file.
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10/23/2011 at 3:17 PM
europe is bankrupt earlier if germany and france don't take the good decision in a few days, so I would prefer to pay in Euro for my business future earlier than in dollars....
10/23/2011 at 3:22 PM
do you imagine what it costa for our environment if ALL geni-users have to save their geni-gedcom on several different places in the world? here in Holland we have fear for global warming, for our dykes were very expensive and strong, but in a lot of places in the world its very dangerous to use too much energie for reasons of joy or hobbies... The warmth all computers together gives to our stratophere are far more risico than for me to lose a one year salary in holland....
10/23/2011 at 3:35 PM
I welcome the warmth. I'm getting tired of winters with minus 20-30 degrees Celsius (minus 4 F to minus 22 F degrees for those of you that don't use the waters freezing and boiling temperatures as a measurement). Maybe I can have a winter without 1-1 1/2 meters (3-5 feet for those of you that don't use the metric system) of snow. So I would welcome more computers to make more warmt. :-)
10/23/2011 at 3:43 PM
it's not for idealistic reasons I talk about my reserves about people who have money enough to by several computers in one family and are skilled to preserve there toys. My next project I hoped to continue in geni is a possibility for African children searching for her lost parents in their recent wars in Congo etc. I'm a engineer myself, my husband is able to construct a bridge and my family is originaly a constructor DNA, so I do not need more warmth to stay warm in a coldish climate. Sun energy on my roof, earthwarmth to burn my waste, what do you want more to overcome a new tsuname?
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10/23/2011 at 3:46 PM
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10/23/2011 at 10:31 PM
1) I got carried away challenging criteria over who would be lead manager - now that I think a little -- realize I can't see any relevance of who is Primary manager to point I was making - either way, both sets of folks can see the Profile. Do you see it making a difference here, and if so, what? (there definitely are ways it makes a difference; just don't see them as applicable here)
2) you asked: "HOWEVER, how did the profiles get merged in the 1st place....that is the question" - The likely way is: Geni goes and suggests they are a match. A Pro in one of the families clicks on that little number indicating suspected match, believes they are the same and clicks accordingly, setting up pending merge. At time I wrote the scenario, once that had happened, anyone in the other family could click "Yes they are the same" and the merge would be a done deal. Now, it would have to be a Pro, but aside from that, the same scenario. Does not have to be either me or AAA. (aside: have had one instance of someone clicking "Yes, they are the same" when both Profiles had "Mary R.." husband of "Harry R..." - but mine also had siblings and children of Mary R.., his had none of either, mine had parents with her Maiden Name (not R...), his just had one parent, "unknown R...." - demonstrating that folks can be overly "helpful" in approving merges!!).
10/24/2011 at 5:18 AM
Lois...Thanks for the message...
1.) Essentially, the only difference I can see in who is the 1st listed manager is that they will get all merge requests and questions, while the person listed 2nd (or 3rd) will most likely be left alone to work without constant interruption (if its a busy area of the tree)....other than that, I see little benefit...whoever enters data has it in their own record as a contributor (also info known to Geni).....Just because I am listed 1st does not mean I brought the most to the table....and it becomes evident to Geni and everyone else the more you connect and collaborate who the people are that do the work.....
2.) This is a VERY good question....and one that has gotten a great boost with the new hover capability in Geni to get DATE info etc for each....but I have always opted to decline a match that wasn't spot on (in the belief that after someone put more data in...and I have even mailed the manager a request to add dates etc.....that it would eventually show up again where it is more correct)....
You may be talking to the wrong person, I tend to decline NO dates and UNKNOWN's no matter how good they are....but if I find a profile with unknowns...I am likely to delete them from that profile....(I'll return to that)
With no children or siblings I tend to go to the 'tree view' to see if there is a corresponding correct placement on the more complete tree..if it is not ther, I decline.
As to 'unknown' anything....I don't know about you pr anyone else..but I do NOT write on new reams of paper the word "BLANK" to let me know that there is nothing of note written on the piece of paper....noone needs to translate a symbol or word to understand that an open space is, by it very nature, a statement that "I do not have this data"....
Last I knew....a blank meant the same thing in any language....."this info is not known to me." ..
Back for a second to the problem of mis-merges.....I would like to point out that families have this tendency to use names over and over, in clusterss, sometimes for generations....or the name Mehitable (though new to you, does NOT mean it matches another famiy with the same name in it...it ACTUALLY means...BE MORE CAREFUL...cause once a family hits on a name they tend to go overboard with it for a while......
I have personally found all sorts of problems with merges (less now than in the past) BECAUSE of unusual names.....so that Ephraim or Cadwell that sounds like a clincher to someone looking to merge 2 profiles may actually be the current FAD in the family and its relatives.,...and be the piece of the puzzle that is CREATING the problem....
I dont know if I thanked you for getting back to me...you really have been impressive in your deductions and really are thinking quite logically....it took me a long time to get it through my head that it really doesnt matter whose name is first as a manager..even in my own direct trees...just that I was there and could imput and that MY contribution IS made note of in the roster of 'docs/photos/etc.....dont know if Geni has a way of tracking WHO enters about me's....they SHOULD..
And I do DE-LINK profies from trees (when asked and for good cause after checking to make sure that the attached person is not proper for the family) OR ask a curator to do so....
10/24/2011 at 5:48 AM
Remi...we in New England are just getting thru Fall (or Autumn)...and have all that cold and snow to look forward to....OR NOT (in my case)....I wish you hadn't reminded me...
Have been thinking of your statements from another discussion about keeping and storing genealogical data....and think you got a bad trouncing without justification...Norway is an old country, of the size (in area) of our California, and a population of 1/2 that of New York City....and the difference in prospective and history is what, I think, created the bad vibes sent your way....
I dont think that anyone is opposed to keeping and storing, or keeping and storing, genealogical information....and most US places have methods of doing so (whether by census', driver's licenses, town histories, social security indexes (tho only started in 1935...and I know a person whose family was informed that he was reported as deceased...which came as a surprise to them and HIM...and took months to resolve), newspaper archives, and any number of other ways of keeping track of people....
I think the only thing that COULD not work is a national LAW (watch peoples bristles raise at THAT word) REQUIRING people to keep or turn over what they have or already do (in whatever slap-dab way its done....was what irked people....
We here are truly a 'melting pot' country....and do NOT have the luxury of being so steeped in a common heritage, religion, or even famiy structure....as a lot of other countries (much older and smaller).....but with as rich a heritage that people and culture from centuries ago still manage to tickle our fancies....just look at the Vikings,Thor, Eric the Red, etc....
As to storing what I have, myself, contributed to the tree (the BIG or small section)....if it is available to those who I collaborate (and I have relatives and non-relatives all over the world) with...then I hope that Geni also has multiple storage sites of back-up data.....in other words, in more than 1 location....then my part wont get lost, no matter whether there is a storm or earthquake or whatever...
Sorry everyone for this little off topic bit...it's been bothering me...and, tho I did not take part in the discussion of which I speak..I WAS following it...and should have said something at the time...
Ashley C
10/24/2011 at 6:02 AM
Remi, you only get 5 feet of snow per winter? Pfft. ;)
Fay, reputable Internet-based companies always have multiple back-ups. If you remember back to the crash we had, Geni was back up within a few days and without meaningful data loss. But, Remi is correct -- you should be backing everything up anyway.
10/24/2011 at 9:54 AM
Paper my dear....but every document/ photo/and bit of 'about me' is copied to an individual profile packet of info....so what I have searched for and found is all in one place for that person...
Bulky I know...but all can be recreated from each packet and anywhere....and all the info was obtainable somewhere....it just is all in one place now...
All I need is a compiler...since I create more than I can sort..but working on that too.
Ashley C
10/24/2011 at 9:57 AM
I meant having a digital backup. :) It takes a few seconds and never hurts to do. I think most of us keep backups of both formats. If you or any other users haven't discovered it yet, http://www.geni.com/gedcom/ is the place to go.
10/24/2011 at 1:49 PM
do you imagine what it costa for our environment if ALL geni-users have to print their geni-gedcom —day-ly~weekly~monthly~or~yearly? what is your rate?— on paper and build library shelves to keep them just for the moment a earthquake or tsuname is in our neighbourhood. At that very moment I rather save my soul than my papers..... Good for contingents like South America, that's true, a lot of working people in the Amazone-area to get that wood quit quickly out of the tropical areas and what you get back is really nice to sandsurf.... Not to mention what it brings to trade people coming with boats and planes to handle these affairs.
Here in Holland -the name comes from 'Houtland' HOUT = WOOD, we wear wooden socks, you know--- have fear for global stapling duplicate papers in to many libraries, for that makes a lot of engine when firing. And that administration has to be paid with our tax-wages. We know that once a forest is away, especially a tropical environmental system with complicated ecological interactions between rich soils, bacteria, plants, insects, birds and other species, like mankind, it doesn't come back in ages. The hungry of North and Central Africa has partly to do with this kind of complex problems between politics, agricultaral administration and to few shelter for children in the sun without water....
And that was just MY REASON to contribute ALL my own information I gathered in so many years ONCE and for ALL on www.geni.com. HOPE really the share-holders will share theire responsability for mankind with ALL of us, for I don't print -never, don't even have one here around, only in superb circumstance i use one- geni-output and have FAITH in future without OIL drilling from deeply -TEXAS, Russia, Tunesia, Libye, where do they earn nowadays there income to drink enough cristal-clear sweet bubbling and sparkling drinking-waters? Why do you think I studied science-communication at the best-know Agricultural University of Europe? And i got a diplome too, that's why my nickname is ir. since 1979, which means Agricultural Engineer, with special focus on marine Fisheries and medical Parasitology in tropic areas --Malaria-- And after so many years of writing and printing about it, it's my idea it's time no longer not only talk about these kind of issues, but also to encourage NOT to write nonsence about it: I'm a pubisher to spread knowledge that is in our brains and genetics for ages already, but we seem to forget to listen what our parents already felt. But maybe it's better to tell-o-sing each other oral-vocally than to print these stories and to put them in libraries for some new ages…
groeten, hope not too many failures in a non-native language, jeannette.
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10/24/2011 at 4:55 PM
Fay -
I will attempt to respond to: http://www.geni.com/discussions/98590?msg=749388
1) I think it can make a big difference who is Primary Manager, but not for the purposes of this topic, so will try to avoid belaboring the point here.
2) I think you are picturing Public Profiles. I am talking about Private Profiles. Given a comparison of your Profile to a Private one managed by someone outside your Family - one currently (often?/always?) does not see anything but a note allowing you to contact the Manager - so Hover Cards (which I find very annoying, but that is again off-topic here) do not come into play here.
Out of curiousity, you say "I have always opted to decline a match that wasn't spot on " - do you mean by this clicking on "No, not the same" or clicking on "I will decide later"? (As a Basic, currently I cannot do either, of course).
In any case, ANY MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY (who is Pro) has just as much ability as you to accept the Merge.
In Tree View - everybody sees those little blue circles with plus sign in them indicating pending merge and everybody sees those numbers in white circles indicating Geni has suggested matches - any Pro in Family can act on them; plus all can go to merge center and look for matches for Family Members, etc..
So what you would do may very well not be the deciding factor at all.
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10/24/2011 at 5:46 PM
OOPS - Fay - looks like in Comparisons, they are back to letting us see info except where it is to a Claimed Profile who has not approved it yet - at least, for those I just checked, that was now the case. Do not know if any of the Managers had chosen to Not Let the Public Search for Them (That was one of the things that made a difference, I think). So modifies a bit my comment above, first paragraph of "2)" .
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10/24/2011 at 5:53 PM
I am prepared to risk Lois saying this is off-topic. Someone can start a new topic if they want.
What would we all do if Geni.com disappeared tomorrow without trace? Now I know and accept the Geni.com has x number of backups, etc. etc. And yes we saw the amazing recovery from the big crash etc. etc. But disaster recovery planning is all about what to do in case of unforeseen disaster.
So here's my scenario. Geni.com disappears without trace. We can't access its back-ups, etc.
What do we the users do?
How would we piece together our Gedcoms? Our photos? Our documents? Our timelines? Our projects? Our discussions? Our privacy? Would we form a collective to create new data centres? How would we access Fay's packets of paper?
How would we even communicate with each other? How many of us have each other's outside-Geni email addresses or phone numbers?
Where would we even congregate to start a recovery? Facebook? LinkedIn? Would we be able to organise ourselves to "buy out" the assets if that were a possibility to get us back up?
Any thoughts? What's our plan guys?
10/24/2011 at 6:08 PM
Most of what you said, David, I have allready taken care of for my own data.
I don't need a gedcom from Geni since the information I have put on Geni comes from a small part of my offline database. The same goes for my photos, documents, timelines and all the information i the About me sections that I have written.
Projects, discussions and communications will happen on other genealogical forums that we participate on and in the societies we are members of, where also a lot of the congregation would take place, though in a smaller scale.
What about you, David, are you working out of your own offline data or are you also relying on backups from Geni?
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10/24/2011 at 6:11 PM
I love your Question, David. Definitely think it deserves consideration. My feeling is it deserves its own topic - do you or anyone else have good idea for Title? I want as many folks as possible to be able to notice it. A title that will properly grab folks attention and be self-explanatory is not popping into my head.
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10/24/2011 at 6:22 PM
Good questions, David, and worth the time to investigate answers as a community.
On a personal level, I keep digital copies of everything I upload. GEDCOMS, scans, Word files, Notepad files. On the principle that my welfare is more important to me than to anyone else, I believe it's my responsibility to safeguard the important parts of my life. Just as I keep digital copies of my bank statements because, regardless of how careful my bank may be or how much faith I have in them, if it's important to me then I need to ensure its safety. No matter how many backups they have, we've all heard of viruses wiping out databanks of huge, trusted, megacorporations. Could a natural disaster wipe out Geni's safeguards?
I don't believe that I pay Geni to keep my data safe. I pay them in order to be able to use their tools. There's no contract with them ensuring that they'll steward my data for any length of time, much less "forever". If there were, there would certainly be no free memberships - and basic memberships would cost several orders of magnitude more than pros pay now!
Having said all of that, I wouldn't have the faintest clue how to join up with other Geni users outside of Geni. That's something that just never occurred to me and I'm really glad you brought it up!
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10/24/2011 at 6:52 PM
Remi - I will readily admit that my own backups are not fully adequate to cover the scenario I described.
Perhaps based on what you said you have, you would emerge as one of the natural leaders of a post Geni start-up?
Not all of us are on other genealogical forums. I for one am not. Nor am I a genealogical society member. But yes - when I said:
"Where would we even congregate to start a recovery? Facebook? LinkedIn?"
I should have added:
"Ancestry? My Heritage? [etc.] Through our local genealogical societies?"
Remi - would you consider all existing project work to be "written off" / irrecoverable in my scenario? Or would you be able to recover from your backups which profiles and documents were in which Geni projects? And project descriptions and catalogues? Or are they not important to you - because you have already structured things as you want them offline?
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10/24/2011 at 7:04 PM
Somebody has probably already said this, but I reckon there are two models of serious Geni user here, with a continuum on the spectrum in between. The two extremes are:
1. Those who probably had serious genealogical systems before they came to Geni and have then added to Geni, as Remi said, only a subset of what they have offline. Remi is of course in this camp. These people may think they have everything offline and there's nothing of interest to them on Geni that they don't have themselves. I wonder if this is necessarily the case - given the collaborative nature of Geni there may be things others have added to Geni - photos etc. - that they don't have offline.
2. Those who believe that what is on Geni that interests them far exceeds what they input and have offline themselves. For these people, it's either a running battle to keep their offline systems up-to-date with all the exciting things that others put on Geni, or they give up and don't fully back-up, or only back-up half-heartedly with occasional Gedcom exports. These people may know that if they lost Geni they would be in a big mess. They may not have the time or resources or know-how to resolve the gaps. Or they may think the risk of Geni disappearing is too low to concern them. Or they may simply not have thought things through fully. -jMu- can speak for herself, but I think from reading her posts she is in this camp of relying on Geni.
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The most respected companies of 2013PUBLISHED: 08 Nov 2013 00:05:00 | UPDATED: 08 Nov 2013 11:47:26PUBLISHED: 08 Nov 2013 PRINT EDITION: 08 Nov 2013
Tyler McGee, head of telecommunications for Samsung Australia, which has risen from tenth to fourth spot in the list and overtaken Apple as the most profitable maker of mobile phones. Photo: Nic Walker
Patrick Durkin and Joanne Gray
The death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 ignited a public debate about consumers' love affair with the iconic brand Apple.
But it was more than two years earlier that executives at major rival Samsung were already plotting to topple Apple from their mantle as the premier provider of technology around the globe.
Head of telecommunications for Samsung Australia, Tyler McGee still remembers the buzz of excitement when he first saw the prototype for the original Galaxy S smartphone in early 2010 and honestly believed they could become No. 1.
"That was my real eureka moment," he says. "There was just a feeling that this particular device was going to be a defining product in the market."
Tens of billions of dollars in research later, the Galaxy S4 has become the fastest selling Android phone in history and for the first time the South Korean multinational has overtaken Apple as the most profitable maker of mobile phones in the world.
Apple only fell from first to second place on this year's most respected companies list but the ascension of Samsung from outside the top 10 into fourth spot would have been unimaginable three years ago. The change is symbolic of a list which cements the uncomfortable truth that there are no longer sacred cows in business or protected species in terms of brands.
"If it is not disruptive and uncomfortable, then you are probably just tinkering around the edges," is how Paul Meijer of Hay Group, who conducted the survey with Boss, sums up the unambiguous results.
The entry of Samsung, CSL and Flight Centre to the list for the first time is testimony to the respect earned by companies willing to take on the dominant market players through technology, innovation and expansion onto the global stage.
Wesfarmers topped this year's list and was repeatedly cited for turning around Coles supermarket by bringing in executives from outside Australia to help break paradigms and shake up the organisation.
The Coles turnaround has taken several years and even when things looked shaky early on, the company stayed focused on fundamentally transforming the business, their peers noted.
John Borghetti's transformation of Virgin to woo business travellers with a new full service offering cemented the airline at number three. Commonwealth Bank's ability to embrace technology landed it fifth spot.
In the Industry Rankings, Telstra was nominated for its consumer-centric transformation. But the uncertainty now cast over their $11 billion NBN deal with the former Labor government was too much to save the telco which drops off the list from ninth position last year.
Qantas has fought hard to improve efficiency and productivity in an industry facing serious pricing and cost pressures. The survey panel said the airline's focus on improving customer experience and loyalty, as well as its new alliance with Emirates, helped win respect. But there is no denying the sheen has come off the Flying Kangaroo with Virgin stealing market share and international growth proving tough. The confluence of factors saw the airline drop from fourth to 10th in the rankings.
ANZ bank regained a spot on the list for substantially changing its business model by expanding further into Asia, rather than focusing on the Australian market. "ANZ has put in place the people, infrastructure, and investment to grow with the various Asian markets," one CEO said.
Being ambidextrous
Flight Centre was singled out for its entrepreneurial culture and transformation from a travel agent to world class retailer of travel products . CSL also joined the list for the first time for "transforming from a government run business to now a world player in the development and marketing of plasma and related products and services".
Australia's Most Respected Companies excel at crafting a compelling vision for change that challenges the status quo, while galvanising their staff and their stakeholders to engage in the new direction.
That is exemplified by those CEOs who truly believed in the vision and found it personally energising. Gail Kelly's Westpac took out seventh spot for the first time since 2011. She was cited for her clear vision and not trumpeting success unless it was justified. "They radiate being confident and straightforward to deal with," said a panelist. Likewise, Samsung came from nowhere to fourth spot for "believing they could be number one when everything in the market seemed against them".
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The Hay Group research tapped the collective brain power of some of the country's most powerful CEOs to provide an insight into what our future leaders need to do.
The call is clarion. Leaders need to step out of their comfort zone and look for what will disrupt and shake up the market to give their business an edge. They must grow through ambiguity and discomfort – personally and organisationally – and accept and share some vulnerability with their team to grow.
Dare to change. "It took a catastrophe to create the change," one CEO says. The results of a poor employee engagement survey were a shock and a catalyst to recalibrate the way they led the organisation.
Live with ambiguity and flux. This can be particularly challenging for CEOs who are used to feeling in control. Letting go, aligning others with the vision and then letting them get on with things can seem risky. However, various CEOs commented on how doing this had freed them up. The illusion of being in control was replaced by being in touch with their people and more up to speed with what was really going on, to help influence the culture and encourage and recognise progress.
Get the soft areas of the business right. For several CEOs, achieving substantial cultural change was one of the most challenging aspects of the transformation.And, one of the most satisfying.
Get everybody to come along for ride. One CEO said: "As you go through change people can become disempowered, you need to work through the process to ensure people feel they have some sense of control and can make a difference."
Get the right people. Having a good executive team aligned to and driving the transformation is a critical factor. CEOs indicated they'd prefer to give people a chance to align with the change, however, some felt the pace of change was compromised by not taking tough decisions sooner.
Balance the short, mid and longer term. In particular financial requirements with the need to implement fundamental change to ensure mid to longer term success.
Change enough. Being visionary and strong enough to resist the easy way out.
Keep on changing. And then, celebrate the achievements while focusing on the next big step to ensure future success.
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BEING AWAY from the group-think and the cut and thrust of the east coast seems to have been an advantage for Wesfarmers, the $42 billion Perth-based conglomerate.
"We are out of the noise a bit and we can just get on with things without everyone else telling us what to do," says chief executive Richard Goyder.
Despite peaks and troughs in the market over 30 years, Goyder says the long-term performance of the business – which owns retailers including Coles, Target, Bunnings, Kmart and Officeworks – has remained rock solid and kept it in favour with investors, stakeholders and the public.
"I like to think of us as a really good financial business with a heart and soul, but you have got to have the former because you are nothing unless you create returns for shareholders," Goyder says.
"In business there is no substitute for financial performance because if you don't get the financial performance right, nothing else matters; you can't employ people, you can't invest capital, you can't pay taxes or do the community contributions that everyone likes and wants you to do. It is just so fundamental."
A number of the panellists who chose Wesfarmers as this year's most respected company remarked on the turnaround of Coles supermarket from a "basket case" to market leader.
"We copped a fair bit of criticism on the way through but we have stuck to our guns," Goyder says.
He also credits the highly paid executive team who were poached from overseas.
"Shareholders haven't really pushed back on that because the incentives have been highly aligned to performance.
"For people like Ian McLeod [Coles managing director], John Durkan [Coles merchandise director] and Stuart Machin [Target's new managing director] they have uprooted their lives to come out to Australia and have worked incredibly hard."
In terms of Wesfarmers' culture and the tension between creating good value against the reputational risk of screwing down their suppliers too hard, Goyder judges the balance using a simple test.
"At Wesfarmers there is a culture of trying to do things the right way. My test is, can you look at yourself in the mirror and say that you did this the right way."
Photo: Nic Walker
TYLER MCGEE remembers the moment he truly believed Samsung could take on Apple as the major supplier of smartphones. It was when the Korean-founded company motto of "change begins with me" became a reality.
One team member had an idea of how the interface of the smartphone could work better. "When I met our operator partners and saw their reaction to the [Galaxy] phone, it made me realise this company had an amazing capability to lead the market in product innovation."
Another innovation from a staff member was the idea of "natural language": users can talk to their device and it understands the Australian accent as well as English (and 10 other languages).
Samsung has thrown huge amounts of money at research to force its way into the top position. Globally it employs 270,000 people, almost a quarter working on research and development, which had a budget of $US10 billion last year.
Interbrand now values the Samsung brand at $US39 billion – eighth in the world.
"We have created a product called smart switch which moves the majority of what you have today across to your Galaxy phone," McGee says.
The smartphone now works as a remote for your TV and Bluetooth air conditioner. The company's smart watch also lets consumers make phone calls, look at emails, send text messages and take pictures. "It can tell the time too," McGee says. "Our devices are starting to work together to create a technology ecosystem."
Photo: Glenn Hunt
GRAHAM "SKROO" Turner could never be accused of groupthink. His unique management theory and simple and direct approach, including telling junior staff not to "stuff it up", has catapulted the travel company onto this year's list.
"There are so many different business books and so many different ways of people being successful and some of them are quite conflicting," he says.
"If you look at some of the management consulting firms they have a certain approach. You just have to pick the ideas which resonate with your business."
He says they have just updated their unique business structure based on his Darwinian model of family, business and tribe. "All our businesses are in teams with a maximum of seven people which are then congregated into villages and then into a tribe of around 25 villages.
"Generally businesses work best with fewer than 200 people – once they become bigger it becomes a bit of a bureaucracy. Humans have been hunter-gatherers for millions of years," Turner says.
The chief executives and senior managers surveyed for the list said that Flight Centre was respected for its entrepreneurial culture, its "ambidextrous" nature and blended multi-channel access, for motivating its travel-guru employees, and for maintaining shareholder support.
Turner attributes part of their success to the number of executives and senior managers who have been with the company for a long time and mostly report to him.
Since the company began as Topdeck Tours in London in 1973, Turner says he has worked hard to grow it organically.
"If people aren't suited they don't last. There are two sorts of people who don't fit into our organisation: those who don't fit with our culture and those who are not good enough at their jobs," Turner says in his typically blunt way.
The company now has the dual challenge of breaking into the United States market and fending off online retail companies.
"We want aggressive yet organic growth, rather than acquiring existing businesses. In Australia that will be harder," Turner says. However, he refuses to abandon the bricks and mortar presence: "If it is convenient, some people [still] like to see the people giving them advice."
Photo: Rob Homer
OUR BRAND is a one-way megaphone from us. It's very much what we say about ourselves and what we do. We create that message and control sending that message out.
Our reputation is what other people think about us and what we do. We don't control that message. Because other people think about what we do based on their experience or the experience of people close to them – work colleagues, family, their friends – and that shapes our reputation.
It's [traditionally] been thought that we could control or set our reputation with advertising and marketing and brand efforts.
In the five years between 2008 and 2012, there's been quite a shift in the criteria that people judge companies by. In 2008, the primary driver that influenced people's view of a company was its operational performance. Surveys now show that the primary influence on people's perception of a company is things that relate to personal concerns, like whether it rewards customer loyalty, whether it has ethical business practices, how employees are treated.
That doesn't mean you should ditch your marketing and your hundreds of millions of dollars of brand spend. What it does mean is that a company has to have just as strong a reputation as it does a brand. Because when you get the two working beautifully, you maximise purchase willingness and recommendation willingness.
That's why this whole phenomenon around the way social media is changing the way the general population thinks is so important. Reputation impact was real and small-scale; it's now real and large-scale, really large-scale, and viral.
How do you deal with people every day? How do you deal with somebody who's overdrawn? How do you deal with somebody who's behind on their payments? That's the how that matters to people. So we are finding that people at the top [of the organisation] can talk about the "what", but people at the bottom can talk about the "how".
We don't have an ethical stance that says never damage the reputation. We do have a stance that says it's not appropriate to do anything that fundamentally damages our reputation or damages it long-term.
Every decision-maker needs to be aware of that, to work out what the reputation impacts are. Are they fundamental, are they short-term? Is there engagement with stakeholders that we can undertake that helps deal with that reputation impact?
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IRS statistics show 77.6 million taxpayers had filed by March 16, the most recent date available, but total refunds were down 2.3%. Direct deposit refunds declined 3.4%.
Part of that may be due in part to last year's payroll tax cut, which allowed workers to pay 2% less into Social Security and MediCare but it also increased their total taxable income.
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"Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away."
"No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement."
"We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live."
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Friday, January 24, 2014
A council has defended its planning policies after the majority of businesses in a thriving local sector were found to have no planning permission.
Six of the eight car rental businesses near RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath are operating without planning permission, with only one of these currently seeking retrospective planning permission having operated without it for months.
Two companies in the area have been renting cars for 20 and five years respectively without planning permission, and caused no problem to Forest Heath District Council.
A council spokeswoman said: "If we receive a complaint, or someone notifies us about a business which they believe is operating without planning permission, we will investigate it, but we would advise any new business to contact us to find out if they need planning permission to operate from their premises."
Car rental firms attract lots of customers from personnel and visitors to the nearby air bases, with the likes of Enterprise – whose base at the Fiveways roundabout has planning permission – competing with local firms for business.
David Weston, who set Mildenhire up 30 years ago, is the other operator in the area with planning permission.
He said: "I think not having planning permission is a technicality. They're providing a public service for people. We work with them and we're glad they're here.
"I don't think the council could care less. I'd rather the councils fixed the roads instead, rather than worry about what these people are doing. They keep things ticking over."
Mildenhire also runs Britannia car rental at the Bird in Hand hotel in Beck Row, which does not have planning permission but has been a car rental site for 30 years.
Low Cost Car Rentals has been renting cars in the area for around 20 years, and employs 10 people at its base on Mildenhall Industrial Estate.
Director Douglas Ivie said: "The council have never said anything – they know what we do, they see our signs all the time. We're not hiding. I pay £12,000-a-year rates – we pay a lot of money. I've seen so many companies come and go, I'm not worried about it. I know what it takes to make it work and nobody's set up to run it like we are."
Marcus Ballard has run Reliable Rentals from the Harlequin Business Park in Kenny Hill for five years.
He thought he had planning consent having moved the business to the industrial estate from his home in Beck Row. He says the council took enforcement action at Beck Row after it received complaints, and council officers have also made him take down a sign at his new premises.
He said: "I'd rather see people earn a living than claim a living. It's normally something like planning that gets in the way."
Nigel Warin runs NSA Rentals, which has applied for retrospective planning permission at Moss Edge Farm in Beck Row after Forest Heath refused an application to base it at his nearby home. Mr Warin declined to comment as his application is on the verge of being decided.
First Choice Auto Rentals and Steve's Car Hire, which do not have planning permission, declined to comment.
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you talk a load of nonsense pandy. if things are running smooth leave them.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Why has the council only identified the problem now? How can they send out Rates bills but claim not to know what is going on? These businesses are just trying to save money by not paying for an application and meeting the conditions like everyone else.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
some one at the council has not been doing their job so get rid of them ,but we know this will not happen the council will say same old thing "we are learning by our mistakes " and do nothing
Friday, January 24, 2014
Ok why do they need planning permission???? The buildings were already built so what is the need. Its not broken dont fix it. Another way to waste taxpayers money set up some stupid committee to look at it ( or more like drink tea eat biscuits and do nothing as usual ).
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