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The televised impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona is a novelty in TV entertainment series. This human drama beats all telenovelas because it is telecast live. It is educational, in many ways, giving us a picture of the many aspects of bank accounts, security of bank deposits and bank investments.
Watching the impeachment trial gives us, non-lawyers, the impression that 100 lawyers discussing a case can easily come out with at least 101 opinions. In practice, in "the search for truth and justice," a lawyer may not confine his arguments to protecting the rights of his client; he may even attempt to hide the guilt of his client behind a mantle of technicalities. Isn't there a Code of Ethics for lawyers that provide that in the art of litigation all arguments should be directed at the search for truth and justice?
At the start of the hearings, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, the presiding officer, emphasized that the Constitution delegated the function to impeach a high government official specifically to the Senate; and that the impeachment trial is a quasi-judicial and quasi-political process.
Yet in the Senate hearings, the defense has been given all the latitude to block the presentation of evidence by the prosecution using legal technicalities. Pieces of hard evidence have been rejected because they were alleged to have been extracted illegally. Isn't evidence per se evidence? Even if extracted with some irregularity, shouldn't hard evidence be accepted as hard evidence, although the one presenting it should be penalized for his crime, if the manner by which it was extracted indeed constituted a crime?
Also during impeachment hearings, can't the parties, whether they be prosecutors, defense counsels or senator-judges, temper their voices and body language with civility and politeness? Allow some aggressiveness in the words they use and in their behavior to emphasize a point, but can't they heed the late Sir Winston Churchill's words of wisdom that "Even if you have to kill a man, it costs no more to be polite"?
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Researcher Says Space Dust Culprit Behind Falling Satellites
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According to an aeronautics and astronautics professor at Stanford University, "space dust" is the likely culprit behind why satellites fail.
Satellites are threatened by both asteroids and "space junk," which are particles of man-made debris that orbit Earth. However, the threat from these impacts is actually relatively low, and most satellites that have died in space were knocked out by something entirely different.
Space dust, also known as cosmic dust, is a general term for debris up to 0.003-inch in size, or as small as a few molecules. Space dust can come from comets, asteroids, the Kuiper belt and asteroid impacts.
Cosmic dust is too small to cause direct harm to satellites, yet Stanford researcher Sigrid Close believes that it is nonetheless a likely accomplice in satellite failures. She says that when these tiny, rapidly traveling particles collide with an object, they turn into a quasi-neutral gas of ions and electrons known as plasma. According to Close, this plasma can create a radio signal that damages or even completely shuts down satellites.
This electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is similar to what is generated by nuclear detonations. For example, the Chelyabinsk meteoroid that exploded in the sky over Russia on February 15 created a massive EMP that knocked out cell phones towers across the region.
"Spacecraft transmit a radio signal, so they can receive one that might potentially disable them," Close explained. "So our question was: Do these plasmas emit radio signals, and if so, at what frequencies and with what power?"
To test her theory, Close performed experiments at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Germany. Sigrid and her colleagues fired off tiny dust particles at targets that resembled satellites at speeds of 37 miles per second.
"We found that when these particles hit, they create a plasma or quasi-neutral gas of ions and electrons, and that plasma can then emit in the radio frequency range," Close said.
She believes plasma that results from space dust collisions could help to explain mysteries like the European Space Agency's loss of its Olympus communication satellite in 1993. This Ka band satellite had an operating life of seven years but lasted just four of those years.
"Olympus failed during the peak of a meteor shower, but they never detected a momentum transfer, which means whatever hit it wasn't big enough to be detected mechanically," she explained. "And yet this multimillion-dollar spacecraft was effectively taken out."
Close believes that her experiments could eventually lead to a breed of satellites that are able to withstand the plasma created from space dust impacts.
"Spacecraft are being hit all the time by these particles," said Close. "So we feel like we found a smoking gun here in the sense of explaining why this doesn't always happen. And once we know what's going on, there are solutions we could implement to save billions and billions of dollars."
Sigrid is working with James Smith and Henry Garrett of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design an experiment that could be anchored to the International Space Station to test her hypothesis.
Last year, researchers analyzing particles recovered by the Japanese asteroid probe Hayabusa found that space dust could be giving asteroids their shape.
"Our findings show the landscape itself of the very surface of an asteroid," said Eizo Nakamura, who worked on the Hayabusa study with colleagues at Okayama University in Tsushimanaka, Japan. "An asteroidal surface is not a quiet place, but is heavy with bombardment."
After analysis, the team found evidence of hundreds of collisions with space dust, indicating that nanoparticles were traveling at tens of thousands of miles per second. The impacts at this speed changed the chemical properties of the asteroidal surface, producing enough heat for localized melting.


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Brands Signs Contract Extension
Nov. 26, 2008
IOWA CITY, IA -- University of Iowa Director of Athletics Gary Barta announced today that Coach Tom Brands has signed a contract extension that will run through the 2013 wrestling season.
"Tom Brands is the best wrestling coach in the country," said Barta. "When you combine that with the fact he's been a Hawkeye all his life, the fit is perfect. I look forward to working with him for many years to come."
Brands' new contract will run through June 2013 and increases his guaranteed annual compensation to approximately $150,000. Additional academic and athletic incentives will offer Brands opportunities for additional income.
The 2008 NWCA, W.I.N. Magazine and Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year, Brands is in his third season as Iowa's head wrestling coach. He has a 39-6 overall and 13-3 Big Ten record at Iowa, and a 56-26 career mark. Brands and the defending NCAA and Big Ten Champion Hawkeyes are off to a 4-0 start this season with wins over Iowa Central (52-0), Coe (51-0), Minnesota State Mankato (45-3) and Arizona State (41-0) at the Iowa City Duals last week. Iowa is currently on an 18-dual match winning streak.


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Yet, when hunger hit, this son of an oil tycoon born into wealth and privilege didn't summon anyone to fetch it for him. He'd walk over to a concession stand, get in the back of the line and wait his turn, just like any other fan.
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Let Me Assure You, Joanie. I Am Freezing.
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Let me assure you, Joanie. I am freezing. I know this sentiment is not as verifiable as "Let me assure you, Joanie. I am eating a ham sandwich" or "Here is a notarized copy of my credit statement, Joanie. Let me assure you I spent $618 on sake at the Japanese restaurant last night." But you must believe me when I say I am freezing here in my cubicle. This I tell you with the confidence of a woman who, just last weekend, awoke standing up in half a sexy stewardess outfit outside the downtown Albuquerque HoJo's. I knew cold then, and I know cold now. And, Joanie, I'm freezing.
I wouldn't be telling you all this except that Mr. Swanstone has granted you the sole key to the floor's thermostat. It's silver, it's attached to a digital "Countdown to Your Wedding" keychain counter that ran for six months after Mr. Swanstone's fiancée dumped him for their Persian butcher, and it's in your top drawer. It's true that the counter always reminds Mr. Swanstone of Shahpur, and that he is often inclined to hire dogs to sniff out animal byproducts in the office for 60 days following such a reminder, but with the holidays right around the corner I guarantee that won't happen.
I know you're thinking, "Well, if you're so cold, why aren't your teeth chattering?" Let me tell you a little something about adult braces. Brace metal increases the weight of a person's jaw by 25 percent, which slows down uncontrollable movements like chatter. That's why you hear sharp gnashing from my mouth every 20 seconds or so. That, and because hoarding this Fannie May Assorted Chocolates box, my gift from my office Secret Santa, brings out my animalistic defense mechanisms.
Oh, you like chocolate? Especially with nougat, just like the Fannie May ones? I had no idea. No, I haven't opened it yet. But I could be convinced.
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Oh, good choice: white with nougat.
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Yes. I'll call the K9 handler.
Joanie, I am so cold.
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Subject to signature by Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York is set to become the twenty-third state to legalize medical marihuana. Importantly, the New York legislation is limited to non-smokable forms of marihuana. Further, the bill is initially limited to persons with the following "severe debilitating or life-threatening conditions": cancer, HIV or AIDS, ALS, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord damage, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies, and Huntington's disease. The New York Commissioner of Health is authorized to consider and add additional conditions to this list. The new law, if passed, also may be suspended or terminated by the governor at any time, and it is subject to a seven-year sunset provision.
Of importance to New York employers, the legislation specifically states that being a "certified patient" with any covered condition automatically deems an employee to be "disabled" under the New York State Human Rights Law. However, the bill expressly permits employers to enforce a policy prohibiting employees from performing their job duties while impaired by a controlled substance. Further, the bill does not require that employers violate federal law or do anything to cause the loss of a federal contract or funding.
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A Kanawha County girl was laid to rest Monday after an accidental shooting. 10-year-old Payton McKenzie-Bea Thomas of Quick died three days before Christmas after a 9-year-old boy accidentally shot her in the chest and an arm. The funeral was held Monday in St. Albans.
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West Virginia to Consider Medical Marijuana Bill
A bill that would legalize medical marijuana in West Virginia will be introduced during the upcoming legislative session. WSAZ.com reports Delegate Mike Manypenny will sponsor the bill. This is the fourth time he has introduced legislation to legalize medical marijuana, and says this time he has 18 to 20 delegates who are ready to sign on and support the proposal. The legislative session starts Jan. 8.
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An alleged home invasion suspect is facing chargees today. Jimmy Walker was shot while trying to break into a home in Logan, and was arrested after medical treatment. He's been charged with burglary and conspiracy after allegedly breaking into a home he was watching for friends. Justin Blair is charged with nighttime burglary, battery on a police officer without a weapon, obstruction, destruction of property, possession of a controlled substance, escape from custody and a probation violation for his involvement in the crime.
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There are just two days left in 2013, and if the Charleston Convention and Visitor's Bureau is on target, there is much to look forward to in 2014. The Convention and Visitor's Burea expects the coming year to be a good one, and says it has booked more than 17,000 rooms in the last six months, almost 5,000 more than they predicted. Many of bookings are coming from area events the Bureau signs up as they try to market themselves as a premiere destination. Already, conventions are booked for USA Boxing, Hot Rod Power Magazine Tour, and the American Cornhole Organization. Events booked by the Visitor's Bureau this year through 2017 will bring in almost $14 million. And once the Charleston Civic Center is renovated, that could bring in even more conventions. For more Charleston / Kanawha Valley news, go to WSAZ.COM


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As first suggested by SportsCity.com's Mark Heisler on Wednesday morning, the Celtics and Clippers hoped to resume discussion about a potential deal for Kevin Garnett and Doc Rivers prior to the NBA draft on June 27.
As it turns out, the Clips reached out to the C's on Thursday afternoon in order to reopen their dialogue about a package that would send DeAndre Jordan to Boston, according to Yahoo! Sports columnist Adrian Wojnarowski.
The Clippers reached out to the Celtics this afternoon to resume dialogue on a possible deal, league sources tell Y! Sports.
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According to various reports, most notably from Wojnarowski, discussion heated up this weekend but eventually fizzled out on Tuesday after disagreements over the inclusion of Eric Bledsoe, the contracts of Jason Terry and/or Courtney Lee, or a second No. 1 pick in a package that already included Jordan and one first-round pick.
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A good boss acts like a shield to corporate BS
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It's not easy to be a good boss. In a 30 year career I can count three (thanks Walt, Amy and Steve). Stanford business professor, Bob Sutton, says that acting as a shield for your employees is one of the important tasks of a leader.
And being a good boss means fostering the culture and values of the company by taking a stand and doing something remarkable so people will tell stories about it over and over again reinforcing what's valued around here. We call this story-triggering.
This story, shared by Sutton, conveys these sentiments nicely.
Lucas' concerns were not shared by the two heads of the Computer Division, Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith. The pair had been responsible for some big innovations in computer graphics, particularly in the area of rendering, and they were optimistic that they could turn their animated dreams into a financially rewarding reality. Nonetheless, Lucas decided to appoint a new division president, Doug Norby, to reign the group in, and Norby wasted no time in pressuring Catmull and Smith to lay off employees.
Catmull and Smith couldn't bring themselves to start sacking their colleagues. Instead, Catmull went to Norby and argued that the division needed to remain intact, that cutting up such a potentially valuable entity didn't make sense. But the new president was having none of it. Norby insisted that he be given a list of names for dismissal.
The two heads dug in, ignoring Norby's demand until, one day, they were given an ultimatum. They were to appear in the president's office the following morning with a list of names, and that was that.
The next day, Catmull and Smith did what Norby had asked them to do. They walked into his office at the appointed time and put a sheet paper on his desk. Two names were written on it: Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith.
Norby backed down, and all of the employees of the Computer Division kept their jobs. So grateful were the staff to Catmull and Smith that they all chipped in to buy the two heads and their wives a well-earned night on the town.
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How to get all your executive team on the same page with your strategy
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Have you ever had that feeling that your executive team is all saying they understand and support the strategy but you sense that they are not really on the same page?
This is a common occurrence and it becomes starkly apparent when we are helping a company translate their strategy to a story everyone can tell. And if you're aware that this is likely to happen, the story process can really help your executives, in their gut, understand what the strategy really means.
Here's what I think is happening. The strategy gets developed as an analytical and rational process (and quite rightly so) and the end result is a document. The document gets passed around the executive team for comments. It's duly read and commented on and at that point those running the strategy process believe everyone understands and is on board with the strategy.
But something quite interesting happens when they have to tell the story of the strategy. Firstly, by telling the story of the strategy they feel what the strategy sounds like. And you can literally see executives squirm with aspects of the strategy as they say it. University of Michigan Professor, Karl Weick, says that we really don't know what we know until we hear ourselves say it. He calls this sensemaking. Our executives are making sense of their strategy.
Also by telling the story the ownership of the strategy shifts from the strategy group or the CEO to the executive telling the story. It's now their story and all of a sudden they want to make sure it aligns to what they truly believe.
Now, as they go through this process a crucial conversation happens, one which we are ready for and help facilitate, where they voice their concerns and more often than not the strategy evolves slightly. The outcome is a strategy everyone believes in, one that's consistent across the executive team, one they can share in their own words and one they are enthusiastic to tell.
Are your leaders foxes or hedgehogs?
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The media and business worlds love experts with strong opinions and the ability to explain them confidently and authoritatively. We hear them on TV and read them in newspapers and online every day. Yet a 20-year study shows that these are the very people who are least likely to be accurate in predicting what will happen in the future.
In 1984, Philip Tetlock commenced a study to examine the accuracy of expert predictions. He found these experts fell into two main groups that he called foxes, who know many things, and hedgehogs who know one big thing. Foxes draw on many ideas and sources of information and are quite tolerant of uncertainty and ambiguity. Hedgehogs tend to interpret the world using their favourite theory or dogma and are very confident in the 'rightness' of their view of the world.[Tschoegl et. al. 2007]
Tetlock, a psychologist, is Professor of Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. His research found that, in the main, experts were no more accurate in their predictions than 'a monkey throwing darts'. But he clearly showed that foxes produce much more accurate forecasts than hedgehogs. He also found that when faced with their erroneous forecasts, foxes tended to acknowledge their error and adjust their thinking. Hedgehogs, on the other hand, rationalise their errors away on the basis that they were 'nearly right' or 'unpredictable events interfered in the outcome' or by pointing to the few occasions when they had got it right.
The implications of this research are many, but one that that reinforces my own experience is to be wary of highly confident people proclaiming a view and running down those with alternative perspectives.
It's my view that Tetlock's findings are also relevant in our organisations. We love to treated complex (wicked) problems as if they are technical problems that can be predicted and solved. The experts who stridently proclaim their opinions as being facts are often wrong. The people who stride the corridors and make the most noise are not necessarily the stars. The leaders who are most confident they are excellent at leading people are often the worst leaders.
In media and in organisations, the hedgehogs get the airtime. But the foxes are the ones to listen to.
- Tetlock, P. (2005): Expert Political Judgement: How good is it? How Can We Know?, Princeton University Press.
- Gardner, D. (2011): Future babble: Why Expert Predictions are Next to Worthless, and You can do better, Dutton, London.
- Tschoegl, A.E and Armstrong, S., Review of Philip E. Tetlock: (2007): "Expert political judgment: How good is it? How can we know?" in International Journal of Forecasting, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2007, pages 339-342
Dynamic tension and team success
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Leadership
Earlier this week Shawn sent me an email. "You must see Steve Jobs: The Lost interview. It's available on iTunes" (its the movie, not the radio show).
So, naturally I downloaded it and am halfway through it. It's riveting. Jobs answers nearly every question with a story. When the interviewer talks about developing the first Macintosh, he asks "what is the secret of building a great product?", Steve tells him that the secret of a great product is understanding that having a great idea is only 10% of the battle. The other 90% is getting a great team together who focus on content rather than process and understand that it never turns out the way you planned: it constantly changes and evolves and you need to make tremendous trade-offs. He tells this story:
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Victim or player?
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I had a meeting on Friday with a senior leader facing a common problem. There are many changes going on and his people have developed the view that 'head office doesn't know anything about what we do and their restructures don't make sense' along other related non-productive views. He wants his team on the front foot so they are part of the change agenda and avoid have the changes 'done to them'.
I was reminded of an activity described by Fred Kofman(1) that I use in nearly every leadership program we run. The activity helps show people that their explanations aren't constructive without telling them so (telling them usually just creates resistance to your message).
The activity aims to illustrate that we can choose how we respond to situations (response-ability). Kofman stands at the front of the room and drops a pen, then asks "what caused the pen to fall?" "Gravity" is usually the first answer. Sometimes people point out that "you dropped it." Both answers are correct, but Kofman points out that the usefulness of the answer is related to our purpose.
If your purpose is to prevent the pen from falling again, pointing out that the pen falls "because of gravity" will not help you. Essentially this means that as long as there is gravity the pen will fall, and there is nothing you can do about it. On the other hand, if you say that you dropped the pen, there is something you can do about it. The exercise demonstrates the important distinction between self-empowering explanations ("I dropped it") and explanations that remove your power to influence the situation ("gravity caused the pen to fall").
In Kofman's words, your explanation determines if you will be a 'victim' or a 'player.'</>
1. Kofman, F. (2006), 'Conscious Business: How to build value through values', Sounds True Press, page 33.
Feeling the need for change
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Kevin shared this story with me the other day. It's too good not to retell.
> A few years back, there was an ad agency called Allen Brady and Marsh (ABM). It was a very showbiz agency, and not very fashionable. They were pitching for the British Rail account against some very good agencies and to say they were considered 'underdogs' would be an understatement.
> If they were to stand any chance of winning this account they had to find a way to prove they knew something the other, more fashionable agencies didn't.
> Apparently, on the day of the pitch, the top management team of British Rail turned up at the ABM offices. When they arrived at reception it was deserted.
> The Chairman checked his watch, and they were on time.
> He looked around, and there was no one in sight — just a very scruffy reception area littered with crumpled newspapers, food wrappers, cigarette butts, and cushions with holes burned in them.
> It looked like the worst agency they'd ever been in.
> Eventually, a scruffy woman appeared and sat behind the desk. She ignored them and started rummaging in a drawer. The Chairman coughed. She ignored him, so he coughed again.
> Silence.
> He said, "Excuse me, we're here to see …" The woman replied, "Be with you in a minute love."
> He said, "But we have an appointment …" and she replied abruptly, "Can't you see I'm busy?"
> The Chairman was fuming. "This is outrageous" he said, "we've been waiting more than fifteen minutes."
> "Can't help that love" the receptionist replied.
> The Chairman had enough. "Right that's it, we're leaving" he declared, and the top management team of British Rail started to walk out.
> At that very moment, a door opened and out stepped the agency creative director, Peter Marsh.
> He'd been watching everything.
> He shook the Chairman's hand warmly and said, "Gentlemen, you've just experienced what the public's impression of British Rail is. Now, if you'll come this way, we'll show you exactly how we're going to turn that around."
> And he took the British Rail management team into the boardroom and went through their pitch about how bright the future could be, if ABM was their agency, which of course, it became.
This story is a great example of someone deliberately doing something remarkable (something people remark on) to make a real impact and to make people feel the need for change. It's these kind of actions that inevitably trigger stories, and positively influence others.
How might you use this aspect of story triggering in your change initiative to show people what is different, not just tell them? How can you make them 'feel' the need for change?
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Challenging 'power' and the stories that triggers
Filed in Business storytelling, Leadership
A particular type of story that gets retold in organisations is the story about when 'power' was challenged and the result.
We collected the following story from a client about how challenge, or more accurately, a perceived challenge, was handled by their former chief executive:
Keith just asked a question during one of John's Chief Executive Roadshows, and all he was really saying was, 'I think there's a problem. We need to fix it'. Keith wasn't having a go at John, just trying to get a problem fixed. But apparently after that session, John pulled him aside and tore a strip off him, and that story went through this place like Epsom salts. From then on, no-one was going to open up in those sessions.
Some work we did recently with a City Council gave us a contrasting example.
On our first visit to the council's main building, we found that the receptionist was very efficient – a little abrupt perhaps, but she left you in no doubt as to what was required of you as a visitor and the processes and procedures you had to follow. When we were in a lift with our client, we made a light-hearted comment about how efficient the receptionist was. The client laughed and told us a story about the day their CEO walked into the building to find she'd left her ID pass in her car. The receptionist denied her access. The CEO shrugged her shoulders and, without saying a word, went back to her car to get her pass. The next time we were at the council building, someone else told us exactly the same story. It had obviously had an impact across the organisation.
So what stories about challenging 'power' are being told in your organisation? What do they say about your culture? If you wanted to trigger a different story around this how could you do it?
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Practical application of business storytelling
Filed in Business storytelling, Leadership
I was asked last week about the practical application of things we cover in our Storytelling for Leaders workshop. Fortunately, we had a very recent example to relate.
We ran a session in late November with the senior HR team for a large company and one of the participants called me in December to give some feedback.
We often hear people say things like 'I don't have time to tell stories.' This example helps explain the response we normally give to such comments…'you don't have time not to use stories'.
Story-triggering and behavioural integrity
Filed in Business storytelling, Employee Engagement, Leadership
People judge their leaders by how their actions align with their words. And how aligned these two things are then triggers stories that get told, and retold, across the organisation.
People are looking to see how the messages they hear from their leaders in corporate communications, presentations, and in the organisation's espoused values actually align with how these leaders behave day-to-day. The term used to describe this alignment between a leader's words and their actions is behavioural integrity.
Behavioural integrity (BI) is achieved when what leaders say and what leaders do are aligned. Research shows that employees' perception of their leaders' BI has huge implications for individual, team and organisational performance. Employees who perceive strong BI in their leaders show increased trust, commitment and willingness to go the extra mile, thus improving customer satisfaction, decreasing employee turnover and improving profitability. (#1)
In 2002, researchers at Cornell University conducted a survey of 6500 employees across 76 US and Canadian Holiday Inn hotels (#2). They asked employees to rate on a 5-point scale how closely their managers' words and actions were aligned. The researchers then compared the results of the survey with customer satisfaction surveys and staff and financial records.
The results were unambiguous: the hotels whose leaders received a high BI score were substantially more profitable than the hotels whose leaders' BI was perceived to be weaker. The analysis showed that a one-eighth of a point improvement on the 5-point rating scale could be expected to increase profits by 2.5 per cent. In the case of the Holiday Inn study, that translated to a bottom-line impact of over US$250,000 per one-eighth-point improvement.
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni argues that the foundation of a functional team is trust.(#3) Lack of trust, he asserts, opens the floodgates to four other dysfunctions: fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results. These five dysfunctions combine to sabotage even the most well-intentioned, intelligent and motivated teams. This assertion is in line with the results of the Cornell study, which found that BI is a precursor of trust and credibility.
In other words, for employees to trust their leaders and each other – the foundation of performance – they need to perceive a strong alignment between their manager's words and actions.
This isn't to say that BI means 'doing the right thing'. It simply means doing what you say you will do, acting in a way that is consistent with your values and the messages you send. We may mistrust and even dislike someone who espouses and enacts values we consider unappealing, but we will give them some credit for representing those values honestly, thus displaying high BI.
Consider this story about former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, who is currently serving a 24-year prison term for conspiracy, insider trading, making false statements and securities fraud. One morning there was a long line of cars waiting to get into the Enron car park when Skilling's car roared up and pushed into the front of the queue. In response to the honks of protest and frustration, Skilling just raised his middle finger.(#4)
Maybe this was exactly the message Skilling was trying to get across: 'People from Enron don't just stand in a queue and wait for their turn. We go straight to the front, push in, and take what is ours. And if anyone has a problem with that, we tell them where to go'. It certainly sounds like an action that was consistent with everything else he said and did while at Enron. I do think his behaviour maybe somewhat different in the Federal Correctional Institution in Englewood, Colorado?
So, why do stories about leaders' BI get retold in organisations? Why do they trigger so many stories?
Employees look to either the behaviour of their leaders, or to stories about their behaviour, to judge their character. They want to find out who their leaders are, what they value, what they are passionate about and what annoys them. This is partly so they can predict the leaders' future behaviour and its potential impact on them.
It's often mistakenly believed that stories are just accounts of things that happened in the past. In fact, by revealing patterns of behaviour and personal tendencies, stories are also predictors of the future. By understanding how their leaders are likely to act, employees can modify their behaviour to reduce the risk to their own security, or alternatively to increase the likelihood that they will be treated favourably.
As author Tony Simons notes; "employees focus substantial attention on their managers partly because they depend on them for rewards, promotions, favourable assignments, resources and the like".(#5)
This is why the stories leaders trigger by their actions are so important. They have a disproportionate impact on how people perceive their character and therefore their trustworthiness.
(#1) Simons, T. (2002). 'Behavioral integrity: the perceived alignment between managers' words and deeds as a research focus', Organization Science, vol. 13, no. 1.
(#2) Simons, T. (2002). 'The high cost of lost trust' in the Harvard Business Review, September, 2002.
(#3) Lencioni, P. (2002). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Jossey-Bass, New York.
(#4) Roberston, I. (2012). The Winner Effect: How Power Affects Your Brain, Bloomsbury, London.
(#5) Simons, T. (2002). 'Behavioral integrity: the perceived alignment between managers' words and deeds as a research focus', Organization Science, vol. 13, no. 1.


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Fire Devastates Area Near Yosemite
MARIPOSA, Calif. _ Her little brown cabin in the woods was gone, reduced to ash and rubble by a wave of flames, but Mary Briggs had no time to be consoled. Her mind was elsewhere.
Down the road, in another part of the woods near Mariposa, Briggs was needed at the care where she worked. Sixteen elderly men and women, some more than a century old, were waiting to be rescued to safer ground.
The Telegraph fire was approaching, and there was no time that Saturday afternoon for Briggs to dwell on her losses.
She immersed herself in her work, finding refuge with her daughter since the fire started Friday. But after days of focusing her energy to help her elderly clients, Briggs, 52, arrived Tuesday at the Red Cross shelter to finally seek help.
"I'm at a loss. I'm barely hanging in there," she said, her voice steady, almost without emotion. "I can't think straight right now."
Her eyes appeared vacant, her face stoic.
She had no time to pack, she said. Fur from her dog and cats clung to the black blouse she had been wearing for days. "I have nothing. I don't even have a toothbrush."
She picked through the donated clothes at the shelter. Nothing fit.
"I don't have a choice but to keep going. I have to work," she said. Her care home clients are like an extended family.
"They need me," she said. "And to keep sane, too, I need them."
Inside the shelter _ set up at Mariposa Elementary School _ there were hugs and words of gratitude and of consolation. A half-eaten Danish and a slice of watermelon rested on a Styrofoam plate in front of Briggs.
In the distance, mostly out of view of townsfolk in Mariposa, the Telegraph fire continued to march across steep, wooded terrain. By Tuesday, it had devoured 25 homes. At least 300 other homes were in immediate danger, another 1,000 were on high alert and 4,000 more considered threatened by the 30,000-acre blaze.
Yosemite National Park remained open, and visitors beheld nature's wonders, even if through a smoky haze that partly obscured vistas of El Capitan, Half Dome and other popular attractions.
In some parts of the park, visitors went without electricity and hot showers _ as have the thousands of employees who live and work at the park.
For those workers who live in communities outside the park's boundaries, the days since the fire started have been tense.
On her way home over the past few nights, Kari Cobb, a national park employee, keeps watch on the horizon, where the mountaintops meet the sky, looking for the glow of fire as she approaches her home in the community of El Portal.
"The glow will tell you when it's time to leave," said Cobb, who works as a public information officer for the national park.
The fire is four miles from El Portal, and no evacuations have been ordered in her community _ but Cobb and her neighbors have been put on notice that the fire is unpredictable. A gust of wind could send flames marching in a different course.
"It's been a choice of coming to work or staying home to make sure my home won't burn down," Cobb said.
"All I day, I talk about this fire. When I get home, it gives me peace of mind _ that my house is still there," Cobb said.
For Briggs, there is nothing left. She can't even find the words. "I live on …" She stopped herself. "Excuse me, I lived on West Whitlock," she said. "I have to remember I don't have a house anymore."
She described her house as a "cute, cute little cabin in the woods" that she shared with her 14-year-old granddaughter, whose birthday was Friday, the day a bullet sparked the horrendous blaze.
She had recently bought furniture. She hung ornamental fish from her trees. There were bats in the attic.
Everything in the home appeared destroyed. The metal roof wilted under the heat, collapsing on a pile of ash. Everything was gray.
"I have nothing left," she told a Red Cross counselor.
In the starkness, however, her flagpole had somehow survived. Atop it, the only vibrant colors in this surreal scene whipped in the breeze.
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When Friday rolls around, we can't wait to sprint into the weekend — and if we could do so with the wild abandon of these dogs, we would! There is nothing quite so giggle-inducing as seeing a dog freeze-framed mid-run with a wonderfully goofy look on its face. Dogs have a knack for bringing the silly to daily life, even when they're trying to be serious. (Not that cats don't do their best to make us crack up too.) So, let these dogs give you a smile as we bound toward Saturday, full-speed ahead.
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In an indication of a widening divide between the Shiv Sena and the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is said to have communicated his displeasure to his Hindutva ally on their MP Sanjay Raut's comments regarding "sari and shawl diplomacy" with Pakistan.
Earlier this week, Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP and spokesperson Sanjay Raut, who also edits the party's mouthpiece Saamna, had slammed the 'sari and shawl' diplomacy with Pakistan after an Indian Army soldier was killed in firing by Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC).
The jibe referred to the gesture of Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif sending a sari for Modi's mother. Modi had earlier gifted a shawl to his Pakistani counterpart's mother when he had visited India for his swearing in ceremony.
A senior minister in the BJP-led NDA government in which the Shiv Sena has a minister — Anant Geete (heavy industries) — told dna in an informal chat that Modi was quite angry about Raut's comments, and had conveyed his anguish to Sena president Uddhav Thackeray. When contacted, Raut told dna that he would talk later, but did not.


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Lesbians, gays group seeks city sector rep
THE community of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT) are seeking sectoral representation that will push for the community's empowerment in Cebu City.
Magdalena Robinson, 27, president of the Cebu Rainbow LGBT, said even with a tolerant society in Cebu City, it's inevitable that their sector would still remain a "laughingstock" to many people.
"We should empower this diverse sector to lessen the discrimination," Robinson said in an interview during the first LGBT congress in Cebu City.
Robinson said they organized the event to bring together the fragmented LGBT in Cebu City and make a strong representation that will lobby for the Anti Discrimination bill which was pending at the Cebu City Council.
"We want to be recognized as a sector of society who will be dully respected and developed," Robinson, a trans-gender said.
Robinson said the LGBT would often experience discrimination in the workplace where they would be refused from work opportunities or in the public places where they would be ridiculed and would not be given entry to some places.
The group is supporting the proposed ordinance sponsored by Cebu City Councilor Alvin Dizon, which will declare as unlawful the refusal of any establishment or group to provide service or programs to persons due to their age, health status, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity and religion. /Reporter Candeze R. Mongaya
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Fresh cream: 250 ml
Castor sugar: 45 gm
Gelatine: 8 nos
Saffron: 1 gm
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Whipped cream: 75 gm
White wine: 15 ml
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SAN FRANCISCO -- At least Randy Johnson is able to maintain his sense of humor, even as his pitching future this season is in doubt.
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There is an intellectual dishonesty at the heart of the case for US patent reform that needs to be discussedOne notable aspect of the debate over whether there is a need for further legislative reform of the US patent system is that almost without fail those who call for new laws do so on the basis that only by making it harder for all patent owners to assert their rights will it be possible to tackle the scourge of patent trolls – entities, they say, that are doing untold harm to innovative American companies and, by extension, the US economy itself. You only have to read the words of Bob Read more
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Lycos patent sale may be happening two years too lateThe news this week that Lycos is looking to dispose of some of its patents afforded tech bloggers the opportunity to remind their readers that yes, one of the iconic internet search brands of the before-Google era still exits. For those in the patent community the reaction may have been equally mystified – something along the lines of, they still have anything worth selling? And, have they seen the market out there, particularly for software patents? Lycos has been here before – Read more
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World's largest asset manager enters the IP financing game with wearables loanBlackRock – the world's biggest investment firm with over $4.6 trillion of assets under management – is loaning wearable technology company Jawbone $300 million against its intellectual property and other intangible assets. According to a Bloomberg report - quoting regulatory filings in California and people involved in the deal - the loan from BlackRock is secured by Jawbone's "current and future licences, intellectual property, royalties, accounts receivable and Read more
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PWC's annual litigation report shows just how stacked the US patent system is against the small inventorIf you're a regular patent market observer there's probably not too much to surprise you in PWC's latest patent litigation report. Covering 2014, it shows that the overall number of cases in the year was down, but that was already apparent from studies previously put out by the likes of Lex Machina, RPX and Unified Patents. That said, there is a discrepancy in the numbers that have been reported, but that's because PWC's cover the 12 months to 30th September 2014 Read more
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Don't call it a tie-up, but Xiaomi is inching toward patent self-sufficiency with Leadcore linkThe rollout of Xiaomi's Redmi 2A last month may have marked the beginning of a new era for the company. The low-cost smartphone was the first to feature a chipset from Chinese fabless chipmaker Leadcore rather than usual vendors Qualcomm and Mediatek. The much-speculated upon partnership illustrates the convergence of interests between a central government keen to encourage home-grown technology and Chinese companies seeking greater IP protection. This blog first covered the linkup Read more
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There is nothing wrong with privateering; patent owners are entitled to maximise the value of their assetsIn the last couple of years there have been several attempts to stymie privateering – the model by which operating companies sell patents to an NPE which then seeks to monetise them, usually through an assertion campaign. The original owner may retain some financial interest in the ongoing programme, but typically doesn't have any control over how they are asserted. Google, for one, has staked out its clear opposition to what it sees as a major source of patents for Read more
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It's not all doom and gloom for pharmaceutical innovators in IndiaMerck has become the latest foreign pharmaceutical innovator to notch a patent win in an Indian court. Last Friday, the country's Supreme Court enjoined Glenmark Generics from selling new low-cost versions of diabetes drugs Januvia and Janumet (though it can keep selling its existing inventory). The decision follows a flap over the release of the United States Trade Representative's Special 301 Report , which prompted pushback with its criticism of pharmaceutical patent protection Read more
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The USPTO has the power to create a much more equitable IPR process; and it should do soSince the America Invents Act overhauled the re-examination process, we have written regularly about the impact that the new procedures, and inter partes reviews in particular, have had on the patent market. Essentially, they have become a new tool with which to challenge patent validity and have helped shift the prevailing dynamic from one of whether a patent has been infringed to whether some or all of an issued patent's claims should have been allowed. While they have proved very Read more
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The PPP may be great news for Google, but less good for the blood pressures of its patent team membersTen days in and Google's Patent Purchase Promotion (PPP) is already attracting a great deal of interest, according to the latest reports. Last week at the Spring meeting of LES USA and Canada, Black Stone IP Director Matt Moyers tweeted that Google's head of patent acquisitions Kirk Dailey had stated in a panel discussion at the event that the PPP "has had significant traction" since it got underway on 8th May, with prices set ranging from $1 to $2.3 billion and Read more
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WIPO assembly chair calls in central UN unit to investigate the explosive claims against DG Francis GurryPäivi Kairamo, chair of WIPO's General Assemblies, has asked the United Nations' Organisation of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) to investigate the claims made by James Pooley, the former deputy director general of the organisation, in a Report of Misconduct he filed last April in which he made a series of explosive allegations against current Director General Francis Gurry. This development was first reported on the Fox News website on Wednesday and has now been Read more
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in class A iam having one private variable...i want to access it from another class..is it possible....? give me the solution..... thankq Stackoverflow.....
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The private variable is supposed to be private, so there's no direct way to do this. There are a couple of things you could do.
I don't think you can access a private variable from another class.
Um...it is called
If you want to access it from "outside" you will have to make it public. But better would be to wrap a property around it. Then you could even give readonly access.
The whole purpose of the "private" access modifier is to prevent this. I think you're looking for moving the variabele to a shared base class or using the "internal" access modifier to restrict accessibility to the classes in the same assembly.
If you really want to access it you can use reflection, but that's something you should try as a last resort. For example, if you use it to access private things in a 3th party library future versions of that lib (with the same public API) can break your application.
If you could access them, then there wouldn't not be any point in making them private.
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I'm sort of between Minnewaska and TQA on this.
I use about 2 metres of nylon 3-strand with a stainless chain hook.
I set the anchor completely done. When it is fully set, I hook the chain hook onto the chain and let the chain out. As the hook goes over the roller, keep tension on the line, pass it around the front and lay it over the other bow roller. Then it goes onto to mooring cleat and the chain runs out until a decent loop of chain hangs below the hook and the snubber line is taught.
I have never in decades of anchoring, had it unhook. And even if it did, so what?
For me it's about sound insulation, not shock absorbtion. If you have your anchor set with the right amount of scope, the catenary of the chain should provide all the shock absorbtion one should need.
When weighing anchor I ignore the hook completely and reel in the chain. As the chain loop disappears, the hook just drops off and hangs there until the anchor is stowed. When the anchor is safely stowed, pull in the snubber and put it away.
It's hard to make this sound complicated, it's too easy.
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" . . . The Apple also had a threat to the E. Does he ever mess with a happy-but-stagnant culture when there's not a threat? "This Side of Paradise" has a threat, right? The stepford colonists are going to make the E crew like themselves.
Darn, it would make a better dilemma and argument set-up between Spock and McCoy if it were a "pure situation" with no contrived threat. Then the threat/suspense would be to Kirk's character, depending on how the viewer sees it. Intervening would make him an imperialist to anti-imperialists; leaving them alone would make him morally weak to those who believe in the need for strife, struggle, and growth.
Somebody write that ep. or novel, wouldja? I'll buy it.
And remember, NO THREAT to the Ent. or plague on Whoziz IV that needs that serum to rendezvous with the USS Ludington in time!
Setup/exposition; proposed way to mess with culture and introduce strife; arguing about prime directive; decision and implementation; denoument; scene of Ent. flying away with Kirk promising a team of advisors.
There, I've done the hard part. Someone take a handfull of uppers like it's Sixties Hollywood and flesh that out overnight."
[Someone on that thread said there is an ENT episode that sort of does that.]
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