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PAUSE: Alright boys, full names?
Sebastien: Do you want full full names?
Ben: He's got a lot of names.
Sebastien: I got a lot of names.
PAUSE: Whatever "full names" means to you.
Sebastien: Ok, well my name is Sebastien Richard Michael James Schultz.
PAUSE: And why do you have such a long name?
Sebastien: I was born in France and the tradition is you get multiple names from your godparents; and my uncle gave me an additional name; and my aunt gave me an additional name too. Sebastien was my parents' choice, and Richard Michael James was godparents and aunt and uncle.
Ben: I only have three names, cause I was born in a pigsty in the country. Benjamin Wayne Davis.
Ben and Sebastien: And we are BAD VEINS!!
PAUSE: Well done. How did Bad Veins start?
Sebastien: Well, Ben was in a previous band called Giant Judy. He also ran a club downtown. I had a band at the time named Cathedrals, so we played shows together and my band would play at his club. So we just kinda knew of each other peripherally. Then, his band folded, and shortly thereafter my band folded. We both had pretty successful runs in the city, pretty well known bands. We had made a lot of contacts in the meantime. We had mutual friends that came about.
So, I was looking for something to do, and Ben had been working on solo things for about a year or so and some of our mutual friends suggested to Ben that he get a drummer and eventually my name popped up. So, Ben called me one day and I didn't have anything that I was doing. I really wanted to get into something, so I went over to Ben's house for practice in late August of last year and sat down and I totally ended up wanting to play with him. I loved the music and I thought that I could contribute a lot, so we started practicing from that day on. Every day, we were preparing for our first show. But, initially we hadn't intended on me playing that show.
Ben: Yeah, I had booked it before we started practicing together.
Sebastien: So, this was coming up on September and we practiced every day and figured it out and it looked like I could play the show.
Ben: Yeah, August 21st was our first practice, September 9th was our first show. We just had like 2 or so weeks. And we haven't practiced since! (Laughs)
PAUSE: So, when you guys got together, was it pretty much like "Hey, we're gonna get on a label, this is what we need to do?" What were your aspirations at that time?
Sebastien: Yeah. When we first started, it was basically like…
Ben: We both wanted music as a career. We had confidence in our own abilities but you need to figure out the logistics of how your actually going to do it. So, I had the idea of Bad Veins and how I was gonna orchestrate it. I had Giant Judy, this little three piece, indie, slop, kinda pavement sounding band that ran very simply through guitar, bass and drums. So, we broke because I was a workaholic and the other guys weren't. I still love those guys, they just didn't want to work as hard as I did.
PAUSE: Which tends to be the case. It takes a couple of bands to find who you work well with.
Sebastien: Yeah, you definitely learn a lot of lessons from that first band.
Ben: Yeah. So after Giant Judy folded, I bought a house and built a little studio in my house. I spent about a year solid just writing, recording, doing things on my own. Learning how to use samples, and midi and programming and beatboxes and just all the different sounds like I've always liked to hear. Sounds that I've never really toyed with at all. I started just throwing all these sounds together hodgepodge, like mellotrons, strings, and sampled choirs. I tried to make this ridiculous, grandiose sound that I wanted to hear.
As soon as I started getting it to where I wanted it, I made a little demo E.P., just four songs. WOXY got a hold of that, and they played quite a bit of it, strangely enough. As soon as I got the sound figured out to where I had a good starting point for Bad Veins, that's when Sebastien entered the picture. Then I had to come back to square one. "Take all these electronic drums out, you're not gonna need em." All the little distorted drum beats, and rhythms and loops. So I took all that out, and then he just adapted the weird little beats and samples that I had arranged and turned it into rockish stuff. I changed our sound completely.
That first show, we were really well received. Sebastien has a lot of friends, and all of them came to that show. If it were just me, there wouldn't have been anybody there.
Sebastien: Oh, that's not true, silly.
Ben: (laughs) So we played that first show and you can't go by what your friends say, or anything, but they were all like "oh you guys are great, you're gonna be famous, blah blah blah." Which is interesting because in our last bands, our friends liked it but they never said that. It was like there was a difference in the way it was being perceived, that I hadn't really considered until that show.
Then, as for our second show, we were really strategic about what shows we were going to do. I feel like there's an oversaturation of local bands in Cincinnati. They play every week, every where. There's no incentive to go see a band, because they'll be across the street the next day. So, we'd only play key shows, with touring bands, or when we have new music. So, our second show, we were offered to open for Snowden from Atlanta, playing in Alchemize in Northside. We had been a band every bit of two weeks at this point and we weren't sure if we wanted to take it or not. We decided to do it. So, Snowden came in to load in, and we were on stage doing our sound check, and they literally walked in the door, dropped their gear and just stared at us the entire sound check. They came up and were looking at our gear, and I have this big box with flowers painted all over it, and a telephone and a megaphone, and everything's weird. Flowers on everything, etc.
So, they're just like "What's going on?" They were so impressed. They were on tour, their next show was in New York the next day. So they went to New York and started telling all of their connections "Oh, you gotta check out Bad Veins. They're amazing." So, within like two or three days of that show, we were getting emails from record labels, people that ran clubs and booked events; getting all these offers to go do stuff. It just pretty much took off, right off the bat, and hasn't slowed down. It's been awesome.
Sebastien: We've had some good developments. But you always want it to happen faster than it does.
Ben: Yeah, but in retrospect, it's only been a year since then. During that entire year you're like "Ah, hurry this up!"
Sebastien: It was like three months in and we're like "Where's our record deal?"
PAUSE: Where's the mansions?!?
Sebastien: Where's the mansions!! Where's my whip?!
PAUSE: So how did the deal with RCRD LBL come about? Why them?
Sebastien: Well, RCRD LBL, despite it's name, technically isn't a record label. Well, that can be argued… you'll find a lot of people writing about this right now because it's kind of confusing. It's not an exclusive record deal, or recording contract in any conventional sense. They do have exclusive B-Side tracks. So there are some exclusives.
PAUSE: There are some pretty great names on RCRD LBL already, right?
Sebastien: Yeah! Art Brut, etc.
Ben: It's a project from the guys who do Downtown Records, which has Gnarles Barkley, Art Brut, Spank Rock, Cold War Kids, etc. Those guys are fans of ours. So we've been talking to those guys for six months or so. There's been interest in a full length, but that may or may not happen. We'll see how it falls. But, they did offer us RCRD LBL, which is slightly less of a risk on both parts.
PAUSE: Do you feel like RCRD LBL may be the first real foray into what the music industry is going to become?
Ben: Who knows.
Sebastien: Yeah, I mean, we've talked about it, and I've talked to people at the label about it. I do feel like the end goal of RCRD LBL is to, at the end of the day, consumers can get free music, and artists can still get paid. Their method of satisfying both consumers and artists, is to go the advertising route.
Ben: You certainly can't blame them for trying.
Sebastien: You've had, since the late nineties, predominately early 2000's, all of these downloading programs and you have all of these artists that have lawsuits against fans who are trying to get free music… This to me is a step in the right direction of where music is going to go. Maybe it does need to be ad supported, like television for example. That's how they support those networks and those shows that are free, through ads.
PAUSE: Or magazines, for example.
Sebastien: Yeah, or magazines such as yours. Something that's free to the public. There's certainly overhead costs, you have to get paid.
Ben: Or the radio. You listen, and you get commercials. It's basically the same deal.
PAUSE: What's RCRD LBL's way of doing that?
Sebastien: Well, so far, there's sponsorships from Virgin America, Puma, and Nikon.
PAUSE: That's funny because Cold War Kids played on the very first flight by Virgin America. (ed. note: Thank you Kevin Rose!)
Sebastien: Really? I didn't know that. But that makes perfect sense.
Ben: I'm not sure if this is how all of the ads are, but I think they're all in the form of widgets. Then there's a little ad on the widget for Virgin America. Or the player, it can be embedded.
PAUSE: Sort of like what Last.fm is doing?
Ben: I don't know too much about Last.fm.
Sebastien: But there's RCRD LBL radio, for example. So, you can imbed that widget, and it'll have all of the exclusive tracks. The other thing, too, about RCRD LBL is that I've read a lot of people complaining, just the initial naysayers.
PAUSE: They're not early adopters.
Sebastien: They're certainly not. I totally agree with that. So, you get all these exclusive tracks from all these artists that are listed on RCRD LBL radio, and they're still encouraging bands to seek out a more main stream method of putting out albums, and having a label. But they're partnering with those labels. So, they're trying to work with the industry. They're trying to work within these preexisting labels. They are, by no means, trying to overtake the industry, or gain a huge amount of market share and put everyone out of business. It seems to me like they have the right intentions.
Ben: Yeah, I was reading a Billboard interview with, well I can't remember who, but someone from RCRD LBL. They don't intend to replace labels at all. The artists, like us, that get featured on there, still do need label deals. It's still a machine that's necessary. There's no way for us to get the word out like someone like that could.
Sebastien: If some kid goes to RCRD LBL, where all the content is free, and is able to download two or three Bad Veins songs, give him to his friends, what have you, use them in any non-commercial mode….
Ben: And we get paid for that because they saw some commercial for a pair of sneakers, and the sneaker people gave us money. So, we got paid for making the music, and they get it for free.
Sebastien: And then maybe they buy a Bad Veins album.
Ben: And then they get brainwashed and go buy Pumas. And the circle is complete.
PAUSE: Amen. Make music so kids buys Pumas. That's what is important.
Sebastien: (laughs) I don't have a problem there. I like Pumas.
Ben: Yeah, I don't know what we're gonna do when a Wal Mart widget pops up. Will we feel like sleazebags? And the answer is yes, we would. That's the chance we took in getting a paycheck, I guess.
Sebastien: Wal Mart just had an ad with Band of Horses.
Ben: Yeah, I saw that actually.
Sebastien: Yeah, they were on an online commercial and it did so well that they wanted to do a television commercial, and they initially said yes and their fans were just outraged by it.
Ben: Yeah, their fans were outraged that the band might actually make some money doing what they love.
Sebastien: But they made a comment that once the music is out there, they don't care what happens to it. But, then Wal Mart has all of their issues.
PAUSE: So why is it okay for a band to do that with Apple but not Wal Mart?
Ben: Because Apple's hip. That's it. Does Apple have a good work ethic as far as their employee rights? I don't think anyone really knows.
Sebastien: They did give everyone an iPhone. And I'm pretty sure with Apple proper, in the States, everyone gets healthcare. Unlike Wal Mart where their anti-union video is longer than their safety video. There's some issue there.
Ben: But do people who make that split second judgement call think about that? Or do they say "Apple's sexy, Wal Mart's not, Feist is awesome, Band of Horses suck?"
Sebastien: I'm sure it's more of a knee jerk reaction.
PAUSE: Now that you've done your thing with RCRD LBL, what's next?
Ben: Well, we're still hoping to get a full length album deal. We've been teased with quite a few that we might have been happy with, with a lot of different producers. The big thing with us is that we have such a big sound, with lush production and stuff, we really do need a good producer with the proper time in a proper studio. That gets really expensive.
Sebastien: We feel like the music is that good, that it warrants an excellent producer, money and studio time. We could definitely put out an album at this point, there's plenty of content, but we would rather wait and generate as much buzz as possible, and maybe throw out E.P.'s here and there. Then put out a proper album, that we're 100% satisfied with.
Ben: We've had offers, just not offers we're happy with. So, we're just trying to get a force behind us that's strong enough that when we do come out with our first record it won't be like "Well another label heard that and they want to do a second record and the first one is just going to fall away." We want the first one to have some weight to it. And if we have to wait another year or two for that, we will reluctantly do so.
PAUSE: And in the meantime?
Ben: Probably sign with a manager. Someone who will help us sculpt the next year of our career. It's hard to say really.
Sebastien: We will be out and about with one offs. Our 7 inch on Dovetail comes out this month and there's SXSW.
PAUSE: Hey, we'll be down there.
Sebastien: Awesome.
PAUSE: Well thanks for your time guys.
Sebastien: No, thank you. We appreciate it, it was actually a really easy conversation.
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A new species of Lejeunea Lib. (Lejeuneaceae) from Low Várzea forest in lower Amazon (Pará, Brazil)
de Moura, Osvanda Silva; Ilkiu-Borges, Anna Luiza; Reiner-Drehwald, María Elena
Nova Hedwigia Band 95 Heft 1-2 (2012), p. 197 - 202
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An unknown species of Lejeunea was identified among the liverworts collected in the framework of a study of the bryophyte flora from the Várzea forest in Combu Island (Belém municipality, Pará) in lower Amazon. The species, characterized by autoicous plants, ovate leaves with crenulate to crenate margins, sometimes with 1-2 obtuse subapical teeth on the dorsal margin, leaf apex obtuse to acute, sometimes acuminate (1-2 cells in a row), rarely rounded, perianths smooth cylindrical, without keels, only weakly pentagonal at the apex, without beak and apex slightly recessed, is considered to be new to science and here described as Lejeunea combuensis. In the present paper, the new species is described, illustrated, its ecology as well as the differences to the morphologically similar Lejeunea bermudiana, L. caulicalyx and Taxilejeunea isocalycina are discussed; a key to Lejeunea species with eplicate perianths is presented.
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And thus, it begins.
I woke up a little late this morning, but eager to get on the road. I'm heading south today, towards Falkreath, so I can try and find the Dark Brotherhood entrance. I've been told by the Commander to try and get rid of all of them inside, and I'm more than willing to. Then, I can tell everyone they have nothing to fear anymore.
I sold off my pelts, so Arrow has a lot of room on back, as well as in his saddlebags.
See you later, Whiterun!
Onward to Falkreath!
Funny, I don't remember that last time I was at Helgen...
Oh, hello there! I see you're flourishing in a town full of dead people!
I found a couple farmers when I just about reached Falkreath. I felt sorry, as they had been run out by the dragon, and were afraid on where to live. I decided to give them what they would accept.
I wish people would accept higher amounts, at this point, I'm a rich man compared to how I started out. But, I'm pretty frugal with my money.
For some reason, I thought Falkreath would be bigger...looks like a backwater town.
I wouldn't be able to accept, fair one. I'm a spoken for man. Ysolda is awaiting my love at home.
I sit down at the bar, and an Orc warrior walked over from the other side of the room, plopping herself down, close to my personal space. I give a polite "please get out of my space" look, and she snorts.
"What's a milk-drinker like you doing here?" she snorts out, grabbing her tankard to take a large gulp. As she exhaled, I coughed lightly, the fumes strong.
"Excuse me? I don't think you should talk to me like that." I said politely.
The orc let out a bellowing laugh, silence falling in the tavern. "And what are you going to do about it, cry, milk-drinker?"
You could hear a cup drop it was so silent. The barkeeper shifted back a bit, grabbing the nearby sack of coins on the bar.
I set my bottle of ale down and turned to her. I was fed up with being poked, prodded and anylized wherever I went. I am just a man trying to get by in this world of Skyrim. "I don't want any trouble." I try to persuade her to back off.
She shoved me off the stool and I crashed to the ground, my drink going everywhere. "Gods, you're so boring!" The orc took out her mace and started swinging it at me, and I struggled back, trying to get at my axe.
The bard seemed to take this as a cue to sing Ragnar the Red and I rolled my eyes.
The patrons cheered me on and I swung wildly at the orc, catching her right across the throat. Blood sprayed gracefully across the room, and everyone ducked out of the way. She was dead before she hit the floor.
I stood in the pool of blood growing from her body and turned to the barkeeper, handing her 100 gold. "Here...sorry about the mess...I'll just...go now." I walk out, trying not to meet the eyes of anyone looking at me. A few whispers went around and I ducked out of the door hurriedly.
The Jarl's house is decorated nicely. I actually like those banners a lot.
Can never have too much firewood. Especially when your life may depend on it. After that, I run across a small graveyard near the town's House of the Dead, with shrines of Arkay around. I tip my head to the shrine as I pass, paying my respect.
A woman and her husband look to be having a funeral, so I stay and give some moral support. When the ceremony ended, the woman spoke with the priest a bit longer and I went up to the man to give my condolences and ask who had died so I could remember them in my next meditation.
I put my hand out to comfort him and he nodded, holding back tears. "What was her name?"
"Lavinia." he said softly.
"I will be sure to remember her." I said, speaking honestly. I want a child of my own one day, and I can't even imagine what her parents must be going through, having to bury their only daughter.
Talking to a few other people around the town, I learn that she had actually been murdered, and they had the murderer, Sinding, in the local jail. I decide to visit the man and look him in the eyes.
An odd jail, for sure. A standing pool of water came up to the prisoner's knees. When he noticed me, he started walking up to talk.
"No, Sinding, I just want to know why you killed Lavinia."
He gave a deep, shaky sigh. "It wasn't anything I wanted to do. I just...lost control." He looked up, pleading. "I tried to tell them, but they didn't believe me. It's all on account of a blasted ring!"
I looked at him, confused. "What ring?"
Sinding held up his hand. "This is the Ring of Hircine. I was told it would let me control my transformations." He swirled it around his finger and shrugged. "Perhaps it used to. But I'll never know now. Hircine didn't care for my taking it, and threw a curse on it. I put it on, and the changes just came to me...I could never guess when. It would be at the worst of times." He put a hand over his face. "Like with the little girl. I had just come to Falkreath, helping at the mill. I thought it would be safe--something I could do."
"So what are your plans, then, before you die?" I ask.
"I want to beg Hircine for forgiveness. Give him back the ring. But while I'm stuck here, the beast wanders free."
"I am sorry for your fate." I nod to him, and he walks back down to his pool of water, looking up through the barred windows.
With it dark, I travel up the road a short way and find my way to the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary.
It is very ominous.
It'll be okay, Arrow, I'll be back! You stay here!
With a deep breath, I start towards the door.
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The Thinking Processes Part 8
A Review
In my last several postings we have been discussing the Conflict Resolution Diagram (CRD) which is one of TOC's Thinking Process tools. As the name implies, the CRD is a tool used to resolve conflicts. In my last posting we developed our CRD as is displayed in the figure below.
I also explained that the CRD's purpose was to articulate the key elements of a conflict and then suggest ways to resolve it resulting in a win-win solution. The CRD uses necessity based logic which uses the syntax, "In order to have "x" I must have "y"…… because…." The CRD includes the common objective, necessary, requirements that lead to it, and the prerequisites needed to satisfy the requirements. Let's continue our discussion on the key elements of the CRD.
To refresh your memory, the figure below is the CRT we developed in my last post.
The Conflict Resolution Diagram
One side of our conflict is stated as, "In order to have Throughput Rates High, we must have limited WIP inventory because excess WIP extends cycle times and causes late deliveries. The other side of our conflict is stated as, "In order to have Throughput Rates High, we must increase production starts because more WIP results in higher levels of production. Remember, the "because" statements are the assumptions used to justify each side's reasoning. Let's now look at the relationship between each side's requirement and the corresponding prerequisite.
On one side of our conflict we state that in order to limit our WIP inventory, we must use a constraint based "pull" schedule because new starts don't begin until something exits the constraints. On the other side of our conflict we state that in order to increase production starts, we must use a "push" system to schedule production because idle time by resources results in lower production. Obviously both a pull and a push system can't operate simultaneously, so herein lies our conflict. That is, the two prerequisites are calling for two completely different production scheduling methods.
As with all of the Thinking Process logic trees, the presence of an arrow indicates the existence of underlying assumptions about the relationship between the entities of the CRD and it is these assumptions that are the key to solving the conflict. So the real key to solving the conflict is to invalidate the assumptions. It's important to remember that they may never have been valid in the first place. Doing so usually involves finding a substitute for the entity in question. This substitute is referred to as an injection. In our example, I have only listed one assumption between each of the requirements and prerequisites, but there could be multiple assumptions.
Injections are specific actions to be taken that would invalidate one or more of the assumptions. Bill Dettmer [1] refers to single injections that "kill the conflict" as "silver bullets." Dettmer also tells us that it is unlikely that a single injection will resolve our conflict and that "thinking outside the box" is necessary. The way I would approach our example conflict is to try to understand the logic behind why one side wants a push system to schedule production. If, for example, the reasoning behind why one side wants a push system is their belief that the performance metric efficiency should be high in order to gain higher throughput, then we might be able to demonstrate why this thinking isn't sound. So think about how we might convince this side that their thinking is flawed?
What if this side has never been exposed to the Theory of Constraint's accounting method called Throughput Accounting (TA)? You will recall that TA believes that performance metrics like manpower efficiency and/or equipment utilization are both sound metrics as long as they are limited to measuring the performance of the constraint. The key to improving throughput is to maximize the output of the constraint without creating excessive amounts of WIP in front of the constraint which causes the cycle times of in-process parts to be extended and that result in a deterioration of throughput and on-time delivery. To quote Dettmer [1], "In complex conflict situations, injections are likely to be conditions you want to create, rather than actions you expect to perform. Many separate actions may be necessary to achieve these conditions."
So think about the impact of only measuring efficiency within the constraint. The figure above is our Current Reality Tree (CRT) that we developed earlier. If we only measure efficiency within the constraint operation, operators in non-constraints will stop over-producing which would lead to minimum levels of WIP which in-turn would lead to shorter cycle times and ultimately would lead to significantly improved throughput. In an earlier post, I explained that we are always after solutions that create only win-win results for both sides of our conflict. By implementing this one simple change, our common objective should be achieved.
Before completing this post, I want everyone to understand that there may be other injections that can be developed to break any conflict, but for brevity sake, I wanted to keep it simple for you.
Next time
In my next posting we'll move on to the next Thinking Process tree, the Future Reality Tree. As always, if you have any questions or comments about any of my posts, leave me a message and I will respond.
Until next time.
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[1] The Logical Thinking Process – H. William Dettmer, Quality Press, 2007
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When choosing RAM (DDR3), do I need to buy a certain type of RAM (e.g. Dual or Quad) for certain types of motherboards?
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I'm sure you'll get a better answer later, but memory is memory. Memory sticks aren't made to be single, dual, or quad. If the motherboard isn't specifically quad-channel, then the memory is going to run in dual channel, however you install it...either in a pair or in two pairs. At that point, I'd suggest adding just a single pair, so you have two slots open for future expansion. What I mean is, if you want 8 GB of total system memory, install 2x4 GB, rather than 4 sticks of 2 GB, aka 4x2 GB. Then if you decide to ever go to 12 or 16 GB, you can just add in exactly what you already have.
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Don't be confused by the marketing: they sell matched pairs of RAM for Dual Channel systems, matched sets of 4 for Quad Channel. But there is nothing special about the individual sticks in the package. You could buy 4 sticks of the same model number individually and get the same thing.
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The quad/triple/dual channel memory feature is a feature of the motherboard and the architecture....not the RAM sticks. Unless you have Socket 2011(Quad Channel), or Socket 1366(Triple Channel) you will have a dual channel setup. My advice for buying RAM: Buy as much as you can afford that will last you until your next build(platform change). I have a 16GB matched set(4x4gb) and I won't need anymore RAM until I get ready to build another PC, which will be well past when DDR4 comes out. Buy once, cry once.
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- Focus on two or three key examples of how the work they do contributes to something bigger.
- Communicate this message initially to employees who are committed and engaged, then ask those workers to influence others with the similar feelings
- Create a sense among employees that they have passion and pride in what they are doing.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
What Are Employee Engagement Surveys Really Assessing?
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Great post David. There is nothing more engaging (pardon the pun) than dealing with a person who is "on purpose." You don't have to do a survey. You can see it in their eyes.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 March 2013 at 00:03
Industry seems to have forgotten that correlation is not causation.ReplyDelete
I agree with David that since employees have choice, they can choose to do a job and go home.
To many people a job is just a job, for these people they "work to live".
Don Ledbetter
- Anonymous26 March 2013 at 20:30
I couldn't agree more.ReplyDelete
Leaders are desperate to measure something because they know that people's performance is crucial to organizational success. However, engagement is not performance.
Engagement "may be" correlated with performance but we cannot stretch that argument to suggest there is also a causal effect.
Both engagement and performance are time specific, context specific, and very much dependent upon the individual's propensity to be engaged and perform well.
Furthermore, as David's article suggests, engagement surveys are really asking the employee how they feel about their employer, not about their work and their personal levels of motivation. And to make matters worse, companies with low engagement scores then report to their employees that "they are not engaged'!
Let's stop this nonsense. Let's focus on developing successful leaders, managers, supervisors and teams that concentrate on performance and results. Most employees working in a great team, producing great results will want to come to work, want to offer ideas, want to interact with their colleagues and want to achieve even greater results.Replies
It gets even more complex.Delete
I have found that many organizations with 'low' engagement scores actually have highly engaged employees who are proud of their work and productive putting out quality work but they used the engagement survey to send a message. They often feel that the survey was too long or the questions were not relevant to them, and they just rushed through the answers without thinking.
The only real engagement questions would be about how the employee was feeling about being part of an organization and the work they are assigned is meaningful.
• Are they happy at work?
• Do they find meaning in the work they do?
• Do they have goals which are meaningful to the person?
• Do they want to achieve the goals they have?
• Are you finding meaning in working here and do you feel engaged?
Other types of questions don't really matter they might love their boss and like the things they 'get' but is it meaningful what they do? If it is they are engaged. Until they feel, for themselves, that there is meaning in what they do and the company is aligned with their own values, they will not be engaged.
I am glad to know these things through you. The company where I am currently working at is also implementing evaluations and survey. However I am not sure if ours works with any of employee engagement survey companies in the country. But surely any business would go better with such assessments.ReplyDelete


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The Moose 2012-05-29 by jollyjackWatch
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oh shit, i think we have been doing the same stuff
Most badass moose I've ever seen.
you know this is actually really funny to me because quite some years back me and my friends were joking around and we ended up freaking out my little bro by saying "The Moose is coming! HIDE!" scared the crap out of him.
nice.. Ron Perlman as The Moose.. lol
If hellboy was turned into a moose, that is what he'd look like.
Lumpy on a bad day...
Gar as fuck.
That also looks very nice, man.
XD Nice.
He's a guy who looks like he's got some tales to tell.
Is this Hellboy's hornier cousin?
F@$k your demons, I have a Moose!
. . .Sorry, don't know WHERE that came from.
. . .Sorry, don't know WHERE that came from.
Quick Demetri, tell number 1 that Moose and Squirrel are now packing heat.
Just when you thought it was safe to visit Canada, it's Hell Moose! The gun, the cigar, the trench coat--it's Hellboy, but as a moose. Lovely.
I'm totally seeing Hellboy crossed with a moose.
That is one angry moose.
Hey Rocky! Watch me put a hole in your head! (BLAM!!!)
On a serious note, nicely done.
On a serious note, nicely done.
I like this one
And now we await your...Moosey Fate
anyone else here reminded of hellboy? no?
Swedes beware.
The Moose is Loose!
best character EVER!!
beware... the room with a moose.
Awesome work here
Huh... a mobster-type badguy?
Looks like a character out of Mutant, the RPG game


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Brillz And Snails Drop Heavy New Collaboration 'Crazy'
After touring across the country together, the trap and heavy bass aficionados Brillz and Snails have been teasing fans about a forthcoming bootleg for weeks. The track in question is an edit of Lil Boosie's "Crazy," and it truly receives a crazy revamp from the talented pair.
The two producers' styles distinctly shine through this bootleg with two diverse sounding drops, ultimately creating a dirty hybrid trap beat and a filthy dubstep undertone. Kicking off the remix is a gradual build up into a grimy bassline, and it is further infused with a funky electro sound. Brillz and Snails are certainly two artists running the trap game, and we can't wait to hear what else they have in store for the rest of 2015.
Brillz and Snails' bootleg is up for free download here.
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The half-day.
We are not those folks that need an occasion to try. And that's what they call it, too. Trying. As if the very idea of it is taxing. It's not taxing and we are not those people.
No. We do not go by some magical calendar. Schedules aren't really our thing in general. That'd be too organized. Too stuffy. Too… I don't know… too planned. And we're not the type of people whom plan.
We can't.
If we could—plan—our lives would be much different. I think. It's hard to say because this is how we've always been.
Our very togetherness is a result of impulse. I'm almost certain that the amount of time it took us to decide to move in together was significantly shorter than the amount of time it took us to remember each other's names. We might have had our first conversation moments after that first… what I mean to say is we didn't plan. Because planning would have been much t


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Dash for cash
He's the £500m boss of bling! A Harlem-born, hip-hop entrepreneur on a mission to sell his roc-a-fella lifestyle to the world. John Arlidge joins the diamond-studded Damon Dash on a 48-hour, champagne-fuelled promotional tour to London to hear about brands, bands and 'that business with Victoria Beckham'
Sunday 9 May 2004
The Observer
The chairman of the board picks out his suit for the day. 'The charcoal grey pinstripe Dolce & Gabbana should do it,' he tells his PA, Sophia, 'with the Thomas Pink gingham shirt, the black shoes from Barneys New York and the gold Rolex.' He has an important presentation to make and needs to look his best. He walks out of his home in Chelsea, checks he has his BlackBerry personal emailer and Motorola mobile phone with a spare battery, before climbing into his chauffeur-driven Mercedes limousine. It is a short ride to his office in the West End. He greets his colleagues from the marketing and press department over a glass of champagne and walks to the stage to deliver his presentation to an audience which has queued for hours to hear him.
'All you London niggers make some noise! I'm getting animal on you!' he shrieks, picking up a bottle of Bollinger champagne and swigging from it. 'UK, what's good? I made a commitment to the UK a year ago and now I'm here. So turn it up, baby boy. Turn up my new English band SAS, my new R&B star Nicole Wray and my soul act, Allen Anthony. It's Roc-A-Fella for life!' The chairman of the board is Damon Dash, boss of the New York-based Roc-A-Fella record label. The concert which took place at Rouge nightclub on London's Charing Cross Road last month was the highlight of his latest UK tour. Dash was in town at the height of the Posh'n'Becks marriage scandal. To most observers, he spent most of his time partying day and night while denying claims that he had had an affair with Victoria Beckham, whose flagging music career he tried to revive last year. But Dash was here for a bigger, but less predictable reason - business.
Dash might look like just another ghetto-fabulous rap producer who grew up on the streets of Harlem. The man behind the multi-platinum selling rapper Jay-Z wears heavily branded, fashionably oversized sportswear and jewellery, drinks Cristal champagne, drives the most extravagant 'tricked out' cars and swears a lot. But he is much more than a showman. Dash is the head of a £500m hip-hop lifestyle brand. He has leveraged his culture and his personal image into a global business, incorporating music, clothing, shoes, magazine publishing, drinks, watches and - coming soon - food, cigars, cafes and restaurants. Dash, whose personal wealth exceeds £100m, is a one-man multinational company who employs more than 500 people and has turned the hip-hop refrain 'taking care of business' into lucrative reality. A recent US survey of the most powerful men in America under 40 put him 15th.
Dash's business style looks relaxed. When I first meet him it is 10am on a Tuesday and he is sitting in the Jacuzzi of his £5m mansion in Chelsea. Although he is stressed - 'I flew in this morning commercial, not on the private jet' - the chairman of the board (the title is his own private joke, as well as a homage to Frank Sinatra), is busy sorting out his schedule with his PA, Sophia Rossi, a raven-haired 22-year-old from Beverly Hills, and his fast-talking director of communications, Bridget Russo.
'Who's coming to tonight's dinner?' he asks. 'We've got fashion buyers,' Sophia replies. 'We've got a drinks firm, we've got DeBeers diamonds, we've got media, socialites and restaurateurs.' What's the next 24 hours looking like?' 'We're doing media, launching America magazine, shooting a movie and a video and showcasing Allen Anthony, Nicole Wray and SAS. Naomi Campbell is in town. We're expecting Tyra Banks. Oh, and Puff called.'
Dash draws long on his cigar and runs his hand through the foaming water in the hot tub. 'And I bet you thought I was relaxing,' he smiles as he extends a wet fist to greet me. 'It might look like madness but, as I sit in this tub, I have eight companies running at a very high level. I may be a cool motherfucker, but I'm a cool motherfucker doing business.'
As we talk, his phone and BlackBerry trill constantly. An assistant takes each call and only hands him the phone if it is serious, or if it is Damon's son, Boogie, 12, or four-year-old daughter Ava, who live with him in New York. Right now, it's serious. An associate has booked a series of concerts at US colleges during spring break, when students are away - which means no audiences. Dash's reaction? Hysterical laughter, followed by: 'Welcome to the music business, m-o-t-h-e-r-f-u-c-k-e-r.' He spells out the insult. 'What did I tell you? To succeed in this business, you've got to work hard. Work, work, work at all times.'
It is time for Dash himself to get back to the grindstone. He has press interviews all day. 'Stay. Take a look around,' he tells me as he climbs out of the Jacuzzi. 'See how hard I work my people.' Upstairs, Bridget Russo is bookmarking the first crop of stories about Dash's UK tour. Johnny Nunez, Dash's private photographer, is downloading the images of Dash's arrival in London to post on his US website for that night's US newspapers and magazines to use.
Kareem 'Biggs' Burke, Dash's business partner is telephoning executives from William Grant & Sons distillers to set up a meeting to discuss distributing Dash's spirits brand, Armadale vodka, across Europe. His new acts, Allen Anthony and Nicole Wray, are arranging rehearsals for their show at Rouge with Kenny Burns, the manager of Dash's new R&B label, Roc Music. Sophia Rossi is calling Exposure, Dash's UK marketing and PR agency, while Beth Mellilo, his head of TV and film, checks that the actor playing the policeman in Thursday's video shoot 'has one of the old-fashioned bobby on the beat hats'. All the while, Zara Miranda, the housekeeper, and Ashley Nichols, Dash's gangly right-hand man, are taking care of the business of being Damon, which today means stocking his bedroom with the essentials - 200 fresh towels, 20 box-fresh trainers, hundreds of pairs of Rocawear boxer shorts, shirts and jackets. Dash refuses to wear anything twice.
Later that afternoon, after five hours of back-to-back press interviews, Dash reappears, goes to his bedroom, 'pops a tag' on a new pair of crisp, white Nike trainers and changes into a Rocawear shirt for a magazine photo-shoot. 'I've got to have fresh clothes at all times. I've gotta look fresh to death.'
There is no hint of irony in his voice. For the 32-year-old, his life is his work. Literally. 'I am the brand. I wear it, drink it, listen to it, package it and sell it. I want to make money off any and everything concerning urban culture, because there is no one else who can tell the hip-hop story better than me.'
Dash's business builds on a model established by pioneering hip-hop entrepreneurs Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs and Russell Simmons. The two New York record producers invented bling! bling! business a decade ago, when they noticed that sales of the aspirational brands their rap artists name-checked in their songs - Bentley cars, Courvoisier cognac, Adidas sportswear - were soaring, thanks to the hip-hop endorsement. Instead of making other people rich, they decided to create their own clothing lines, open restaurants and get their artists to endorse them. Dash has taken the idea to its logical business conclusion, turning hip-hop into a full lifestyle brand, encompassing everything from £15 branded Rocawear boxer shorts to £20,000 Tiret watches.
Today, Rocawear turns over more than £220m a year and Roc-A-Fella records has generated more than £200m since its launch nine years ago. Dash's business plan is simple. 'If I and my people like something, I'll make it and sell it. I can market anything. It's gangsta business in the truest sense of the word. A gangster is someone who does what he has to do, who makes himself the best, no matter what. That's what I do. My dream is to release a record by one of my artists and every brand endorsed on the record I will produce and control. That way The Roc will use hip-hop to take over the world.' He pauses before delivering his favourite punchline. 'Roc-A-Fella will be the new Rockefeller.'
To most British ears, it sounds like an idle boast. Most people on this side of the Atlantic first heard of Dash last year, when he signed Victoria Beckham and made a record that still has not been released. But the boss of bling has been working for 15 years in the US to make The Roc America's biggest black-run business. 'Nothing about my success was easy or overnight. It took me a long time to get to know how to run a business. I just had to pick it up as I went along. On the way I've felt every kind of success and every kind of failure.'
Damon Dash was born in New York's east Harlem on 3 May 1971 and was brought up by his mother, Carol, who worked as a secretary. Dash won a scholarship to Dwight, a private prep school in downtown Manhattan and although he was expelled, he later won a place at South Kent boarding school in Connecticut. There, he got a taste for the high life and was 'amused to see how rich folks were intrigued by what was going on in the streets.' He realised that both rich and poor were fascinated by street styles and hatched a plot 'to market the streets' to both.
After hosting parties at the Cotton Club in Harlem with his 'Best Out' crew in the Eighties, he entered the music business with the help of his cousin, Darien Dash, whose stepfather worked for Casablanca Records. Dash began as a manager and went on to set up his own record label, Dash Entertainment. At first, the business bombed, but then Dash got lucky. Very lucky. A DJ friend, Clark Kent, introduced him to a tall, ungainly young Brooklyn drug dealer turned rapper called Shawn Corey Carter. Carter could not get a record deal, so Dash signed him and used the money he made hosting parties to release his first record under the name Jay-Z. 'We were so broke we distributed it ourselves out of the back of a car.'
The rest is the stuff of hip-hop legend. Jay-Z went on to become one of the highest-earning and charismatic rappers. Six of his albums have gone platinum. Flushed with success and, for the first time, cash, Dash set up Roc-A-Fella Records in 1995 with his old friend 'Biggs' Burke, in a 50-50 deal with Island Def Jam, which manufactures and distributes the records. Two years later, Jay-Z, Burke and Dash set up The Roc and began to diversify to build the hip-hop lifestyle brand.
To be the Coca-Cola of the music world - the number one lifestyle brand in a £5bn global market - requires sales savvy. When Dash and I meet again after a Daily Mail photo-shoot I ask whether he is a businessman or a musician: 'Hip-hop is my roots, but above and beyond that I am a businessman. I'm a lifestyle entrepreneur. I sell all the time. Whether it's music or sneakers, it's all marketing, marketing, marketing, 24 hours a day. My whole life is a commercial. I can't stop.'
Not even, it turns out, over dinner. Dash insists his team eat together, no matter where they are in the world. 'We break bread every day. You gotta break bread,' Dash says as he summons his 12-strong team to sit down in the sunken lounge of his Chelsea 'crib'. It is 7.30pm. On the agenda this evening is signing a new singer. 'What do we think of Tyra Banks? Is she too middle America?' Supermodel Banks is currently enjoying ratings success with the reality television show she fronts, America's Next Top Model. She has cut her first single and wants Dash to manage her career. The team is cautious. 'The Roc is not middle America,' cautions Kenny Burns, boss of Roc Music. Dash nods, before adding: 'But if it's good music marketed right it won't hurt us. Let's get her.'
Sophia Rossi hands Dash his phone. 'Tyra, it's Dame Dash. It's been hard to get you, but you busy. That's cool. The marketing for your record is important. Do you want to Mary J Blige it, to pop it, to Beyoncé it? If you really want some edge, we could even put you out there with Beanie Sigel who is on trial for attempted murder. We've got to get it right, but when we do, trust me, we're going to saturate the market. We're going to go gorilla.' Dash hangs up with the smile of a man who has just edged his brand a little more into the mainstream, where the real money is.
It is 9pm, dinner is over and Dash is heading for a party at Les Trois Garçons restaurant in Hoxton, east London. The ride is a chance to make calls and catch up with Raoul Shah from Exposure, the London agency which handles Dash's London promotional work. 'We need to get you in front of the right people,' says Shah, handing Dash the guest list for the night.
Apart from a DJ and a Radio 1 executive, there is not a single music person on the list. There are upmarket party organisers, notably Mourad Mazouz, the man behind Sketch, London's most fashionable and expensive restaurant. Savile Row tailor Nick Hart, of Spencer Hart, will be there, along with buyers from Selfridges and House of Fraser. Pride of place goes to power couple Michael Keech, of London-based spirits giant Diageo, and his girlfriend, Helene Kratzsch, of diamond giant DeBeers. Dash needs diamonds for his Tiret watch line and is working on a new spirits line. Dash arrives and immediately starts working the room, handing out bottles of Armadale vodka to everyone he meets. Keech says what everyone is thinking but won't say. 'This is like a sales convention.' The pitching goes on until 2am, when Dash heads home to sleep.
When I turn up for breakfast at Dash's home the next morning - Wednesday - at 10am he is still sleeping. 'Dame partied after he got back. He's tired. He won't be up till near lunch time. Have something to eat,' says Bridget Russo, as she leafs through The New York Times and nibbles melon. I sit down and notice that on the kitchen table next to her are two documents with intriguing titles. One is a blueprint of how to run a Damon Dash tour. The other details The Roc's PR strategy. When Russo gets up and heads out, I take a peek. The details reveal the logistics and money behind Dash enterprises - from a single day in the life of the chairman of the board to the brand's strategy for the next few months.
The first document lists 'the rules' for a Damon Day. They are neatly divided into times and places, such as 'Before we leave the house for work', 'To have in car', and 'When Leaving Car'. Rule number one is: 'Must have promo items for all companies at all times.' The PR strategy document reveals the business machine behind the bling. Peppered with references to the 'mother brand', 'brand equity' and 'product seeding', it could have come straight off the printer at any multinational. The Roc's key aims for this year are 'to elevate The Roc brands to bridge all boundaries, whilst still remaining true to the streets/roots', 'to build brand equity overseas' and to 'identify poster children for each brand'. The aim is to create a brand that is 'mass niche - on the cutting edge of the mass-marketplace'.
I've just finished leafing through the documents when the man who signs the big cheques arrives. He is talking to his son in New York on his mobile phone. 'Hey, Boogie. I got a party tomorrow in New York but I can't go, so you've got to represent me. Don't be scared. You walk the press lines and tell everyone you're my son and you'll do good. OK, I'm sending a bodyguard, but go and be cool. Go to school. I love you.' Dash has an hour before his next round of interviews and meetings. This afternoon he has to meet his new British rap group, SAS, to talk to a dozen magazines and radio stations and to set up tonight's showcase. As his staff clear up the empty Dom Pérignon bottles from the night before and restock Dash's travel humidor with cigars, I ask him how he can continue to run a successful 'street' label when his life is anything but street any more? 'I came from the street and that's where my head and heart are. I know my consumer is normal, so no matter how much money I spend, I try to stay normal. I'm always on the streets, always in the clubs - and with none of those bodyguards Victoria uses.'
I'm glad he's brought up the Beckham question, I tell him, because it's the only question he has been asked all week. Is he getting fed up of being asked whether he had an affair with her and why, as a hip-hop producer, he agreed to work with a failing pop artist in the first place? Reading between the lines of his answer, it's clear why the two hit it off and what the true nature of their relationship is. He recognised in her the same talent for self-promotion that he has. He needed her to become better known in Europe and she needed him to inject edge into her flagging music career. He offered to make a record for her, if she promised to wear Rocawear and publicise Roc brands. 'The timing was right and I did what I had to do. I took Rocawear to another point of awareness,' Dash says diplomatically. But isn't he embarrassed that Beckham's record still hasn't been released? 'That's Simon Fuller's fault,' he replies, referring to Beckham's UK manager. 'I call him Simon Fullershit.'
OK, so it might all be business, but is it just about making money? 'I do want to be filthy rich,' Dash says. 'But there is more to it than just money. I want to change perceptions of hip-hop. I am an ambassador for my culture. I'm tired of people looking at us like thugs and crooks. I also like to provide jobs for the people around me, who deserve it but don't normally get the opportunity. I've got cats running things who were either falsely accused or actually did time in jail.'
It is now 3pm on his second day in London and he is hours late for his meeting in Soho. As he and Burke climb into the Mercedes, he shouts: 'Meet me tonight at Rouge. See my new businesses - my new franchises - in action.'
The chairman of the board arrives at Rouge on Charing Cross Road fashionably late. It is 2.30am. After drinks in the VIP section upstairs, Dash, without bodyguards, forces his way through the crowds, pressed hard to the wall, and climbs on stage swigging Bollinger from the bottle. He raps, dances and sells his acts - SAS, Nicole Wray and Allen Anthony - as they perform. When the half-hour set is over Dash declares the marketing offensive a success. 'In the UK market you gotta walk it like you talk it. You can't just pop shit and not deliver. And tonight we delivered. Look at Allen Anthony. In the midst of all those dusty motherfuckers, he's got his glasses and his suit and tie on. He was killin' the joint.'
It is now 4am Thursday morning and time to head home. Dash has to be in Notting Hill Gate by 9am to shoot a video for SAS and film a kidnapping scene for his latest movie, State Property II, before being interviewed by i-D magazine and meeting the men from William Grant & Sons. Then he's heading back to New York.
My 48 hours with the boss of bling are over. Performing gigs and meeting everyone from whisky distillers to gem dealers has been a thrilling - but odd - ride. As he climbs back into his Mercedes to go home to Chelsea, I ask whether his life ever seems weird? He smiles and runs his fingers along his gold, diamond-studded, Roc-A-Fella chain. 'It's not weird,' he says. 'It's business.' And, with that, the man who founded the world's most successful urban cultural conglomerate is gone.
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