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I thought I'd heard it all on the topic of entitlement but it seems I missed out (or shall I say our kids missed out) on what a colleague recently referred to as the "Feedback Sandwich."
While our kitchen was known for the Day-After-Thanksgiving Sandwich and the Snow Day Grilled Cheese, this other mysterious sandwich never made it to our special's board.
No one can argue that our generation of parents isn't creative and embellishing; focused and driven when it comes to the betterment of our children. I'm all for positive reinforcement and I'm the first to say that if we can help our children thrive in areas of aptitude and interest then why not? But this feedback sandwich is one dose of nutrition I'm glad we missed out on.
The reference to this "sandwich" was made in the context of a problem with entitlement that is rocking the business world. Because the feedback sandwich recently found its way into the work force, managers are being trained on how to deal with scenarios like this one: A twenty seven year old man made an appointment with his boss to complain about his first evaluation with Human Resources. The boss was surprised since he expected the evaluation to be, overall, positive. Apparently Entitled Eddie could stomach a little criticism, but found its presentation hard to swallow. He explained (and I think this would have been an ideal opportunity to show some humor and humility) that he was used to receiving feedback in the form of a sandwich: A criticism tucked between two compliments. Seriously! He requested that future criticisms come in this more digestible form.
I imagine that Eddie's boss was as confused as I was. Hmmm. Is this the Fifth Grade Play or a job on Wall Street? Perhaps upon hearing this, the boss imagined scenarios like I did: A college soccer coach yelling, "Kara, I love those cleats. Cover the left post! Great job at practice yesterday;" or a pilot correcting his co-pilot, "Did you lose weight? Not that button! Your wife makes a damn good apple pie." I hesitate to imagine a world in which all criticisms come this loaded.
Maybe I should apologize to our children for telling it like it was. Compliments were more plentiful in our home than criticisms but none were served up like Oreo cookies. We live in a world where some things need to be said and heard in a timely manner and everybody can't come in first place all of the time. It's obvious to me that couching every criticism interferes with the development of coping skills and resourcefulness. Since I'm from a big Italian family I typically yell things like, "We're out of milk" or "We're going to be late." As a result, our kids learned early on not to take "tone and delivery" personally.
Circling back to Eddie's expectation that he be spoon fed suggestions for the rest of his life. The best thing we can do for our child is help him develop an inner sense of who he is and how he's doing. That way he's less likely to be attached and reactive to the opinions of others. That said, it should come as no surprise that I don't like coddled eggs and I think Eddie's feedback sandwich is full of bologna.


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We'll tell you all about your dreams ...
If in a dream you see a stone quarry on which extract marble, you are expected by financial success. However in communication with relatives you can have a tension. If to you dreamed that you process marble, in reality the inheritance will fall down you. The dream in which you see the broken piece of marble, means that your neglect the conventional values will cause condemnation of people around.
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The East Coast of Australia has two of the most beautiful and amenable cities in the world in Melbourne and Sydney. In 2016, Melbourne was once again rated as the world's most livable city by the EIU, with Sydney just dropping out of the top 10. The down side of livability is that increasing numbers of people want to live in both cities.
Projections by Infrastructure Australia suggest that, by 2031, the population of greater Melbourne is expected to nearly double and metropolitan Sydney's is projected to increase by more than 35%. Urban areas around these cities, including the Hunter and Geelong regions and Canberra are also expected to experience significant population growth. Along with more people comes increasing demand for intra- and inter-city passenger as well as freight transport and associated worsening of congestion and longer journey times.
In the next 15 years, demand on many key urban transport corridors, especially in Melbourne and Sydney, is predicted to exceed current capacity. The result is increased congestion, with increased 'crush loadings', where peak demand exceeds capacity, occurring with ever greater frequency, with resulting cost of delays. In 2011 the cost of delays on roads in Australia's six largest capital cities was estimated to be A$13.7 billion ($10.4 billion in US dollars).
Australia's ports are also expecting significant increases in container movements. Both the Port of Melbourne and Sydney's Port Botany, already suffering capacity constraints, are expected to struggle to handle the more than doubling of containers. This will only compound the volume of intra- and inter-city road and rail traffic and congestion levels.
Already one of the busiest air corridors in the world, demand for airport transport services is expected to approximately double over the next 15 years. This will require additional capacity in both Sydney and Melbourne's airports.
The stress on Australia's transport infrastructure is becoming evident in international comparisons, which suggest that the overall quality of our infrastructure lags behind comparable countries. For example, the 2016–2017 World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index ranks the quality of Australia's infrastructure 17th out of 138 countries. Within this, a number of the poorest scores were for the quality of Australia's roads and of port, rail and air transport infrastructure.
These patterns suggest an increasingly substantive transport infrastructure challenge. In answering this challenge, Australia faces an interesting choice: should it be more of the same, or is it time to consider something different.
Hyperloop is something different.
With cruising speeds of 1,000 kmh, a Hyperloop system offers the potential to transport both people and freight, and connect capitals and regional centers in minutes rather than hours.
A proposed Hyperloop route could connect the three state and territory capitals and regional centers in Victoria and New South Wales, such as Shepparton, Albury/Wodonga and Wagga Wagga. It could also provide links to Port of Melbourne and Port Botany as well as Melbourne. Canberra and Sydney airports. And all at 1,000 kmh.
The high-speed mainline tube would branch off to existing centers of urban and transport infrastructure. By providing connectivity and speed, together with on-demand service access and high availability, Hyperloop offers the opportunity to create a super-regional economy along Australia's East Coast.
In Sydney on Friday 28 October, representatives from Hyperloop One and Ultraspeed Australia, Hyperloop One's official representative in Australia, will present the case for doing something different to the Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities' inquiry into transport connectivity.
Hyperloop is something that can have a truly profound transformational effect on the Australian economy in terms of social and economic transformation (by linking existing regional centers and capitals and easing capital city growth and congestion pressures) and freight capability (with associated efficiency and productivity gains). It also offers the potential for industry, with short haul distribution opportunities combined with new inter-modal centers.
With no sunk investment in conventional wheel-on-steel, high-speed rail, Australia could benefit by leapfrogging a generation. Hyperloop is simply faster, better, cheaper and greener than any high speed transport alternative available, for both passengers and freight.Proof the Hyperloop technology works will come early next year, when Hyperloop One has its "Kitty Hawk" moment, or first full system test. This will demonstrate that Hyperloop is something different.