Most of the really good PMs I know are not PMP, PRINCE2 or whatever certified. They're too busy earning money running projects, mostly real big ones. Equally, you'll find plenty of examples of both public and private-sector multi-million projects that were "managed" into a smoking hole in the ground by "certified professionals". I'm sure that plenty of the PMP/PRINCE2 guys are really good; but all the ones I've met have been hopeless.
Having run a company, I can get this...it's a refreshing and seemingly decent approach to sharing the wealth. Great contrast to all the money-grabbing, "screw the employee" bosses that are in the news all the time. Maybe where he went wrong is not allowing an "upside". Sure, not everybody who *thinks* they deserve extra really do. But in my experience some sure as hell do...the trick is to identify them and give them fair value. (My top staff regularly got 20% over market rates - they earned me far more, so I was happy to pay.)
Snip: "You can ignore economics, but economics won’t ignore you. That’s the tough lesson Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, a Seattle credit-card processing company, is learning. Four months ago, Price announced he’d slash his own multimillion-dollar pay and set a company-wide $70,000 minimum wage. He got the idea after a friend explained her difficulty paying back student loans and surviving on $40,000 a year — a salary many Gravity employees were making. Price’s stand against income inequality made him an immediate darling of the left. But key employees saw it differently. Financial manager Maisey McMaster liked the idea at first — until she thought about it. “He gave raises to people who have the least skills and are least equipped to do the job,” she told The New York Times. Meanwhile, “The ones who were taking on the most didn’t get much of a bump.” She thought it would be fairer to give smaller raises, with the clear chance to earn more with experience. Price brushed off her doubts; she quit. Also out the door: Web developer Grant Moran. He says, “Now the people who were just clocking in and out were making the same as me.” Plus, having your pay level a very public matter is a problem, with “friends now calling you for a loan.” Moral of the story: Some people work harder than others; some have stronger skills — and they don’t think it’s fair that they’re paid the same as others. Price will soon be left only with workers worth his chosen minimum wage — or less. The company is already in chaos thanks to the policy — but the big problem is ahead, as it tries to keep growing and innovating with only mediocre talent"
Yeah, really. It was an open question, not a statement. In most places "maturity" is defined as somewhere between 18 and 21. In some parts of the USA - you can drive a car, fly a plane, buy and own a gun...at 16.
Sure, Swartz was well aware of what he was doing - and probably the consequences - while pursuing his agenda. TPB boys were also pretty arrogant, even abusive to their critics, while confident of what they thought were their "rights" under Swedish law.
Does that mean that they deserved to be driven to suicide, or sentenced to hard time? Personally, I think no, and that the Judge in this case made the right call.
Your mean what was then, and still is now, one of the most respected public service broadcasters, worldwide? With a long history of attacking the British Government in power? (but especially if they're right wing, it must be said).
People get into the "hero" vs. "traitor" camps, but actually he looks like a bit of both. Hero for revealing the illegal activities of the NSA and its stooges both inside and outside the USA. Traitor for (allegedly) revealing information about agents, assets etc. active in "hostile" countries.
If he'd kept back the latter, he *might* have had a chance of bargaining his way back into the US, (if he wants to come; discuss). Unfortunately, it was probably a requirement of Putin giving him shelter in Russia, despite denials from everybody to the contrary. So, can't see this happening anytime soon.
Reminds me of a story about how a guy got pulled over by the cops because he was in the HOV lane...with a blow-up doll in the passenger seat! Wonder how good this new "solution" would be in detecting that? Also, for privacy concerns, is it illegal to drive wearing, say, a Nixon rubber face mask? That would probably get you pulled by the cops pretty fast.
Saw something about this in a BBC documentary about the "Atlantic War" in WW2. Funny, I seem to remember them saying that it was the US navy that came up with the idea, (replacement retina operations being more common in the USA at that time)
Yes, there are plenty of examples of ships being suck or disabled by a hit to a magazine. There are also others of ships being disabled, and then sunk or abandoned, when they lost power. Finally, there are many, many examples of ships disabled and on fire which continued fighting, sometimes with just one gun left firing.
Should have been fairly obvious, I would have thought, that the bastard child would be soon abandoned. The coffin lid was pretty-well nailed down from the start due to lack of application support, so it was more like WindowsCE (aka "wince").
Mind you, Google is hardly better - plenty of Android phones & tablets out there with no upgrade path, (yes, often because of the constructors or carriers crapware, I know). Also, don't bother trying to get iOS to run on an iPhone 4s or iPad 2 (I did - devices were virtually unusable).
Yes, gathering anonymous data, (good luck with that) can be a very helpful and cheap way of gathering real-time data on traffic flows. However, as anyone who spent some time in Moscow can attest, the traffic is basically in gridlock everywhere most of the time, with the worst pinch points being damn obvious to anyone...
Well, that's not surprising since it's a virtual monopoly controlled by one of the world's richest men; Carlos Slim.
{snip} Telmex, of which 49.1% is owned by Slim and his family, charges among the highest usage fees in the world, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Resident or expats, please try to fill in the blanks.
Is there simply enough anti-homosexual bias in Russian culture, as in much of the USofA, for Putin to make political "points" by picking on them?
Lived and worked there for a while. Short answer is "yes". Putin flogs the image of the bare-chested "hero" and protector of family "values". (The reality of course is that he's a botoxed crooked womanizer...)
But note: Most educated middle-class Russians detest Putin and his clique and are pretty nice people on the whole. Unfortunately, they're also mostly very racist and homophobic, (including the women). Of course, the same applies to many other places; India and the South of the USA spring to mind...
Also, often the cost savings are a myth, especially for larger organisations. I ran the numbers for one of my customers recently - an Exec had suddenly decided that since "everyone" else had Salesforce, they must have it too. Replacing their existing well-crafted and nicely integrated CRM with SF would have cost a bomb in transition costs, with higher annual maintenance, for LESS functionality.
Needless to say the boss killed that "good idea" pretty quick.
Which is the point...Putin is an unreconstructed Chekist and will continue to distract his oppressed population with this and other nonsense, plus of course more serious meddling like Ukraine and Syria. Since the average Russian is typically homophobic, racist, and "patriotic", this is an easy play. Putin is mired in corruption, has totally failed to deliver on economic & political reforms and re-balancing the economy and the Ruble is tanking in the wake of falling oil prices.
So expect plenty more of this rubbish.
Actually improving road safety would involve "hard" stuff like tackling endemic police and court corruption, drink driving (although the legal limit is theoretically zero), anti-social attitudes and quasi-mafia idiots driving too fast in SUVs equipped with automatic weapons and large lights on the back specifically designed to blind people following them.
Ever wondered why you see so many youtube videos of "funny" things on Russian roads? It's because many people have dashboard cams to support their case with the insurance company when the inevitable accident happens; it really is that bad.
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They need to bring out GNUberX...
Most of the really good PMs I know are not PMP, PRINCE2 or whatever certified. They're too busy earning money running projects, mostly real big ones.
Equally, you'll find plenty of examples of both public and private-sector multi-million projects that were "managed" into a smoking hole in the ground by "certified professionals".
I'm sure that plenty of the PMP/PRINCE2 guys are really good; but all the ones I've met have been hopeless.
Having run a company, I can get this...it's a refreshing and seemingly decent approach to sharing the wealth.
Great contrast to all the money-grabbing, "screw the employee" bosses that are in the news all the time.
Maybe where he went wrong is not allowing an "upside".
Sure, not everybody who *thinks* they deserve extra really do.
But in my experience some sure as hell do...the trick is to identify them and give them fair value.
(My top staff regularly got 20% over market rates - they earned me far more, so I was happy to pay.)
Snip: "You can ignore economics, but economics won’t ignore you.
That’s the tough lesson Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, a Seattle credit-card processing company, is learning.
Four months ago, Price announced he’d slash his own multimillion-dollar pay and set a company-wide $70,000 minimum wage.
He got the idea after a friend explained her difficulty paying back student loans and surviving on $40,000 a year — a salary many Gravity employees were making.
Price’s stand against income inequality made him an immediate darling of the left.
But key employees saw it differently.
Financial manager Maisey McMaster liked the idea at first — until she thought about it.
“He gave raises to people who have the least skills and are least equipped to do the job,” she told The New York Times. Meanwhile, “The ones who were taking on the most didn’t get much of a bump.”
She thought it would be fairer to give smaller raises, with the clear chance to earn more with experience. Price brushed off her doubts; she quit.
Also out the door: Web developer Grant Moran. He says, “Now the people who were just clocking in and out were making the same as me.” Plus, having your pay level a very public matter is a problem, with “friends now calling you for a loan.”
Moral of the story: Some people work harder than others; some have stronger skills — and they don’t think it’s fair that they’re paid the same as others.
Price will soon be left only with workers worth his chosen minimum wage — or less.
The company is already in chaos thanks to the policy — but the big problem is ahead, as it tries to keep growing and innovating with only mediocre talent"
Yeah, really.
It was an open question, not a statement.
In most places "maturity" is defined as somewhere between 18 and 21.
In some parts of the USA - you can drive a car, fly a plane, buy and own a gun...at 16.
Sure, Swartz was well aware of what he was doing - and probably the consequences - while pursuing his agenda.
TPB boys were also pretty arrogant, even abusive to their critics, while confident of what they thought were their "rights" under Swedish law.
Does that mean that they deserved to be driven to suicide, or sentenced to hard time?
Personally, I think no, and that the Judge in this case made the right call.
Your mean what was then, and still is now, one of the most respected public service broadcasters, worldwide?
With a long history of attacking the British Government in power?
(but especially if they're right wing, it must be said).
Totally agree - many accidents have been cause by pilots not reading their checklists.
As the saying goes, "all airplanes kill stupid pilots".
People get into the "hero" vs. "traitor" camps, but actually he looks like a bit of both.
Hero for revealing the illegal activities of the NSA and its stooges both inside and outside the USA.
Traitor for (allegedly) revealing information about agents, assets etc. active in "hostile" countries.
If he'd kept back the latter, he *might* have had a chance of bargaining his way back into the US, (if he wants to come; discuss).
Unfortunately, it was probably a requirement of Putin giving him shelter in Russia, despite denials from everybody to the contrary.
So, can't see this happening anytime soon.
For all others, VPNs FTW!
Rolling your own is not hard; for example:
https://www.digitalocean.com/c...
If you're cheap and/or can't be bothered:
https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/1...
These are not human-certified craft.
Still, they're all pretty brave.
Think the earliest one were pretty gutsy; VERY unproven technology.
The Western European champion for having the largest part of GDP as undeclared "underground" economy.
https://www.atkearney.com/fina...
Only the Greeks and former soviet countries do "better".
This, plus the fact that the Italian economy is not improving, and that the country is bust, will only push this trend.
Reminds me of a story about how a guy got pulled over by the cops because he was in the HOV lane...with a blow-up doll in the passenger seat!
Wonder how good this new "solution" would be in detecting that?
Also, for privacy concerns, is it illegal to drive wearing, say, a Nixon rubber face mask? That would probably get you pulled by the cops pretty fast.
So, the have re-discovered syngas: brilliant!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Apart from the amusing name of the minister, no much to see here
Saw something about this in a BBC documentary about the "Atlantic War" in WW2. Funny, I seem to remember them saying that it was the US navy that came up with the idea, (replacement retina operations being more common in the USA at that time)
Yes, there are plenty of examples of ships being suck or disabled by a hit to a magazine.
There are also others of ships being disabled, and then sunk or abandoned, when they lost power.
Finally, there are many, many examples of ships disabled and on fire which continued fighting, sometimes with just one gun left firing.
Should have been fairly obvious, I would have thought, that the bastard child would be soon abandoned. The coffin lid was pretty-well nailed down from the start due to lack of application support, so it was more like WindowsCE (aka "wince").
Mind you, Google is hardly better - plenty of Android phones & tablets out there with no upgrade path, (yes, often because of the constructors or carriers crapware, I know). Also, don't bother trying to get iOS to run on an iPhone 4s or iPad 2 (I did - devices were virtually unusable).
I like Simon Pegg, but I'm not sure if his writing CV is best suited for the genre...
Poor babies, so they'll have to get by with just 12.5 Bn in 2015...your tax dollars at work.
Yes, gathering anonymous data, (good luck with that) can be a very helpful and cheap way of gathering real-time data on traffic flows. However, as anyone who spent some time in Moscow can attest, the traffic is basically in gridlock everywhere most of the time, with the worst pinch points being damn obvious to anyone...
That learning how to protect your privacy from quasi-legal Govt. data harvesting could now be considered "subversive"
Well, that's not surprising since it's a virtual monopoly controlled by one of the world's richest men; Carlos Slim.
{snip} Telmex, of which 49.1% is owned by Slim and his family, charges among the highest usage fees in the world, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Rubbish. Whilst I agree that a lot of the recent abuses of power are inexcusable, the job of the security forces is not easy.
Lack of resources mean that they cannot be physically watching every suspect all the time, (probably a good thing, you might say).
So, what do you do with the people who meet your criteria, (and there are many of them). Detain them without trial?
Resident or expats, please try to fill in the blanks.
Is there simply enough anti-homosexual bias in Russian culture, as in much of the USofA, for Putin to make political "points" by picking on them?
Lived and worked there for a while.
Short answer is "yes". Putin flogs the image of the bare-chested "hero" and protector of family "values".
(The reality of course is that he's a botoxed crooked womanizer...)
But note: Most educated middle-class Russians detest Putin and his clique and are pretty nice people on the whole. Unfortunately, they're also mostly very racist and homophobic, (including the women). Of course, the same applies to many other places; India and the South of the USA spring to mind...
Also, often the cost savings are a myth, especially for larger organisations.
I ran the numbers for one of my customers recently - an Exec had suddenly decided that since "everyone" else had Salesforce, they must have it too.
Replacing their existing well-crafted and nicely integrated CRM with SF would have cost a bomb in transition costs, with higher annual maintenance, for LESS functionality.
Needless to say the boss killed that "good idea" pretty quick.
Which is the point...Putin is an unreconstructed Chekist and will continue to distract his oppressed population with this and other nonsense, plus of course more serious meddling like Ukraine and Syria.
Since the average Russian is typically homophobic, racist, and "patriotic", this is an easy play.
Putin is mired in corruption, has totally failed to deliver on economic & political reforms and re-balancing the economy and the Ruble is tanking in the wake of falling oil prices.
So expect plenty more of this rubbish.
Actually improving road safety would involve "hard" stuff like tackling endemic police and court corruption, drink driving (although the legal limit is theoretically zero), anti-social attitudes and quasi-mafia idiots driving too fast in SUVs equipped with automatic weapons and large lights on the back specifically designed to blind people following them.
Ever wondered why you see so many youtube videos of "funny" things on Russian roads? It's because many people have dashboard cams to support their case with the insurance company when the inevitable accident happens; it really is that bad.
Just as you, on "expert" advice I got some progressives...hate them. The "sweet spot" is just too small.
I now have a pair just for screen work; much, much better.
Thinking of getting laser corrective surgery, then will need a pair just for close reading.