Someone in your management should read "Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know" By Jim Camp
All projects are a balance of quality, time, and money. If you decrease the time without increasing the money, quality will go down.
Your management negotiated a contract and probably gave this VIP client a good discount. Then the client comes back and asks for more. The response should have been "OK but we will need more money to hire or to allocate more resources to keep quality high. Without it you are asking us to discount it below were we can make a profit.
PHYSIOLOGY: It is my understanding that part of the aging process is that the myelin sheaths that surround your nerves begin to degenerate. They act as insulators, without them nerve impulses slow down. When you turn your ankle, you have a proprioceptive message sent to your brain to correct this. If it's slow, you fall. There is also the Deep Tendon Reflex. If a muscle/tendon senses it is being quickly stretched the muscle will contract. (the old reflex hammer to the knee) The slow nerve impulse speed affects this also. Using a cane gives you information quicker because the distance this information must travel is shorter ( finger tip to head or shoulder to head vs ankle to head). The added benefit of the cane is that you can then have the quicker response of bearing weight on the cane. I am not clear on how the vibrations effect these two responses. (My first post ever)
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Someone in your management should read "Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know" By Jim Camp All projects are a balance of quality, time, and money. If you decrease the time without increasing the money, quality will go down. Your management negotiated a contract and probably gave this VIP client a good discount. Then the client comes back and asks for more. The response should have been "OK but we will need more money to hire or to allocate more resources to keep quality high. Without it you are asking us to discount it below were we can make a profit.
PHYSIOLOGY: It is my understanding that part of the aging process is that the myelin sheaths that surround your nerves begin to degenerate. They act as insulators, without them nerve impulses slow down. When you turn your ankle, you have a proprioceptive message sent to your brain to correct this. If it's slow, you fall. There is also the Deep Tendon Reflex. If a muscle/tendon senses it is being quickly stretched the muscle will contract. (the old reflex hammer to the knee) The slow nerve impulse speed affects this also. Using a cane gives you information quicker because the distance this information must travel is shorter ( finger tip to head or shoulder to head vs ankle to head). The added benefit of the cane is that you can then have the quicker response of bearing weight on the cane. I am not clear on how the vibrations effect these two responses. (My first post ever)