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Against Pluralism, Again: Two Books Rethink Theory and Criticism's Role in Architecture
Not Interesting and Possible Mediums both depict and challenge our pluralistic age, in which architects are pressured to package themselves as commodities.
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Architect Jennifer Bonner's Sandwiches project, featured in the new book Possible Mediums. Courtesy Actar
"Art exists today in a state of pluralism: no style or even mode of art is dominant and no critical position is orthodox." Postmodern art critic Hal Foster wrote these words in 1982 in an essay under the title, "Against Pluralism," but the diagnosis rings true of architecture today. Then as now, the most that can be said of the field as a whole is that, as currently constituted, the condition of no orthodoxy is the orthodoxy. As Foster put it, pluralism has become institutionalized: architecture "of many sorts is made to seem more or less equal—equally (un)important."
But this is not a failure of architecture or of architects. Rather, the disposition toward many coexisting and diverse projects stands as a rebuke of the reactionary politics of our time. The heterogeneity of the field today is perhaps its defining characteristic and an indicator of its vitality. So what then is the problem with pluralism?
Put simply, pluralism arises out of a condition of no criticism, which is itself a symptom of theory's persistent failure to articulate and negotiate architecture's role vis-à-vis structures of oppression. Today, criticism often comes in one of two polarized forms: either as scorched-earth screeds against an apparatus beholden to neoliberal power; or aesthetic navel-gazing that treats politics as the subject of much hand-wringing but little commitment. Each evades reality in its own way, and both do the field a disservice. There are today no coherent critical frameworks that grapple with the discipline's political and aesthetic urgencies on the one hand, but also the structural foreclosure of their rapprochement on the other. In the absence of cogent frameworks for critique—that is, to be left without criteria—cultural production is ruled by a subtle logic of banality: everything is equally good or equally bad, and consequently, nothing is (nor can be) at stake. This is an illusory leveling. The problem is not the sheer diversity of options, but the lack of capacity to come to terms with this condition.
Possible Mediums presents the work of (mostly) early-career architects. Pictured: First Office's entry to MoMA PS1 YAP's summer pavilion competition. Courtesy Actar
Yet our moment is not without criticism or theory. Theorists and architects are now engaging critique—that is, criticism and theory—directly and vigorously, as demonstrated by two recent publications. These books, Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture by Andrew Atwood, and Possible Mediums, edited by Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, and Kyle Miller, propose new conceptual frameworks for architecture in a milieu mostly unbothered by the vexations of theory. These books do not impose new orthodoxies, but rather each works against the contemporary void of clear disciplinary priorities.
Not Interesting and Possible Mediums belong to a time in which the critical apparatus—journals, conferences, institutions—that made critique essential to previous generations has atrophied or has been absorbed into the ambit of architectural practice. Both books—efforts of practicing designers, critics, instructors all—reject the premise that theory be left to theorists or criticism be left to critics. Instead, they posit fundamental questions: How can "possible mediums" form the bases for new critical projects? And, how can we move shoptalk criticism beyond the tyranny of the merely "interesting"?
In contemporary pluralism, architects are pressured to package themselves as commodities.
What these books have in common, besides the benefit of the talents of Sean Yendrys, who designed both, is the incisiveness of their purposes. Whereas earlier forms of critique often left architects with a fatalistic sense that "there's nothing to be done," each of these titles is undertaken with a spirit of generosity aimed at jump-starting critical conversations in contemporary architecture, just when the discipline is stubbornly unwilling to ask difficult questions of itself. These two books might just mark the leading edge of new alignments of theory, criticism, and practice.
Possible Mediums is a collective effort that grew out of a conference of the same name convened in 2013 at The Ohio State University. The editors all received degrees in architecture from UCLA in the 2000s. Not coincidentally, many of the contributors also entered the field at the end of the 2000s, and their often highly original work can in some ways be seen as a rejection of the slick formalism ushered in by the digital turn.
In contrast to Possible Mediums, Not Interesting features relatively few illustrations. For those, Atwood re-drew elevations of buildings like Gordon Bunshaft's 1974 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. (pictured) and juxtaposed them with fanciful settings, such as a mountain-scape or even the surface of the moon. Courtesy Applied Research & Design
At moments, the book reads like a guide on how to see and decode contemporary architecture, as Whitney Moon's cunningly titled contribution, "A Contemporary (Self-Help) Guide to Profile-Spotting in Architecture," suggests. Possible Mediums presents the work of (mostly) early-career architects, who each offer their own explanations of what is happening at the same time that their work posits basic but provocative questions about composition, representation, structure—that is, architecture's traditional disciplinary concerns.
The term medium is employed here as something between techniques and thematics. It calls to mind Rosalind Krauss's theorization of the "post-medium condition," the idea that an artist produces new mediums when "certain procedures, techniques, or constraints are elevated to the level of a defining characteristic," as the editors write. These so-called possible mediums, then, are more than a nomenclature of shared formal similarities, and rather identifications of theoretical kinships.
The section on "Stacks," which are usefully defined as "discrete objects accumulated vertically," is illustrated by Jennifer Bonner's "Best Sandwiches," Andrew Kovacs' "Medusa," First Office's "Dolmen" for PS1 in New York, and The LADG's "The Kid Gets Out of the Picture," among others. More than a formal technique, stacks are shown to carry water for designers pursuing varied preoccupations. Formal resemblance, found objects, part-to-whole structuration, the list goes on, but all emerge as recurring figures of ongoing projects. Notable too is the fact that the book contains just about as much original writing as design work. An introductory essay by John McMorrough defines medium in no less than a half-dozen possible ways, and an afterword by Dora Epstein Jones offers a complementary excursus on the possible.
Today, the architect's need to differentiate their work from everything else that is "equally unimportant" intensifies the value placed upon the production of difference.
By contrast, Not Interesting takes the culture of criticism as its object. Observing the ubiquity of the fuzzy signifier "interesting" in the language of everyday criticism, the author Andrew Atwood diagnoses the effects of its overuse. What is circumscribed by "interesting" or rather, what constitutes the field of its negative? "What if we forced ourselves to turn from the interest of the urgent, the signal, the foreground, and deliberately attend to the boredom of humdrum, the confusion of noise, the comfort of background?" he asks in the book's first pages. What, in architecture, receives attention and what does not?
Atwood expands the critical terrain of the interesting by planting it alongside its logical complements: the not interesting, the boring, the confusing, the comforting. As he spells out in a particularly striking passage, this reconfiguration has its roots in the conviction that the ways in which architects decide what matters, matters: "Our instinct to turn away from those things that do not seem to warrant our attention is to concede to established systems of power in architecture and to refuse to challenge some of the aesthetic habits of critique embedded in our contemporary debates."
The German architect O.M. Ungers's House without Qualities (1955) in Cologne is contrasted with a slice of anonymous Oakland, California, architecture. Courtesy Applied Research & Design
Like Possible Mediums, Not Interesting gathers a circle of friends. These are the protagonists of debates that Atwood engages through his teaching at UC-Berkeley and the work of his practice, First Office, founded in Los Angeles alongside Anna Neimark in 2011. Atwood's examples are drawn from the broad sweep of history: very recent projects, such as House No. 7 by MOS Architects, completed in 2015, are joined by the Lanyon Quoit, a dolmen erected in modern day Cornwall during the Neolithic period. In a chapter on "comforting" architecture, Atwood annotates key texts excerpted from historians Sylvia Lavin and Lucia Allais alongside quotations of figures from further afield such as Demi Moore and Marcel Duchamp. If Possible Mediums is a generational self-portrait, Atwood's monograph offers a revealing, idiosyncratic view of a heterodox thinker coming to grips with contemporary discourse. Still, Atwood would identify himself with that cohort; he and his peers are early-career designers, theorists, or historians just hitting their stride. Many are teaching. And all are striving to find traction in a situation of disciplinary diffusion.
Taken together, these two books set out a provisional ground in which these two questions, what is interesting and what is possible, will be contested, debated, reworked.
Hal Foster claimed of pluralism that it is isomorphic to a market that craves choice and demands novelty. This stands today, and some effects can be readily identified. The renewed entrenchment of spectacle is apparent. The architect's need to differentiate their work from everything else that is "equally unimportant" intensifies the value placed upon the production of difference. What has historically been termed "the Project" (capital P; a theoretical agenda pursued through architectural work) is now partly displaced by the cultivation of brand, that is, the recognition of one's variance from the crowd. In contemporary pluralism, architects are pressured to package themselves as commodities. This is a strong market force exacerbated by digital platforms. Paradoxically, these are the most accessible discursive venues but also the same means by which the possibility of resisting reification is foreclosed. Critique offers a form of resistance to these conditions.
Architecture is a field whose relationship to capital is "virtually unmediated," as Fredric Jameson has written, but the qualifier "virtually" disappears as soon as discourse no longer recognizes its role as the self-critical faculty capable of interrogating this relation. Pluralism metabolized in the same moment that architecture's capacity to critically articulate its material and theoretical conditions has withered.
What Not Interesting and Possible Mediums deftly accomplish is the reinvigoration of the theoretical project and the establishment of terms for a language of criticism adequate to the moment. Taken together, they set out a provisional ground in which these two questions, what is interesting and what is possible, will be contested, debated, reworked. That neither of these books offers a new orthodoxy is by no means a concession to the idea that everything is "equally (un)important," but rather an unambiguous assertion that to answer these questions, always only provisionally, is the basis for any architecture today.
Possible Mediums (Actar) was edited by Kelly Blair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, and Kyle Miller. The book is based on a 2013 conference of the same name convened at The Ohio State University.
Courtesy Actar
Written by Andrew Atwood, Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture (Applied Research & Design) observes the ubiquity of the fuzzy signifier "interesting" in the language of everyday criticism.
Courtesy Applied Research & Design
One of the diptychs featured in Not Interesting, depicting (left) a single family home in Minnesota and (right) a dolmen in a field in Cornwall, England
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Phillip R. Denny is an architecture critic and historian. He is a PhD student at Harvard University, where his research focuses on technocultures and architecture history from the postwar to the Postmodern.
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"This statement represents a considerable disappointment for its many thousands of administrators, teachers and support staff, that have been excited about welcoming students back in August," the districts stated. "It's a much greater disappointment to many parents that are concerned for their pupils to resume their schooling. First and foremost, this choice will affect our students in a way that investigators will require years to comprehend."
The districts' choice comes as President Trump's government continues to urge for reopening public colleges, based on the assertion that pupils will need to attend for psychological and social development and their parents will need to go back to work. That has been contested by most public health officials and educators on health and security reasons.
Barbara Ferrer, the manager of this L.A. County Public Health Department, said Monday when colleges do reopen, the experience will be quite different for teachers and pupils. She stated that employees and pupils are asked to wear masks, except during meal times and except for smaller kids during naptime. She said that staff sports wouldn't be permitted.
He explained that the present threat level remains at"orange" — described as quite high and widespread threat — and can be verging on"red," which could trigger a"Stay-at-home" sequence for all essential employees.
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Hello Health Raises $11.5 Million to Expand Electronic Health Records
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Hello Health, which has an unusual model for offering electronic health records systems to doctors, said today that it raised $11.5 million in additional financing, with First Generation Capital as its lead investor. That brings the total amount raised by the New York-based subsidiary of Montreal's Myca Health to $21.5 million in the past two years.
As Xconomy's Arlene Weintraub explained in March, Hello Health provides doctors with electronic health records systems for free. It's the patient who pays, a fee that averages about a $36 a year. Even better for the doctors, Hello Health pays them back about a third of their patients' fees. For their money, the patients can schedule appointments on line, keep track of their prescriptions and ask questions of their doctors via email. The physicians get an electronic records system without shelling out the thousands of dollars, or tens of thousands of dollars, that customized systems can cost.
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Infatuation With Malevolence (Reissue)
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Regarded as Dying Fetus's first 'real' release, though not their first album, Infatuation with Malevolence was originally released in 1995 on Wild Rags Records and it compiled two demos: 1993's Bathe In Entrails and 1994's Infatuation with Malevolence. Serving as an erstwhile precursor to the bands full-length debut album, 1996's Purification Through Violence, Infatuation with Malevolence is as brutish and primal as you'd expect from an American death metal band in 1994 called Dying Fetus.
Those familiar with the band's current iteration might be a little taken aback by the band's early throes, but make no mistake, even with only one member remaining from their first line-up (John Gallagher- who also played drums on the Bathe in Entrails material), you can instantly hear that this is still Dying Fetus, though, in their…ahem…fetal stages. The obvious comparison is Suffocation and their ilk at the time (notably Pyrexia), with a much more pure East Coast death metal and grindcore tone that focused on a more mid-paced chug, squealing pinch harmonics and hefty grooves. Especially the far more simplistic, more Broken Hope and Cannibal Corpse (tell me "Grotesque Impalement" isn't Cannibal Corpse influenced) rooted Bathe in Entrails tracks. One look at the song titles that include the likes of "Tearing Inside the Womb", "Vomiting the Fetal Embryo", "Nocturnal Crucifixion", "Wretched Flesh Consumption" and "Eviscerated Offspring", also tells you that Gallagher had yet to discover the more social/political (and hardcore) influence that would later be the staple of Dying Fetus' modern sound.
What you get with Infatuation with Malevolence is a glimpse into Dying Fetus roots, including the fact that the ultra low guttural vocals that Dying Fetus became synonymous with were actually originally performed by original guitarist Nick Spelos, who was replaced by Brian Latta on the Infatuation With Malevolence demo. He in turn served until Sparky Voyles replaced him in late 1998. You can hear snippets of the bands later sound in the likes of "Eviscerated Offspring" and " …And the Weak Shall be Crushed", but for the most part, it's pretty standard and primal, if enjoyable, '90s American death metal.
I never heard the original release, or the original demos, but the nice remaster has made them sound like the other three remastered reissues (Killing on Adrenaline, Purification Through Violence and the Grotesque Impalement EP). With a shiny new cover, informative liner notes from Jason Netherton, three live tracks (including "Skull Fucked"- which has never made it to any studio recording) from the 1998 Blunt Force Records reissue and two demo/rehearsal versions of "Nocturnal Crucifixion" and "Purged of My Worldly Being", this reissue is a nice peek into Dying Fetus' humble beginnings ― before they became the mainstream pissing death metal behemoths they are today.
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Commented by: jerry
"Skull Fucked" is one of the best tracks on Purification-did you mean that the live version hadn't appeared on a record yet?
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I have the original version of this and all their other releases. This one is kind of a turd compared to the stuff released in the next few years after. It was fun to hear the really early stuff for kicks, but it grates on me these days.
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NBA players vote to approve Dec. 22 start date for 2020-21 season
By Jeff Zillgitt
Published: Sat, November 7, 2020 1:06 AM Updated: Sat, November 7, 2020 1:44 AM
The start of the 2020-21 NBA season is right around the corner.
NBA players on Thursday voted to approve the league's plan to start the season on Dec. 22 and take advantage of playing games on Christmas Day and increase potential revenue.
Teams will play a 72-game schedule, and the season will finish before the start of the scheduled Tokyo Olympics in the summer. Training camps are expected to open in early December.
Owners and players still have several issues to resolve, including salary cap and luxury tax amounts and the start of free agency.
The National Basketball Players Association confirmed the vote in a statement later Thursday night and said "additional details remain to be negotiated and the NBPA is confident that the parties will reach agreement on these remaining issues relevant to the upcoming season."
The 71-day turnaround between the end of last season and the start of next season amounts to the fewest days between the finish of one season and beginning of the next in NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB history, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
But eight teams haven't played since March, when the league suspended its season when Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, six teams haven't played since mid-August and another eight teams haven't played since late August or early September.
COVID-19 has altered the sports landscape and forced leagues and teams into unusual schedules.
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For the two teams that reached the NBA Finals — the champion Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat — it is a quick turnaround, but for financial and logistical reasons, the league and, ultimately, players decided the December start is better than late January.
Starting in December and playing on Christmas and during the holiday week could be worth about $500 million in TV revenue, sponsorship and limited ticket sales — a significant amount considering the league projects less revenue from smaller fan attendance in 2020-21.
There are other TV and timing considerations, too. The league wants to get back on its October-June schedule so players and staff have a majority of the summer off and so the NBA is not competing with other sports and the divided attention of viewers in the heart of the summer. The NBA also didn't want to play games during the Tokyo Olympics when TV ad dollars are directed toward the Games.
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Invisible Girl, by Lisa Jewell – book review
Why do we trust some people and not others? And are we necessarily wrong to act on our first instincts? What does it mean to be weird and when is it OK to be so and when should we take responsibility for our weirdness? This is what the new thriller from Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl, is all about.
Invisible Girl is bookended (and bookstarted?) by two Lisa Jewell trademarks: a first person narrative from a strong teenage female lead, and a punchy twist in the last sentence that serves us right for lazily thinking that the final chapter denotes a happy ending. In between, there is a rollercoaster exploration of various power imbalances, presentations of abuse (both physical and emotional), a fairly incompetent police investigation and several betrayals of trust.
As usual with Jewell, we are presented with a rich cast of three-dimensional and flawed characters. Saffyre, the 17 year-old who goes missing; Cate, whose world revolves around her family and who finds their temporary home in swanky Hampstead discombobulating; Roan, the healer who pounds the local pavements; Georgia, teenager who 'arrives with news and moods and announcements and atmospheres'; Owen, who everyone agrees is a creep, the antithesis of Roan except in that their names rhyme, a man who understands the inadequacies of London snow. They're all good, solid characters: Owen is perhaps the most interesting as Jewell goes out of her way to make us sympathetic towards him, even when he is working through what we believe to be injustice by spending time on incel websites and meeting an incel activist. We can judge none of them on first impressions.
There's a bit of a dip in the middle – probably necessary to prepare us for later on – but the longer the novel goes on, the more we realise its cleverness. We change our mind about each of the characters, in some cases more than once. People lie, some obviously, but some lie to themselves (which is handy given the device of first-person narration) and some of those whom we assume are lying are not, and vice versa. Occasionally we get to see both sides of a story and recognise that the truth is more complex. We continually question ourselves and we don't get to sit smugly and assume that we are better and more sophisticated than some of the more gullible who sit within the novel's pages. No one is who they seem. Are you, dear reader, asks Jewell.
There's a lot of stalking: Saffyre in particular is watching Roan as did Cate 'til it all went wrong – I dig out my review on previous Jewell mystery Watching You and note that the clues there, as here, are all available to us. On that occasion, I used the phrase 'hidden in plain sight'. It's a phrase we often use, don't we, when we're talking about mysteries when the clues are really there, but that's easy to say when we have everything set out for us on the page. Is it true to say that Saffyre (the eponymous girl) is hiding in plain sight? If you're behind a hoodie or a balaclava, or looking out from a building site, your physique is not really obvious. No: what Lisa Jewell seems to be more interested in this time is our willingness to take things at face value. It's why so much abuse has been done by people holding positions of trust, both formal positions in our community but also people who are meant to provide care. No spoilers, and all that, but my word Owen's father and aunt are a disgrace. And there is darkness in this novel: not as much as in The Family Upstairs but there are a few pages which are more detailed than they might be, in particular as Saffyre's back story is spelled out.
By the way, I don't know what Camden Council has done to Lisa Jewell. She has both Cate and Roan visit the Branch Hill estate in Hampstead, a council estate built in the 1970s both notorious (even its defenders say it was probably the most expensive council housing ever) and gloriously modern. 'A failed experiment' say both Cate and Roan, which probably proves they deserve each other after all.* But this book is all about other sides to the story, so here is the counter-argument.
And we should acknowledge the role that the villages of north London play, as a usually-neutral, occasionally-malevolent backdrop.
For this is a book that requires there to be a community. Without that, we can't organise media pile-ons, or wreck each other's reputations. Reputations are all. Jewell gets us to question the means through which that happens.
The ending is good: there is redemption for most, though it has to be earned. But did I mention that final twist…?
* An obviously tongue-in-cheek statement. Don't @ me.
You can get Invisible Girl here (affiliate link).
Thanks to Random House for the review copy.
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Innovation demystified: Senior leaders are the true culprit of innovation laggard
April 19, 2019 | By vanessa
What exactly is innovation? Is it about creating a new product? Does innovation mean creativity? Is innovation something we can create? It's funny how there are thousands of books out there on business model canvas and innovation frameworks, but when we asked the senior leaders of corporates to define "innovation", everyone gave completely different answers.
Innovation is not a thing someone can build, but it is an outcome or the so-called 'end result' of doing some really cool stuff within an organization. - Cris Beswick, an innovation strategist and the author of the best-selling "Building a Culture of Innovation".
Over the past 14 years, Cris has been working closely with CEOs and senior leaders of big corporates in building innovation strategies and embedding innovation culture within the organizations. Recently, I just spoke to Cris in an interview discussing his approach in consulting the senior leaders, the key measuring metrics of innovation, and the factors that are hindering innovation at the workplace.
What is the biggest challenge of corporate innovation? How is it different between the US/European market and the Asian market?
Despite each region having its own challenges, the fundamental biggest challenge in driving innovation globally is still the lack of leadership capabilities across organizations. Most leaders have been in leadership development courses and senior management training for most of the years at work. They've probably been to business schools around the world to make them good leaders. The challenge is it was making them good leaders of the ecosystem we had 10-20 years ago, which was much more linear and predictable compared to now. The ecosystem that we now operate in demands a huge amount of creativity and adaptability. What we wanted from leaders back then was different from what we need from leaders now. Most of the leadership team hasn't been taught how to lead for the world that we found ourselves in: they don't have the right skills, capability, behavior, mindset for it.
The core things that we work with senior leadership teams are to help them understand:
1) How to build innovation strategies and then specifically align innovation strategies to the corporates.
2) How to lead for innovation with the leadership style that innovation requires as opposed to just generic good leadership.
3) How to scale innovation capability and build an innovation culture.
The main difference between the western and eastern markets is their focus on technology. Depending on the maturity of the technology in a particular market, each country has a different approach towards leadership. On top of that, the more hierarchy an organization has, the more difficult it is to cultivate the culture of innovation. That's also the reason why the Asian market is behind when it comes to innovation.
What are some common mistakes people make when it comes to understanding innovation?
You can't build a culture of innovation. Innovation is not a thing, but it is an outcome/end result of lots of cool stuff we have to do inside an organization. What we're trying to do is find problems and opportunities: find out what customers want next, what they need, and what they're struggling with. Then, through creativity, design, empathy, lean, Agile, and all the tools we have at disposal, we try to solve these problems.
At the same time, there are thousands of books about innovation available in the market. What our customers, senior leaders, and CEOs are saying to us is we don't need another book that tries to convince us that we need innovation, because we already know that. We also don't really need another book on the tools and frameworks for innovation. We can get access to books on business model canvas, design thinking, or lean startup as the tools and methodologies are all there.
The big challenge is how we do all that. We know that we need to drive innovation but how? We know how we can use these tools, but how? Fundamentally, it comes down to how we lead organizations where all our people are willing to help us collaboratively drive innovation and do the things required to drive innovation - that's about culture, how the organization operates on a daily basis.
What are some first-step actions a big corporate should take in order to be more innovative?Before taking any action, I'd suggest organizations to take innovation maturity assessment in order to clearly understand where they are in terms of innovation. If you look at the global survey around the world, around 78% of senior leaders think that they already have the right culture in place for creativity, experimentation, and innovation. However, only 37% of employees agree. We have huge polarization between how ready the organization is for innovation and how ready the senior teams think the organization is for innovation. The leadership challenge is to close that gap. Just like the GPS, without knowing where your starting point is, it is unable to plot the route towards the destination you want to go to. Hence, you need to know exactly where you are today to get to be where you want to be tomorrow.
Could you briefly tell us more about the 6 stages framework that you came up with in your latest book?
This framework does not necessarily have to be followed consecutively, although if you do, it's just a simple roadmap for senior leaders to follow. What we do here is basically to help break down how to build innovation as a capability into 6 core components:
Kick off with why: We start off with helping organizations understand where they are today, where they want to get to and then start to build a picture of what the journey is going to look like. This sets the framework for the rest of the following stages.
Ensemble the right team: This is about building an innovation leadership team, the group of internal people who are passionate about driving the organization forward through innovation.
Agree the future: Time to align the senior team and the group of internal innovation champions around that future vision. That's about designing how the organization looks, feels, and operates on a daily basis if innovation is going to be a core component of how the organization works. We talk about how we build a framework for the innovation team that we might want to use, whether it is design thinking or jobs to be done.
Engaging conversation: Only at this point is when the organization is really ready to innovate. We've got the strategy right, the leadership team ready, and all the tools and frameworks in place. Most transformation programs around innovation failed because they too quickly jumped to this stage.
Create the roadmap: Many organizations have overlooked the importance of including HR on the innovation journey. At this stage, organizations will shift a lot of the focus to HR and determine the role of HR in catalyzing the innovation process.
Make it happen: The last component is about embedding that culture over time and making it stick, which is almost like the lean approach to building innovation capability. This is about how we measure innovation and continuously adapt that innovation strategy.
How do you measure success for innovation?
That's where organizations really fall down. Of course, we want organizations to measure value in terms of growth, a new product created, revenue growth and profitability, but we can't just lump all the things the organizations are already doing with innovation.
To help you understand better, here's an example: Consider the existing organization trajectory. We are turning over US$ 5 billion at the moment, over the next 2-3 years we expect to grow to US$ 6 billion – that's a growth of US$ 1 billion. But, we aspire to be US$ 10 billion. So, we now have an innovation growth gap of US$ 4 billion, because that's how much the organization wants to grow and that is what we want to measure against. The innovation of completely doing things the new way needs to deliver this extra revenue. Labeling that and separating that from core existing growth is the beginning of measuring innovation more accurately.
Again, we don't want to silo innovation. Traditionally, innovation is considered all about new product creation and R&D. But, innovation is not just about product, and organizations need to measure the much wider range of areas that innovation can help drive. An example of innovation challenges organizations are facing now and will face even more in the next 5 years is war for talent.
Speaking of war on talent, it's about how organizations retain great talent and attract a new generation of talent at the same time. This then comes a different key measuring metric to product innovation. If you're an HR director, innovation for you is about being able to use innovation as a catalyst for building a type of organization that people want to work for. Your metric is not going to be revenue growth or how many patents of the new product being created but rather, employee engagement score and staff turnover rate. In order for the HR department to perform outstandingly, the organization has to be purpose-driven. The young generation wants a company with strong values of empathy, collaboration, creativity, and experimentation.
What's the most important quality of an innovative leader?
For me, the fundamental thing is empathy. It's a quality and mindset that is used everywhere. Leaders try their best to understand their customers so well, but they don't do that well enough for their own people and employees. Using innovation as the core driver, to understand empathy means to understand the values, motivators, and drivers, then using those to build the culture that yields innovation. Having said that, empathy is one of the things we spend a huge amount of time working with senior leaders. If you want to see more evidence to this, the TV series "Undercover Boss" is a perfect example to start with.
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Cerbero (anteriormente conocido por el nombre provisional S/2011 P 1 e informalmente como P4) es un pequeño satélite natural de Plutón. Fue descubierto por el telescopio espacial Hubble el 28 de junio de 2011 y vuelto a fotografiar los días 3 y 18 de julio de 2011, verificándose su estatus de nuevo satélite el 20 de julio de 2011. Con un diámetro aproximado de entre 13 y 34 km, es el segundo satélite conocido de Plutón de menores dimensiones después del satélite Estigia, del que se estima tiene un diámetro de entre 10 y 25 kilómetros. Cerbero tiene una órbita circular y ecuatorial de aproximadamente 59 000 km. El satélite orbita en la región entre Nix e Hydra y efectúa una órbita completa de Plutón cada casi 31 días terrestres.

El satélite no fue descubierto en las anteriores fotos de 2005 junto a Hidra y Nix debido a su tenue magnitud aparente (+26,1), por lo que hubo que utilizar la cámara más potente del Hubble (faint objects), así se captó a los cuatro satélites.

Nombre
La convención para nombrar satélites plutonianos es la de escoger nombres relacionados con el dios Plutón y el inframundo de la mitología clásica.
El equipo del descubrimiento debía proponer a la Unión Astronómica Internacional un nombre formal para S/2011 P 1, por lo que el jefe del equipo Mark Showalter y el Instituto SETI realizaron en 2013, en nombre del equipo que descubrió los satélites P4 y P5, una encuesta web no vinculante para que el público pudiera escoger sus nombres preferidos. Los participantes podían escoger un nombre de una lista de nombres mitológicos relacionados con el dios Plutón o bien proponer otros nombres.

Tras el anuncio inicial, William Shatner, el actor que interpreta al Capitán James T. Kirk en la franquicia Star Trek, propuso los nombres Vulcano y Rómulo, en referencia al dios del fuego Vulcan (en inglés, un sobrino de Plutón) y a Romulus (en latín, el fundador de Roma, pero también a los planetas ficticios Vulcano y Rómulo del universo de Star Trek. El nombre de Rómulo fue desechado debido a la existencia de un satélite asteroidal con ese nombre.

Vulcano fue el nombre que más votos consiguió después de que Shatner tuiteara sobre él, mientras que Kerberos (el perro que guarda el inframundo de Plutón) quedó segundo y Styx (la diosa del río del mismo nombre del inframundo) quedó tercero. Se enviaron los nombres ganadores a la Unión Astronómica Internacional. Sin embargo, la UAI rechazó el nombre de Vulcano por no ser un dios del inframundo y porque ese nombre ya había sido escogido para designar un planeta hipotético situado en el interior de la órbita de Mercurio, además de los asteroides vulcanoides.

El 2 de julio de 2013 la UAI anunció la aprobación de los nombres Estigia para P5 y Cerbero para P4. Cerbero fue nombrado en honor del monstruoso perro tricéfalo de su nombre referido, Cerbero, hijo de Tifón y Equidna, hermano de la Hidra de Lerna y vigilante de la puerta del Inframundo.

Véase también
 Satélites de Plutón

Referencias

Satélites de Plutón
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos en 2011


It's time for a technique video!
Double pointed needles are super versatile and can be used on so many projects, but if you're new to using them, getting started can be a bit of a pain.
I've put together a little video to show you how to spread out your stitches, begin knitting, and make sure you don't get those pesky ladders up the sides of your project.
YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!!! I finally had time to watch your video. PERFECTION! This is exactly what I was looking forward. Thanks sooooo much!! I've watched it once to just see it. Now I'm going to watch it again to knit with you. I'll probably watch it again and again and again again until I get the hang of it. So excited! It's just the starting on the DPNs that has been killing me. This is just what I wanted. Thanks again.


i've never used any makeup from topshop as i usually think you get what you pay for when it comes to cosmetics. also, i have sensitive skin so i tend to stick to brands i know won't turn my face into a giant mess.
nails, on the other hand, i'm easier with. although nails inc are my favourite i do also like cheaper brands as posted before. barry m are usually my go to paint if i don't have much cash (at £3 a go, you can hardly complain).
when i was shopping with my sister yesterday i went to topshop and the nail polishes really caught my eye. there were some really nice colours. i especially liked the pastel shades, but the ones above stood out to me. i think that green is lovely, the salmon colour would look nice on and the lemon yellow is very summery.


Water damage can occur without you even knowing it is happening. It's not always from a burst pipe or toilet over flow, it could be a very slow leak that is out of sight. Water leaking into your home can cause rot, insect infestations, mold, mildew, and even electrical shorts.
• If you notice an increase in your water bills over the year you may have a water leak that is going undetected. Call Stutters and have one of our certified technicians use our infrared cameras to pinpoint the leak.
• If you notice a suspicious smell, it be mould. If the water damage is out of sight and never have a chance to fully dry you will have mould in the area.
• If you notice stains on your drywall or bubbling it could be moisture from a small leak nearby. Don't waste any time, start looking for the cause and if you can't locate the problem call Stutters for an infrared camera inspection.
• If you hear a slight drip hitting a roof or between walls and if you hear pipes banging when water is turned on it's time for an inspection before major damage occurs.
• An attic leak from shingles can be another cause of leaks. Check your roof tiles for broken, curled or missing shingles.
• Gutters are another cause of leaks around the foundation that when you have a big rain storm. It's always a good idea to have your gutters cleaned once per year.
• Windows and doors are another area where water leaks can go undetected. The main cause is from loose or cracked caulk around the window or door.
• Minor bathroom leaks, dripping faucets and running toilets; water pooling around faucet handles, inside vanities or around toilets are a common cause of water damage. Never put off what can be fixed with a few hours of maintenance.


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ABOUT THE PLACE: The society is blessed with the natural perennial Synrang Ringai Lake which is a fresh water lake watered by natural spring situated at Mawten village, about 2.8 km from Mawkyrwat the District headquarter of South West Khasi Hills. The lake is known for its natural beauty Surrounded by spectacular landscape and rock cliff and covered by green forest , bushes where one can find varieties of Medicinal plants. The lake is a serene and peaceful spot and it also acts as a natural habitat for birds.
Trekking, Swimming, Birds watching,Camping, Hiking etc.


Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This edited collection examines these in order to propose a novel perspective on how human development occurs and how it can be aided and sustained.


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Helemaal niets is een single van de Nederlandse zanger Roland Verstappen uit 1993. Het stond in hetzelfde jaar als eerste track op het titelloze album van de zanger.

Achtergrond
Helemaal niets is geschreven door Ferdi Lancee en geproduceerd door Peter Koelewijn. Het is een nederpoplied waarin hij zich afvraagt wat sommige dingen zonder elkaar zijn, zoals een kroeg zonder bier, een park zonder bankje en een hengel zonder pier. Daarnaast vraagt hij zich af wat hij zonder haar is. Het lied betekende de doorbraak van de zanger, al bleek dit later ook de enige grote hit van zijn carrière te zijn. De B-kant van de single is Daarom niet, daarom wel, geschreven door Lancee en Verstappen zelf en eveneens geproduceerd door Koelewijn. Het is als twaalfde track op hetzelfde album te vinden.

Hitnoteringen
De zanger had met het lied succes in de Nederlandse hitlijsten. In de Mega Top 50 piekte het op de 32e plek en stond het vijf weken in de lijst. In de drie weken dat het in de Top 40 te vinden was, kwam het tot de 34e plaats.

Single uit 1993


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How to buy and collect antique dining chairs
Why antique and early 20th-century dining sets are a sound investment
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By Rachel Nott
Published: March 25th, 2020 at 12:21 pm
This set of dining chairs with velvet seat cushions was bought at auction. Image: Krista Keltanen/Living Inside
These days, the mention of dining chairs probably conjures images of convivial evenings around a dining table with friends, but it wasn't always so. Chairs began life as symbols of authority. Generally made from oak or walnut, and with designs linked to church architecture, the earliest examples were intended only for the most distinguished diners – everyone else perched on benches or stools. Even when sets became the norm, from the 17th century on, individual status was upheld by chair design: the carvers that form part of most sets of chairs echo the tradition to this day.
'Over the centuries, as well-to-do households grew in number, so too did the demand for chairs,' says Cristian Beadman from Duke's Auctions. Leading 18th-century furniture makers, such as Chippendale and Hepplewhite, offered elegant designs that chimed with fashionable chinoiserie, gothic and classical taste. Some of these had upholstered or caned seats and were made from exotic imported hardwoods such as mahogany. Others were painted or japanned, or carved from local wood. Meanwhile, below stairs in the servants' hall and in less affluent homes, simple chairs made from pine, or yew and elm provided the seating.
One of a set of six Chippendale-period mahogany dining chairs c1780, £3,200, Thakeham Furniture.
'Reproductions of many styles were made long after a design first appeared,' warns Cristian, although certain styles are synonymous with a particular period, such as the flamboyant, balloon-backed chair designs, which were popular for smaller Victorian dining rooms.
Technology also played its part in the story of the dining seat. From the mid 19th century, innovative methods of manufacture using steam and glue, as perfected by Michael Thonet, meant sinuously shaped bentwood chairs could be produced in large numbers. Simple lines and new materials, such as vinyl, metal and Perspex, were the cornerstones of mid 20th-century modern chairs, typified by Hans Wegner's famous Wishbone chair, and Eero Saarinen's Tulip.
After centuries of chair making, complete sets are widely available at auction and from antiques shops. Age, quality, condition and number in the set are the keys to value. 'As a rule, 18th-century chairs are most valuable, but since the same design was often made over a long period, it can be difficult to date them,' says Cristian. 'Look for substantial proportions and heavy wood. Later versions tend to be less generous and lighter in weight.'
The decline of the dining room has reduced the value of the chairs, but the number in the set is important. 'From a group of six, the value goes up per chair to an optimum of 16 and then flatlines,' Cristian says. Meanwhile, demand for chairs by 20th-century designers is strong. Condition is also a factor to consider. If the joints weaken, the back or legs will move and creak, and the chair will need restoring before it can be used safely. Nevertheless, a set of antique chairs represents good value for money, especially compared to modern equivalents.
'You can buy a late Georgian set of eight Chippendale-style chairs from as little as £1,000,' Cristian says. 'Quite apart from the cost, it's more environmentally responsible than buying modern reproductions.'
PRICE GUIDE FOR DINING CHAIR SETS
Antiques shops and auctions sell chairs for all budgets
A set of eight George III Chippendale-style mahogany dining chairs will typically cost between £1,000 and £3,000.
Expect to pay between £300 and £700 for a set of eight country-style ladder back chairs with rush seats from the late 18th or early 19th century.
Eight 19th-century Georgian-style mahogany dining chairs will cost from £500 to £1,000.
20th-century Georgian-style dining chairs can be bought for as little as £100, rising to £500.
Six mid 20th-century G Plan teak dining chairs range from £200 to £400.
Expect to pay £200 to £400 for six vintage Ercol stick back beech dining chairs.
1970s solid teak carver, part of a set of four G Plan Fresco dining chairs, £350, Vinterior.
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