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Q: Python Pluginsystem I am building a custom speech recognition and for that I defined a Command interface. The idea is that the speech recognition returns a String and I got a list of all supported commands. Then I would be going through the list and find the best matching one and execute it.
In order to keep the code maintainable I want to create a plugin system, where you define a class derived from ICommand in a separate file. The folder structure would be the following:
project/
├── ICommand
├── commands/
│   ├── command1.py (inherits ICommand)
│   ├── command2.py (inherits ICommand)

I am facing multiple problems with that:

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*How can I import ICommand for inheritance in the command1.py file?

*How do I create one instance of every class contained in a .py file in the commands folder?

*Is there any way to ensure that the plugin file only contains a definition for a derived ICommand class?

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*How can I import ICommand for inheritance in the command1.py file?

Your project would have to be inside a proper package. If you are not doing that already, you should.
Once Python understands that "command1" is inside a package, inside it you can do:
from ..ICommand import ICommand

(ICommand must be a .py file defining your ICommand, of course).

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*How do I create one instance of every class contained in a .py file
in the commands folder?

For Python, unless you explicitly import a file, a .py file is as good as any data file sitting on the directory. The language allows you to, but does not perform any "auto-discovery" of whatever files you will have under your plug-ins.
You can do that yourself, our you can use a framework that does this kind of thing - zope.configuration is one, but you have to create xml-like files with the folders it should scan.
Doing it yourself can be easy, it is just a matter of listing the desired folders, and call __import__ for any Python files in there.
TThe object returned by the call to __import__ is the module itself, you can then just check its contents for subclasses (or otherwise implementations of) ICommand and instantiate then.
module = __import__(...)
plugins = {}
for name, obj in module.__dict__.items():
    if isinstance(obj, ICommand):
         plugins[name] = obj()   # This instatiate the class

I have two answers with explicit examples of how to do that:
Load module to invoke its decorators
Python: import every module from a folder?

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*Is there any way to ensure that the plugin file only contains a
definition for a derived ICommand class?

Yes.
But you should not put that restriction there, as you state it.
The snippet above for getting the ICommand subclasses inspect all of a modues top level contents, and you could easily raise an exception on any variable, function or class there that is not an ICommand subclass.
That however is not a rational restriction: it is usual in Python to need small "utility" functions that are not class related, or other variables that will hold constant values - it is not usefull to constrain those to be class members for your plug-in.  Likewise, if you are worried about the plugins containing arbitrary code that should not be there: you can't prevent that at all. It is not feasible to securely "sandbox" a Python file in a Python process. Very good people tried for years to have a "Python sandbox", only to be frustrated. (If that is a requirement, use O.S. level process resource restrictions, and run your plug-ins i.e. only import their files, in a process with those restrictions)
Otherwise, you may be meaning that you want "a single subclass of ICommand per file", with no other restrictions: then just insert a check in the above loop to instantiate the plug-in - if it finds a second class in the same file, raise an exception.


This writeup comes from Quentin Donnellan who originally posted it on his blog on August 18, 2015.
I've got a flight to Kansas City to meet the SpiderOak marketing team tomorrow morning, so I'll make this quick! I just got back home from my first DFW Scrum meetup, and I highly recommend it to any software guys in the area (they meet on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, in Addison and Southlake concurrently).
I had originally planned to fly out to Kansas City late tonight, but a couple weeks ago I noticed that this meetup group was going to be hosting a talk on "Release Process" and figured, as I've been tasked with the role of release manager for the SpiderOak web team, this would be a hugely beneficial experience. It was.
You can find the presentation by William "RED" Davidson in full on the group's Meetup page; I wanted to just mention a few things that stuck out to me during the course of the talk/discussion.
One of the early slides Mr. Davidson showed us was a picture of some dude's face, and this sentence below it: "Jeremy wants to do…". The point was that when coming up with user stories, you shouldn't put them in terms of some ambiguous "user" (i.e. User needs to select X from Y on page Z), but instead think about it in terms of what actual people need to do. "Jeremy needs to do this thing on this page". And add a huge picture of a person's face. Seriously; thinking of your "user" as actual people (with real faces) is powerful.
2. Sit down with your customer while they use your product.
One gentlemen in the room made the very awesome comment that, if possible, you should sit next to one of your customers while they use your product. That's awesome advice. For those of us out there who build internal tools for our respective companies, this is a very simple thing to do. While I'm in Kansas City let's see if I can't get my team member to work on the CMS I built for them – just by watching how they interact with the thing will tell me more than any feature request ticket that they could come up with.
His point was that if you focus too heavily on one of the "legs" (or not enough on one) then you stool become unstable. There was also a sage comment made by another member of the group that went something like this: it's likely the stool will "wobble" – though it should be a goal to not let the stool fall over, as it were.
There were many comments from leaders among the group about how they were guilty of ignoring some/one of the legs themselves.
In all, I'm very glad I decided to take an early flight out tomorrow so that I could make the trek over to Addison to meet with the DFW Scrum group. I met some good people and definitely learned some valuable things. I highly recommend this group to area developers and will definitely be making it over to my next meeting.
Note: I don't use Agile/Scrum currently – but I did get a ton of utility out of this talk.
Scrum is the most popular agile framework, and part of what I like about Scrum is that it is elegant in its simplicity and does a great job of making things visible. And after years of seeing Scrum implemented in various organizations and talking to others in the industry, it's clear that technical excellence is too often neglected by Scrum teams. As an Agile/Scrum Coach, I think it's important to talk to teams and managers about more than what Scrum alone defines–we must have conversations about other practices and ideas to address the stuff that Scrum has made visible. Technical practices must be in those conversations, regardless of our own technical backgrounds.
Our July Dallas meetup was titled, "Technical Excellence Doesn't Just Happen-Igniting Craftsmanship Culture." Mike Rieser and I co-presented our experiences with Flaccid Scrum and shared how we partnered as coaches to help an organization through a technical turnaround with some tips for others who need to do the same. In our experience working with multiple teams in a single codebase, developers can feel victim to a legacy codebase if only a few people are writing clean code or refactoring; guiding them on how to decrease technical debt while delivering their projects helps "unstuck" their other agile practices. If you're interested in learning more, tweet Allison or Mike.
We were fortunate in June to have Craig Larman, co-creator of Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), speak to our group. The main goal of LeSS is not to enable traditional big groups to "meet their commitment" more efficiently—it is to see the ineffectiveness of traditional large-scale organizational design and to change it, by descaling with LeSS towards a simple model for multiple teams that optimizes for agility (flexibility), learning, and flow of value. Change the organization before you expect workers to change.
To learn more about Large-Scale Scrum, visit http://less.works Our members found Craig's presentation to be thought-provoking, and it gave them new ways of looking at organizational agility. Our conversations have been greatly influenced by the ideas shared, and at least a few took ideas back to their own organizations right away–signs of a great user group meeting!
April Dallas Recap: What Makes a Good Team Room?
Continuing on a theme of QA/testing, in March we had DFW Scrummer Allen Moore share his experience in implementing continuous delivery. The full title of the session was "Building Continuous Delivery: A Retrospective (or how a QA Strategy succeeds without any "QA" personnel). His story is particularly interesting as he is the only person with "QA" in his title at his company—Allen is a QA Strategist and defines the quality processes, cultivates a culture of quality, builds continuous delivery and automated testing frameworks and educates the team in testing practices and habits.
For the past two years Allen has worked with a great team to define and implement continuous delivery, and his presentation reflected what worked well and what he would do differently next time. It was a great example of how people can work together to learn new skills, implement new technologies, and improve processes to deliver higher quality product to better serve customers' needs. Thank you, Allen, for sharing your experience and expertise with us!


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Mathieu Lehanneur / Audemars Piguet / Art Basel Hong Kong-Basel-Miami
Audemars Piguet to unveil new lounge at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2014 from 14 – 18 May 2014 by leading French designer Mathieu Lehanneur, featuring a video installation about the brand's origins by Austrian video artist Kurt Hentschläger. In its second year as a global Associate Partner of Art Basel, Audemars Piguet is delighted to today announce plans for a new lounge created by leading French designer Mathieu Lehanneur as well as a new piece by Austrian video artist Kurt Hentschläger inspired by Audemars Piguet's home in Le Brassus in the Vallée de Joux. The innovative design by Lehanneur will provide the setting for a reflective video piece by Hentschläger and an exhibition of exceptional historic and contemporary timepieces, including a display of six new models of the Royal Oak Offshore in 42 mm. The lounge will be on show at Basel and Miami in december.
Mathieu Lehanneur's imaginative designs take inspiration from the worlds of science, nature and technology. For this new design concept, Lehanneur has used the latest technology in resin and fibre moulding to cast replicas of the rocks he discovered in the Vallée de Joux, Audemars Piguet's home in one of Europe's remote and pristine forest regions. Exploring the themes of technology versus nature, Lehanneur has taken exact prints of the ancient Swiss rocks to create his own new versions of nature, seemingly mastering the art of recreating the landscape of one of Europe's most isolated and challenging environments, all executed without leaving behind any trace of human activity on the environment. Lehanneur's cast resin and mineral rocks will be displayed in the Audemars Piguet booth in the Collectors' Lounge, bringing the rugged, natural landscape of the company's origin to each global edition of Art Basel in 2014.
Audemars Piguet has also commissioned a new film work by Austrian video artist Kurt Hentschläger for Art Basel this year, which will be displayed across three screens on the booth in the Collectors' Lounge. Hentschläger has worked predominately with time-based media, light and sound for over 30 years and his atmospheric film for Audemars Piguet depicts scenes from the iconic Vallée de Joux, captured during his visit. The film presents the co-existence of nature and technology, exploring how they can inspire and affect one another, thereby offering a new perspective and view of the captivating landscape that has played an influential role in shaping the story of Audemars Piguet and the development of fine watchmaking.
As the centerpiece of the Audemars Piguet booth the brand will feature a selection of exceptional historic and contemporary timepieces. The exhibition will include a retrospective of the iconic Royal Oak Offshore 42 mm collection alongside other important pieces from the brand's origins in the 19th century until today. Live demonstrations of the watchmaker's craft as well as the delicate polishing process that each Audemars Piguet watch undergoes will complement the experience
Commenting on the new partnership, Olivier Audemars, Board Member and great-grandson of one of the company founders, said: "We are delighted to be collaborating with two outstanding artists. Mathieu's innovative new lounge design and Kurt's beautiful film work both capture the true spirit of Audemars Piguet, and will enable us to bring the essence of our home in the Vallée de Joux to Hong Kong, Basel and Miami in 2014."
Mathieu Lehanneur said: "I am inspired by nature and technology, and the possibilities in design they both present. For this project, I wanted to bring the captivating landscape of the Vallée de Joux, which has played such a key part in both Audemars Piguet's history and its legacy of craftsmanship, to three continents across the globe by taking prints of the mineral rocks I discovered in the region and casting replicas through the latest technological processes."
Kurt Hentschläger added: "Visiting and exploring the Vallée de Joux, the focus of the film, was an incredible experience and one I will not forget for a long time perfectly illustrating the co-existence of nature and technology which fascinates me."
Please click on link below to view an exclusive clip of Kurt Hentschläger's new video work: http://youtu.be/hqG7IQHpPjw
Following Art Basel in Hong Kong, the Audemars Piguet booth and exhibition will travel to the Collectors' Lounge at Art Basel in Basel from 19 – 22 June 2014, and Art Basel in Miami Beach 4 – 7 December 2014.
Media Briefing: Wednesday 14 May 2014, 4 – 5pm
Location: Audemars Piguet's booth at the Collectors' Lounge at Art Basel in Hong Kong
Prior Accreditation is essential for access into the lounge
Audemars Piguet is the oldest fine watchmaking manufacturer still in the hands of its founding families (Audemars and Piguet). Since 1875, the company has written some of the finest chapters in the history of haute horlogerie, including a number of world firsts. In the Vallée de Joux, at the heart of the Swiss Jura, numerous masterpieces are created in limited series embodying a remarkable degree of horological perfection, including daring sporty models, classic and traditional timepieces, splendid ladies' jewellery-watches, as well as one-of-a-kind creations. The famous 1972 octagonal Royal Oak, the first luxury watch to be made of stainless steel, is widely recognised as one of the most important innovations in watchmaking.
www.audemarspiguet.com
About Art Basel
Art Basel stages the world's premier art shows for Modern and contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. In addition to ambitious stands featuring leading galleries from around the globe, each show's singular exhibition sectors spotlight the latest developments in the visual arts, offering visitors new ideas, new inspiration, and new contacts in the art world. Please visit artbasel.com for additional information.
About Mathieu Lehanneur
Mathieu Lehanneur is a French designer at the forefront of the international design scene. Innovatively, he combines design, science, art and technology as poetic-communicative components to create humanistic projects and achieve maximum welfare for human beings.
Graduated from ENSCI-Les Ateliers |'École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, his works are part of the permanent collections at the MoMa (New York/US), Centre Pompidou (Paris/FR), SFMoMa (San Francisco/US), the foundation of contemporary art Frac Ile de France (Paris/FR) and Design Museum (Gent/Belgium).
Mathieu Lehanneur also designs for brands such as Veuve Clicquot, Issey Miyake, Christofle, Cartier, Poltrona Frau, among others, with the same proficiency as he creates spectacular projects for Saint Hilaire Church (Melle/France), the Diaconesses Hospital (Paris/FR), the new hotspot of the Parisian scene, Electric, for the Pullman Hotels (London and Paris), for the Centre Pompidou (Paris/FR), and for the upcoming cultural center Lab Cambridge (Boston/US), opening next July.
About Kurt Hentschläger
Chicago based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates audiovisual performances and installations. He began to exhibit his work in 1983, and since has been working predominantly with time-based media, light and sound. His current work continues to investigate human perception and the impact of new technologies on both individual and collective consciousness.
Selected presentations include the Venice Bienniale, the Venice Theater Biennial, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Fondation Beyeler Basel, PS1 New York, Creative Time, Inc. New York, MAC – Musée d'Art Contemporain Montreal, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, National Art Museum of China Beijing, National Museum for Contemporary Art Seoul, ICC Tokyo, Arte Alameda Mexico City, MONA – Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania.
In 2012 he was commissioned as part of the Cultural Program of the 2012 London Olympics / London Festival to create CORE, a symphonic installation in an industrial age machine hall. He is currently a full time Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
About Olivier Audemars
The great-grandson of Edward Auguste Piguet, one of the founders of Audemars Piguet, was born on 13 June 1959, a few kilometres from Le Brassus, birthplace of the family business, where he spent all his childhood holidays. "My grandfather, Paul-Edward Piguet loved to tell me stories of the factory and instilled his passion for watchmaking in me," he recalls. "He was profoundly attached to the Vallée de Joux. For him, the company did not belong to individuals but to the region itself. His mission was to ensure that it remained in the valley and was passed down through generations." After a career managing a company dealing with the physics of materials, this enthusiastic long-haul traveller, having criss-crossed the American and African continents, joined the brand's Board of Directors in 1997. He took over from his aunt as Administrator in 2000. "I see myself as just one another link among many in this company," he says.
13 May 2014 | rubrique(s): art contemporain, design | budget(s): Audemars-Piguet, Mathieu Lehanneur


On the Wild Coast lies the gorgeous Chintsa, divided in two by a pristine river estuary. Chintsa's eastern side is mainly made up of holiday and retirement homes, and is much larger than the western side, here lies the areas main beach, aptly named Chintsa Beach.
Forming part of the Standloper Hiking Trail, Chintsa Beach is 17 km long and is the perfect place for joggers or for anyone who likes long walks on the beach. The beach is safe for swimming and a popular place for surfers and families with small kids who will enjoy swimming in the lagoon.
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Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Title:Medium-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for high-contrast exoplanet imaging: Molecule maps of the $β$ Pictoris system with SINFONI
Authors:H.J. Hoeijmakers, H. Schwarz, I.A.G. Snellen, R.J. de Kok, M. Bonnefoy, G. Chauvin, A.M. Lagrange, J.H. Girard
(Submitted on 27 Feb 2018)
Abstract: ADI and SDI are well-established high-contrast imaging techniques, but their application is challenging for companions at small angular separations. The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent adaptive-optics assisted, medium-resolution (R$\sim$5000) integral field spectrographs (IFS) can be used to directly detect the absorption of molecular species in the spectra of planets and substellar companions when these are not present in the spectrum of the star. We analyzed archival data of $\beta$ Pictoris taken with the SINFONI integral field spectrograph (VLT), originally taken to image $\beta$ Pic b using ADI techniques. At each spatial position in the field, a scaled instance of the stellar spectrum is subtracted from the data after which the residuals are cross-correlated with model spectra. The cross-correlation co-adds the individual absorption lines of the planet emission spectrum constructively, but not residual telluric and stellar features. Cross-correlation with CO and H$_2$O models results in significant detections of $\beta$ Pic b at SNRs of 14.5 and 17.0 respectively. Correlation with a 1700K BT-Settl model provides a signal with an SNR of 25.0. This contrasts with ADI, which barely reveals the planet. While the AO system only achieved modest Strehl ratios of 19-27% leading to a raw contrast of 1:240 at the planet position, cross-correlation achieves a 3$\sigma$ contrast limit of $2.5\times10^{-5}$ in this 2.5h data set $0.36"$ away from the star. AO-assisted, medium-resolution IFS such as SINFONI (VLT) and OSIRIS (Keck), can be used for high-contrast imaging utilizing cross-correlation techniques for planets that are close to their star and embedded in speckle noise. We refer to this method as molecule mapping, and advocate its application to observations with future medium resolution instruments, in particular ERIS (VLT), HARMONI (ELT) and NIRSpec and MIRI (JWST).
Comments: 11 pages, 10 figures. Submitted for publication in A&A
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Journal reference: A&A 617, A144 (2018)
Cite as: arXiv:1802.09721 [astro-ph.EP]
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From: Jens Hoeijmakers [view email]
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What is a Team?
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Groups don't become teams because that is what someone calls them. Nor do teamwork values by themselves ensure team performance. Then what is a team? What steps should managers take to achieve team success and how can they determine when the team option is the best course of action? These queries are addressed in this article, along with a description of the discipline required to form a true team. Shared dedication is what makes a team work. Without it, groups only have the ability to perform as individuals; with it, they can perform as a potent unit. The most successful groups put a lot of effort into creating a mission they can call their own. Additionally, the most effective teams integrate their purpose into precise performance objectives. Successful teams also have individuals who contribute and take responsibility for their teammates as well as for themselves.
Performance serves as the primary dividing line between teams and other types of working groupings. Individual contributions made by each member of a working group are what drive the effectiveness of the group. A team, however, aims further than what any one member could do on their own. In other words, a strong team is always worth more than the sum of its parts. Teams that recommend things are task forces or project groups. Teams that make or do tasks are manufacturing, operations, or marketing groups. Teams that run tasks are groups that are in charge of a key functional activity. Knowing which areas of the company should support genuine teams is crucial for managers. Everywhere organizational or disciplinary boundaries prevent effective performance, there is team potential. Teams will eventually replace individuals as the main working unit in high-performance businesses, the authors predict, given the added level that they can attain.
Teams that actually function, as opposed to nebulous groups that we refer to as teams because we believe the label to be inspiring and energetic, tell stories and accomplish tasks in this manner. Most of us pay much too little attention to what separates teams that perform from other groups that don't. Because everyone is familiar with the word "team" and the idea it represents, this is part of the issue. Finding out what makes teams perform at different levels, where and how they function best, and what top management can do to improve their efficiency were all things we set out to find out.
Effective teams
Effective teams follow a fundamental set of rules. Additionally, we discovered that teams and effective performance are mutually exclusive. However, the way the word "team" is used nowadays makes it difficult to learn and put the discipline that results in high-caliber performance into practice. Having a clearer understanding of what a team is and isn't can help managers decide whether, when, and how to promote and utilize teams.
Most business leaders support collaboration. That's right, too. Giving people the benefit of the doubt, offering encouragement, and taking an interest in and celebrating the accomplishments of others are all part of the collection of principles that make up teamwork. A team's performance is aided by these ideals, which also support individual and organizational performance on the whole. Although they are not unique to teams and are not sufficient to guarantee team performance, teamwork values do exist.
As well, a team is not merely any group of people cooperating. Teams are not need to be committees, councils, or task groups. Teams don't just form because someone names a group of people a team. No large or complex organization's whole workforce ever functions as a team, but consider how frequently that adage is used.
We must make a distinction between teams and other types of working groups in order to comprehend how teams produce improved performance. Those differences depend on performance outcomes. The effectiveness of a working group depends on what each member accomplishes on an individual basis. The performance of a team consists of both individual outcomes and what we refer to as "collective work-products." The work that two or more individuals must collaborate on, such as experiments, surveys, or interviews, is known as a communal work-product. Whatever it is, a team's output represents the members' genuine, collaborative contributions.
Working-groups
In large businesses where individual accountability is crucial, working groups are common and efficient. The most effective working groups meet to exchange knowledge, viewpoints, and insights; to make decisions that enable each member to do their duties more effectively; and to reinforce personal performance standards. However, the emphasis is constantly on personal objectives and responsibilities. Working-group participants alone accept responsibility for their own results. Additionally, they don't try to create performance contributions that are gradual and call for the efforts of two or more members.
Working groups and teams are fundamentally different from one another because teams demand both individual and group accountability. Teams rely on more than only information sharing and best practice performance standards, as well as on group discussion, debate, and decision-making. Teams create distinct work-products as a result of the individual contributions of each member. Performance levels that are larger than the sum of the individual bests of team members are made attainable by this. A team, in other words, is more than the sum of its parts.
The first step in creating a disciplined approach to team management is to stop viewing teams as simply sets of ideal qualities and start seeing them as separate performance units. We propose the following after having seen and worked with numerous teams, both successful and unsuccessful. Consider it as a practical definition or, even better, as a shared discipline that all effective teams must adhere to.
A team is made up of a limited number of individuals with complementary abilities who are dedicated to a shared objective, set of performance standards, and strategy for which they hold one another accountable.
A team's core value is shared dedication. Without it, groups only perform as individuals; when they have it, they perform as a potent unit. A goal in which team members may believe is necessary for this kind of dedication. Credible team goals always involve winning, being the first, innovating, or being on the cutting edge. Examples include "convert the contributions of suppliers into the delight of customers," "make our firm one we can be proud of again," and "show that all children can learn."
By collaborating to create a compelling purpose, teams gain focus, momentum, and dedication. However, adopting early direction from outside the team is not incompatible with developing ownership and dedication to the organization's goal. The commonly held belief that a team cannot truly "own" its goal unless management gives it space to do so confuses more prospective teams than it helps. In actuality, it is the uncommon circumstance—for instance, in business circumstances—when a group independently develops a goal.
Most effective teams adapt their goals to fit a demand or opportunity that is placed in their path, typically by senior management. This broadens the performance expectations of the organization and aids teams in getting going. The team's charter, reasoning, and performance challenge must be made clear by management, but management must also give the team enough leeway to come up with its own interpretation of the purpose, a specific set of goals, timing, and strategy.
The most effective teams put a lot of time and effort into determining a mission that is both collectively and individually theirs. The squad remains in this "purposing" phase the entire time. Contrarily, unsuccessful teams rarely establish a unifying goal. They do not unite around a difficult ambition for whatever reason—a lack of effort, a lack of emphasis on achievement, or inadequate leadership.
Clear Goals
The most effective teams also transform their shared purpose into precise performance objectives, like lowering the supplier rejection rate by 50% or raising the math test scores of graduates from 40% to 95%. In fact, if a team doesn't set clear performance goals or if those goals aren't clearly related to the team's overarching mission, the members will become disoriented, split up, and perform at a substandard level again. On the other hand, when purposes and goals are joined with team dedication, they constitute a potent performance engine.
The most reliable initial step for a team striving to create a purpose meaningful to its members is to transform broad directions into precise and measurable performance goals. Teams can stand on strong ground by working toward specific objectives like bringing a new product to market in less than half the usual time, responding to every client within 24 hours, or eliminating errors while saving expenses by 40%.
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Specific team performance goals aid in defining a set of work-products that are distinct from both individual job objectives and the organization's overall mission. As a result, such work-products demand the team's cooperation in order to achieve a defined goal that, by itself, contributes genuine value to the outcomes. In contrast, team effectiveness will not be sustained by only meeting occasionally to make choices.
The specificity of performance goals makes it easier for the team to communicate clearly and engage in healthy conflict. The team is forced to focus on what it would take to either achieve or reevaluate the target when a plant-level team, for instance, sets a goal of reducing the average machine changeover time to two hours. Discussions can concentrate on how to achieve these goals or whether to change them when they are crystal obvious; conversely, when they are vague or nonexistent, they are considerably less fruitful.
Teams can stay focused on producing results when their goals are achievable.
As demonstrated by Outward Bound and other team-building initiatives, specified goals level the playing field and promote cooperative behavior. Their various titles, privileges, and other stripes vanish when a small group of people push themselves to climb a wall or cut cycle time in half. The teams that are successful determine what and how each member may contribute to the team's goal in the most effective way. More importantly, they do this by focusing on the performance target itself rather than the status or personality of a particular member.
A team can gain little victories while pursuing its larger aim by setting specific goals. These little victories are crucial for fostering dedication and conquering the challenges that will inevitably stand in the way of a long-term goal. For instance, the Knight-Ridder team that was discussed earlier transformed a limited objective to decrease errors into an inspiring customer-service objective.
Performance objectives are motivating. They inspire and serve as motivators since they are symbols of success. They encourage team members to commit to acting as a unit to change the world. Teams driven by drama, urgency, and a healthy fear of failure focus their collective eyes on an achievable but difficult goal. The team alone has the power to make it happen. It is a difficulty for them.
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Performance depends on having both clear goals and a purpose. To stay relevant and important, each is dependent upon the other. The bigger, even more lofty ideals in a team's mission provide both meaning and emotional energy. Clear performance goals enable a team monitor progress and hold itself accountable.
While a team's goals aid in tracking its progress, a larger purpose provides meaning and motivation.
Almost all successful teams have a size between 2 and 25 members. They have often been less than 10 in number. Admittedly, being small is more of a practical guidance than a strict need for success. Theoretically, a group of several individuals, say 50 or more, may form a team. However, groups of this size are more likely to split up into smaller teams than to work as a single entity.
Why? Large groups of people find it challenging to collaborate effectively, let alone do meaningful work. Ten people are much more likely to overcome their personal, functional, and hierarchical differences in order to create a shared goal and hold each other accountable for the outcomes than fifty people are.
Large groups must also deal with logistical challenges including obtaining enough time and room to meet. Additionally, they deal with more difficult obstacles like herd or crowd behaviors that inhibit the intense viewpoint exchange required to form a team. As a result, when they attempt to create a shared purpose, they frequently end up with just flimsy "missions" and well-intentioned ideas that cannot be turned into actionable goals. Meetings often rapidly become a chore, which is a telltale sign that the majority of the participants have no real reason for being together beyond the vague hope of getting along better. Anyone who has completed one of these exercises is aware of how annoying it can be. Failure of this nature sometimes breeds pessimism, which hinders subsequent group projects.
Teams need to identify the correct size as well as the right mix of skills, or all of the complementary skills required to complete the team's task. Although it seems clear, it is a typical mistake with prospective teams. Three areas of skill requirements are generally self-evident:
either technical or functional knowledge. A group of doctors suing over employment discrimination in a court of law would be illogical. However, medical malpractice or personal injury claims are frequently litigated by medical and legal teams. Similar to this, product development teams that solely have engineers or marketers are less likely to be successful than teams that have the complimentary talents of both.
Decision-making and problem-solving abilities
Teams must be able to recognize the opportunities and issues they are faced with, assess the options available to them for moving forward, and then make the required trade-offs and judgments regarding how to proceed. Even though many people learn these abilities best on the job, most teams need at least one member who possesses them.
Interpersonal Capabilities
Without efficient communication and healthy conflict, which in turn depend on interpersonal skills, common understanding and purpose cannot be achieved. Risk-taking, constructive criticism, objectivity, active listening, extending the benefit of the doubt, and acknowledging the interests and accomplishments of others are a few of these.
Obviously, a team needs a minimal set of abilities to function, particularly technical and functional ones. Even yet, consider how frequently you've been a part of a team whose members were picked solely based on personal compatibility or formal status in the organization, with little consideration given to the skill mix of its members.
In choosing a team, overemphasizing skills is also typical. But none of the successful teams we've seen started off with all the necessary talents. In reality, we found that teams are effective means of acquiring the abilities required to overcome the performance problem faced by the team. As a result, choosing team members should be based equally on talent potential and skill demonstration.
Strong commitment to a shared strategy, or how they will cooperate to achieve their goals, is developed by effective teams. Team members must come to an understanding regarding who will perform specific tasks, how deadlines will be set and followed, what skills must be cultivated, how team membership will be maintained, and how the group will make and alter choices. The team's dedication to this aspect of commitment, as well as its commitment to its purpose and goals, is crucial to team performance.
The core of developing a shared strategy is coming to an understanding of the details of the task and how they fit together to integrate individual skills and improve team performance. Perhaps it goes without saying that a method that assigns all the actual work to a small group of people (or staff outsiders) and relies solely on meetings and reviews for its features of "working together" cannot support a true team. A successful team has members who all put in an equal amount of genuine effort, and everyone—including the team leader—contributes in tangible ways to the team's output. This is a crucial component of the emotional reasoning behind how well a team functions.
Every member that enters a team scenario, particularly one in the workplace, has prior job responsibilities as well as strengths and limitations that represent their specific histories, skills, personalities, and prejudices. A team can only determine and reach consensus on the optimal strategy to accomplish its goals through the mutual discovery and knowledge of how to deploy all of its human resources to a common goal. A commitment-building process in which the team frankly discusses who is most suited for each task as well as how individual tasks will come together sits at the core of such protracted and, at times, challenging interactions. In essence, the team creates a social contract among its members that connects to their goal and specifies the rules and requirements for their cooperative behavior.
No group ever develops into a team until it can hold itself to its collective obligations. Mutual accountability faces a challenging test, much like shared purpose and strategy. Consider the minor but important distinction between saying "the boss holds me accountable" and saying "we hold ourselves accountable." The first scenario can lead to the second, but the team cannot exist without the second.
Consider the distinction between "we hold ourselves accountable" and "the boss holds me accountable."
Teams can form "organically" whenever there is a clear performance problem needing group effort as opposed to individual effort in organizations like Hewlett-Packard. The concept of mutual accountability is prevalent in these businesses. The way they play their performance game is by "being in the boat together."
Team responsibility is really about the sincere commitments we make to ourselves and others, commitment and trust being two of the most important components of successful teams. The majority of us approach possible team situations with caution because our entrenched individualism and life experiences make us reluctant to entrust others with our fortunes or take accountability for others. Teams do not succeed by wishing such conduct away or ignoring it.
Mutual trust cannot be forced, just as it cannot be forced between individuals. However, mutual accountability develops as a natural counterpart when a team has a single purpose, set of goals, and strategy. Accountability results from and strengthens the time, effort, and action put out in determining what the team is attempting to accomplish and the most effective way to do it.
The development of trust and commitment occurs when people cooperate to achieve a common goal. As a result, teams that share a strong common strategy and purpose hold themselves accountable for the team's performance both individually and collectively. The great rewards of shared success are also produced by this sense of reciprocal accountability. Members of successful teams consistently expressed how the experience was invigorating and motivating in ways that their "regular" work could never compare.
On the other hand, teams that are formed primarily for the purpose of becoming a team or for job enhancement, communication, organizational effectiveness, or excellence rarely succeed, as evidenced by the unfavorable impressions quality circles experiments in many businesses left behind when "quality" was never translated into concrete objectives. The process of discussing goals and approaches to them only gives team members a clearer and clearer choice when appropriate performance goals are set. They can disagree with a goal and the path that the team chooses and, in effect, opt out, or they can pitch in and become accountable with and to their teammates.
All teams must maintain the discipline we've described for them to be successful. But going a step further can be helpful as well. Most teams fall into one of three categories: teams that make or do things, teams that recommend things, and teams that manage things. According to our observations, each kind encounters a unique set of difficulties.
Groups that make recommendations
These teams may be task forces, project teams, audit, quality, or safety groups tasked with researching and resolving specific issues. Teams that provide recommendations nearly always have deadlines set for completion. Getting off to a quick and productive start and coping with the final handoff necessary to get recommendations implemented are two crucial difficulties that are specific to such teams.
The team's charter's clarity and membership's makeup hold the key to solving the first problem. Task forces need a clear explanation of who management expects to participate, how their contributions are crucial, and the amount of time that will be needed in addition to wanting to understand why and how. Management may assist by making sure that the team consists of individuals with the knowledge and clout needed to develop suggestions that will be taken seriously across the firm. Additionally, management can assist the team in obtaining the required collaboration by providing access and removing political roadblocks.
Teams that advocate things are virtually usually stymied by missing the handoff. To prevent this, top management must devote time and focus to handing over responsibility for suggestions to people who must put them into action. It is less probable that recommendations will be followed the more top managers expect that things will "simply happen." The more personally invested task force members are in seeing their recommendations carried through, the more probable it is that they will.
It is crucial to involve them in the process early and frequently, most definitely before suggestions are formalized, to the point that individuals outside the task force will be expected to carry the load. Such participation can take many different forms, such as taking part in interviews, contributing to analyses, offering and criticising ideas, and doing tests and trials. Anyone in charge of implementation should, at the very least, be briefed on the task force's intent, strategy, and goals at the start of the project, as well as on a frequent basis.
Groups that produce or perform
These teams are made up of individuals who work at or close to the front lines and are in charge of carrying out a company's basic production, development, operations, marketing, sales, and other value-adding tasks. Teams that manufacture or do things typically don't have specific completion deadlines because their operations are continual, however there are occasional exceptions, such as new-product development or process design teams.
Top management should focus on what we refer to as the company's "key delivery points," or areas in the organization where the cost and value of the company's products and services are most directly decided, when determining where team performance might have the biggest impact. These crucial delivery points may be found in the locations of account management, customer support, product design, and productivity measurement. The team option is the best choice if performance at crucial delivery points depends on integrating various abilities, viewpoints, and judgments in real-time.
Where is there a place for the team option? This is the area where the price and value of the company's goods and services are most directly determined.
The sheer difficulty of maximizing the performance of so many groups will necessitate a well designed and performance-focused set of management practices when an organization does at these times require a considerable number of teams. The challenge for senior management in this situation is how to provide the required systems and process supports without getting caught up in the appearance of promoting teams for their own sake.
Returning to our earlier consideration of the fundamental discipline of teams, the requirement in this situation is a relentless concentration on performance. The organization may start to believe that "this year we are doing teams" if management consistently ignores the connection between teams and performance. However, top management must first and foremost set clear and compelling expectations for the teams and then continuously monitor their progress with regard to both team fundamentals and performance results. Top management can assist by implementing processes like pay schemes and training for teams responsive to their real-time needs. This entails concentrating on particular teams and performance issues. If not, "performance," like "team," will lose its meaning.
Teamwork and performance issues will prevent the terms "performance" and "team" from becoming overused by top management
groups in charge of stuff. Even though many leaders refer to the group that answers to them as a team, very few groups actually are. Additionally, because they are so concentrated on achieving performance goals, organizations that develop into true teams rarely view themselves as a team. However, there is room for such teams at all levels of the organization, from the top down to the divisional or functional level. It is a team that runs things whether it is in charge of thousands of people or just a few, as long as the group manages some business, ongoing program, or substantial functional activity.
Determining if a true team approach is appropriate is the main challenge these teams have. As working groups rather than teams, many organizations that manage things can be more productive. The crucial decision is whether the group must offer substantial incremental performance necessitating meaningful, collaborative work-products or whether the aggregate of individual bests will sufficient for the performance issue at hand. The team option carries more risk even though it promises higher performance, so managers must be ruthlessly honest when weighing the trade-offs.
A natural reluctance to entrust their fate to others may be something that members must get over. The cost of pretending to be a team is high: at best, members lose focus on their individual goals, costs outweigh benefits, and people resent being forced to sacrifice their time and other priorities; at worst, serious resentments arise that undermine even the working-group approach's potential for individual bests.
Less risk is present in working groups. Since the leader typically sets it, effective working groups need minimal time to shape their mission. Meetings follow carefully prioritized agendas. Additionally, decisions are carried out by means of particular person tasks and accountability. Therefore, working in groups is typically more convenient, safer, and less disruptive than attempting to achieve unattainable team performance levels if performance goals can be fulfilled by people performing their individual duties well. In fact, improving the effectiveness of the working group makes much more sense than futilely attempting to build a team if there is no performance need for the team method.
Having said that, we believe the additional level of performance teams can accomplish is crucial for an increasing number of businesses, particularly when they undergo significant transformation that depends on widespread behavioral change for business performance. When senior management forms teams to operate operations, it should ensure that the teams are successful in formulating clear objectives and targets.
This is a second serious problem for management teams. These teams frequently conflate the narrow objective of their tiny group at the top with the wide mission of the entire firm. According to the discipline of teams, for a real team to emerge, there must be a team purpose that is unique and exclusive to the small group and that necessitates its members to put in the work and complete something beyond individual end products. A group of managers will lack any team performance objectives if they base their evaluation of overall effectiveness solely on the financial success of the division of the organization they oversee.
Teams at the top are undoubtedly the most challenging, even though the fundamental discipline of teams does not change for them. Teams at the top struggle because to the complexity of long-term problems, time constraints on executives, and senior people's ingrained individuality. The most effective teams are those that are at the top. At first, we believed that such teams were virtually unattainable. This is due to the fact that we were examining teams in accordance with their formal organizational definition, which states that a team consists of its head and all of its direct reports. Later, we learned that actual teams at the top were frequently smaller and less structured. A few were fours, but the majority were twos and threes.
The most challenging and effective teams are those at the top
However, there are still very few true teams at the top of big, complex businesses. The assumption that all direct reports must be on the team, that team goals must be the same as corporate goals, that team members' positions rather than skills determine their respective roles, that a team must always be a team, and that the team leader is above doing actual work prevents far too many groups at the top of large corporations from achieving real team levels of performance.
These presumptions may be reasonable, but the majority of them are unfounded. They do not apply to the teams at the top that we have observed, and true team performance at the top can and does happen when they are replaced with more realistic and flexible assumptions that allow the team discipline to be implemented. Additionally, we will see more genuine teams at the top as more businesses are forced to manage significant change across their organizations.
In high-performance organizations, we predict that teams will predominate as the primary performance unit. However, this does not imply that formal hierarchy and process or individual opportunity will be crowded out by teams. Teams will instead improve current structures rather than replacing them. Anywhere organizational or hierarchical boundaries prevent the knowledge and viewpoints required for the best outcomes, a team opportunity occurs. Thus, maintaining functional excellence through structure while eliminating functional bias through teams is necessary for new-product creation. Frontline productivity also necessitates maintaining hierarchy for leadership and guidance while utilizing self-managing teams for energy and flexibility.
We are persuaded that every business faces unique performance issues for which teams are the most useful and effective tool at the disposal of senior management. Senior managers must consequently focus on the performance of the organization and the types of teams that can deliver it. This means that teams must be deliberately deployed when they are the right tool for the job, and top management must encourage the fundamental discipline that will enable teams to be successful. Top management does this to foster the kind of environment that fosters individual, team, and organizational performance.
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The incredible growth of Amazon.com has put fear into the hearts of traditional retailers. Amazon's stock price has soared to amazing levels. However, it is often pointed out in the financial press that it took the company several years to report its first profit.
Calculate free cash flow for Amazon for the current and prior years.
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Wi-Fi, Libraries, Holiday Lights, & Homelessness
Here's a round-up Bronx related news for Monday:
It's a Tale of Two Wi-Fis.
Free Wi-Fi is coming to NYC but not all will get the super fast speeds.
A mayor who won office citing inequality between rich and poor New Yorkers has approved a citywide wireless Internet system that gives superfast service to Manhattan and upscale Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods, but puts everyone else in the broadband slow lane.
Mayor de Blasio's "five-borough Wi-Fi Network" will operate 10 times slower in Staten Island and poorer neighborhoods of Brooklyn and the Bronx, a Daily News examination found.
via EXCLUSIVE: De Blasio's Wi-Fi plan slower in poor nabes – NY Daily News.
Bronx Library May Get a New Neighbor: Another Library
The Huntington Free Library and Reading Room in the Bronx. The building at left is where a New York Public Library branch will be built. Credit Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
The red brick library in the Bronx was built in the early 1880s with a $15,000 bequest from Peter Van Schaick, a wealthy tobacco merchant who wanted to honor his late wife with a free reading room.
Only his gift was refused not once, but twice, by local taxpayers who worried it would be too costly to operate and maintain. So it languished, unwanted and unloved, until a railroad magnate, Collis P. Huntington, bought it, and opened it to the public in 1891 as the privately run Huntington Free Library and Reading Room.
Now more than a century later, it is the Huntington that is being courted as part of a larger effort to revitalize Westchester Square, a once-thriving commercial hub around an elevated No. 6 subway station. Under an $18 million plan, New York City and the New York Public Library would take over part of the Huntington's one-acre site on Westchester Square, and replace a storage building that adjoins the library with a modern glass-and-steel structure that would be the new public library branch for the neighborhood.
via Bronx Library May Get a New Neighbor: Another Library – NYTimes.com.
Morris Park Community Association works to fund holiday lights • Bronx Times
Holiday lights are going up in Morris Park, but the effort to pay for them is just beginning.
The Morris Park Community Association has recently started its annual canvassing for contributions to the holiday light fund, which has gotten increasingly difficult over the years.
Although the lights will go up about a week before Thanksgiving, MPCA president Tony Signorile said the fundraising still has a long way to go.
via Morris Park Community Association works to fund holiday lights • Bronx Times.
More Homeless Get Public Housing in New York City, but Shelter Population on Rise – WSJ
Marta Vargas hangs holiday decorations with her daughters at their home in the Patterson Houses in the Bronx. The family moved to their apartment this year after living in a shelter for 18 months. ANDREW HINDERAKER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Every New York City public-housing apartment set aside for homeless families this year was quickly filled, officials said, but the homeless-shelter population keeps growing despite the city's renewed efforts to tackle the problem.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing criticism from homeless advocates and Democratic elected officials who say the administration's policy of giving the homeless preferential status in public housing is insufficient. Some conservatives, however, warn the policy may inadvertently increase the number of people in shelters.
via More Homeless Get Public Housing in New York City, but Shelter Population on Rise – WSJ.
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Clogged drains are some of the most common calls our plumbers in Austin get on a daily basis. We all rely on the drains in our home without really thinking much about them. They flush away dirty water in our sinks, soapy water in our bathtubs, and food particles in the kitchen. But when those drains get clogged and can't function at their best, it can leave us with a big mess. Clogged drains are more than just an inconvenience, too; if the clog won't go away, it can bring activities in the home to a halt. It's tough to bathe, cook, or wash your hands when the drain won't clear. However, it can get worse. When drain issues aren't resolved, they can result in water damage to the structure of the home that can cost thousands to repair.
If you feel like you are calling our plumbers for drain cleaning services more and more often, it might be time to find a new solution. Here are some tips that can help keep your drains flowing freely for longer.
Flush drain thoroughly with hot water.
A lot of the materials that causes your sinks to clog up don't start out as solids. Things like grease from food and conditioners from your hair seem like they should slide easily through your drains and pipes and out into the wastewater supply. Unfortunately, that's not always the case, and substances like these can build up in your drains, solidify, and eventually cause your clogs. You can help prevent this from happening by flushing your drains with hot water. This will help those substances break down and move out of the drain. Aim to do it at least once a day, but ideally, you should quickly flush them with hot water every time you use them.
Keep hair from going down the drain.
Hair is a major culprit behind drain clogs in bathroom sinks and showers. Hair gets caught in the pipes and ends up a snarled, disgusting mess that will eventually stop the flow of water entirely. It's best to stop all of that hair from entering the pipes in the first place. You can purchase inexpensive "hair catchers" for your drains at your local hardware store. These devices simply sit over the drain and usually don't require any sort of installation. As you shower or use the sink, the device will capture the hair before it enters your plumbing system. Once you are done with the sink or shower, you can gather the hair and throw it away in the trash.
Be cautious about what you send down the kitchen sink.
If you are sick of your sinks getting clogged and calling the plumber for drain cleaning services, it might be time to give Bio-Clean a try. Bio-Clean is an environmentally-friendly alternative to harsh, chemical-laden products. It doesn't just unclog your drains, either; it prevents the clogs from happening in the first place. A safe combination of enzymes and bacteria work together to dissolve the substances that get caught in your drain and create blockages. We apply the substances during routine maintenance of your residential plumbing system. After that, your household should remain clog-free until our next visit. It's a great way to cut down maintenance costs in your household and reduce your frustration with your pipes.
You can get in touch with our team today to learn more about Bio-Clean and our other drain cleaning solutions. Give us a call or contact us through our website and a member of our team will get back to you right away with more information about the plumbing services that you need.


When we reviewed Nvidia's new Maxwell GTX 750 Ti, we highlighted how the chip's power efficiency could make it a serious headache for AMD in the near future. Leaked benchmarks from the upcoming GTX 860M, point to the terrifying truth of that statement: While most high-end laptop GPUs have a TDP of 75W, the 860M displaces just 45W. Perhaps even more interestingly, if the chip is as capable as these tests indicate, it could make a potent upgrade for smartphones, tablets, and other ultra-mobile devices in the 20nm 2015/Tegra K1 timeframe as well.
First we'll discuss laptops and desktops, since that's what we have performance figures for. According to leaked information, the GeForce GTX 860M has 640 CUDA cores, 40 texture mapping units (TMUs), and 16 ROPs. At first glance, that would put it well behind the current GTX 760M, which has 768 cores, 64 ROPs, and 16 TMUs. It's further dwarfed by the GTX 770M, which offers a 960:80:24 configuration.
The tables turn a bit in the Extreme Preset, where the GTX 770M's score of X1747 narrowly wins past the GTX 860M's X1662. This mirrors what we saw in desktop tests, where the GTX 650 Ti Boost was occasionally significantly faster than the GTX 750 Ti in tests that were memory bandwidth-bound or scaled extremely well with Kepler's 192-core SMX architecture.
The real kicker, however, is the claimed 45W TDP envelope for the new Maxwell. This would make sense, given that the desktop variant has a 60W TDP and Nvidia can bin the mobile parts for superior power consumption. If it's true, this puts AMD in a very tight spot with respect to the laptop market. AMD's 28nm GCN parts are well-aligned against Kepler in terms of rated TDPs — the GTX 770M is reportedly a 75W part. At 45W, Mobile Maxwell is in a class of its own.
Nvidia is holding back for 20nm before it launches a full spread of Maxwell products on the desktop, and that's likely true in mobile as well. The 860M is probably positioned to catch the sweet spot of the midrange space — and since it offers nearly top-end performance, it's going to do that extremely well. No word on whether or not the 860M supports SLI configurations (the desktop variant doesn't), or when we'll see products actually shipping with the new GPU inside them.
One of the most exciting facets of this architecture, however, is the performance it should offer in a handheld. Tegra 4 may not have lit up the sales charts, but the Tegra K1's mobile GPU architecture really ought to shine, especially when it comes to highlighting the performance benefits that CUDA and GPU physics can bring to the table in mobile games.
Next year, we'll presumably see a 20nm version of Tegra K1 with more Project Denver-derived CPU cores and an integrated Maxwell GPU. Given that improvements to TDP and smaller dies directly translate to better experiences in handhelds (since every modern environment is TDP constrained), Nvidia should be able to deliver a killer upgrade 10-12 months from now.
This kind of debut in laptops could spur additional interest in licensing the company's graphics technology. We haven't heard of anyone signing up for a Kepler license to date, but power efficiency turns heads these days. If Maxwell keeps delivering like this, it's going to attract attention — possibly from companies like MediaTek or RockChip, who are hungry to differentiate themselves and gain market share against giants like Qualcomm or Samsung.