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Q: Как автоматически переопределить id элементов в массиве Есть такой массив:
Array
(
    [1] => хомяк
    [5] => собака
    [8] => макака
)

Нужно превратить его в такой:
Array
(
    [0] => хомяк
    [1] => собака
    [2] => макака
)

A: foreach($arr1 as $k){
    $arr2[] = $k;
}

A: $array = Array(1 => 'хомяк', 5 => 'собака', 8 => 'макака');
rsort($array);

print_r($array);  // Array ( [0] => хомяк [1] => собака [2] => макака )

https://www.php.net/manual/ru/function.rsort.php


The prices in real estate in Jalan Klang Lama, in the Kuala Lumpur region have remained the same in the last couple of months. The real estate prices for second hand homes have remained in this city.
Based upon to the price in Jalan Klang Lama (cities), these have remained the same in the last 6 months. The average price for October is RM 687,294. During November the price had a slight fall till RM 633,638. During the following two months (December, January) the price has had an average incrementation from RM 660,466 to RM 758,100.5. During the last two months, the average price has reduced with regard to the previous ones. To be precise it has gone down 89 %, going from RM 709,283.25 to RM 629,104.5 in February and March.
The graph displaying the average price for bedrooms illustrates that those properties with 1 bedroom are the cheapest ones. At a price of RM 622,982 they are 27 % more affordable than the average price for Jalan Klang Lama. The properties with the highest average price have 4 bedrooms, Their price is 8 % more costly than the average. After that we have properties with 2 bedrooms priced at RM 562,404.
With regard to the average price per sq.feet , those properties with 3 bedrooms are the cheapest ones at a cost of RM 471 / sq.feet, with an average RM 520 / sq.feet price in Jalan Klang Lama. The properties with the highest average prices have 2 bedrooms. They are 25 % more expensive than the average followed by properties with 1 bedroom with a price at RM 587 / sq.feet.
The graph displaying the average prices displays the property type "Apartment" as the most affordable one. At an cost of RM 622,982 it is 47 % cheaper than the average price in Jalan Klang Lama. "Serviced Residence" is seen as the second most affordable property type. The dearest property type is "Bungalow" followed by "Shop". At a price of RM 2,868,585 it is 437 % more expensive than the average price.
According to the average cost per sq.feet, the cheapest property type is "Apartment" at an average cost of RM 356 / sq.feet followed by "Terraced House" priced at RM 387 / sq.feet. "Bungalow" is the most costly type of property with a RM 623 / sq.feet cost followed by "Serviced Residence" with an average price of RM 578 / sq.feet.


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The CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA is one of the premier orchestras of the world, joining with those of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago to comprise the generally acknowledged "Big Five" of American symphonic music. Its first concert was a benefit for St. Ann's Parish of CLEVELAND HEIGHTS at GRAY'S ARMORY on 11 Dec. 1918. The musical personnel recruited for that concert, including NIKOLAI SOKOLOFF as conductor, went on to form the core of a permanent Cleveland Orchestra under the management of ADELLA PRENTISS HUGHES (1918-1933) and the direction of the MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION. During the 1920s, the orchestra built a firm base of local support and began to achieve broader notice through travels in Ohio, the East Coast, Canada, and Cuba. Concerts were given in the Masonic Auditorium and later in the PUBLIC AUDITORIUM and the adjacent Music Hall. A substantial gift from Mr. and Mrs. JOHN L. SEVERANCE enabled the Musical Arts Association to build a permanent home, SEVERANCE HALL, for the orchestra at Euclid Avenue and East Boulevard in UNIVERSITY CIRCLE. The orchestra inaugurated it in 1931.
From 1933 to 1955, Carl Vosburgh served as general manager, playing a significant role in establishing the orchestra's national prominence. Vosburgh was succeeded by William McKelvey Martin from 1955 to 1957. A. Beverly Barksdale served as general manager from 1957 to 1970, during the orchestra's first "Golden Age," when it achieved international prominence under conductor GEORGE SZELL. Subsequent general managers have included Michael Maxwell (1970-1976), Kenneth Haas (1976-1987), and Thomas W. Morris (1987-2003). Gary Hanson (2003-current) held the position of executive director as of 2007.
Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Most became the orchestra's seventh musical director at the beginning of the 2002-2003 season. Welser-Most's six predecessors were: Nikolai Sokoloff (1918-33); ARTUR RODZINSKI (1933-43); Erich Leinsdorf (1943-46); George Szell (1946-70); Lorin Maazel (1972-82); and Christoph von Dohnanyi (1984-2002). Robert Shaw served as the orchestra's associate conductor from 1956-67, charged by George Szell with revitalizing the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. It was under Szell's musical direction that the orchestra undertook an extensive series of foreign tours that greatly enhanced its international reputation. Maazel and Dohnanyi continued the tours while expanding the orchestra's commercial recording work. Under Dohnanyi (1984-2002), a tradition of operatic productions dating from the days of Rodzinski in the 1930s was revived, culminating in concert performances of Wagner's Die Walkure and Das Rheingold at Severance Hall in 1992 and 1993. In 1992, the Cleveland Orchestra became the first American orchestra to establish a residency at Austria's Salzburg Festival, with regular performances there from 1990-1996. The orchestra reopened Severance Hall in 2000 after completion of a two-year, $36-million renovation and restoration project designed by architect David Schwartz.
During Welser-Most's tenure as musical director (2002-current), the orchestra began a ten-year annual program of residency performances and educational activities in Miami, Florida, arranged through Miami's Carnival Center for the Performing Arts. The Miami orchestra-in-residency program began in 2007.
In addition to revenues from tours, local ticket sales, and performance recordings, the Cleveland Orchestra has been supported by a $123 million endowment (as of the close of 2005-2006 season). Other large contributions, organized through the Musical Arts Association (see link above), have come from corporate, government, and foundation grants. Education has been a major facet of the orchestra's work since its inception and has involved, among other things, hundreds of concerts for local schoolchildren. During the orchestra's first 75 years, 3 million children attended educational concerts. In 2006, nearly 30,000 children attended Cleveland Orchestra events.
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Grossman, F. Karl. A History of Music in Cleveland (1972).
Marsh, Robert. The Cleveland Orchestra (1967).
Musical Arts Assoc. Archives, Severance Hall.
Witchey, Holly Rarick. The Fine Arts in Cleveland: An Illustrated History (1994).
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And consider what happened when Donald Trump tried to spin this mass murder into a screed against the FBI for probing his campaign's possible collusion with Russia. A young lady named Morgan Williams took to Twitter to carve him an orifice the Almighty never intended.
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But let me tell you one of the best things about kids: it's never old to them. When you reach a certain age, you have a longer personal context through which to view the crimes, sins and absurdities of humankind. When you haven't graduated high school yet, you essentially have only now.
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Pamela Varkony began her career at an MOR-FM radio station and its sister NBC affiliate TV station in a Top Twenty market. Broadcasting is a passion; one Pam pursues often.
She is a frequent guest on news and talk shows discussing politics and current events as well as advocating for the rights of women in the American workplace and the developing world.
In 2009 & 2010, Pam hosted the "Power Of Women" radio show on the Voice America Internet Network, demonstrating her ongoing commitment to quality programming that both informs and entertains.
Pam continues to provide commentary for both PBS and NPR on a regional and national basis. As a member of "Alliance for Women in Media", she served as a judge for the 2009 "Gracie Awards" in New York.
Public Affairs Television
A May, 2013, appearance on the public affairs program "Business Matters", provided a lively exchange between the panelists, along with input from the moderator, regarding the topic of "Gender-based pay inequity in the workplace".
Opening Salvo – No more fairytales, but government is not the answer either.
Leadership Advice – Keeping a work journal is an invaluable tool to prove your worth to an employer
Public Affairs Radio
Pamela has worked closely with her local Community Public Radio/NPR station, WDIY. From 2005 to 2014 she provided on-air commentary based on her newspaper column, as well as hosted the magazine show, Lehigh Valley Discourse.
In honor of Women's History Month the following program aired on March 7, 2013. Women who break barriers and glass ceilings always make for a good interview; the following clips filled with wisdom and advice is proof in point.
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Entrepreneurship often begins in childhood…
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"At ACSIA Partners LLC Partners we're glad to support the vital work of the Alzheimer's Association," says Guinan. "We're also glad to make a difference for families right now. We can't do anything about the disease itself, other than donate, but we can help families plan for associated long-term care services, which can be substantial."
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Q: replacing string is not working for lines having '&' character I am working on manipulating a string/line which is read from file "A.txt" and writing it to a new file "B.txt"
Here in the file A if the line contains '&' character the string replace is not working.
**for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('type "%%F"') do (
set str=%%a
set filename=abc
set findStr=!filename!.
echo !findStr!
set replaceStr=folder1\!filename!\!filename!.
echo !replaceStr!
call set str=%%str:!findStr!=!replaceStr!%%**
)

Here for lines which are not having '&' the string replace works perfectly. Only when line contain the special character it is not working.
Please help me in understanding the issue here.
Note this is not the full script.

A: Try this (assuming that you already have delayed expansion enabled):
(for /f "delims=" %%a in (C:\path\to\A.txt) do (
  set "str=%%a"
  set "filename=abc"
  set "srch=!filename!."
  >&3 echo !srch!
  set "repl=folder1\!filename!\!filename!."
  >&3 echo !repl!
  call set "str=%%str:!srch!=!repl!%%"
  echo !str!
)) > C:\path\to\B.txt

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The school and church campus were in full operation during construction. XL Closely coordinated with the school to facilitate alternate routes for drop-off and pick up of students and established "safe zones" for students to segregate the construction activities from the active campus. As the project included demolition of the existing facility, temporary facilities were put in place to avoid disruption to the rest of the campus.


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Hand mix dry ingredients into bowl with yogurt and cilantro. (Technically cilantro is optional, but not when I make it!) Let sit for 15 minutes for flavors to blend.
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Today's weather is turning out to be partly cloudy. The visibility is going to be around 20 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1015 mb . The daytime temperature is going to reach 15 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 5 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 4% of the sky, the humidity will be around 62%.
Tomorrow weather is forecasted to be partly cloudy. The visibility is going to be around 20 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1012 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 21 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 6 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 2% of the sky, the humidity will be around 57%.
On Sunday weather will be partly cloudy with daytime temperature reaching 26 °c. Night time temperature are expected to be 12 °c.It will be dry with no precipitation. The visibility is going to be around 20 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1009 mb. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 20% of the sky, the humidity will be around 73%.
Monday seems to be light rain shower. Pella, United States of America visibility is going to be around 17 km i.e. 10 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1010 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 21 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 14 °c at night. We expect around 1.6 mm of precipitation to fall and cloud covering 91% of the sky, the humidity will be around 82%.
Moderate rain at times will be the weather pattern for the Tuesday. The visibility is going to be around 19 km i.e. 11 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1016 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 14 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 10 °c at night. It will be mostly dry with little or no precipitation and cloud covering 97% of the sky, the humidity will be around 82%.
Looking at the weather in Pella, United States of America over the next 7 days, the maximum temperature will be 26℃ (or 79℉) on Sunday 21st April at around 4 pm. In the same week the minimum temperature will be 5℃ (or 41℉) on Friday 19th April at around 7 am.
The national weather service for Pella, United States of America is reporting Monday 22nd April to be the wettest day in the coming week with around 1.00mm (or 0.0 inches) of rainfall. Make sure to carry an umbrella if you are out and about in Pella, United States of America.
The windiest of all days will be Sunday 21st April as wind will reach 16mph (or 26kmph) at around 4 pm.


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Recap: To answer the question you haven't yet asked, "Yes, my neighbors DO think I'm weird when I go dancing up and down the halls after a winner." And last night, we did it again! The Cleveland Indians blew a golden opportunity to put the Angels away in the 10th inning, but caught a break, and won it on an error in the 11th. Considering how many unbearable extra-inning losses we had to take earlier this year, it was nice to put one back in the win column, and while the Padres freebie was a loser, we're still a perfect 8-0 on Paid Plays this week! 4-0 on Sunday, and 1-0 every day since! Sadly, freebies are 1-2 this week, so for those that desperately want to see a capper mention something that lost, there it is. I'll do better next time (wink).
Today: I've said it time and again - know your limitations. For me, I tend to bet with my heart on Cal games, and sure enough, my Bears play in the ESPN2 nightcap of tonight's CFB double-header. So, again, while it might mean that no one gets my play, I'm headed BACK TO THE BASES! And why not? We got that GOW yesterday, and Paid Plays on the bases on both Tuesday and Wednesday. We're rolling in both MLB and NFL, and whether the World wants to join me, well, that's the World's prerogative! By the way, if you do, head to my Pro Page, here, at DanBebe.com.
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D'backs (-155) @ Pirates with a total of 8; I. Kennedy vs. B. Burres;
The D'backs are playing solid baseball, and in the right spots, this is a great team to back. As a -155 road favorite is not one of those spots. I wouldn't pay over -135 for this team in any venue, even with them playing as well as they are, but the Pirates can surprise a few teams, at home, and the zero-crowd atmosphere can make for some strange, strange baseball games.
Nationals @ Phillies (-290) with a total of 8; J. Marquis vs. R. Oswalt;
Just toss a quarter unit on the dog RL and thank me later.
Braves (-155) @ Mets with a total of 7; T. Hanson vs. J. Niese;
I want to try to find a way to back someone in this game, but the more I look at it, the less I want to bet on it. Hanson is 2-1 with an 0.73 ERA against the Mets lifetime, but his starts in New York have been short. He was amazing against them, at home, but life is rarely that simple. Niese, meanwhile, got spanked by the Braves in Atlanta the last time he faced them, and there's sort of a pitching and hitting revenge double-angle for the Mets tonight. Dog, or nothing.
Cubs @ Marlins (-115) with a total of 8; R. Dempster vs. A. Sanabia;
This is another tough one, in my opinion. The Cubs have won 3 straight and the Marlins have lost 3 straight, and with baseball, riding streaks can be profitable. At the same time, the Cubs come off that sweep of the Cardinals, so they're in position for a tiny letdown, and the Marlins got waxed here at home by the Phillies. I expect them to play better, and I expect the Cubs to play a tad worse, making this coin-flip line pretty accurate. Slight lean to the dog, just because Chicago seems to be playing better now with no pressure.
Reds (-115) @ Astros with a total of 7.5; J. Cueto vs. W. Rodriguez;
Johnny Cueto has faced the Astros just once this year, and went 8 shutout innings in a win. He's just 1-4 with a 4.34 lifetime ERA against Houston, though, and the Reds are in a little bit of a hitting slump right now, coming off a rather ugly home series with the D'backs. Houston continues to find ways to win series, and they took 2 of 3 from Milwaukee earlier this week. Wandy Rodriguez is really starting to get a ton of respect, and the fact that this line is as low as it is is a strong indicator of that. He got worked by the Reds early in the year, but came back and threw 7 innings of 1-hit ball in late July against them, so we know he can do it. If the Astros score 4, I think they win.
Padres (-166) @ Cardinals with a total of 7.5; M. Latos vs. K. Lohse;
There is some serious value on the home team, though this line might be this high for a reason. We'll wait and see how the public interprets the number, but considering Latos's streak of 15 straight starts of 2 runs or less was snapped by the Giants a few days back, this is prime letdown-City for a young fireballer like Latos. Lohse, meanwhile, is significantly better than his numbers indicate, and the Cards got a nice snide-snapping win last night.
Rockies (-135) @ Dodgers with a total of 6.5; U. Jimenez vs. H. Kuroda;
Just 6.5? Wow, the Dodgers anemic offense and Jimenez's name can really drive a line down, can't they? I'm even seeing movement to 6. If that's the case, then I'm a little scared to take the Over, which I rather liked when I first looked at this. Jimenez is 5-5 with a 5.23 ERA against the Dodgers lifetime, and Kuroda is 0-3 with a 6.55 ERA against Colorado. He's been worse at Coors, not surprisingly, but not great at any venue. How can this game stay Under? Simple, the Dodgers score 2, and the Rockies score 2, and someone wins late.
Brewers @ Giants (-155) with a total of 7.5; R. Wolf vs. M. Bumgarner;
This line, to me, is much, much lower than what I expected, and I honestly can't figure out why. Yes, the Giants are coming off a somewhat emotional series with the Dodgers, but it's not the same rivalry, and the Giants are staying home in front of mostly packed houses. Wolf, to his credit, has always been good against the Giants, but the Brewers have tons of issues, and the Giants' bullpen edge is going to be enormous. Bumgarner, by the way, hasn't allowed more than 1 earned run in any of his last 3 starts, and went 8 shutout against the Brewers earlier this year (beating Wolf).
Yankees (-165) @ Orioles with a total of 9.5; A. Burnett vs. K. Millwood;
Millwood is a tough cat to back, but I don't know how you can't give a look to the red-hot Orioles. Not only is Baltimore playing tremendous ball, but the Yankees are coming off a wildly emotional series down in Tampa. This is a bit of a lull game for New York, especially with the off-day mixed in there, and if Millwood can improve upon the 6 runs he seems to give up every time he faces the Yankees, there's a nice pot o' gold for the O's. Of course, he's Millwood.
Angels @ Rays (-145) with a total of 8.5; D. Haren vs. W. Davis;
This line is super cheap to get the Rays, but why? The Angels were a slight dog to Fausto Carmona last night with Ervin Santana on the hill. Haren isn't worth that much more than Santana, in my eyes, and the Rays are way better than the Indians. This line is fishy-low to me. The Rays, like the Yanks, are coming off that same emotional series. I like the Angels to catch Tampa napping in the opener, then get crushed in the next few.
Blue Jays @ Red Sox (-125) with a total of 9.5; B. Cecil vs. J. Lackey;
This line also seems pretty low, considering the Jays have been getting beat up the last week, and the Red Sox are on a quiet little 4-game win streak. The Red Sox, though, were in Oakland and Seattle, then had a day off, and that generally leads to a game played with a certain unique level of sluggishness. I would consider the Under, or the Jays, mostly because of scheduling.
Indians @ Royals (-110) with a total of 8.5; C. Carrasco vs. K. Davies;
Kansas City has actually been heating up at the plate a little, beating Oakland in the 2 final games of their series, and putting up some nice offensive numbers in the process. The Indians haven't been hitting at all, but managed to sneak out 2 of 3 from the Angels, at home. Kyle Davies has been pitching well this month, and I like that in combination with the Royals potentially scoring a few. With the way the Indians are hitting, 4 runs is almost certainly enough, and I think Kansas City can scratch across a few against Carrasco and the tired Cleveland pen.
Tigers @ White Sox (-126) with a total of 8; M. Scherzer vs. E. Jackson;
I bet a lot of folks are going to jump on the Tigers because the White Sox season seemingly came to an end with last night's loss, and honestly, I'm going to have a hard time not doing it, myself. However, that strange balance between the pressure of a pennant race and the ease of playing a game with zero meaning can create all kinds of havoc. After Boston got slammed by the Rays, they came back and hit the crap out of the ball. Most recently, the Cardinals just got swept by the Cubs, then came back and beat the Padres. I'd be very careful before playing this game, either way.
Athletics @ Twins (-118) with a total of 8; B. Anderson vs. N. Blackburn;
The Twins are just rolling. Simple as that. Every time we think they're due for a loss or some sort of letdown game, they just win that one, too. I'd love to write how coming home from the sweep in Chicago, they're going to relax, but they want home field in the playoffs, and it's awfully close to within their grasp. The Twins spanked the A's the last time these teams met, and while Blackburn is 0-3 with a 7.24 ERA against Oakland lifetime, he's been pitching better, and the A's have been slumping. I'd take a look at the Under in a "letdown" game before a side, but I also think the squares might get this one right.
Rangers @ Mariners (-110) with a total of 6; C. Wilson vs. F. Hernandez;
King Felix has trouble with very few teams, but the Rangers have given him a hard time to the tune of an 8-12 lifetime record. This is a pretty strong opening number for the Mariners, though, and while Wilson is 6-2 lifetime against the Mariners, his ERA against them is 5.08. You guys know how I feel about backing Seattle though. Watching those games is like going to the dentist.
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Building Bridges with Corporate Citizenship
Wednesday, 6th March 2013 at 11:37 am
The potential for small-to-medium sized enterprises to become more involved in CSR activities is barely beginning to be tapped, argues structural engineer and social justice advocate Tim McMinn. In this opinion piece, McMinn explores the ways in which SMEs can become more actively involved in this space.
Wednesday, 6th March 2013
Small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of Australia's economy. According to figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 96% of businesses employ fewer than 20 people, and 99% employ fewer than 200. Between them these SMEs employ around 70% of the Australian workforce.
Yet despite the prevalence of SMEs, when it comes to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the focus usually shifts to the big end of town. For example, the majority of companies that made the Australian Council for Corporate Social Responsibility's list of top 20 CSR performers for 2010-11 were large organisations. Furthermore most CSR guidelines, tools and practices – corporate volunteering and grant making programs, for instance – are geared towards big businesses.
This is a pity, because SMEs have an enormous range of skills and capabilities they can leverage for the public benefit. The potential for SMEs to become more involved in CSR activities is barely beginning to be tapped.
To unlock this promise, we first need to understand how SMEs are currently engaging in CSR initiatives. In a recent research project, Christina Barton of the University of Technology in Sydney considered the example of small tourism firms in the Blue Mountains. She found that owner-managed SMEs tend to engage in CSR in a 'reactive' fashion, donating to charities when approached, for example, or making flexible arrangements for staff to deal with family demands. Owners see the firm's CSR initiatives as an extension of their personal values.
Staff-managed businesses, on the other hand, are more 'proactive', seeking out opportunities to fundraise and make donations to charities. But they engage in CSR activities for a different set of reasons to owner-managed businesses, justifying them more in terms of costs weighed against benefits such as an enhanced business reputation.
Some of the barriers which inhibit SMEs from engaging in CSR initiatives on a widespread basis include a perceived lack of time and resources; the predominance of tools and guidelines geared toward big business; limited connections with potential partner organisations in the Not for Profit sector; and a lack of awareness of the benefits to staff attraction, retention and motivation, and positive brand associations. Many of these barriers can be overcome by making information which is tailored to the needs of SMEs more widely available, especially through case studies that illustrate a variety of approaches and strategies for initiating and maintaining CSR activity. I will relate one such example from personal experience here.
I work as a structural engineer at BG&E, a specialist structural and civil engineering consultancy. While BG&E employs just over 200 personnel, technically qualifying as a large enterprise, it shares many similarities with medium-sized engineering consultancies having grown rapidly in the past decade. BG&E's owners remain heavily involved in the day-to-day operation of the business. For some time they have desired the company to engage more regularly in activities that "give back" to the community, especially through pro-bono work. In the past BG&E carried out CSR activities in the 'reactive' fashion described by Ms Barton, taking on pro-bono projects on an ad hoc basis, and making occasional donations.
Last year BG&E introduced a new CSR strategy. It seeks to direct the specialist technical skills and knowledge within the firm to create change and opportunity in communities experiencing issues such as poverty and disadvantage, and to benefit organisations promoting culture and the arts. The policy has five focus areas: pro-bono engineering; support for individual staff initiatives; strengthening Indigenous Australian's pathways to employment; workplace giving; and building partnerships with Not for Profits.
Since the program's introduction BG&E has supported organisations including Engineers Without Borders, World Vision, and Kiva, and large numbers of staff and clients have been involved in raising funds and volunteering time to causes including the WA Institute for Medical Research and the Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School. There is a great deal of staff interest and pride in the company's CSR activities.
To introduce and implement the new CSR strategy BG&E's senior management created a facilitating environment and sketched out the values of the policy, and then harnessed the energy of staff champions to drive the process. The champions were empowered to develop the policy details and to encourage staff engagement across the company. Employee initiative and participation is intended to be the main source of CSR activities and pro-bono engineering opportunities.
As part of the CSR program, in March I will travel to Tanzania with two other young engineers, Garrett Bray and Benny Man, draftsman Antony Rieck and Director Peter de Bruin. Over five weeks, we will be working to reconstruct damaged bridges with the villages of Mambo and Tema, nestled high in the Usambara Mountains. The majority of livelihoods depend on smallholder agriculture, and the communities are linked by dirt roads to regional towns some three hours away. In 2011, several bridges along these roads were badly damaged by flooding, rendering them impassable to vehicle traffic, with a significant impact on local livelihoods. Repairing the bridges will re-establish the communities' contact with markets for their produce.
The project illustrates the way in which pro-bono projects emerge from BG&E's CSR framework via the initiative of staff. Antony had visited an eco lodge in the area called 'Mambo View Point' in 2011, and made the link between the local communities and BG&E. Following the communities' request, in early 2012 the engineering team designed replacement structures for the damaged bridges.
The designs make use of reinforced concrete to resist future flood events, and are intended to be as simple as possible, as much of the work will be done by hand. In late 2012 BG&E offered to help fund the construction of the most critical bridges, and arranged for the engineering team to provide voluntary construction support and to build the capacity of the local trades in reinforced concrete construction techniques. BG&E is aiming to leave a lasting legacy of knowledge and capabilities in addition to the physical structures.
BG&E's experiences provide an example of the kind of CSR activities that SMEs can become engaged in once they harness their specialist skills and capabilities in a directed CSR program. By making use of champions and staff initiative, time-poor leadership can develop a proactive approach to CSR which embodies their values and those of the business, engages staff, and yields positive brand associations with clients and the broader community.
To find out more about BG&E's experience with introducing and implementing a new CSR strategy, you can get in touch by emailing csr@bgeeng.com. You can also keep up to date with the progress of the Tema Project on facebook or twitter (@bgeeng).
About the Author: Tim McMinn is a structural engineer and social justice advocate based in Perth. You can follow him on Twitter @tim_mcminn
The main bridge Tim will be working on in Tanzania. Picture: Herman Erdtsieck
Tags : BG&E, Corporate Social Responsiblity, CSR, Engineers Without Borders, National, Opinion, Opinion article, SME, Tim McMinn,
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Friday Afternoon Roundup - Words Don't Matter
Daniel Greenfield April 12, 2013
DON'T TELL ME WORDS DON'T MATTER
"Don't tell me words don't matter," Obama once said, while insisting that they meant the opposite of what we thought they meant. The left believes that words matter because they allow people to communicate the wrong sort of ideas. Change the words and you change the ideas.
Islamism is one of those ideas. The idea is that people ought to live under Islam. This was thought to be a bad idea, back in those dark days before we learned that Islamism is as American as Mom, Other Mom and Apple Pie.
Now we know that Islamism is actually the best defense against Islamism so long as it's the good kind of Islamism that involves terrorist groups winning elections and shooting their people in the streets instead of the bad kind of Islamism which involves terrorist groups shooting people in the streets without first running for office.
None Dare Call It Islamism
PUNKING OUT
Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry mumbled something about refusing to accept North Korea as a nuclear state.
"The United States will do what is necessary to defend ourselves and defend our allies, Korea and Japan, " Kerry said at a joint press conference with the South Korean foreign minister. "We are fully prepared and capable of doing so, and I think the DPRK understands that."
But that's exactly the trouble. North Korea doesn't understand it. Not when its threats were followed by feverish attempts at retreat from Obama Inc.
President Theodore Roosevelt advised speaking softly and carrying a big stick. Instead Obama speaks loudly and carries a toothpick. Obama and Kerry bluster and then punk out when their bluff is called. Obama's foreign policy of empty threats and incompetent policies has ushered in a Post-American world order.
Obama's Foreign Policy of Bluffs and Retreats
SHALOM, SALAAM
Ahmed Daqamseh, a Jordanian soldier opened fire at a large group of Israeli schoolgirls from the AMIT Fuerst School in Beit Shemesh who were on a class field trip, killing seven of them and injuring six others.
Speaking on Al Jazeera in May 2001, Ahmed Daqamseh's mother said, "I am proud of my son, and I hold my head high. My son did a heroic deed and has pleased Allah and his own conscience."
An overwhelming 110 members of the Jordanian House of Representatives signed a petition demanding a pardon for Daqamseh.
The parliamentary memo described Dagamseh as a "hero," calling for a special pardon to release him.
Maxims added by the MPs themselves included "We are all Ahmed Daqamseh", "pardon based on justice" and "freedom for the soldier hero."
Vast Majority of Jordanian Parliament Calls for Release of Man Who Murdered 7 Israeli Schoolgirls
CALIGULA'S HORSE WOULD LIKE A WORD WITH THE GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND
And where do we get the $14.8 billion? By taxing so-called "impervious surfaces," anything that prevents rain water from seeping into the earth (roofs, driveways, patios, sidewalks, etc.) thereby causing stormwater run off. In other words, a rain tax.
Well, you ask, "How on earth can the government know how much impervious surface I own?" Answer: It's not on earth, it's in the sky. Thanks to satellite imagery and geographic information systems, Big Brother can measure your roof and driveway.
This is life now. Advanced technology in the service of medieval insanity.
WE DON'T HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN DRILLING A HOLE IN THE BOAT AND BAILING THE WATER
"For years, an argument in Washington has raged between reducing our deficits at all costs, and making the investments we need to grow the economy," Obama said. "My budget puts that argument to rest. Because we don't have to choose between these goals – we can do both. After all, as we saw in the 1990s, nothing reduces deficits faster than a growing economy."
Sally, come in here for a minute. This is fantastic. I just found out that we don't have to choose between spending money and not spending money. We can do both. Because nothing reduces our spending faster than spending more money.
Obama hits a new record of spending 4 trillion in one year while making 4.5 trillion in spending cuts. Math has finally been defeated. Numbers are all imaginary now. And money comes from a magic tree in the backyard that Obama bought when he traded the treasury for some magical social justice beans.
Obama Claims He's Cutting the Deficit, Hits New 4 Trillion Spending Record in One Year
APOLOGIZE OR THE ACLU WILL SUE
The ACLU took in 63 million dollars in 2011. It has net assets of almost 300 million dollars. Anthony Romero, its Exec Director, takes in 342,858 dollars.
And like most bullies, the ACLU picked a target its own size, Barronelle Stutzman, a 70-year-old woman who runs a flower shop. For those who think that gay marriage can be folded on, the case of Arlene's Flowers provides another sobering wake-up call.
The American Civil Liberties Union also stepped into the fray, sending Stutzman a letter announcing it would file a separate civil suit for damages on behalf of the engaged couple unless she agrees to provide flowers without discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, publish a letter of apology in the newspaper and donate $5,000 to a local youth center, in lieu of attorneys' fees.
ACLU Sues 70-Year-Old Christian Flower Shop Owner for Refusing to Participate in Gay Wedding
ARAB SPRING II: EVEN SPRINGIER
The term "Arab Spring" has to be retired. There is nothing springlike going on," Friedman says. "It's best we now speak of the "Arab Decade" or the "Arab Quarter Century"
Why not the Arab millennium or the Arab trillion years. Like the guy who keeps predicting the world will end, it's safest to set your dates as far as possible. And 10-25 years later, no one will remember what Friedman predicted let alone that he even existed.
When your predictions don't succeed, just postpone them as far as possible. The people who promised us a positive transformation are now promising us a Thirty Years War.
Thomas Friedman Finally Admits the Arab Spring is a Disaster
MARGARET THATCHER ON IMMIGRATION
There was a committee which looked at it and said that if we went on as we are then by the end of the century there would be four million people of the new Commonwealth or Pakistan here.
Now, that is an awful lot and I think it means that people are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture and, you know, the British character has done so much for democracy, for law and done so much throughout the world that if there is any fear that it might be swamped people are going to react and be rather hostile to those coming in.
Now, I was brought up in a small town, 25,000. That would be two new towns a year and that is quite a lot. So, we do have to hold out the prospect of an end to immigration except, of course, for compassionate cases.
Margaret Thatcher on Immigration: "We Do Have to Hold Out the Prospect of an End to Immigration"
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE FAIL WHALE
If Weiner pushes ahead, he will be going into a primary against the front-running lesbian, Christine Quinn, Bill de Blasio, who is slightly to the left of Joseph Stalin, and John Liu, who may be an agent of Communist China and may be headed to jail over campaign finance fraud– the investigation is still running.
Most of the bloggers writing angry pieces about Bloomberg don't understand that he won 3 terms because the alternatives were so much worse. The Bloomberg effect is why Weiner may have a shot. Sure he's bad, but it keeps Bill be Blasio from declaring the People's Republic of Manhattazlan and prevents John Liu from putting the entire treasury into a briefcase and flying off to Dubai.
Anthony "Huma" Weiner Preparing to Run for Mayor
WEINER/CLINTON IN 2024
Chelsea Clinton has a bunch of degrees from prestigious academic institutions that she didn't do anything with. Most of her degrees are useless outside the political world. In real life, having degrees in history, international relations and public health makes you mostly unemployable outside the political sector.
Since then she's worked at a consulting firm, sat on a board and was given a job at NBC reporting positive life affirming stories. Her performance was terrible, but she was kept on for obvious reasons. After marrying the spawn of another Democratic politician, there's only one thing ahead for her and that's running for public office… somewhere.
Chelsea Clinton Threatens To Go Into Politics
IF ONLY IT WASN'T FOR ISRAEL...
When in 1872 the Turkish Governor asked an assembly of notables to stop this nuisance, there arose an old doctor of Muslim law and explained that this stone-throwing at Jews was an age-old custom (in Arabic 'Ada) and therefore it was unlawful to forbid it."
The Muslim Custom of Throwing Stones at Jews
OUT OF BENGHAZI
"From June to December 1942 the authorities instituted even more anti-Jewish decrees. Jews were not allowed to make real-estate deals with "Aryan" Italians or with Muslims."
The Story of a Holocaust Survivor from Benghazi
IT'S OBAMA'S WORLD, WE JUST LIVE IN IT
Illegals Taunt Border Patrol Agents: "Obama's Gonna Let Me Go"
Department of Justice Spent $100 Mil on Conferences in One Year
Chavez Successor Threatens Venezuelans Who Don't Vote for Him With Ancient Curse
Obama's "Muslim Self-Esteem" NASA in Complete Disarray
"Gay Infertility" is the New Mandatory Health Insurance Frontier
Disability is the 11th Largest State in America
Hollywood Promotes Communist Terrorist Angela Davis
Obama's Cousin Loses Presidential Election, Supporters Riot
FAREWELL TO THE JEWISH VOTE
To the extent that there ever was an American Jewish consensus, it's collapsing into the same partisan divide as the rest of the country, with left-wing Jews on one side and right-wing Jews on another.
The American Jewish vote is breaking down into polar opposites. The middle ground is vanishing and is being replaced by Jewish voters who are still actively engaged, but dislike 'moderate' politicians and prefer strongly partisan stands.
The American Jewish vote is starting to look like the rest of America. The process will take a while for generational reasons, but by 2025, it's likely to be nearly complete.
Grassroots Jewish Republicans Moving to the Right
YOU GOTTA ADMIRE HIS FLEXIBILITY
Apparently America has too many jobs so Obama will be spending taxpayer money to support Russia's defense industry on behalf of Afghanistan. And he's doing so over the bipartisan objections of Congress from both the right and left and a ban on buying them written into the NDAA.
Aside from throwing almost $700 million to a company owned by the Russian government at a time when Obama has taken a chainsaw to the United States military, subsidizing the Russian defense industry helps it develop more weapons that will be sold to America's enemies.
That money will help fund R&D for the next generation of weapons that an American military dismantled by Obama will be facing on the battlefield.
Obama Overrides Congress to Buy $690 Million Worth of Russian Choppers for Afghan Air Force
It's not clear if the Israelis entirely understood how close the Americans were to Arafat and his outfit. For instance, Israel long believed that Arafat's intelligence chief Ali Hassan Salameh, one of the masterminds of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic games, was a CIA asset. The truth is that the so-called Red Prince meant much more to the U.S.-Arafat relationship, serving as one of their key intermediaries and a symbol of the nature of their relationship.
The cables show that two years after Munich, the American ambassador to Beirut, George McMurtrie Godley, met with Salameh—described in the cables as Arafat's "security adviser"—to negotiate the size of the entourage that Arafat would take to the U.N. General Assembly meeting and how many of them would be allowed to carry guns.
As Ambassador Godley cabled after the May 1974 Maalot massacre, in which members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestinian killed 25 Israeli hostages, 22 of them children: "long-term implications of Maalot tragedy on Fedayeen movement and Israeli-Arab relations are even more upsetting than loss of young lives and anguish of Israeli nation."
The situation is much the same today with the Muslim Brotherhood standing in for Arafat.
RECESSIONAL II
We were a generation forever unable to perceive, understand, or tolerate the slightest gap between desire and gratification. We were a generation whose elite's utter deriliction of duty would be forgiven by the most moist and waffling of our weak Presidents, Jimmy Carter. It was like having the all the worse sins of your youth forgiven and expunged by Alvin the Chipmunk. We grew up learning, time after time, that radical actions have few radical consequences. Accordingly, in an effort to improve our progeny as we had been improved, we taught our own children that their actions, no matter how awful, would have no consequences whatsoever. It would turn out to be the toughest thing they would ever have to unlearn and very few had any success doing so. Unwilling, as always, to set a good example we didn't even try.
from Gerard Van der Leun at American Digest
I could one day try to write a requiem for Generation X, but it would be just as easy to reprint one of the comprehensive books on the Obama years that is sure to eventually come out.
ALL YOUR YOUS ARE BELONG TO US
How do we get there? Simple: You didn't succeed because of you, you did it because of teachers, roads, and other public workers/works/loans/etc. Your business–indeed your money, thus, "belongs" to the state, for without the state, it would not exist. Your own role is dismissed as inconsequential because anyone can get lucky in business (so says our fearless Dear Leader), anyone can do what you did because it was really done by the community, the collective, the village. Likewise, you, yourself, are a subject of and product of the state, anything you produce–be it a business, profit, or a child–belongs to the state. Simple, right? No man, woman, or child is an island, and the collectivist bell tolls for thee. And thine.
Big Government Is Everyone's Parent . . . Including Your Child's
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO RIGHTS AND LEFTS
Alleged Professor Harris-Perry is either a Communist or unspeakably ignorant, because her bill of particulars bears an uncanny resemblance to the Soviet Union's Constitution of 1936, which guarantees the rights of the people including:
...Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality...
ARTICLE 119. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure...
ARTICLE 120. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to maintenance in old age and also in case of sickness or loss of capacity to work...
ARTICLE 121. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to education...
ARTICLE 122. Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres [including] prematernity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens...
.... Melissa Harris-Perry will succeed where Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot failed
UNITED NATIONS OF TERROR
Students could find themselves refused graduation certificates if they did not join a militant "fedayeen" group. For instance: an UNRWA vocational training school at Siblin, near Sidon in Lebanon, awarded qualifications only to members of Arafat's own fedayeen group, Fatah.
One room in the school was reserved as an office for Arafat. His portrait hung on the wall above a swastika. On the upper storey were the classrooms, and there teaching materials were stored; among them quantities of PLO propaganda, and – in 1982 – poems praising the assassins of Anwar Sadat – the Egyptian leader who had gone to Jerusalem to make a peace agreement with the Israelis.The lower story was used as an arms store. Katyusha rockets, rocket propelled grenades, hand grenades, mines, and Kalashnikov sub-machine guns were stacked – under the students.
UNRWA, nursery of terrorism, resents being attacked
BLOODTHIRSTY PRIDE PARADES
To be "bloodthirsty" and a "warmonger" implies intent so evil that one has turned from God altogether. To be "bloodthirsty" is to lust after murder and violence. It is mind-boggling to me that anyone could think that of my friend Rick Santorum, a faithful Catholic father of seven, including little Bella, whose life clearly reflects Humanae Vitae.
I'm sure that if people were to "come out" as "bloodthirsters," we could expect Mark to say it's perfectly OKAY for people to lust for violence, provided that they don't personally actually kill anyone.
Mark Shea Calls Rick Santorum a 'Bloodthirsty Warmonger' and 'Torture Fan'
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No need for you to write a requiem on Generation X because of future books about the Obama reign??
Obama is absolutely a Baby Boomer. One of the last ones born. Don't even THINK of ascribing him to Generation X. He needs to be remembered as the pinnacle of the Boomer age. Their permanent poster-boy. All Boomers inescapably own him as one of their own.
Gen Xer's may have voted for Obama, but they didn't create him.
Obama sort of ends up in the Baby Boomer category, but he's really a transition to Generation X and unfortunately reflects many of my generation's bad qualities.
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The Craft Repository of NIFT is an initiative of the institution that aims to develop a sustainable digital archive of reports on research on the handicrafts of India undertaken by the students and faculty. This Repository is an outcome of the Craft Cluster Project of NIFT. The main objective of the repository is to disseminate results of studies in design and development of creative products in craft clusters undertaken by the NIFT community. At present two sub-repositories, namely, Craft Studies for full text documents and Images Archive for images of artifacts and processes have been developed.


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How to scale a startup: Advice from entrepreneurship experts
June 13, 2020 June 13, 2020 0 Comments	Small Business
Scaling a startup is an thrilling time, however one which can be fraught with challenges.
Many founders marvel how to develop a enterprise that is nonetheless comparatively new, so we requested entrepreneurs, buyers, and administration professors for his or her greatest practices.
The experts suggested hiring to fill the gaps in your skillset and prioritizing firm tradition. Outlining your technique in a marketing strategy can enhance your odds of success.
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When it comes to scaling your organization, "there is not a one-size-fits-all approach."
That's in accordance to Deepak Hegde, affiliate professor of administration and organizations at New York University. Hegde additionally directs Endless Frontier Labs, which helps know-how and science startups scale.
(One alum is Analytical Flavor Systems, a machine-learning and artificial-intelligence platform that predicts particular person style profiles that is now being leveraged to design boutique bread flavors.)
For one startup, Hegde mentioned, scaling may imply finding a large-scale manufacturing facility to get a product out to wider markets. For one other startup, scaling may imply hiring a gross sales crew.
Whatever your organization's problem, you may want a personalized plan of assault — plus the willingness to experiment.
One of the trickiest elements of scaling is transitioning from founder to folks supervisor. Early on, mentioned Alexi Robichaux, cofounder and CEO of the career-coaching platform BetterUp, "it's about you versus the world."
As your organization grows, you have received to construct an efficient crew to show you how to sort out key challenges.
We requested Hegde and Robichaux, plus a number of different founders, entrepreneurship researchers, and govt coaches, to define the basics of rising a enterprise. Read on for his or her greatest practices — and the commonest pitfalls to keep away from.
Start planning to scale as early as potential
Formal planning may appear antithetical to the move-fast-and-break-things model of entrepreneurship. And whereas extra analysis is required to show really conclusive, research of 1000's of startups point out that having a marketing strategy can enhance the percentages of success.
One examine, revealed in 2017 in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, checked out knowledge from greater than 1,000 entrepreneurs within the US between 2005 and 2011. The researchers in contrast pairs of founders who have been in any other case an identical, besides one wrote a marketing strategy and the opposite didn't.
As it seems, planners have been 16% extra seemingly to succeed than non-planners. (Success was outlined as the purpose when month-to-month revenues had exceeded month-to-month bills for six out of the previous 12 months.)
Hegde defined why having a marketing strategy can entice buyers. "In order to scale, you need money," he mentioned. "But in order to get money, you need to show proof of scalability."
The plan is (a part of) that proof. "Scaling really is about planning," Hegde mentioned. "It requires thinking maybe two, three, four, five years ahead, rather than simply thinking about how are you going to do the best pitch to sell your first customer or your first VC."
A strong technique is to construct a minimal viable product for that might be scalable with the fitting assets. Then present buyers that any cash they put in "can be deployed in ways that can meaningfully help expand the markets, or the customer base," and so forth, Hegde mentioned.
Know why you are scaling within the first place
Approach scaling with intention.
That's what Hint did. Since 2005, Hint has marketed naturally flavored drinks. It's change into a staple at Silicon Valley corporations like Google and Facebook. More lately, Hint expanded its product choices to embody sunscreen and deodorant as nicely.
Hint founder and CEO Kara Goldin has defined to Business Insider the logic behind this growth. Her aim from the outset was to resolve shoppers' well being issues — whether or not by protected, reasonably priced sunscreen or nutritious, tasty drinks.
In each instances, Goldin mentioned, she realized that there have been tons of choices on the shelf however that individuals had no simple method to inform which was the healthiest alternative. And even when they may, it will in all probability be out of their worth vary. Hint might change that.
Remember, too: You're not obligated to scale your small business. And it is best to work out your ambitions round scaling earlier than in search of enterprise capital.
For Hint, scaling has meant reaching roughly 190 workers after 14 years and snagging John Legend as an investor.
Scott Kupor, managing companion at Andreessen Horowitz, beforehand instructed BI that one of many first issues VCs consider is market alternative, i.e. how huge your small business can finally get.
It's completely okay to construct a $20 or $30 million firm — but it surely may be arduous to persuade a VC to companion with you on that.
Hire to fill the gaps in your skillset …
"As a founder, you are so used to doing everything yourself," Hegde mentioned. "Your startup becomes your baby."
That mentality can lead to a few errors — specifically, attempting to do a lot your self or micromanaging the workers you deliver on.
The reality is that no founder is expert at each facet of operating a startup. Typically, founders are proficient salespeople: They can persuade a VC to make investments, a job candidate to be part of the crew, and a buyer to enroll.
That does not essentially imply they will be a good supervisor — which, in case you ask Cat Hernandez, an operations companion on the venture-capital agency Primary Ventures, is ok.
"Let's assume that your business grows really quickly and you have hundreds, if not thousands, of employees at some point," Hernandez mentioned. "Your job is to set the strategic direction of the company and, yes, be able to drive a leadership team."
"Some parts of that require you to be a good manager — but if you know that's not your core skill, hire people [who have it]," she added.
… and do it before later
Steve Martocci.
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Don't wait to construct out your crew till you are comfy delegating accountability. Do it now!
Christine Beckman, the Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor of Public Policy at USC Price, performed analysis that discovered essentially the most profitable entrepreneurs employed for specialised roles — say, an operations professional or a advertising professional — early on.
"They set it up right from the beginning, rather than trying to go back in time and fix systems and processes that were put in place at the beginning, but no longer work as the company has grown," she mentioned.
Beckman analyzed the chief crew members at almost 2,000 startups, plus how lengthy it took these startups to increase capital and to go public.
She found that founders who attempt to do every thing themselves wind up "trying to cover more functional areas than they necessarily have expertise in" and "slowing things down because there's a bottleneck of decisions needing to go through these general managers," Beckman mentioned.
The founders who employed specialised expertise have been extra profitable as a result of they saved your entire crew effort and time.
Steve Martocci, cofounder of GroupMe in addition to CEO of the music-creation platform Splice, realized this lesson the arduous method. "I waited too long to hire an assistant," Martocci wrote an electronic mail to Business Insider.
"In the early stages of building the company, I always felt guilty about the expense, because at that point I was so focused on the product that it seemed okay to go without [an assistant]," he mentioned.
"But as the stakes got higher, I started missing important meetings that had a material impact on the company," Martocci added. "Having since hired an experienced assistant, I can attest to the significant value that she has provided me, and by default, the company."
Learn to delegate
Alexi Robichaux.
BetterUp
So you have employed some new crew members. The subsequent step is letting them do the work they signed up for.
It's not as simple because it sounds.
To Robichaux, cofounder and CEO of BetterUp, it is about deferring to folks with extra specialised skillsets.
"If you're a really good early-stage founder, you're probably a high performer who's a really talented individual contributor in some vector," he mentioned. "You may not be good at everything, but you're good at programming, you're good at product, you're good at sales. That only gets you so far."
As your startup grows, he famous, you've got to get comfy managing a crew that is extra high-performing than you're individually.
Executive coach Marshall Goldsmith has defined why delegation may be tough (for brand spanking new managers typically, not simply founding CEOs).
Successful folks usually advance by proving over and over how clever they're. They're inclined to do the identical as soon as they're in a management place — although that may backfire.
The greatest problem for brand spanking new managers "is not always winning," Goldsmith beforehand instructed Business Insider. Instead, they study to place others to do the profitable for the group.
Prioritize firm tradition — and tweak the place vital
"Culture" may look like a fuzzy idea, however Hegde emphasised its significance. He mentioned founders ought to ensure that the folks they bring about on are aligned with their tradition — even when they do not but have a part of their web site that outlines the corporate's mission assertion and values.
Another frequent mistake is "not subtracting when you add," mentioned Ethan Mollick, affiliate professor of administration on the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
"The things that made you successful early on aren't always useful later," he mentioned, resembling all-hands conferences (a.ok.a. all-staff conferences), which could not be useful and even possible as soon as the corporate reaches 500 workers.
Other misadventures in scaling have performed out within the examples of startups like WeWork and Away, every of which struggled to steadiness their distinctive firm tradition with extraordinary development.
For WeWork, the party-like ambiance which will have appealed to the earliest team-members seems to have damage the corporate's try to go public. Business Insider spoke with present and former workers who described continuous work necessities amid an alcohol-fueled, extremely sexualized setting.
Revelations about WeWork's tradition — as well as to its monetary well being — devastated its status with buyers and the general public, and led some workers to fear about their profession prospects with different corporations.
And for Away, the baggage startup's VP of individuals and tradition instructed Business Insider that the management crew prioritized worker expertise, and was growing subtle HR practices for such a younger firm.
But lower than a week later, information broke that the high-pressure work setting led former workers to accuse the corporate of bullying and harassment. The ensuing scandal led cofounder Steph Korey to step down from her position as CEO.
Scaling, in so some ways, is about adapting to the group you have created.
Accept that you just want to deal with your self first
Somewhat counterintuitively, your prime concern as a crew chief is … you. And Robichaux mentioned that is the place most founders go unsuitable.
"We think our job first and foremost is to take care of other people," he mentioned, when the truth is "your No. 1 job as a leader is to take care of yourself."
Justin Kan, the founding father of Twitch and Atrium, lately shared about his firsthand with the challenges of entrepreneurial psychological well being.
"You can be burned out no matter how successful you are, and you can be unhappy no matter how successful you are," mentioned Kan, who bought his first startup for $1 billion.
The stress development is a nationwide one: a 2012 Gallup ballot discovered that entrepreneurs have been extra seemingly than different employees within the US to really feel apprehensive and harassed.
That doesn't suggest you spend money on self-care on the expense of the corporate's well-being. That additionally doesn't suggest you are taking a monthlong trip whereas your organization's imploding.
By taking good care of your self, Robichaux means getting "in a good mind space" and having "the emotional resources to be compassionate and not snap at someone."
It's why Robichaux prioritizes bodily exercises in addition to mindfulness workouts in his schedule.
"That is more important than looking at this other document at 11 p.m. That is more important than getting someone feedback late at night," he mentioned.
If Robichaux does not find time for train and mindfulness, he is working from a "faulty foundation and everything will suffer."
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I love Fall. And before all the leaves get blown off the trees in my yard and the snow starts to fall I want to play with some Fall paper and colours. I had this little horse stamped out already and so I just grabbed my Zig Clean Colour Real Brush markers and started to colour. I've been in such a bad way lately that I didn't have a plan, and I didn't figure on making a card or finishing anything, but the more I did the better I felt about creating again so before I knew it I had this whole card done! I know a horse isn't specifically Fall, not like leaves and stuff, but he was just so happy I had to give him some colour finally. I hope you like him! And I hope it still feels like Fall where you are.
Perfect fall-colors card and cute horse :) hope you are feeling better... good luck tomorrow with the MD visit.
Wow that is a far trip to travel! I hope you are getting rest and the meds are helping you. Hugs.