Dr. Daren Martin provides keynotes and training to companies across the globe. Through his energetic approach to business and life, he teaches companies about earning loyalty from their best and brightest by improving their cultures. We spoke with the renowned Culture Architect to learn more.
AM: As a motivational speaker, author and performance coach who has helped hundreds of businesses with productivity, what would you say is the most interesting part of your job?
DR. DAREN: I am fanatical about seeing true transformation take place in individuals and organizations. I have the incredible privilege of introducing concepts, models, and strategies that immediately improve a company's position in multiple ways and enable individuals to make themselves indispensable to any company or organization.
AM: Tell us about your background. What led you toward helping businesses improve their company cultures?
DR. DAREN: I ran my own business for 20 years. For the last ten I have been in and out of Fortune 500 companies as well as much smaller businesses. Being exposed to many businesses as an inside partner, I witnessed The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I noticed that one of the major drumbeat themes was how company culture either breaks or makes a company. And that is regardless of industry. The one thing all companies have in common is people, and I knew I could help any business, organization, or company anywhere by focusing on the people side of their business.
AM: Do you tailor your experience and knowledge to different industries, or are there major points that apply somewhat universally?
DR. DAREN: Absolutely. I pride myself on researching and understanding a particular industry before I do a keynote for them or provide strategic partner services. Every industry has their particular language, pet peeves, focus, struggles, etc. For example, you better not use Bank language when dealing with a Credit Union or you will alienate them immediately.
On the other hand, most of what relates to company culture is universal. Things like belonging, trust, leadership, engagement, clear purpose, values, etc. are agnostic when it comes to different industries.
AM: Can you tell us about one of the strategies you advise businesses to apply?
DR. DAREN: Listen, listen, listen! I am amazed at what people tell me when I enter a company and start talking to everyone from the CEO to the janitor. They all have tremendous insight into what is working and what is not. Many companies have a huge gap between their stated culture (what is on the wall and on their website) and their hidden culture (the way things actually are).
There is a proverb that says, "The beginning of wisdom is calling things by the right name." If you want to know what is truly going on at your company, you need to check your ego and defensiveness at the door and start listening particularly to your customers and those who are what I call "closest to the valve".
AM: Can you share an example of a success story? A business that you worked with and the progress you have seen?
DR. DAREN: Bruce Sammis, CEO of Lockton in Dallas, is on record as saying, "We would not be where we are today without Daren Martin. Daren changed the trajectory of our business." I came in to the company, asked the right questions, initiated strategic conversations, and recommended process, procedure, and people changes to drive more growth and consistency at this already great company.
AM: What is next for you? Are there any upcoming projects you are particularly excited about?
DR. DAREN: Wow. Where to start. I am putting out several more books, including Architecting a Company of Owners – a follow-up to my bestselling A Company of Owners, which has been called "Best book since Good to Great" – and think/WOW, which is a customer service book. We are launching Company Culture Magazine in 2019, which is going to rock the business world. I started Company Culture Academy, in which we are partnering with some extremely qualified partners so we can offer even more services to help drive the "Company Culture Evolution" that is happening right now. In addition, all four of my books are coming out in Kenya and East Africa, with more countries on the way. Our podcast, Company Culture with Daren Martin, is continuing to gain momentum as well.


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Matt Ortt Companies continues to succeed
Business, Featured
By Morgan Pilz, Staff Writer
Submitted by Josh Davis
Representatives from the Matt Ortt Companies and Ocean Pines Association shake hands after
agreeing to contract extension terms on Friday. Pictured, from left, are Ortt Companies cofounders Matt Ortt and Ralph DeAngelus, and Ocean Pines General Manager John Viola and Finance Director Steve Phillips.
(July 25, 2019) Matt Ortt Companies, which has been managing several restaurants and organizations in Ocean City and Ocean Pines, will continue to prosper with a collaboration with the Harrison Group and a preliminary multi-year contract extension with Ocean Pines.
On Friday, the Ocean Pines Association announced that it and the Matt Ortt Companies had agreed to preliminary terms of a multiyear contract extension to continue to manage the Ocean Pines Yacht Club and Beach Club.
"We're super happy that we've come to preliminary – and I use the word preliminary here – terms on the extended contract," said Ralph DeAngelus, co-partner of the management company. "Nothing's been finalized yet. But in business, once you get the terms done, the language never kills a deal."
The Matt Ortt Companies originally signed a two-year agreement to manage both facilities last year. Since then, each restaurant has experienced a significant financial turnaround and earned rave reviews for improved food quality and service.
Under the leadership of Matt Ortt, DeAngelus and Executive Chef Stuart Diepold, the Ocean Pines Yacht Club has set new sales standards several times this season, including a record-breaking Memorial Day Weekend. In July, the Yacht Club facility set a single-day record with $53,000 in total revenue – including a $25,000 banquet – and on July 5 the restaurant by itself set a single-day record with more than $40,700 in net revenues.
"We expect to be in Ocean Pines for a long, long time and we're super, super happy about it," DeAngelus said. "I believe this is a win-win-win situation … a triple win matter. Matt Ortt Companies wins, the Ocean Pines Association wins and the people who come to the Yacht Club, a customer base, is going to win on this deal. And that's what makes it a great deal."
In addition to the preliminary agreement, the Matt Ortt Companies will also be collaborating with the Harrison Group on a massive restaurant project on 16th Street.
The restaurant will be known as Black Salt Bistro, and will be marketed as a casual fine dining experience with 40 feet of Boardwalk frontage, as well as 1,000 square feet for outdoor seating. The project is expected to be completed and open for public use in April 2020.
"We're super excited to be joining the Harrison Group family," DeAngelus said. "They're obviously the premier hotel organization in town and we can't wait to be a part of it. So they leased us a spot in their premier Quality Inn Hotel on 16th Street."
Currently, the outdoor restaurant is called Surfin Betty's Beach Bar, which serves the Boardwalk and the pool area. DeAngelus already has several plans for the new operation.
DeAngelus plans to install a "massive bar" inside the restaurant, which will have 3,000 square feet of space and have a large outdoor patio. All this will be done with interior design assistance from local interior designer Tori Jacobs, who has helped style several Matt Ortt managed locations such as the former Rare and Rye on 32nd Street. The beach bar will be renamed the Salt Shack.
"We're still going to be a family-style restaurant, but we're going to be more casual upscale family restaurant," DeAngelus said. "There's a there's two big, giant pools that service the hotel and we sit in the middle of them. There's about a 40-foot space between the pools and [the bar] is located dead center between them."
The restaurant will serve seafood-based meals as well as some "flair-styled entrees" that were seen at Rare and Rye, with Executive Chef Stuart Diepold taking over the menu and heading the kitchen at the facility.
"I don't think I've ever been more laser-focused on a project in my life than the one we're going to do here on 16th Street," DeAngelus said.

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Sandals made from grass have been discovered in Egyptian, Roman and Native American archeological sites and have been traditionally worn in many parts of Africa and Asia. But, it is the Spanish espadrille (also known as an alpargata or espartena) that have become historically and internationally known. In its most basic form, a jute sole (originally made of esparto grass) is plaited, coiled and sewn to a textile upper, creating a resilient, breathable, and comfortable shoe that is both biodegradable and recyclable.
An early espadrille from Cueva de los Murciélagos of Albuñol in Granada dates back to the sixth century BCE, while others have been discovered in the Pyrenees throughout history. Shoemaking has long been an important industry in Spain and the growing textile industry in Catalonia contributed to its espadrille production. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, espadrilles were worn by farm workers, fishermen, and priests - but it wasn't until the 1930s that they began to appear as practical leisure wear throughout Europe. During this period, manufacturers began painting the jute sole with rubber, increasing its resilience.
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Italian shoe designer, Salvatore Ferragamo, could be credited with elevating the espadrille to a stylish street wear staple. Trade embargoes against Italy in the 1930s and 40s led to a scarcity of materials, including high-quality leather. Ferragamo made creative use of raffia, cork and textiles and he debuted a style in 1937 with a wedge heel wrapped in braided rope. Starlets, Lauren Bacall and Grace Kelley led the trend forward, wearing espadrilles in their respective film features of the time. Forty years later, Yves Saint Laurent reinvented the espadrille yet again, working with a traditional Catalan shoemaker to wrap braided jute around a wedge sole. Color and high ankle ties were added to a runway style, ignited a trend in 1976. Since then, designers have often introduced luxury footwear that evokes the traditional, utilitarian alpargata.
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Q: Passing rest of the codes as callback function In a middle of already completed javascript function, you want to call a new async function. So you need to pass, "rest of the code" as a callback function as parameter to this new function.
function sample() {
    alert("a bunch of codes");

    alert("another a bunch of codes");
}

I have to change the function as below.
function sample() {
    alert("a bunch of codes");

    var cb = function () {
        alert("another a bunch of codes");
    };

    newFunction(cb);
}

What if I want to add another function that has to wait first one ? Then I got numerous multiple levels of callback functions to the wait another..
So what is the best practice on ES5 ?

A: In ES5, just like you said you have to nest multiple callbacks inside each other.
Example:
function myFunction2(){
    console.log(2);

  let myFunction = () => {
    console.log(1);
    }

  myFunction();
}
myFunction2();
// OUTPUT
// 2
// 1

ES6 also provides a new alternative, promises.
Example:
let myPromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
  setTimeout(function(){
    resolve(1);
  }, 250);
});

console.log(2);
myPromise.then((successMessage) => {
  console.log(successMessage);
});
// OUTPUT
// 2
// 1

ES8 has provides an even better alternative(although it is just syntactic sugar based on promises) but you can use async functions with await.
Example:
function resolveAfter2Seconds(x) {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve(x);
    }, 2000);
  });
}

async function add1(x) {
  const a = await resolveAfter2Seconds(20);
  const b = await resolveAfter2Seconds(30);
  return x + a + b;
}

add1(10).then(v => {
  console.log(v);  // prints 60 after 4 seconds.
});

Keep in mind though, that you probably need to use Babel to transpile your js in order to be compatible with all browsers.

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Here are a few of my favorite shots from Jenna & Mark's small, intimate fall wedding ceremony in downtown Calgary. The ceremony and dinner was hosted at Q Haute Cuisine. The small, elegant-yet-rustic space easily converted from a ceremony in to a dinner-party! Also, it was located in the heart of Eau Claire which was fantastic for photographs along the river and pathways of Princes Island Park.
Intimate weddings are so beautiful! It feels so cozy and special when you are part of a small gathering of close friends and family to witness two people vowing their love to one another.