Archive for July 12th, 2018
As usual: Constantly living in Uncertain Times? Have the remedies changed?
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 12, 2018
It’s certain that we live in uncertain times.
By Dan Rockwell
13 Power Tips for Leading through Uncertainty:
- Pull with – not against, higher ups. Grab the rope and pull, even if you disagree. Everyone who pulls in their own direction dilutes potential success. If you can’t pull with, jump ship, now.
- Aim to make a positive difference. Don’t simply survive. Survival doesn’t inspire.
- Listen and agree with expressions of fear. People feel minimized when you minimize their feelings. Affirm don’t correct. Ask, “What makes you feel that way?”
- Schedule a “hard truth” meeting to explore worst case scenarios, fears, doubts, and what if’s. The sole purpose is honest expression without solutions. Paint black pictures. Prevent anyone from minimizing or solving anything. Honor and respect pain and fear. You look like a fool when you ignore the obvious. End “hard truth” meetings with power tip #5.
- Schedule “tough solutions” meetings.
- Break challenges and problems into small pieces. Ask, “Can we fix this?” When you find something you can fix, ask, “What can we do?”
- Develop imperfect solutions. The search for perfect solutions creates uncertainty.
- Learn as you go.
- Celebrate small wins. Enjoy how far you’ve come. Momentarily forget how far you must go.
- Focus on things within your power. Uncertainty focuses on factors outside your control; decisions made by others, economic downturns, or regulatory fiascos, for example.
- Focus on positive behaviors and less on speculations. Uncertainty always causes speculation. Repeatedly ask, “Whatcan we do.” But remember to embrace power tip #1, first.
- Speak hard truths optimistically. Express highest points of confidence. “I’m not sure how this turns out but I’m giving it my best.” Pretending everything’s ok doesn’t instill confidence in those who know it’s not.
- Connect with others who faced similar uncertainties and challenges.
Bonus: Remain emotionally steady.
This topic was suggested on the Leadership Freak Facebook page.
Which power tips are most difficult and why?
What power tips can you add to the list?
Most Obvious Question to A Bunch Of Bank Regulators: Elizabeth Warren asks
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 12, 2018
Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever And Stumps A Bunch Of Bank Regulators
Someone drank too much coffee this morning before a Senate Banking Committee hearing and decided to “do the job we hired her for” and ask the question the rest of us have been “asking for years.”
That someone is my new favorite senator, Elizabeth Warren. Someone go on another Starbucks run for her, pretty please?
She asks several times, “When was the last time you took Wall Street banks all the way to trial?”
The Senators stumble and she finally says, “There are district attorneys and attorneys squeezing money out of ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin ground and taking them to trial to ‘make an example’…
I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial.'”
(the last line was planned, she looked at her notes, but it was a good one)
- At 1:20, she asks the question we’ve all been wanting someone to ask FOREVER. Then a government lawyer stumbles over his words.
- At 2:20, she rattles off another one. Then a government lawyer stumbles over his words.
- At 2:55, she asks another lawyer the same question. Said lawyer then tries to not stumble over her words.
- At 3:25, she asks the same question again. That lawyer asks for some time.
- At 3:45, she gets our back and goes for the knockout punch.
- And then right after that you reward her good behavior by sharing this with everyone on the Internet.
- You know you want to.
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http://www.upworthy.com/elizabeth-warren-asks-the-most-obvious-question-ever-and-stumps-a-bunch-of-bank
Brain Dead. Explain to me, in lay terms
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 12, 2018
Brain Dead. Explain to me, in lay terms
As far as I know, the medical profession has reached this consensus: “When diagnosed as brain dead, you are dead and done with. Period”
And yet, many “patients” are diagnosed as brain dead, and forced to “live” under therapeutic interventions…
What it means to be brain dead in lay terms?
I will not search googles for what being brain dead means. I’ll try to surmise from my accummulated readings what it means to be brain dead, and in return I am asking the readers to correct my ignorance.
What I suspect is that a brain dead casualty is someone that medical instruments failed to detect” electrical activities” in the brain.
What that means?
Is our patient unable to even dream at all?
And so, what’s going on in this body where the heart is still pumping blood to places except the brain parts?
Is blood still reaching the automatic portions of the brain that keep the heart functional?
Are the lymbic brain portions for reflexes and basic survival activities still receiving blood?
I conjecture that the brain parts for seeing, hearing, feeling…all the external senses are dead?
I conjecture this patient cannot feel pain at all, even “unconsciously”?
Now, if many parts of the brain are not receiving blood, and consequently, are not irrigated with sugar to function, then these cells must be decaying? (Brain lives on sugar)
Which means that worms are already eating and reproducing in these locations?
Does that means some kind of pheromone chemicals are injected in the skull to keep worms at bay?
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