I'm going to give you a verbal resume for your consideration as the opportunity post it online presence itself. (Whew no red over presents but i caught it because I read things over three or four times before i hit PUBLISH anywhere, yet it snuck past Google's blogspot spell checker. I don't think Chrome can enter through the website internal workings of Blogspot, both wonder childs of Google, the machine that keeps on chugging, and now steaming ahead in the war on Data. Now, I'm certainly no engineer or computer designer or architect (hey, maybe I've been around one or two or more of the types ... eh?
I keep watching the competition going on. And, my friends, it isn't a war on drugs, political arena, money or power. Well, perhaps it is an arm wrestle over POWER. It all comes down to this word called "data". No caps, a noun and strongly overtaking as a verb for what is really driving the world: it's data. The problem of ISIS compounded by a hundred. Because the one thing I learned in the digital equipment business, with HP, XEROX and IKON (now swallowed up by RICOH).
Think about the biggest most powerful companies who have survived at least 50 years in business, never afraid of evolving their identity to appear as a leader in its field. They have all CAPS logos and identity! They share that common denominator. When did Apple become APPLE? They snuck it in on us, could be a conspiracy theory?
The sublimity of becoming an all caps logo from all lower case to one capital letter? I wonder if anyone has figured this out? Interesting possibilities and endless learning opportunities unfold. Thinking of Mashable comes first into my head. They're at the capital or uppercase M with the rest lowercase. (Thank you to Google for waking up after being asleep at the wheel on the spell checker side, I didn't know that uppercase and lowercase were singular words, I had typed at two separate words.
Imaginary soul
My imagination and creativity is my gift to the world. I may not be the most eloquent writer or unpublished as an author. How else could I adopt and self-title myself from optioneerJM to ThePublisher ? Yes there are MEANDERINGSabout and The INbetweeners blogs indeed in between. Gosh, I'd typed INbetweeners so much I thought they were indeed one word. Wrong, and wisely pointed out by Google.
Google has the ability to control the data that so many are grasping at getting so desperately. The fight over data began when I was at HP. We were building and decommissioning servers (wiping them completely clean) all from scratch all because DATA my friends was playing havoc with INFORMATION.
Umbrella
Data is the is virtually in the cloud. It is starting to be the battle on who not only can grab and house the data (have you used the Apple Cloud? Geese, they have the in front of their name too, maybe I AM an imposter! Thinking I'm as good or clouds away from information.
Battle Ground
You could consider the faceoff or the ball toss, is between Google and Apple. They've been cleverly gathering data about us for a very long time. Where Google may have had the head start, Yahoo and AOL were light years ahead. {What happened to those two pioneers? As such happens too far frequently, where the real pioneers of a technology or a solution to a problem (because they're not always at the hands on a keyboard)}
I have had the opportunity and through training which drove my ability to launch assistance on a new business, leave behind cool ideas (mostly templates) wherever I've been. That is one of the things I can almost guarantee. My name remembered as a different last name, long before I shed it and the husband that went along with it. I've been fortunate to hone my abilities with the right type of leadership support that brought out the best in me. Sprinkle in some of the worst, easily defined as horror stories of bosses and companies I've worked for. Yes, a few gave me a shot of developing leadership skills, when I was truly blossoming in the right role, building my team from the ground up. Developing and sharpening an ever evolving plan. That's kinda like me.
Toastmaster
As they say, distinguished Area Governor, award winning President,taking a club at the bottom with struggling attendance and engagement. The Area Governor while I was president went on to be the District Governor, or was that a VP before the District Governor. The District Governor is like the Mayor, Premier, Prime Minister, The President (there's that capital "The" I copied here. OOPsie, LOL.
That is why I write
The difference between the gifted and truly great orators cannot amount to anything without the write words. That is what I found by discovery. I guess in a nutshell I don't settle for the status quo. There are an infinite number of people, companies, processes, operations, people, characteristics, profiles, principles, philosophy, culture, impediments to trying to accomplish just about anything.
The resources
Of a given company, the resources are the thing. They make or break a company, organization or country. Really regardless of global location, culture, religions, they share the same obstacles. There is this really important balance between three separate things:
* people power
* equipment and technology
* intelligence and innovation above all.
If you don't have the resources in place or minimum keeping pace with your growth, you will fail miserably. Think about all the GREATEST of pioneers who fade into the background, a forgotten innovator. It has to be the guy who invented SKYPE. Without skype, people really were unable to communicate in any other way than on the phone OR a webcam but not both.
Without SKYPE, there would be no FACETIME (Apple eh?) no SNAP CHAT, Periscope or YouTube for heaven's sake. I may have gone off the deepend a bit here. I guess you just found out the second most unique thing about me didn't you? I don't like others stealing credit when it is due someone else.
The Folklores
When is the last time we had folklores? I know that a lot of indigenous peoples who pass down stories for generations and then the ones more unbelievable thus called folklores. With the little brothers and sisters called rumours who don't even have hardly a blip on our radars or importance meter until they implode with cast offs from Yahoo, not realizing it was capitalizing on the lead from AOL that allowed people to type a conversation in real time. Now we call them texts and they are as well taken for granted on all the smartphones out there along with the telecommunications world, which is another big power struggle of our time ::: which ironically gather the most revenue from being that word again: DATA. Well, we do have folklores. In our generation they're called MicroSoft, Apple, GE, HP, Xerox, IBM, Disney.
It all begins with a story
Every folklore has a story.
For me, as a career I've had the knack to help launch businesses, come up with some creative ideas that solved big problems (which was rewarded because it was in a sales capacity where money talked, results won.) If I was truthful, I would not expound upon the glories of sales glory at the highest level. What nobody tells you in sales school, university, or college, that to be truly great in sales, you have to toughen your skin to a shell of steel because the higher you climb the more people think they want to step on you. Or, kick you from the sidelines.
Once, I was doing some really great things, people become nervous. I don't think they are nervous because they may be cool ideas, but they could see that I could execute on those ideas.
An Army
Some companies think they should run it like the army. No, I've never been in the Army, but my father was highly regarded in the Canadian Armed Forces Air Force Command Center in Winnipeg. It may have moved for all I know, but through osmosis I could see how it ran its operation. They'd blip at me when I heard "insubordination" or "leadership command" or "full disclosure, tattle taler society".
The Hierarchy
Some companies have tried to soften the army approach because when business is booming, which usually means economies are booming. That, usually equates to oodles of opportunity for more sales which trickle down to net profits, executive reasonal salaries with outrageous bonuses. Some of us do pretty well and even can thrive in a Hierarchal society, it's best to blend in and fade into the background in this climate. Because the leaders of the top of the chain do not like to be threatened. Not in a hierarchical society. There still are a lot of yes sir and no ma'am in this society without the salute (unless it's the third finger salute behind the back of the hierarchical ~ geez, is this a hard word to spell or what??!!) There are clear distinctions between the haves and the have nots in this world. There are the people that make all the money (around 10%) and then there are those that do all the work to allow the top to keep making more money (90%). I've worked in this world the most. It's a comfortable place to be. It isn't necessarily THE best place to be if you like to be a creative thinker. Can you imagine the business cases, best practices, powerpoint presentations there are in a Hierarchy company? Well, the area you can really be creative is within the confines of those arenas:
* Business Cases
* Best Practices
* Powerpoint Presentations
If you're good at any three of those things and become outstanding, you will knock the socks off anyone who merely glimpses at your showmanship, intelligence, innovation and wanting to solve a problem.
The Narrow Path
Imagine being in the confines of processes, procedures, protocol, pretty power points, and I didn't even expound the virtues of being an excel spreadsheet whiz. You, young man or young lady, will be going places. Vroom vroom. I've never been a rule breaker. Not that I can think of too readily. Maybe someone else can remember and enlighten me? In any case, I will admit to being a rule:
* Pusher
* Enveloper
* Evasive
* Determined
* Focussed
* Driven
* Chaser
* Dreamer
of ways to do new things in new ways. Hardly, a spot for someone like that in a Hierarchical surroundings. It could be almost like a tadpole or goldfish swimming in the ocean surrounded by sharks. Very teritorial these barracudas and bastards are. (First official swear word in print, ha! Power of NOW!)
Idea Makers
Become stakeholders to their ideas. They are driven farther and higher than the former two worlds. Out of this pool of unique creative, techno visionaries come a lot of really great things. Innovations we try to associate with The Jetsons. Flying machines, just frequency in space doesn't match yet. The only unfortunate part of this society is that egos reign supreme. I know, you thought that attribute would live more comfortably in the Hierarchical domain. But no, this world revolves usually one very powerful person. I know, we usually identify with that more as a leader or dictator of a country. Well, they live in the Idea Makers world. They me and I one hundred times than we or third place you. Then again, that only deviates when there is assigning blame.
Dysfunctional
Now many of us have lived in one form of dysfunction or another. You are delusional or a liar if you deny this. Some demonstrate it more privately and at home, or when they're out, or at work. Most, if not all, have had to deal hands on or hands off with dysfunction. There are a lot of companies that are dysfunctional while sharing the common ground of The Army or by Hierarchy. For that reason, can emerge a Dysfunctional work culture. Or, the lack of balance between life and the way you have a roof over your head.
A few things to ponder. If they make you think, absolutely great. Thank you.
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Images for this were taken from my "FACEUS" Board on Pinterest. My favorite board. There is so much intrigue captured from an expression.
Black and white images can exude a mood that is unique from color. Sometimes I use a themed collection of images, instead of images or quotes related to the writings, in my blog.
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