Dec 10, 2012
Meet Bucko!
I have had people question my e-mail address, "buckoclown@aol.com", and today while I was putting away a new clown (thank you Aunt June!), I came across this picture. I figured I would clean it off and post it so you can see my alter-ego, or perhaps my real personality. Beth has never seen me in make-up, but she lives with the personality :o)
Dec 9, 2012
Dec 8, 2012
Goals!
"People with goals succeed because they know where they
are going... It's as simple as that."
- Earl Nightingale
Dec 7, 2012
Crisis Management!
All leaders are challenged by crisis. Here are four things to help cope with
such situations:
1.Communicate immediately and clearly.
2.Directly assess the impact.
3.Establish and communicate clear expectations for your workforce.
4.Set priorities among conflicting demands.
Dec 6, 2012
Patience & Perseverance
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles
vanish."
- John Quincy Adams
Dec 5, 2012
Dec 4, 2012
Successful Meetings
Successful meetings are possible. With
forethought and planning, your meetings will use attendees’ time wisely and
accomplish important business goals.
Structure meetings to
ensure effective results. Every meeting must have:
• A
written objective.
• Crucial
stakeholders’ attendance.
• A
circulated agenda.
• Beginning
and end times.
• A
written summary with action items, fixed responsibility and follow up.
A written objective: You need to look at the end
before you know where to begin. What do you want the participants to do when
they leave the meeting? This helps determine your objective. The objective
should be clearly stated in writing at the top of your agenda.
Crucial attendees: The success of your meeting
depends on participation from all of the stakeholders.
A circulated agenda: With a pre-circulated
agenda, everyone knows the objective of the meeting, which topics will be
discussed, who is responsible for the various topics and how much time the
meeting will take. Every agenda should have subjects in sequential order, with
a time allotment and moderator for each. Keep on task! This is the moderator’s
focus. When a question is raised or statement made, re-state to avoid
confusion. Make sure everyone is listening to the person speaking, with no side
conversations. The moderator must control the discussion to stay on topic. If
an important issue is raised not germane to the topic at hand, table this to an
offline task force.
Begin and end on
time: Be respectful of attendees’
commitments, and wrap up the meeting within the allotted time.
Provide a written
summary: The note-taker provides a
written record to each participant. Action decisions must be noted in writing.
Affix the proper person’s name to the action, along with the deadline
completion date.
Dec 3, 2012
Air Fuel Synthesis
An English company called Air Fuel Synthesis has begun producing
gasoline (petrol) directly from air and water. Using carbon capture technology
to sequester CO2 out of the atmosphere, and electrolysis to crack water into
its constituent hydrogen and oxygen, the
company's process then combines the hydrogen and carbon dioxide to create
synthetic gasoline or other fuels.
Although the feedstock is free,
the other
costs of the process are likely too high for this to
be an immediate replacement for oil drilling and refining, at least in the
short term. And the process has only been able to produce a small amount of
fuel in its test facility, yielding just five liters (less than 1.5 gallons) in
two months. But cost and capacity are issues that can be improved as the method
is developed and scaled up.
This adds to the number of non-petroleum processes being developed
for fuel production we have seen. It seems less a question of whether these
methods will work than it is one of which ones will reach commercial scale, and
how soon that happens.
Dec 2, 2012
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