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via Timothy McGee's Blog

No organization cares about you. Organizations aren’t capable of this.

Your bank, certainly, doesn’t care. Neither does your HMO or even your car dealer. It’s amazing to me that people are surprised to discover this fact.

People, on the other hand, are perfectly capable of caring. It’s part of being a human. It’s only when organizational demands and regulations get in the way that the caring fades.

If you want to build a caring organization, you need to fill it with caring people and then get out of their way. When your organization punishes people for caring, don’t be surprised when people stop caring.

When you free your employees to act like people (as opposed to cogs in a profit-maximizing efficient machine) then the caring can’t help but happen.

The Caring Capitalist

Some call it anarchic socialism, some cutting edge capitalism. At Brazilian manufacturer Semco, the workers have sacked the boss, and run the company themselves.

At the lavish reception, one of two receptionists meet and greet the great and mighty. But no-one really ever knows which one it will be at any given time. “‘We are not sure which one will be there, because they set their own schedule” explains IT worker boss Joao Neto. There are hammocks to help workers think in comfort, and departments can choose their own furniture. Even salaries are set by the employees themselves, and bosses are just as likely to tell you to ask for more money than less. But although it sounds like a workers dream, the rest of the department keeps an eagle eye on lazy employees: “There is peer pressure for bad behaviour. If you’re here just to profit from other people’s efforts, you’re not wanted”. The easy going atmosphere has paid dividends — annual profits at Semco are up to US$ 160m these days, from $ 4m when owner Ricardo Semler took over 25 years ago. Now he has turned his attention to teaching — without the teachers. Like Semco, pupils at Lumiar primary school in Sao Paulo dictate the rules. Vive La Revolucion?

Sometimes one of the most difficult problems people face is actually putting aside the time to work. People often attempt to multi-task multiple projects at one time while simultaneously juggling email, Twitter, etc. Frankly, it's an incredibly ineffective method in which to conduct your work. I've long preferred a system of time management known as the Pomodoro Technique. Choose a task to be accomplished Set the Pomodoro to 25 minutes (the Pomod … Read More

via An Associate's Mind

i’m not hiding from you
but will never find me
if you look behing you
and i’m not runnin’ away
i’m only running past you
if you would just a little faster

in the heart of new york city
by the banks of the red see
on a bicycle in china
in the hills of tuscany
in the eyes of a new born baby
underneath the old oak tree
that’s where you’ll find love LOVE
LOVE
LOVE
that’s where you’ll find love
& that’s where you’ll find me

may the sound of your voice
drive you through the seasons, help you find the reasons…
don’t look up, don’t look down,
keep your hands beside you & they will guide you

in the heart of new nork city (chorus)
by the banks in the red see
on a bicycle in china
in the hills of tuscany
in the eyes of a new born baby
underneath the old oak tree
that’s where you find love LOVE
LOVE
LOVE
that’s where you’ll find love
taht’s where you’ll find love
& that’s where you’ll find me

i was taken to the top of the world once
not even knowing i was there
over taken to the beauty of the view
i wish i could go again
(repeat chorus 2 times)

The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an open-source invention that gave the artist — and gives others in his circumstance — the means to make art again.

About Mick Ebeling

Mick Ebeling founded the Not Impossible Foundation, a nonprofit that develops creative solutions to real-world problems. Full bio and more links

THE EYEWRITER

Do you think it is possible to make a HUBLOT-Watch with aligned screws or with no screws on the top at all?

I’d say it’s not impossible…

Hublot-Black-One Million Caviar

Hublot ad of a virtual unscrewed watch. SEM by St.Meichtry; Visual treatments by D.Telfser ©2011

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By Stefan{at}MyTree.CH

There are lots of things about your person written in the internet. I would like to ask you some new questions.

Please ask.

First of all I would like to make a visual test. What do you see on this picture?

I can see a tree.

Don’t you see more? Take your time, you have to consider it more precisely.
I can’t see more.

Sometimes there is more there, than you think you see.
Yes
Bring the white scope into your focus. Imagine, that the stars are eyes…
Oh yes, and the hands..
So you have you seen it? Oh yes! What is this test for?
There are people, which look at this picture and they just can see the tree.
It’s good to see the tree and it’s good seeing the hands protecting the tree.

Polar Clock

We call it „The Tree-Spirit“. My first question is about creativity: Did you ever hear something about polar clock. It looks like this:

What do you think about the polar clock? Can it be a creative way to see the time?
Yes of course, it’s a creative way of seeing the time. It’s a trial to show time differently, you know, why should time always be shown by two hands or three hands and why not? Yes, I think, it’s also interesting because it chooses colors. Color is emotion. It is a creative and a different way to show the time. The colors are attractive. Color is emotion.
That’s true, you have plenty of colors in your watches.
Yes, because I love colors. For me the color is one of the biggest pleasure I have in life. What I really enjoy is the air and color.

So, what is your favorite color?

My favorite color is., well it depends. For my dresses it is blue. Ok, I don’t wear blue today. It doesn’t mean because blue is my favorite color, that everything has to be blue, but I like blue. And then I also like green.

In fact, blue and green are the two dominant colors on planet earth. Green is the color of the forest, blue is the sky and the sea. What else do we have on planet? That’s it. So somehow I like the two basic colors of the planet.

Let’s speak about symmetry. I have a question concerning the screws on your watches.

Manchester United Red Devil Bang Watch from Hublot

The screws can never be symmetric, because they are screws and screws have a function and they have a technique of function. Like in an engine, like in a Ferrari engine for example. If you look at a Ferrari engine the screws are just ending up, where they are and the screws cannot be.

The screw at 12 cannot be like this and the screw at 3 like this, this is impossible in technology. Unless you make it look like a screw, but in actual fact it is a nut, the screw is then on the back. And then you make something aesthetic that looks like a screw and where is the technology?

Technology is as it is.

Then my next question is: What is more important? Beauty or technology?
Technology is important and the truth is important, you cannot hide it. If you put the screw, that is not the screw but a nut.

Modified Hublot-Watch without screws and with the MyTree.TV-Logo!

Isn’t there a way to put the screws in a way that looks more symmetric or why not remove them?
No, it’s not interesting to try to do it. Because there are technical screws and every watch is different in that sense.
The first time I have seen your watches at the airport in Geneva I thought that it’s impossible for me to wear such a watch. It would disturb me to read the time.
It is because you are very precise, you are a very symmetric man and you are quite a lot influenced from the North, from Germany and you are like some of the German guys, they gave me this remark… (laughing).

Is it a national thing, actually ?
It is more. It depends. 90 % of the people, who ask the question „Can’t we change the screws…“ came from Germany or German countries or Swiss German. But again, you will never be able to fix the screw on a certain position.

Well what about “never say never”?.
No, we don’t even want to try. Because we don’t see the sense in that and then it doesn’t look natural.
Speaking about your business. You have plenty of things, that you import/export, are you concerned a little bit about the CO2 production that you make worldwide with your business?
Not really.

Why not?
Because it’s not significant. We don’t import so much from outside and when we import from outside, it’s mostly from Germany or France. And there are no long distances to negotiate and it’s very small in volume. So if you send a letter or a little package with 10’000 screws in it it’s not very significant. But the fact is, we have no volume, no reasons to be heavily concerned and to make studies about the CO2.
What about supply chains. Do you know, where the material is coming from?
Not always. When we buy gold from the UBS, we don’t really know where it comes from. When we buy platinum also from the UBS, we don’t really know where the platinum comes from. When we buy diamonds, we have the Kimberly certificate, but … how do you know, that they are not from blood diamonds or if there is something wrong with the certificates. You have terrorist people entering countries with wrong passports, so today you have fake money, today you have fake watches… Today you can only try it, but you can never give a full security.
Are Chinese people already trying to copy your watches?
Thanks God, I hope so, they must! It is a must.

If people copy your watches it is a sign of success.

You measure your success by two elements: the numbers of copies and how many people are jealous of your industry. If you drive the industry mad because they are full of envy and full of jealousy and you have a lot of copies, then you know, that you are successful. Laughing. No copies, no success.
Speaking about the trees. You use rubber, I mean Kautschuk. Is that right?
Yes. We use it for the wrist-band.

Where does it come from? Malaysia.

And how is it produced? Have you been there? No, I’ve not been there.

And can you make sure that there is no child labour?
It is produced from a Swiss company, it belongs to us. It belongs to Swiss people. And they bring the rubber from Malaysia. That is all I know.

Do you know „newTree“? No.

Well, I have a little gift for you. So you will never forget it anymore. There it is. It is a „newTree“-cap from from the Non-Profit-Organization www.newTree.org , they plant trees in Africa among many other things. Thanks a lot.

Mr. Biver (CEO Hublot)

Thank you for wearing it. You show, that you like gifts.
I show, that I want to help and I show that I care.

That’s fantastic. I appreciate that. I would like to congratulate you for the César Award. I was quite impressed by the words you said in Bukarest.
Thank you.
Do you remember, what you have said?
Yes, of course.

“The whole life is now running just for one goal, to leave your trace”, is it correct?

Of course. Your life is there to work for the trace. And you should live to two traces: one trace is the trace of love, and anybody who dies and has left the trace of love I’d say, his life is a 99 % success. If in addition to this trace of love, which is the most important (99 %), if in addition to the trace of love, he can live the trace in his (of) business, in his activity.. Whatever he did, his life was a 100 % success. So, I reckon you should leave one trace of love and one trace in your occupation or your business.

Do you think, that there is already a little trace coming?
For me? Yes, for me I’ve a trace in my business, already, not very deep, I still have to work. And then there is a trace of love. (That I know).

While I was in the waiting room, I discovered “Les Hublotins”.
Ah, yes, the kindergarten.
So, offering a childcare service in work life lies at your heart?
Yes, for every employer, but also the people who are living in the area. It’s not only for our own people, of course they have a priority, but the service is for the region as well. We have to contribute to the region.

This is very impressive. Speaking about the future of Hublot and the sustainability. Where do you see Hublot in five years?
I see the enterprise where it is today, but with some new performances, in the watch making art, new performances in the materials, innovation, creativity, Hublot must always try to be the first, always try to be different, to be unique. If we can maintain this: be the first, be different and be unique, in five years we will be more successful, more important and stronger. And that it is, what I wish for Hublot, to become stronger and stronger and to keep this policy.

Do you intent to make more watches?
No, to be stronger, to have more innovation, creativity, quality, awareness, reputation, exclusivity. Prestige is not a link to quantity. But the quantity is the consequence of all that. So we don’t foresee necessary high increases in quantity, we see increase in the creativity, increase in the prestige, increase in quality not quantity and as a consequence we see an increase of turnover more from the qualitative side then from the quantative side.
I would like to give you one more gift in order to reach your goal. Do you know Mr. Seth Godin? He wrote a book called: „Linchpin“ This is an audio book, as you travel a lot, you can listen listen it during your flights or while you are travelling. You can have an idea about his way of thinking. This is a big thank you for the interview.
Excellent. Thank you.

Thank you for this interesting interview and for your support.
Dankeschön, merci beaucoup.

After the interview with Mr. Biver Meichtry Stefan started a brand-new blog called http://traceoflove.wordpress.comPlease have a look and learn more about Hublot, Time-Management and Marketing.

Ski-WM: Kritik an Vorarlberger Zeitmesser

Via ORF

Die vom Vorarlberger Unternehmen Alge-Timing durchgeführte Zeitmessung bei der Ski-WM sorgt für Kritik. In der ersten Woche kam es wiederholt zu falschen Zwischenzeiten. Die Slowenin Tina Maze erwägt nun, Protest einzulegen.

Kritik von Slowenien – “Zeit ist nicht korrekt”
Am Sonntagnachmittag versuchten die Verantwortlichen die Probleme zu erklären und versicherten gleichzeitig, dass jede einzelne Fahrzeit korrekt sei.

“Es wurde alles mehrfach kontrolliert und die Zeiten sind zu hundert Prozent okay”, sagte Albert Vetter, der seit 1998 gemeinsam mit seinem Cousin Wolfgang Alge das Unternehmen führt.

Die Korrektheit der Endzeiten versicherte auch Francesco Cattaneo, der Verantwortliche des Ski-Weltverbands (FIS). Doch unterstützt vom nationalen Fernsehen zweifelt das Team von Maze, die zwar für Slowenien startet, aber vom Verband losgelöst arbeitet, die Zeiten vehement an.

“Die Zeit ist nicht korrekt. Das ist eine WM. Das ist unglaublich”, meinte Andrea Massi, der Headcoach der Mannschaft rund um Maze.

Slowenien überlegt Protest einzureichen
Man werde die weiteren Schritte überlegen, aber die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Protests liege bei neunzig Prozent, meinte dazu auch Maze-Trainer Livio Magoni. Laut Tomi Trbovc, dem Sprecher des slowenischen Verbandes, werde die Entscheidung über einen offiziellen Protest “voraussichtlich vor Ende der WM fallen”.

Laut Berechnungen des slowenischen Fernsehens liegt die tatsächliche Zeit von Maze um mehr als eine halbe Sekunde unter der momentan als offiziell geführten, Magoni sprach sogar von 0,70 bis 0,80 Sekunden. Maze wurde im Super-G Elfte, der Rückstand der Slowenin auf Rang drei betrug 1,03 Sekunden.

Kuriose Erklärung für Probleme
Die Erklärungen der Veranstalter klingen ein wenig kurios. Im konkreten Fall von Maze soll ein falsch angestecktes Datenkabel der Beschallungsanlage schuld gewesen sein. “Der Sprecher hat dann besonders emotional gesprochen, dadurch kam es zu einem induktiven Überschlag auf das Zeitnehmerkabel”, erklärte Toni Ostler vom WM-Team.

Auch Probleme bei der Herren-Abfahrt
Auch bei der Zeitmessung bei der Herren-Abfahrt hatte es Probleme gegeben, so war bei Didier Cuche zunächst nicht die Endzeit angehalten worden. Grund dafür sollen die frühlingshaften Temperaturen sein.

Durch das Schmelzen der Schneedecke um täglich bis zu fünf Zentimeter habe die Abstimmung bei einer Lichtschranke nicht mehr exakt gepasst. Für diese Fälle hat Alge mehrere Backups zur Verfügung.

Am Sonntag wurde auf Anordnung der FIS auf das Anzeigen von Zwischenzeiten auf der Datenleinwand im Stadion verzichtet, um für den Fall von erneut auftretenden Problemen nicht wieder für Verwirrung unter den Abfahrerinnen und Zuschauern zu sorgen.

Alge verteidigt sich – Zeiten seien abgesichert
Laut Vetter arbeitet Alge bei jedem Skirennen mit einem A- und B-System, zur zusätzlichen Kontrolle gibt es Fotofinishzeit und die Handzeit-Messung.

“Dadurch kann man die Zeit bis in den Zehntausendstelbereich kontrollieren”, berichtete Vetter. Start- und Endzeiten seien viel mehr abgesichert als Zwischenzeiten, bei denen es daher um einiges leichter zu Problemen kommen könne.

WM-Organisatoren sind wenig begeistert
Die WM-Organisatoren sind klarerweise wenig begeistert über die Diskussionen. “Das ist sehr ärgerlich. Das sind Begleiterscheinungen, die es aufgrund der technischen Entwicklung nicht geben sollte”, meinte Geschäftsführer Peter Fischer.

“Maßgebend ist aber, dass alle Zeiten stimmen. Das ist die wichtigste Botschaft.” Fischer will auch Alge aber nicht an den Pranger stellen. “Man muss ihnen eine Chance geben. Sie sollen ab morgen zeigen, dass sie es besser können.”

Alge hatte vor Mitbewerber Swiss Timing den Zuschlag für die WM erhalten, diese beiden Unternehmen decken die Zeitnehmung im Weltcup ab.

www.hublot.ch

by Stefan(at)MyTree.CH 22.11.2010

Gewidmet all jenen
mit Luxusproblemen.

Luxusprobleme sind per Definition
Probleme, die nur durch Reichtum entstehen,
durch die Geburt in die richige Familie oder Nation
Probleme von denen die Armen nichts verstehen!

iTunes – iPhone – iPad
Me, MYSELF and I- First!
Others dream of an iBread
while our earth is going to burst

Social-Network? Wie “sozial” ist dass denn?
Kommunikationsspielzeug für die Reichen
and was haben sie denn schon zu sagen?
Jedenfalls nichts über die Armen!

Zeitvertreib mit Smart-Phone und Co.
Aber sag mal ganz ehrlich: Wieso?
Wieso denkst Du Dein Smartphone wird Dir etwas nützen,
wenn wir gemeinsam die Erde ins Unglück stürzen?

Würden sich die Blogger im selben Masse,
für unsere Umwelt interessieren
wären weniger Arme auf der Strasse
und die Erde könnte länger weiterexistieren!

Hans Rosling’s new insights on poverty

Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing.

About Hans Rosling

As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now he looks at the bigger picture of social and economic development with his… Full bio and more links

The seemingly impossible is possible!

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