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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results"...WC Print

Here is Something to enjoy. I found this on Clair Hanbury’s site. She is proactively focusing on a project with Unesco to find best policy and practice on pre-service teacher training on HIV and Aids. Check her out if you are interested to know more.

In the meantime here is a Louis Armstrong version of  “What a Wonderful World” from performer Raymond Crowe.

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It’s time again for the annual ‘Stella Awards’! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald’s in New Mexico, where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That’s right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.  You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy.

            Here are the Stella’s finalists for the past year:

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Sometimes we can get all profound and studied about understanding human behavior and the types of people we need to to run our business.

And for that of course we need to look at the definitions of the important demographic classes.

This is one I got in my email today that attempts to define the emerging "Y" Generation

As my colleague from Newfoundland in Canada, who sent me this cartoon said, Now, make someone else laugh. And have a great day!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generations

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They say you should never complain, never explain and never threaten to resign. That is one of the Golden Rules of life. On this occasion I am going to break it and explain a mistake in my post earlier this week,  entitled NEVER Be The First To Get Old

The content was a poem, intended for another blog called Humour for all Occasions.

That blog hosts jokes that some of my friends share with me on a regular basis. You know, the ones that annoy us when we feel compelled to read them because they were sent by the friend.  For me,  forwarding them to a blog was one way to deal with them. Then at my leisure, I could read and share them without falling for the same trap.

So if you were are looking for a context on the Performance Controller Blog. I could say “Get a life. Because business it is not all about working”.  Hmm, I  may even try to make this  mistake again.

But as mistakes happen, it is interesting that in this medium, everyone sees it immediately. Subscriber and RSS feed services and in my case also,  automatic updating on social media sites like Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn and DIGG,  all grab the message before I can even say, OOPS.

So with a potential for several thousand following weekly it is a powerful way to get out a message for our niche and to express our irrational passion. Equally if we get it wrong it can be embarrassing or even  worse as we disappear into oblivion. In cases with the huge followings like Seth Godin has with his blog,  the embarrassment could be in the millions.

So with all the hidden microphones and echoes ongoing, we know we get overheard over and over again. So I do know we have to get better at saying it better as the stakes get higher. And when we don’, t even the edit and delete options cannot make it unsaid. Never the less the delightful poem sent to me by a friend in Newfoundland Canada, if indeed it was a mistake, is one I am happy to repeat.

If you missed it the first time enjoy the poem again here as I did.  Read more…

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The computer swallowed grandma.
Yes, honestly its true!
She pressed ‘control and ‘enter’
And disappeared from view.
It devoured her completely,
The thought just makes me squirm. 
She must have caught a virus
Or been eaten by a worm.
I’ve searched through the recycle bin 
And files of every kind;
I’ve even used the Internet,
But nothing did I find.
In desperation, I asked Jeeves    
My searches to refine.
The reply from him was negative, 
Not a thing was found ‘online.’    
So, if inside your ‘Inbox,’
My Grandma you should see,
Please ‘Copy, Scan’ and ‘Paste’ her
And send her back to me.

This is a tribute to all the Grandmas and Grandpas who have been fearless and Learned to use the Computer….
They are the greatest!!!

We do not stop playing because we grow old; 
We grow old because we stop playing ..
NEVER Be The First To Get Old!!

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As we focus on making it all happen it is easy to forget to enjoy the lighter side of life. Just to kept it in perspective. “The Ride of Your Life” by George Carlin is worth taking time out and reading every day.

George Carlin’s view on ageing is brilliant. He Begins with a question.

Do you realize the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids?

 

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 Here is something a lighthearted yet inspitrational  A video of the US Navy demonstrating excellence in teamwork.

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