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But there is hope for us.
If you haven’t watched Jason Fried’s TED talk, please do so now. If you are an introvert as I am, you will cheer when Jason spells out the three steps managers can do to make offices a better place to work.
No talk Thursdays
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Cancel the next meeting on your calendar
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And now we have the high priestess of introverts in the workplace and she is Susan Cain. Her recent book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, is a thorough explanation of the dynamic between our extroverted culture and our introverted members. She lays out the implications for introverted leaders, extroverted leaders who have introverted employees, and parenting introverted children. You’ll learn when collaboration kills creativity, why you experience a communication gap with certain people, and the myth of charismatic leadership. It helped me better understand why I described an open space layout at one of my clients as “offensive.” This may be the book you give your extroverted manager to tell your story. Ms. Cain has given us introverts a tremendous gift and case for change in our workplaces. Use it.
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Vidal Sassoon, the man who turned hairdressing into an art form in London in the Swinging Sixties, died on Wednesday, aged 84.
Before he transformed himself into a stylish Bond Street coiffeur and global brand, Sassoon had a very different life.
Born into a poor Jewish family in the East End, he fought fascists on the streets of post-war London and saw action in Israel in 1948.
Last May, I talked to him about his early years, in conjunction with the release of the celebratory documentary, Vidal Sassoon: The Movie.
Looking back, do you feel that you have accomplished everything you set out to do in hairdressing?
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Why was there this explosion of creativity in London at that particular time replica watches, do you think?
“Because we made it so. I think, as Spinoza said, ‘Will and morality are but one.’ And boy was he right. If you have the will and you don’t go back on your word to yourself, and you keep a moral attitude, you eventually get there if you have the talent. And often people don’t know they’ve got the talent because they don’t work hard enough or try hard enough to bring it out.”
Speaking of keeping a moral attitude, you fought fascists with the 43 Group in the East End of London. You were only young at the time. What made you join?
“After the Holocaust, once you’d seen films of that, when the 43 Group started there was no question, you had to join. Although you weren’t really one of the shtarkers [Yiddish for stout fellow], like [war hero] Gerry Flamberg. He was 250 pounds of muscle. They – I say ‘they’, because I was just one of the young guys that tried to help – smashed the fascist party in the streets. Without the help of the police, unfortunately.”
The police, you seem to note in your autobiography, were often just as anti-Semitic as the fascists.
“If the police captain in a certain area was anti-fascist, you were okay. But in the Kilburn area, we chased some fascists into a pub and then the police chased us, arrested us, took us to the police station, and on the way there they took us on a long circuit rather than a direct route, and Big Mo, as we called him, was held down and a Sergeant by the name of Jacobs, if you can believe it, beat the hell out of him.”
It could be tough for Jews.
“Well in those days Jews stood out. Not because they were special, but features and everything else. Now, because we’re multi-cultural, multi-racial, and there’s every different colour under the sun, we don’t stand out anymore, and that’s great.”
In 1948 you joined the Palmach, the elite fighting force of the Haganah, in the fledgling Israel. Were you determined to see action?
“That’s what I wanted. I wasn’t going over there to sit in an office. I got lucky; I was A1, and 21, and they accepted me in the Palmach.”
What were you looking for?
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It was after Israel that you decided to become a stylist. Before that you’d had a love/hate relationship with hairdressing. What changed?
“I always loved the fact that there was lots of pretty girls coming in and out, but I didn’t love hair. But when I came back I decided I would give it my all. Israel gave me an enormous confidence. I really felt as if I belonged. And, funny enough, it gave me a feeling of belonging in London, too. Or belonging anywhere. So, I guess, it wasn’t an arrogance; it was that the sense of what we’d done in Israel had given me this confidence.”
The rest, as they say, is history.
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Mitt Romney again relied on well-off voters for a Midwest victory, leaning in Wisconsin on support from those with $100,000-plus incomes while running only about evenly against Rick Santorum among those less comfortable financially.
In Maryland, Romney earned a more emphatic victory. And in both states he was competitive even in groups in which he’s often fared less well, particularly in the South, including very conservative and evangelical voters alike.
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Still, he had his challenges. Wisconsin voters with incomes less than $100,000 split essentially evenly between Romney and Santorum, 38-37 percent, much as they had previously in Illinois (42-39 percent) and Michigan (36-40 percent). Here, as in those states, Romney needed better-off voters to make the difference, winning $100,000-plus voters – about a quarter of the electorate – by 22 percentage points.
Santorum, the darling of very conservative voters in the South, only about split them with Romney in Wisconsin. And in an unusual result Santorum also ran competitively in Wisconsin among moderate and liberal voters; the reason was a large turnout among independents and some Democrats in the state’s open primary. They accounted for about four in 10 voters, disproportionately were moderates or liberals, and backed Romney in far lesser numbers than did mainstream Republicans.
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Additionally, about three in 10 in Wisconsin and Maryland called themselves very conservative, compared with 49 percent in Louisiana, where Santorum thumped Romney in their last match. And just 25 percent in Wisconsin were strongly focused on a candidate who shares their religious beliefs, again far fewer than in many Southern states.
In one question not asked previously, Romney ran barely ahead of Santorum in trust among Wisconsin voters to handle health care policy, 35 to 30 percent – a competitive showing for Romney given his vulnerability on the issue among voters critical of the mandatory coverage law he signed as governor of Massachusetts.
Maryland was writ larger for Romney. He won 74 percent of the voters who said beating Barack Obama was the key attribute, and 66 of those focused chiefly on experience, the latter 11 points better than his tally in this voter group in Wisconsin. He won resoundingly among somewhat conservative and moderate voters, while splitting very conservatives with Santorum. And while Romney won $100,000-plus voters by 29 points, he also won less well-off Maryland voters by 20 points, a feat he failed to replicate with his less broadly based victory in Wisconsin.
By Gary Langer, with Gregory Holyk and Damla Ergun.
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s sickly economy faces a “crisis of huge proportions”, a minister said on Friday, as unemployment hit its highest level in almost two decades and Standard and Poor’s downgraded the government’s debt by two notches.
Unemployment shot up to 24 percent in the first quarter, one of the worst jobless figures in the developed world. Retail sales slumped for the twenty-first consecutive month as a recession cuts into consumer spending.
“The figures are terrible for everyone and terrible for the government … Spain is in a crisis of huge proportions,” Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said in a radio interview.
Standard and Poor’s cited risks of an increase in bad loans at Spanish banks and called on Europe to take action to encourage growth.
The downgrade spooked financial markets, raising the interest rate fellow euro zone struggler Italy was forced to pay to sell 10-year bonds at auction. The yield was its highest since January as investors worried about the economic outlook in the bloc’s indebted states.
Analysts said the 5.95 billion euro Italian auction went well under the circumstances, but Rabobank strategist Richard McGuire said the 5.84 percent 10-year yield “leaves a question mark over how long Italy will be able to finance itself at levels that can be deemed sustainable”.
Italy’s main banking association said the economy may contract by 1.4 percent this year, more than the government’s 1.2 percent forecast.
Spain’s country risk, as measured by the spread on yields between Spanish and German benchmark government bonds, spiked before leveling off to around 420 basis points.
Spain has slipped into its second recession in three years and fears that it cannot hit harsh deficit cutting targets this year have put it back in the centre of the debt crisis storm, pushing up its borrowing costs.
Recovery and job creation are still two years off, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said on Friday in a news conference where he forecast 0.2 percent growth in the gross domestic product next year and 1.4 percent growth in 2014.
De Guindos also said Spain would increase the value-added tax and other indirect taxes next year, but would seek to reduce payroll taxes. Spain has a low VAT compared with other European countries even after raising it in 2010.
The government has already rescued a number of banks that were too exposed to a decade-long construction boom that crashed in 2008, and investors fear vulnerable lenders will be hit by another wave of loan defaults due to the slowing economy.
“It’s a very challenging situation. I don’t think that the banks are cornered yet, but the government must come out soon to say how they will address them,” said Gilles Moec, an economist with Deutsche Bank.
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“It is not going to be an easy job for most Spanish banks to find funding in the market. So the state may be called for at some point. But that, for now at least, is something the Spanish government seems to be unwilling to contemplate,” he said.
Spain has ruled out any use of European funds to recapitalize its banks, weighed down by bad property loans. Economy Secretary Fernando Jimenez Latorre said Spain had sufficient financial capacity to handle a rescue itself in case of need.
The government is considering whether to create a holding company for the banks’ toxic real estate assets after three rounds of forced clean-ups and consolidations in the financial sector have failed to draw a line under the problem.
Conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, in office since December, has passed an austerity budget and introduced new laws to try to make the economy more competitive, such as by reducing costs for companies to lay off workers. He has also agreed with Brussels a higher deficit target for this year.
But he has not convinced investors, and Spain’s borrowing costs have shot up recently as the effect of a flow of cheap loans from the European Central Bank has worn off.
On Thursday Rajoy said he was determined to stick to austerity measures even though they are aggravating the economic slump and calls for growth measures are mounting around Europe.
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EUROPEAN ACTION NEEDED
S&P now has Spain on a BBB+ rating, which means “adequate payment capacity” and is only a few notches above a junk rating. Fitch and Moody’s still rate Spain’s sovereign with a “strong payment capacity”.
The ratings agency called on euro zone countries to better manage the sovereign debt crisis.
Standard & Poor’s said the euro zone should implement growth-promoting structural measures, feeding into the mounting debate in Europe about the self-defeating nature of austerity-only or austerity-first measures.
S&P said steps to restore financial confidence should “include a greater pooling of fiscal resources and obligations, possibly direct bank support mechanisms to weaken the sovereign-bank links, and a consolidation of banking supervision or a greater harmonization of labor and wage policies.”
The call for a Europe-wide system to resolve and underpin banks echoed similar comments from the ECB’s Executive Board members Joerg Asmussen and Benoit Coeure.
(Additional reporting by Sonya Dowsett, Inmaculada Sanz, Julien Toyer and Andres Gonzalez; Writing by Fiona Ortiz; Editing by Peter Graff)
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Aurora wants to give the Gaylord hotel company a big subsidy to build a hotel next to Denver International Airport. On Monday, the State had a hearing to talk about it. This is how I used my five minutes.
I will address two points:
1. High Point development does not depend on a $950 million public subsidy.
2. Gaylord will cost Colorado school kids $240 million over 30 years, at $10 per kid, per year.
There is essentially no chance prime development property in the shadow of DIA will remain empty for the next 30 years.
This is not our first rodeo. We’ve been through this before. In 1929 we built Stapleton, an unimaginable distance out from Denver. Forty years later it was landlocked — engulfed by (tax paying) development. Sixteen-year-old DIA won’t be any different. Well before Gaylord’s thirty year bonds are paid off, by age forty Buy Christian Audigier Clothing, DIA’s neighborhood will be as fully developed as Stapleton’s. Look at Kansas City International Airport — built in the middle of no place and now surrounded by (tax paying) development.
That means Gaylord’s subsidy really does divert around $240 million from Brighton 27J School District — of Gaylord’s $401 million total property tax capture, 60 percent, around $240 million comes from the School District. The School District loss is back-filled by money taken from the State’s other 177 school districts.
This is how it works. Every year the legislature decides how much we’ll spend on each of Colorado’s 817,000 school kids. With the recession, it’s now frozen at about $6,000 per kid. Each of Colorado’s 178 school districts figures how much it can raise from its local property tax base. It uses its constitutionally mandated mill levy — a maximum of 27 mills. A few extremely wealthy districts (e.g., Aspen) can cover the whole $6,000. Typically a local district only manages around 40 percent. The State pays the rest — by far the State’s largest General Fund line item. Gaylord will grab the property taxes a non-subsidized development would have paid to the School District — $240 million over thirty years or $8 million per year.
If the legislature had the revenue, it could make up that $8 million to the schools. But it doesn’t. Since the recession started in 2008 Buy Hale Bob Dresses, it has balanced the budget by cutting school funding every year. That’s why we’re now $1 billion under the level mandated by 2000’s Amendment 23 and we’ve frozen funding from at $6 thousand per kid. Diverting another $8 million means all 178 districts suck it up and each of Colorado’s 817,000 school kids kicks in $10 per year to subsidize Gaylord.
So this is the question you get to answer: Is Colorado better off using this money for the kids or giving it to Gaylord?
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Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson at Thursday’s GOP debate in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla.—Gary Johnson was one of the very last people to get the news about Gary Johnson. On Tuesday night, Howard Kurtz reported that the former governor of New Mexico would get a podium at the Fox News/Google presidential debate. Other journalists tried to confirm the story with the Johnson campaign. No dice. They called the Florida GOP. Same deal. Not until Wednesday morning, when the governor was in a plane headed to Florida, could the campaign start popping bottles. He started strategizing on Wednesday night.
“Everybody that I’ve met in my life prior to today emailed me, I think,” Johnson said. “Everybody had a suggestion for what I was supposed to do.”
The mission: Get taken seriously for once. Johnson was supposed to be the Next Ron Paul of Republican politics. Ron Paul realized that he had gotten pretty good at that job. Johnson impressed nobody at a May debate in South Carolina. He had not debated a political foe since 1998, which led to word-salad answers like this one: “I’m in the camp that believes that we as individuals Fake Graham London Watches, we need a bit of help, so government helps out but at the point at which it runs out, that’s when we really deal with the problems that we have and as individuals that’s when we deal with those problems.”
Candidates who poll around 1 percent are rewarded if they make debates more exciting. Johnson was punished. He missed the cut for every other debate, flunking the ad hoc tests of polling strength, becoming a nonperson. In his last finance report, he had around $6,000 to campaign with. The one Republican who backed legal marijuana, opposed the death penalty, and wanted to cut 43 percent from the military budget had become invisible.
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Johnson took his place on stage before 9 p.m., ready to swing. When the cameras came to him (thank you, Fox News, for sparing us the action bios and forced introductory quips of the CNN debates), Johnson fed off the energy of an audience packed tight with Ron Paul lovers. He waved to the crowd with a look that said, “That’s right. I made it. I have enough money left in my campaign account to buy a 30-second ad in the 2 a.m. block on this channel—maybe. But I made it.”
Over two hours, Johnson would get four questions. This was better than he expected; when he previewed his non-strategy to me, he guessed he’d get “two and a half.” Every question got the same answer, with a series of lines rearranged like parsley on a plate.
“I think I vetoed more bills than any governor in the country.” (True.)
“I will submit a balanced budget for 2013.” (We may never know.)
“I think the biggest threat to our national security is that we’re bankrupt.” (We’re not, technically, but this a nice line to co-opt from the Tea Party.)
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“My next door neighbor’s two dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than this president.”
The candidate who had been kept out of polite society had just told a poop joke on the same stage as the next Republican presidential nominee. It killed. Johnson didn’t even try to contain his screw-you grin. When the debate ended, his rivals told him he’d had the best line of the night. Him! The guy who had probably inspired late-night calculus sessions of debate promoters to find a formula that included struggling Jon Huntsman but excluded him.
Fox wrapped its live shot and went to instant commentary from Charles Krauthammer.
“That was the best line of the night,” said Krauthammer, “and had he said it early on, he might now be a top tier candidate.”
Johnson could walk into the spin room as a winner, kind of. Andrew Breitbart was already in there, doing more interviews than half of the candidates’ strategists, praising the guy who had barely made it in.
“In my gut I’d vote for Johnson or Cain, because they made me laugh,” said Breitbart. “That’s the shallow, Hollywood perspective for you.”
The governor sat for a TV interview, then confronted a first for the Johnson campaign: a crowd of reporters. The first bites came from foreign press, for whom any presidential candidate’s quotes are precious.
“You want to balance the budget, you said Replica Swiss Movement Watches,” offered a Japanese reporter. “Do you risk becoming a single-issue candidate?”
This was the best problem Johnson had faced in months. The question implied that he was actually a candidate. He answered it. He got a question about momentum, and answered it: “What if I’m supposed to not even show up in New Hampshire, and I come in fifth?” He got a question about the death penalty.
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