“Crispy”, an Attitude Which Became a Vocation Turned Into Advocation — 05/11/2014

For Your Entertainment (FYE)

“My Mission:
“To help people and organizations to be the best that they can be.”

 

My Objectives:

 

  • To manage people and organizations turnaround/rehabilitation and implementation projects, operations and maintenance
  • To integrate people, systems and technology
  • To promote technology transfer, knowledge assimilation and personal and/or organizational change.

 

Qualifications Summary:

 

Forty (40) years of international/global C.R.I.S.P.Y. consulting and services:

 

C.            Crises, conflicts, changes management

R.            Reorganizations, personal and/or business processes reengineering, personal and/or organizational rehabilitation/turnarounds

I.              Integration of complex systems, integration of people, systems and technology

S.            Strategic planning, SWOTs, (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), CSFs (Critical Success Factors) identification, market niches creation

P.            Programs/projects and operations & maintenance management

Y.            International/global investigations, interventions and implementations
Crispy

“To be hot.. one of a kind… confident about yourself ..sexy.. ”

“Many use this word, but few have yet to grasp the true meaning, the true essence behind it. Someone can have a crispy personality, a crispy attitude, a crispy style. Crispy is about being happy about how you look, how you dress, how you act, how you think. Not a lot of people carry the “crispy” attitude into real lfe.”

“Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Self-confidence is having confidence in oneself. Arrogance or hubris in this comparison, is having unmerited confidence—believing something or someone is capable or correct when they are not. Overconfidence or presumptuousness is excessive belief in someone (or something) succeeding, without any regard for failure. Confidence can be a self-fulfilling prophecy as those without it may fail or not try because they lack it and those with it may succeed because they have it rather than because of an innate ability.”
“A vocation is an occupation to which a person is specially drawn or for which he or she is suited, trained, or qualified.”

“Turnaround management is a process dedicated to people and organization renewal. It uses analysis and planning to save troubled people and organizations and returns them to success. Turnaround management involves management review (BPI,BPR,TA), activity based costing, root failure causes analysis, and SWOT analysis to determine why the person and/or organization is failing. Once analysis is completed, a long term strategic plan and restructuring plan are created. These plans may or may not involve a bankruptcy filing. Once approved, turnaround professionals begin to implement the plan, continually reviewing its progress and make changes to the plan as needed to ensure the person and/or organization returns to success.”

“A goal is a desired result a person or a system envisions, plans and commits to achieve a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines.
It is roughly similar to purpose or aim, the anticipated result which guides reaction, or an end, which is an object, either a physical object or anabstract object, that has intrinsic value.”

“Philosophy:

  • People are OK; thus each person has validity, importance, equality of respect.
  • Positive reinforcement increases feelings of OK.
  • All people have a basic lovable core and a desire for positive growth.
  • Everyone (with only few exceptions, such as the severely brain-damaged) has the capacity to think.
  • All of the many facets of an individual have a positive value for them in some way.
  • People decide their story and destiny, therefore these decisions can be changed.
  • All emotional difficulties are curable.

“Freedom from historical maladaptations embedded in the childhood script is required in order to become free of inappropriate, inauthentic and displaced emotions which are not a fair and honest reflection of here-and-now life (such as echoes of childhood suffering, pity-me and other mind games, compulsive behavior and repetitive dysfunctional life patterns). The aim of change is to move toward autonomy (freedom from childhood script), spontaneity, intimacy, problem solving as opposed to avoidance or passivity, cure as an ideal rather than merely making progress and learning new choices.”
“Awareness, Spontaneity, Intimacy, Inclusion, Control, Affection” are CRISPY Critical Success Factors (CSFs)………..

All repeat after me:

“Mama Didn’t Raise No Fool!”……….;+)

“FireHouse – Mama Didn’t Raise No Fool Lyrics

Artist: FireHouse
Album: Hold Your Fire
Genre: Rock

Heyo! SONGLYRICS just got interactive. Highlight. Review: RIFF-it.
RIFF-it good.

 

“Well listen up to what I say
I wasn’t born just yesterday
I’ve been down the road and back a time or two
Well this should come as no surprise
You can’t pull the wool over my eyes
I’ve had it up to here now I’m through

And I’m sick and tired of fools
Tired of playin’ by the rules
Time to strut my cool
‘Cause my Mama didn’t raise no fool

Mama didn’t raise no fool
Well my Mama didn’t raise no fool
You can’t tell me what to do
‘Cause Mama didn’t raise no fool

What goes around comes back around
And I’ve been around a few times by now
I’ve seen it all before and I’ve paid my dues
So don’t tell me no stories
And don’t tell me no lies
‘Cause my mother brought me up to be a bad mother too, yea

And I’m sick and tired of fools
Tired of playin’ by the rules
Time to strut my cool
‘Cause my Mama didn’t raise no fool

Mama didn’t raise no fool
Well my Mama didn’t raise no fool
You can’t tell me what to do
‘Cause Mama didn’t raise, Mama didn’t raise
Mama didn’t raise no fool

Mama didn’t raise no fool
Well my Mama didn’t raise no fool
You can’t tell me what to do
‘Cause Mama didn’t raise no fool
Well Ma-Ma-Ma-Mama didn’t raise no fool

Well my Mama didn’t raise no fool
You can’t tell me what to do
‘Cause Mama didn’t raise, Mama didn’t raise
Mama didn’t raise no fool

Mama didn’t raise no fool
Well my Mama didn’t raise no fool
You can’t tell me what to do
‘Cause Mama didn’t raise, mama didn’t raise
Mama didn’t raise no fool”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnaround_management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_(psychology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interpersonal_relations_orientation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding
http://www.crowdfunding.com/
http://www.metrolyrics.com/mama-didnt-raise-no-fool-lyrics-firehouse.html

John Scalzi’s “Whatever” ‘Old Man’s War”& “Redshirts” — 05/09/2014

For Your Entertainment (FYE)
 
“John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and online writer, and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man’s War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fanwriter in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he has also used for several prominent charity drives. His novel Redshirts won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He has written non-fiction books and columns on diverse topics such as finance, video games, films, astronomy, and writing, and served as a creative consultant for the TV series Stargate Universe.”
 
“Scalzi was born in California and spent his childhood there, primarily in the Los Angeles suburbs of CovinaGlendora and Claremont. Scalzi went to high school with noted blogger Josh Marshall; both were members of the class of 1987. After attending The Webb Schools of California, Scalzi attended The University of Chicago, where he was a classmate of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn. Scalzi’s thesis advisor, for a brief time, was Saul Bellow. Scalzi abandoned his course of study with Bellow when he became Student Ombudsman for the University. During his 1989–1990 school year Scalzi was also the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Maroon.
After graduating in 1991, Scalzi took a job as the film critic for the Fresno Bee newspaper, eventually also becoming a humor columnist. In 1996 he was hired as the in-house writer and editor at America Online and moved to Sterling, Virginia, with his wife, Kristine Ann Blauser, whom he had married in 1995. He was laid off in 1998, and since then he has been a full-time freelance writer and author. In 2001 Scalzi, his wife, and their daughter, Athena Marie, who was born in 1998, moved to Bradford, Ohio, to be closer to family.
Scalzi is distantly related to John Wilkes Booth.
Scalzi was elected president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2010. He was the only nominee on the ballot. He had previously run as a write-in candidate in 2007, challenging the sole ballot nominee that year, but was not successful. He decided not to run again, so his term ended in 2013.
He lives in Ohio with his wife, daughter, and a varying number of pets, one of whom got significant media attention from the time Scalzi taped bacon to it in September 2006. (As a result of that attention, Scalzi now maintains a web repository for links to All Things Bacon on theWhatever site.)“”
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scalzi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man%27s_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Brigades
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Colony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe%27s_Tale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Division
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Android%27s_Dream
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_to_the_Stars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_Nation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirts_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Engines
http://whatever.scalzi.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel
 
 
Watch out for the video games and “sci-fi” movies coming up……….;+)

US to tap Vietnam’s nuclear power market under new pact — 05/07/2014

For Your Information (FYI):
 
“The United States and Vietnam Tuesday signed a deal on civilian nuclear energy that will allow the US to transfer technology and sell its reactors to the Southeast Asian nation.

The so-called “123 agreement” was signed by US ambassador to Vietnam David Shear and Vietnam’s Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Quan in Hanoi, under the authorization of President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
“This agreement will create opportunities for Vietnam to access the US modern technology in the nuclear power field, as well as pave the way for US companies to invest in Vietnamese market,” said Nguyen Quan.
Meanwhile, David Shear said the pact would build a solid foundation for the cooperation between Vietnam and the US in the civil nuclear sector.
Vietnam is pursuing nuclear energy in order to deal with its present shortage of energy. The country hopes nuclear power to provide more than 10 percent of its total power generation needs by 2030.”

 
http://thanhniennews.com/politics/us-to-tap-vietnams-nuclear-power-market-under-new-pact-26039.html
http://www.nucnet.org/all-the-news/2014/02/28/obama-approves-123-agreement-with-vietnam
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Agreement_opens_US_Vietnam_nuclear_trade-1010134.html
http://nnsa.energy.gov/sites/default/files/nnsa/06-13-multiplefiles/7%20James%20Warden%20-%20123%20Agreements.pdf
http://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsus-president-endorses-123-agreement-with-vietnam-4184313
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2014/02/27/26/0301000000AEN20140227000200315F.html


However, the world is still reeling from the Fukushima nuclear energy disaster in Japan, and we may want to remember that “one ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” and that “homeless” people will not always be available to be recruited by “Yakuzas” to do the dirty work of others……
 
“To fully decommission Fukushima Daiichi might take 40 years and no one expects a cakewalk. Independent researchers point to the litany of mishaps that has blighted the cleanup. They doubt the plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) is up to the task, and want a global team of experts to take over. “

http://rt.com/news/homeless-recruited-fukushima-nuclear-965/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/japan-homeless-recruited-clean-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-zone-special-report-article-1.1561307
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/30/fukushima-japan-homeless_n_4518695.html
http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2014/1/7/fukushima-cleanupworkerssubcontractors.html
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/03/fukushima-daiichi-tsunami-nuclear-cleanup-japan
http://www.newscientist.com/special/fukushima-crisis
http://qz.com/140674/nobody-wants-a-job-cleaning-up-japans-devastated-fukushima-nuclear-reactor-for-some-reason/
 
What is the scariest is that all this happens in Japan, the country that, supposedly re-wrote global “Quality” management and methods and procedures handbooks, following “Deming”, “Juran”, “Toyota Production System(TPS)”,”Kaizen”, (“5S”, “JIT”, “Kanban”, “Poka Yoke”, “Andon”, etc). 
 
With the traditional “dedication” of Japan’s culture, even though “Lean” and “Six Sigma”, “BPI”,”BPM”,”BPO”, “BPR”, “Value Streams” are “Kaizen” “culture” “little brothers” spreading worldwide; If it can happen in Japan, it can happen, with even more probability, anywhere in the world, if Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) methods and procedures and organizational accuracy and safety are not implemented, unfortunately….….
 
For most people the discipline required is not in their DNA…….