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June 18, 2019

Our Greatest Assets

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Our fourth Newsletter just dropped. The focus this week .. People!

Hamid Ulukaya - founder and CEO of ‘Chobani Yoghurt’ presents his plan - ‘the anti-CEO playbook’. A fascinating journey through the early days of the company - and how it’s success can be reduced to …. people!

Secondly, A reminder that when you build systems and make changes in your organization, it’s

Finally, for a while now, I have been writing about why we should stop using the word ‘Content’ to describe our ”book, novel, short story, article, white paper, promotional piece, advert, painting, sculpture, song, opera, photograph …. you get the point.

This week Om Malik and Khoi Vinh have both written about that very topic. Personally delighted if finally this message is catching on and gettingg through.

As long as ‘we the creators’ fall into the trap of using ‘their’ words to describe our work, our soul, our passion, our beliefs as ‘content’, then our work will continue to be viewed as ’free - to - cheap - to - low - cost, homogenized, non differentiated, interchangeable fodder’.

John Philpin - People First

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June 15, 2019

Attn: Site Authors

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I’ve been assisting John Philpin in optimizing the site and noticed several author profiles with missing avatars. I believe I’ve identified the reason and a workaround but before implementing a solution, I have two questions for each of you. My questions are at the end of this post.

If you want to reply by comment, a simple ‘yes’ or no to each question is I need. If you prefer you may contact me privately.

Questions:

  1. Do you have a Gravatar profile? (just say ‘no’ if not sure)
  2. If your avatar is one of the missing ones, do you want your own custom avatar to appear on your Just Good Music profile?

Thanks.

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June 14, 2019

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The other chap sent this chap this link. You wouldn’t catch this chap saying such, but he’s definitely heard the essence of the piece being uttered by other chaps (not the immediate ‘other chap’, just other chaps in general) rabbit on in a similar vein. As for the other chap, I believe he is of the mind that this chap is. Which is why he sent this link.

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June 14, 2019

Jolly Clever Chaps

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… but maybe over thinking?

In this chap’s other life, he does tend to get a little bit stuck into People, Identity, Self Sovereignty … you know, what we all sit up at night and think about.

But - having just come across this, well, maybe he’s as not single-minded as he thought.

Turns out these chaps are intent on defining everything. Not sure they are there yet. Becasue - well they never can be … can they?

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June 13, 2019

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🎵 Here’s a song I covered a while back.

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June 12, 2019

SIX Microbloggers already contributing to Just Good Music … and more to come.

Nice to see Just Good Music contributions already from SIX Microbloggers;

@hollyhoneychurch | @joejenett | @JohnPhilpin | @simonwoods | @stefp | @BestofTimes 

…. and three more registered. Very much looking forward to what they have to say when the time comes. The variations of music already spans, pop, rock, progressive, hip hop, cross over CandW …

The Home Page As Of June 12th 2019

If you want to find a particular person’s posts, we are building the index here.)

I am also intrigued by a thread that @jacob started here.

Time Zone repost: Poll: if you’re a musician 🎵 (play an instrument 🎸🎷🥁🎹, sing 🎤, write 🎼, produce or anything related), professionally or as a hobby, please reply with what you do and a link, if you want to share. I’ll then collect and post a summary.

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There are already a number of comments in there that clearly demonstrate that we don’t just have some great music listening going on - but we also have some great music playing going on …. I count singers, including a professional classical Tenor, a harpist, a saxophonist, pianist/organist, and quite a few guitarists.

I am hoping that some of their own work will eventually be featured here.

Onwards. Enjoy.

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June 11, 2019

The Anti-CEO Playbook

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I am not usually slow in attacking the nature of business, but not sure the ‘Anti-CEO’ playbook is exactly the right angle here. That said Hamid Ulukaya’s points are excellent. How he built Chobani is a fascinating story. And at one point I was very much reminded me of a couple of People First tenets.

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June 11, 2019

Language - One Of The Eight Pillars

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It’s funny how things work out sometimes. Since the beginning, ‘language’ has been a core pillar of People First. I’ve written about it from time to time, but was not intending to get into the meat for a while. Then - after last week’s newsletter, I received an email that resonated in so many ways, that this week’s newsletter morphed into riff on …. Language.

And then this morning, I was just browsing through some of my draft posts deciding what to publish next - and up pops this from Hugh Macleod and Gaping Void.

Why Words Do Matter

In other words, successful CEOS tend to ‘get’ the culture idea that language is the foundation of culture.

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Talk about the universe working in mysterious ways. Needless to say, we agree.

Now we just need to ensure that the corporates don’t takeover the language of culture as they have changed our day to day language, with their militaristic business jargon.

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June 11, 2019

Humanity

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Newsletter Three from People First just launched. The theme for this week’s edition is ‘Humanity’ including me spotting this in a clothing store recently. I didn’t buy it - but I sure was tempted, as I ready myself for October’s IIW. (more)

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June 10, 2019

Dressed to Distress

Fashion statements of the Trumps on tour

By Jess Cartner-Morley June 4, 2019 The Guardian

So good I had to reproduce in full. My red highlights.

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For the Trumps, the optics of this state visit are ballot-box gold dust. The rest of us, furious and baffled as to why exactly Buckingham Palace appears to be hosting the Trumps on a family holiday, are watching from between our fingers, fixated by the horror of it all. As with Love Island, you know you shouldn’t look – nothing good will come of it – but you can’t drag your eyes away.

The Trumps have dressed for this trip with all the nuance and subtlety that is their trademark. After Melania flew to London dressed as Big Ben, Tiffany appears to have typed “Jane Austen World Book Day costume” into the Amazon search bar and came up with an evening gown in a shade of claret that gave her the vibe of a midwestern bridesmaid who is, like, really into Downton Abbey.

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In her custom Dior Dancing on Ice dress, Melania looked like white-tie I, Tonya, but it is Ivanka who, as ever, strikes terror into the heart with her replicant-like ability to almost convincingly model modern metropolitan dress. The ghostly image of Ivanka and Jared gazing out from behind a palace curtain had every bit as much cosy warmth as Grant Wood’s 1930 American Gothic portrait, but what really upsets me is that she is wearing British designer Alessandra Rich. I love Alessandra Rich!

For the evening banquet, Ivanka chose a baby blue shirt dress by Carolina Herrera. That this is a more sophisticated, stately choice than the actual first lady’s sparkly white is worth noting, perhaps. It is Ivanka’s ability to get this stuff right makes her the scariest Trump of all. In its apparent sweetness concealing a chill heart, her baby blue is to 2019 what Villanelle’s frothy pink tulle Molly Goddard look in Killing Eve was to 2018.

But what of Donald himself? In a suit, Trump always reminds me of the penny-for-the-guy figures that used to be seen on the streets before Bonfire Night: turkey-plump at the chest, flappy around the legs and with oddly proportioned hands and feet. Penny for the guy seems to have been phased out by the ascendancy of Halloween over the British rituals of 5 November. Once again: thanks, America!

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