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Monday, April 11, 2005

Average vs Great !!

Average managers treat all their employees the same. Great managers
discover each individual's unique talents and bring these to the
surface so everyone wins.
An excerpt from Harvard Business Review.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4745&t=leadership
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Sunday, April 10, 2005

Fw: TaubmanSucks Soars into the Blogosphere

-----Original Message-----
From: Hank Mishkoff
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:56:04
To:TaubmanSucks@WebFeats.com
Subject: TaubmanSucks Soars into the Blogosphere

[Note: You're probably receiving this update because you expressed an interest in my TaubmanSucks website. If you do not wish to receive these updates, just let me know, and I'll remove you from the list.]

Ever since the TaubmanSucks case ended, I've been getting about 10,000 hits a week on my TaubmanSucks.com website.

A couple of weeks ago, however, the site got more than half a million hits in a single week -- including more than 200,000 hits on a single day!

Why the sudden spike in interest in a case that was dismissed more than two years ago?

On Saturday March 26, a old friend with whom I have had no contact in many years stumbled across the TaubmanSucks site. He emailed me with the suggestion that I should submit the site to a blog named Boing Boing. I had heard of blogs, of course (you'd have to have been living in a cave not to have at least heard of them), but I didn't know much about them at all. But I went to Boing Boing and submitted TaubmanSucks.com via their "suggest a site" link. And in the early hours of Sunday morning, Boing Boing posted a single paragraph (three sentences) about the TaubmanSucks site:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/27/howto_defend_yoursel.html

Later that day, marketing guru Seth Godin (the author of "Permission Marketing" and other popular books) wrote a longer article about the case entitled, "You can always be mean later (respect works)," in which he concluded:

"Even if you're not a lawyer (or *especially* if you're not a lawyer) the lesson here is pretty clear: it doesn't matter who's 'right.' What matters is that giving people the benefit of the doubt and treating them with respect is not only more fun, it works better too." (Seth's article is online at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/you_can_always_.html.)

In the next couple of days the "story" was picked up by dozens of other blogs, each exploring it in its own way:

* In "How To Lawyer When Everyone's Watching," attorney Marty Schwimmer wondered if the lesson was to "never draft a demand letter you wouldn't want to see posted on the recipient's website." His musings engendered an interesting discussion of lawyers, blogs, and ethics, which is online at http://www.corante.com/betweenlawyers/archives/2005/03/28/ethics_how_to_lawyer_when_everyones_watching.php.

* An attorney named Timothy Hadley posed the rhetorical question, "Am I in the wrong field if I do *not* think that law practice is all about manipulating others?" His article, "When lawyers drive a dispute," is online at http://blog.tph-lex.com/archives/entries/000240.html.

* Canadian non-lawyer (I think) Eric Eggertson titled his article, "Why Be Polite when You Can Be Nasty?" In his thoughtful posting, he suggests that, "for the next decade people will say, 'Oh, you're *that* Julie Greenberg' when they meet the woman who pissed off a little guy who used the Web to publicize his cause." You can read the rest of what Eric had to say at http://mutually-inclusive.typepad.com/weblog/2005/03/why_be_polite_w.html.

As far as I can tell, about 50 blogs expressed their own varied opinions about the case, I've collected links to them on my site at http://www.TaubmanSucks.com/blogs.html. I probably could have tracked down more of them, but I've barely had time to respond to the dozens (hundreds?) of emails that have poured into my inbox as a result of three sentences about a two-year-old lawsuit that appeared on a blog a couple of weeks ago.

Hank Mishkoff
Hank@WebFeats.com

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Fw: Dialogue on Aboriginal Issues

-----Original Message-----
From: Monica Whiteye
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:30:35
To:Peter dawson
Subject: Re: Dialogue on Aboriginal Issues

I would be interested in sharing with you my personal story as a young girl who grew up in a Southwest native community who mom was a residential school survivor and dad's father was a war veteran who carried those behaviors throughout 2 generations of dysfunction which consisted of incest, drugs, alcoholism, and many other issues from growing up in a mainstream school full of racism, hate and hopelessness. This young girl started drinking at th age of 13, was anybody's girl because she was looking for love and caring from anyone, even if it felt yucky! She ran away from home and turned to the streets. Prostitution, drugs, bikers, clubhouses, a strippers lifestyle and hitchhiking all over southwestern ontario. She was searching, running away from anything and anyone. Went to jail, almost killed herself many times but failed at that too. Her life were with men who were in and out of jails, for robbing, drug dealing, biker related ! crimes back to living on the streeet!
s again. Many abusive relationships with men who were violent. Right to the very end, where she ended up with a retired Hell's ANgels from New York Chapter. 14 times in and out of Women shelters in her first year of sobriety. Her oldest son was the one who saved her life. He voiced and sobbed to mom," I can't do this anymore and I don't want to put my baby brother thru this either." That was the last time I looked back at a shelter for abused women. I moved forward, grieved one year for my dad who passed away from cancer with 11 years of sobriety. Moved to Brantford, went back to college at the age of 37 with 2 son's to raise. Graduated with honors and continued to work on her healing journey to wellness. TOday, she is a counsellor at a Native Family HEaling lodge, she still volunteers in the jails to help her people. Finally, is ready to work with the women and young women becaus! e for 2 years she could only work with the men because she discovered she needed!
to work on her own issues first.
She is first year Sundancer preparing to dance this year. She able to travel with a medicine man to California and then New Mexico. She will continue to help our people because this is her vision to give back what was given to her.
She was reminded awhile back when that women today was a runaway trying to survive on the street, said, " when I leave this street corner, I will be back to help my people from the shit and crap I have walked thru" I forget about this. In fact, I don't remember any of this. This is how messed up I was. My best friend, who still is today, reminded me of this.
This young girl was me. This is only a little of my story.
Signed: Polar Bear Woman Who looks Ahead

Peter dawson wrote: Se:kon All

I should be attending the Sat April 16th/" Dialogue on Aboriginal Issues ".

I was wondering if there is anyone else on this list who would be this
event too ??

We are running a web catogory called as smokesignals.
http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/smokesignals/index.html

This catogory is in the sharing of information and knowledge on Native
Indian's. My intention resides in the 3P's concept. Promotion,
Preservation and Posterity of the culture, beliefs, traditions and
values of the Native Indians.

The Value statement is being driven from Elder Art Solomon, who said
"It's time for us to tell our own stories. For too long, we have had
the white man tell our story and now it's our turn, it's our turn to
talk and it's their turn to listen."

So as part of my learning and sharing experince, I would lik! e to know
if there is any possibility of hooking up with anyone so that you can
share with me your personal stories ??

Please let me know..
thanks in advnace

/pd

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Thursday, April 07, 2005

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