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Sidney Poitier To Get A School Named After Him

January 28, 2021   Humor

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1963, Sidney Poitier made a film in Arizona, “Lilies of the Field.” The performance led to a huge milestone: He became the first Black winner of a lead-acting Oscar.

Now, Arizona is the site of another career milestone for the legendary actor and filmmaker — Arizona State University has named its new film school after him. The Sidney Poitier New American Film School was unveiled at a virtual ceremony on Monday.

The decision to name the school after Poitier, 93, is about much more than his achievements and legacy, but because he “embodies in his very person that which we strive to be — the matching of excellence and drive and passion with social purpose and social outcomes, all things that his career has really stood for,” said Michael M. Crow, president of the university.

“You’re looking for an icon, a person that embodies everything you stand for,” Crow said in an earlier interview. “With Sidney Poitier, it’s his creative energy, his dynamism, his drive, his ambition, the kinds of projects he worked on, the ways in which he advanced his life.”

“Look at his life: It’s a story of a person who found a way,” he said of the actor, who was born in Miami and raised in the Bahamas, the son of tomato farmers, before launching a career that went from small, hard-won theater parts to eventual Hollywood stardom. “How do we help other young people find their way?”

The university, which is expanding its existing film program into its own school, says it has invested millions of dollars in technology to create what’s intended to be one of the largest, most accessible and most diverse film schools. Crow said that much like the broader university, the film school will measure success not by exclusivity but by inclusivity.

 Sidney Poitier To Get A School Named After Him

Poitier in 1964 at the 36th Academy Awards.. (AP Photo)

By expanding both its physical resources and flexible learning options like online study, it hopes to enroll thousands more students, teaching them skills that go far beyond traditional moviemaking.

The school will move in the fall of 2022 to a new facility in downtown Mesa, Arizona, 7 miles from the university’s Tempe Campus. It will also occupy the university’s new center in Los Angeles.

The university did not make Poitier, who has been out of the public eye for some time, available for an interview. His daughter Beverly Poitier-Henderson told The Associated Press her father was “doing well and enjoying his family,” and considered it an honor to be the namesake of the new film school.

Poitier-Henderson and two of Poitier’s other daughters described in interviews how the film school’s emphasis on inclusivity and access aligned with their father’s long-held ideals.

“If it has my Dad’s name on it, it has to be inclusive, because that’s the foundation of who he is and what he stands for,” said Anika Poitier, like her father a filmmaker. “And it’s important to not only have inclusion but to have diversity, and to give people the opportunity to tell their stories. I think it’s imperative to cast a wide net and allow anyone who’s called to tell their story to learn how to do that.”

Sydney Poitier Heartsong, the actor’s youngest daughter, noted that the two most important things to her father as she grew up were education and the arts.

“Those are the two tracks that run throughout his life, that define what he has contributed and defined what he felt was important to impart to his kids,” she said. “The arts were also a form of education. He wanted to pass that on to all young people but specifically young people of color.”

 Sidney Poitier To Get A School Named After Him

President Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Poitier. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Poitier Heartsong, who followed her father’s footsteps into acting, added that the new school had special resonance in a time when “we’ve come to recognize that from a socioeconomic standpoint, a lot of (elite) schools exclude people of color disproportionately — and people without the means to go to them. That is the antithesis of what my father would want to be a part of.”

And she noted that in Poitier’s heyday, when he won his Oscar, one of his biggest complaints was that “he was the only one up there, and he wanted others to be up there with him. Well, others can’t be up there with him if they don’t have access to these tools and these educations. Not the way the world works today. ”

The ASU film production programs now enroll 700 students, said Steven Tepper, dean of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts there, but that number is expected to double over three to five years.

“I just hope that the students at the Sidney Poitier Film School take up the mantle of responsibility the way our father took up the mantle when he was coming up in his career,” said Poitier-Henderson, “and tell their stories regardless of finances, which is easy for us to say. But you’ve got to be true to yourself. It’s a very powerful thing, and I’m looking forward to seeing who comes out of it.”

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Ring rolls out end-to-end video encryption after a class action lawsuit

January 13, 2021   Big Data

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In September, Amazon-owned Ring announced that it would bring end-to-end video encryption to its lineup of home security devices. While the company already encrypted videos in storage and during transmission, end-to-end encryption secures videos on-device, preventing third parties without special keys from decrypting and viewing the recordings. The feature launches today in technical preview for compatible Ring products.

The rollout of end-to-end encryption comes after dozens of plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against Ring, alleging they had been subjected to death threats, racial slurs, and blackmail after their Ring cameras were hacked. In 2019, a data leak exposed the personal information of over 3,000 Ring users, including log-in emails, passwords, time zones, and the names people give to specific Ring cameras. Following the breach, Ring began requiring two-step verification for user sign-ins and launched a compromised password check feature that cross-references login credentials against a list of known compromised passwords.

In a whitepaper, Ring explains that end-to-end encryption, which is available as a setting within the Ring app, is designed so users can view videos on enrolled smartphones only. Videos are encrypted with keys that are themselves encrypted with an algorithm that creates a public and private key. The public key encrypts, but the private key is required to decrypt. Only users have access to the private key, which is stored on their smartphone and decrypts the symmetric key, and by extension, encrypted videos.

 Ring rolls out end to end video encryption after a class action lawsuit

When a user opts into end-to-end encryption, the Ring app presents a 10-word auto-generated passphrase used to secure the cryptographic keys. (Ring says these words are randomly selected from a dictionary of 7,776.) The passphrase, which can be used to enroll additional smartphones, is generated on-device. But the public portion of the instance key pair and the account data key pair are copied to the Ring cloud after being signed by the account-signing key, as are the locally encrypted private portions of the account-signing key pair and the account data key pair.

Ring notes that end-to-end encryption disables certain features, including AI-dependent features that decrypt videos for processing work like motion verification and people-only mode. However, Live View, which decrypts video locally on-device, will continue to run while end-to-end encryption is enabled. And users can share videos through Ring’s controversial Neighbors Public Safety Service, which connects residents with local law enforcement by downloading an end-to-end encrypted video to their smartphone, which saves it in decrypted form.

Users can switch off end-to-end encryption at any time, but any videos encrypted with end-to-end encryption can’t be decrypted; the keys to access those videos are removed permanently in the process. Conversely, turning on end-to-end encryption doesn’t encrypt any videos created before enrollment because the service only encrypts videos created post-enrollment.

 Ring rolls out end to end video encryption after a class action lawsuit

Ring recently made headlines for a deal it reportedly struck with over 400 police departments nationwide that would allow authorities to request that owners volunteer footage from Ring cameras within a specific time and location. Ring, which has said it would not hand over footage if confronted with a subpoena but would comply when given a search warrant, has law enforcement partnerships in more than 1,300 cities.

Advocacy groups like Fight for the Future and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have accused Ring of using its cameras and Neighbors app (which delivers safety alerts) to build a private surveillance network via police partnerships. The Electronic Frontier Foundation in particular has singled Ring out for marketing strategies that foster fear and promote a sale-spurring “vicious cycle,” and for “[facilitating] reporting of so-called ‘suspicious’ behavior that really amounts to racial profiling.”

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Top Tips on Restarting After the Lockdown

November 13, 2020   TIBCO Spotfire
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This blog was written by TIBCO Director of Digital Strategy Alessandro Chimera and originally published on the Italian tech website, Solo Tablet.

Not only companies, but also many professionals have to face a challenge, which places a change in habits at the top of the priorities of the actions to be taken. Suddenly, we are asked to travel less, attend fewer meetings, and limit business lunches. At the same time, we are streaming more content, participating in virtual meetings, and using eLearning platforms, as well as taking advantage of home delivery services.

If the current situation and history have taught us anything, it is that when a crisis arises, traditional operating models are no longer valid. Companies need to react quickly and create, validate, and adopt entirely new strategies to keep their business running and generate sufficient margins to overcome the current crisis. It’s not just the travel market that’s impacted: financial services, telecommunications, industry, transportation, retail, healthcare, government, hospitality, and the energy sector are all facing the same challenges in adapting to the new reality.

How to Adapt

If we look at the initiatives that financial services should take, the fastest action available to them is to quickly rebalance all their investment lines with event-driven strategies. On the other hand, the telecommunications sector faces the unexpected increase in connections and a greater data load on its networks, focusing on providing reliable services to an increasing number of people whose only means of connection with their communities, is private and business, it passes through its own network.

Another heavily impacted sector is the manufacturing industry, as orders are falling sharply or being canceled due to customers focusing their primary needs on other sectors. There are significant delays in the supply chain, commodities purchased internationally are delivered late. New procedures are being implemented which, following the pandemic, must guarantee the safety of workers. Some of these companies may also be forced to consider a temporary reduction in their workforce.

The transport sector was the first to suffer direct impact due to flight cancellations, border closures, reassignment of passengers to new flights and flight rescheduling and changes with virtually no notice. The IATA association ( International Air Transport Association ) predicts that on a global level and due to a limited contagion scenario, the current measures will cause a loss of turnover on passenger air traffic equal to approximately 63 billion dollars. While, for an extended contagion scenario, the losses could amount to as much as 113 billion dollars.

Who is Ready

Very few players in these market sectors were ready: in reality, in most cases, they were totally unprepared. Let’s see the consequences of the lockdown in Italy, our country: when this measure was first implemented, it generated a 56.8% increase in eCommerce, mobile traffic doubled and systems had to be upgraded to withstand the loads additional to which they were subjected.

In manufacturing, many large manufacturers have begun to optimize their processes and operations, analyzing their data to understand how to cope with the new situation they have found themselves in. A particularly true statement for industrial food processing plants, which have seen a notable growth in demand, due to the fact that Italians were forced to stay at home. On the other hand, retailers and distributors saw a 12.2% growth in sales resulting from the new demand.

The services on-demand media and entertainment streaming have also begun to suffer additional load: sudden growth of customers with the most extensive mode of use that has dealt a blow providers, bringing close to saturation their networks. For example, Netflix and YouTube have accepted the European Union’s request to take action to avoid saturating the available bandwidth by lowering the definition quality.

But not everyone has seen demand grow: the entire hospitality market has had to stop abruptly. Major events have been canceled or postponed, corporate travel restrictions have caused hotels to empty, and major hotel chains are canceling cancellation fees for current and upcoming bookings to at least secure future business and avoid losing potential customers.

Complete Turnaround

We often talk about the evolution of business and business transformation and how it must happen quickly. However, no one could have imagined the speed with which the pandemic hit the world. At the time of writing this article, only a few countries had decided to close all non-essential activities (lockdown). Today, however, all countries have decided to implement the lockdown, and some (including Italy) have already exited or are exiting the so-called Phase 1 of tight lockdown.

Unfortunately, many companies have never invested in the tools they need to analyze their business data deeper and, without valid supporting analysis, it is not possible for them to make correct strategic choices to decide whether the new processes or business models they want implement can really work.

The spotlight is therefore on all companies to act quickly to integrate and unify the various data sources and extract their potential value thanks to Advanced Analytics tools to apply Machine Learning or AI on their data, so that they can explore new sales channels. and seize new revenue opportunities.

It is a lesson to understand and adapt your business strategies to what customers really want, monitoring their behavior to understand how quickly you can adapt your business to new customer requests. If the term reinvention was ever relevant, it certainly happens today, in the business climate we live in. The key is to understand that decision-making processes must be supported by analyzing your own data, which provides the know-how on how to optimize your execution models to make the alternative business models you are exploring work.

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Failure is not contemplated. Strategies must be tested quickly and digitally to predict the outcome. Last but not least, you need to be closer to your customers. Understanding that their purchasing power has shifted online, that they are more selective, more frugal and insightful, and that this customer intimacy called customer intimacy is today a primarily digital concept. If you get this mix right and when the world returns to the new normal, their loyalty will make them return as your customers more than ever.

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D.L. Hughley Hospitalized After Passing Out During Stand-Up Set

June 21, 2020   Humor
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Comedian D.L. Hughley was hospitalized Friday night after he passed out on stage while performing a stand-up set.

Hughley’s representative confirmed that he was “suffering from exhaustion after all the week’s work and travel” and that he “was kept overnight at the hospital for tests under doctor’s orders.”

However, the comedian is doing better on Saturday morning.

“He is awake and feeling better, and wishes to thank everyone for the very kind prayers and thoughts,” his rep said.

Hughley was performing at the Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville when he passed out. A Twitter video shows him performing a comedy routine when his speech begins to slur. He slumped over on his stool and his manager tried to steady him, but he fell to the ground and appeared unresponsive. Two people carried him off the stage as an announcer told the shocked crowd to stay calm. An ambulance was called to take Hughley to a nearby hospital.

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COVID-19: The after economy and developing appropriate responses

June 8, 2020   CRM News and Info
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I’m in the midst of revamping a lot of projects and programs — partially due to the new realities that we will face (though what they are remain to be seen to a large extent), and partially due to some changes I want to make in my business model and my life in general. So, I haven’t written much, though you will see something from me very soon, and that will trigger quite a bit of content both here and elsewhere.

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In the meantime, I am going to provide a forum for some of the other thought leaders in their respective spaces to give you something to chew over that isn’t just fat. Chewing fat is unhealthy, so that isn’t a good thing. So, this is the chewing of the good proteins kind of content. And one of the best people I know to provide you with that is Marshall Lager. I’m sure that many of you know him. 

I met this good man when he did a column for CRM Magazine, and I have watched him go on to a career as an analyst for at first Ovum, then G2, and now, as an independent analyst. He is incredibly cogent, bright, and funny, and what he says should be taken seriously, even when you might be laughing. It’s not just his voice and style and ability to engage an audience; his content is meaningful. Look, I know I tend to think the best of people and thus wax effusively, but Marshall truly is one of the best writers I’ve ever known — and that’s for style and content.

So, take heed of what he’s saying here. He is speaking to some of the needs and the expectations post-pandemic. It won’t be post-COVID for a long time, but we may get it to the point of control, and Marshall is raising, as always, valid and straightforward concerns and some solutions for those concerns, and remains humble.

Take it away, Marshall! And I hope that everybody is staying safe and sane in this time of crisis.


The perpetual uncertainty of this extended wait-and-see pandemic response has really taken its toll on human behavior, and especially on businesses that rely on regular traffic. Health and safety, crowds and protesters, and shortages of goods have to be taken into account every time we want to buy something, to an extent most people in the developed world never thought possible. And it’s not even nearly as bad as it could be.

At this point, two months into the first really bad phase of the pandemic (give or take; I’m not sure when this will go live), we appear to lack a cohesive plan. Not the action-stations drill that we executed (poorly) when the virus proved to be more than a minor concern. We need to develop ideas for what various facets of commercial life will look like after we crawl out from our bunkers for good.

This isn’t a political column, so I’ll refrain from giving my opinion of the response by local and national governments; what I’m looking for isn’t something that can be handed down from there anyway, for the most part. Businesses, large and small, have got to look at their operations and figure out how to address the sort of disruption that comes from a lengthy period of time when customers can’t do what is customary.

I have to admit that it took me a lot longer than I expected to write this article. Partly, it’s because my original motivation came from a more personal place, the same one that most people are in right now. We are waiting to get back to the lives and jobs we remember, but we don’t feel there has been much guidance in regard to how or when that will happen. Mostly, it’s because I’m not the futurist that some of my colleagues are, and my expertise is more along the lines of assessing customer experience in the moment than in planning its shape for tomorrow.

Some businesses have proposed a few visions of the “new normal” (a phrase many of you have probably come to hate by now) for their post-lockdown operations, and that’s at least a start. What we haven’t really had yet is a come-together moment to show the public that there is organized thought being given to the issue. Modern economies run on confidence in the system, and we’re fresh out.

A large number of industry working groups are devoting real skull-sweat to developing broader solutions to address any future crises; organizations of bakers, emergency services workers, and semiconductor manufacturers (to name just a few) have formed committees to develop appropriate responses. It’s those groups who need to better communicate their efforts to the public in order to restore confidence. News isn’t traveling quite as fast during the lockdown, and people want to know what to expect once it’s safe to congregate in public again. It’s great that businesses are considering the everyday experiences of consumers under pressure and finding ways to make the commercial world continue to function for everybody, from individuals to small businesses to mighty conglomerates, but it’s not being communicated effectively yet. We need transparency.

We have learned that many of the people who receive minimum wage (or less) are essential workers, to use the current popular term. Economic disease recovery is going to have to include real recognition that these jobs are a true life buoy — they keep families afloat, provide access to vital goods and services, and prevent financial ruin. They deserve better, and they deserve more, and sooner or later their employers will have to do something about that by redirecting some resources that would normally be taken as profit, turning them into higher pay and better quality of life..

I can already hear your voices from the future, talking about fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders and disproportionate burden on small businesses. Well, if we’re trying to sculpt the future, maybe we should consider our history first. If you look at the progression of economic paradigms, there is a steady (if sometimes glacially slow) trend that more opportunity and wealth comes when people have greater access to the profits of enterprise. Mercantilism gave way to open trade; unrestrained capitalism was moderated by anti-monopoly laws and the rise of unions; each time, overall profits improved in step with the human condition.

I believe that we’re due for another round of changes. Salaries for exempt employees have kept up with the cost of living, more or less; wages for non-exempt workers are not even close, and it’s those essential hourly workers who are receiving much praise but little actual support. We prefer to do business with companies that share our values, right? Well, one of my values is knowing when extracting profit is not as important as taking care of the people who earn it, and giving them a reason to want the company to succeed.

Less confrontationally stated, executives and shareholders should have the enlightened self-interest to realize that improving wage-earners’ situations improves employee loyalty, strengthens brand expression, and leads to continued success in the long run. The unfortunate image of workers who can barely support themselves, let alone a family, despite holding a full-time job and possibly a side job as well, has to change. Imagine how effective such a shift in prosperity and respect could be in motivating workers, not just because they need their jobs, but because they are proud of those jobs and can look at their paychecks without worrying about which bills they will and won’t pay this month.

Earlier, I said this was the first really bad phase of the pandemic, and I meant it. I’m no epidemiologist, but some things follow a pattern, and the spread of disease is one that history allows us to track. Whether we’re talking about the Black Death, typhoid, the flu of 1918 (which wasn’t from Spain), or our new friend the coronavirus, care must be taken after the first round of outbreaks or there will be a second, often much larger one. Reopening society too soon might force us right back into isolation. That’s going to be the first test of what we’ve learned. Will we return to lockdown with ease, or will we stumble again as we switch directions?

Here’s something to think about regarding our eventual recovery from and adjustment to the pandemic: For years, we have been watching and lamenting the decline of bricks-and-mortar shopping as e-commerce has supplanted it. Yet the very thing driving the economy down, and the thing which has consumers most desperate to return to normal, is the inability of local, physical businesses to operate normally. Nobody is allowed to congregate at shops, but everybody wants to, and businesses are suffering — especially small businesses. We get a different experience from local SMBs than we do from national chains, and it’s what we seem to want, so that’s the dollar they should chase

The emergency situation in retail does have at least one good side to it — businesses such as grocery markets, department stores, and restaurants are our laboratories for developing effective coping strategies. When all the shops enforce social distancing and better hygienic behavior, it becomes the new mode of operation. This ties back into better pay and conditions for workers — too many people treat workers with disrespect and even hostility because they believe wearing a name tag makes them powerless and disposable. An empowered workforce doesn’t have to take that abuse, and it’s more likely that patrons will have friends and family (even themselves) in similar dignified positions, creating empathy.

We can hope that businesses (and consumers) will know how to adapt once we start to work our way out without losing too many steps. Hope is not certainty. The less we prepare for what’s to come, the more gaffes we’ll make when it arrives. We need a clear and manageable crisis model for B2B and B2C before we’re caught with our pants down again, and — here’s the important part — the transparency to communicate it to the public in advance so we know what to expect. Businesses are so afraid of small losses in valuation that they don’t manage consumer expectations, resulting in huge losses in valuation when things get bad. Be proactive, get the word out that you’re monitoring a situation and are making plans to cope with what comes from it. This is not showing weakness or eroding confidence, it is leadership, and leadership strengthens brands.

Something as simple as Green – Yellow – Red statuses with attendant precautions would be a good start. Any protocol put in place will have to be mandatory, and if you aren’t willing to follow company rules you can’t do business there. We don’t have a problem with No Shirt – No Shoes – No Service, so how hard can it be to add masks to the mix? Custom-printed paper face masks could be new merch for your brand.

A better understanding of which roles are essential on-site, and which are remote work-friendly, will also aid clarity — and if businesses aren’t able for some reason to provide higher general wages to the essential workers, they can at least institute generous hazard pay when we reach our next time of need. Government needs to do its part in making lengthy lockdowns less onerous for business owners as well. Leadership is about more than getting us through the current crisis; it’s also about preparing us to tackle the next one.


Thank you, Marshall! As always, your writing is great. 

ANNOUNCEMENT: The CRM Watchlist 2021 is now re-opening for registration. I had to make some changes to the questionnaire, and that took some time given the change in how impact is going to be “measured” going forward. So, even if you have registered, I will need you to re-register. Please send me an email at paul-greenberg3@the56groiup.com and ask for the registration form. The registration period and even to some extent the questionnaire submission period has been extended. Thanks for your patience. Because it is late, if I feel that we have an insufficient number of registrations by a certain date, I will suspend the Watchlist for this year and pick it up next year. I hope that isn’t the case, but it would be certainly understandable.

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How To Choose The Best Idea After A Good Brainstorming Session

January 11, 2020   SAP

Everyone has situations where you have to come up with a set of ideas that will solve a specific problem. The question becomes how to decide which ideas to pick from all the ones you come up with.

Great innovations result from picking good ideas, making them better, and bringing them alive. While most teams can come up with interesting ideas for innovation, the biggest hurdle is ensuring that the right ideas are selected to develop, test, and launch.

We need some sort of framework that will allow us to decide the value of each idea so we can pick one that is most valuable.

EPIC framework

One such framework was suggested by Todd Henry on an episode of his Accidental Creative podcast. On a side note, if you are a creative professional or you lead a team of creative professionals, you need to follow Todd Henry. He has written multiple books and hosts multiple podcasts, all focused on the needs of creative professionals.

Now back to the question at hand. In this episode, Todd shares information about the EPIC framework that you can use to pick the best idea among all the options. EPIC is an acronym that stands for Effective, Practical, Interesting, and Cool. Each idea is rated on a scale (1-10) on the following questions:

  1. How effective is this idea in solving the problem that we are trying to solve?
  1. How practical is the idea based on the constraints that we are operating under?
  1. How interesting and cool is the idea?
  1. How much energy does the team have for the idea?

Once you rate each idea on these questions, you can pick the one that consistently scores the highest on all. If there is not a clear winner, you can start looking at the ideas (I believe that effectiveness is non-negotiable) and take interesting and cool ideas and that are effective and make them practical.

DFV framework

Another framework that I usually advocate is the Desirability, Viability, and Feasibility framework.

Create a Venn diagram like the one below. Pick each idea and decide with the team which section the idea falls into in the Venn diagram. You can do this by first discussing the idea together and then deciding together (either through voting or scoring) where in the spectrum the idea falls.

desirability viability and feasibility framework

Once this is complete, hopefully, you have some ideas in the center of the Venn diagram, ideas that are desirable, viable, and feasible. If more than one idea falls into this space, I recommend the team pick the idea that is the most desirable to start working on.

If none of the ideas are at the center of the Venn diagram, I recommend that you start looking at the ideas in the desirable + feasible intersection and explore how can they be made viable, or pick the ideas in the desirable + viable intersection and explore how can they be made feasible (in that order).

The desirability of the idea is the most critical factor, in my experience, but however good an idea is, if it is not desirable, it either won’t see the light of the day or will have challenges in adoption post-implementation. So, my recommendation is to always start with ideas that are desirable and work towards making them viable or feasible.

In conclusion

These are a couple of frameworks that I think work really well. You can find many other frameworks for picking the best ideas. You can decide to use multi-voting or a decision matrix analysis or a paired comparison analysis or even a simple 2×2 matrix around effort and impact.

What matters is not which framework you use but that you use a framework and that the framework is decided before the actual brainstorming, so that everyone knows how the best ideas will be picked after the brainstorming session.

A version of this post first appeared on the blog Musings of a Salesman and has been republished here with the author’s permission.

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After Orlando Jones Incident, SAG-AFTRA Expands Fremantle Investigation

December 23, 2019   Humor
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Orlando Jones proves that “angry gets s*** done.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor’s union SAG-AFTRA is expanding the inquiry into Fremantle, the production company behind both American Gods and America’s Got Talent. This news comes after Jones revealed he was fired from American Gods after suffering through a toxic work environment. Part of that environment, as he revealed in his initial Instagram video, included current showrunner Charles Eglee assuming Jones’ character, Mr. Nancy, was sending “the wrong message for Black America.”

In the show, Mr. Nancy speaks for the disenfranchised and marginalized Black community and their struggle at the hands of chattel slavery. His message of anger relates directly to that frustration of being treated as less than human. Deadline has since been reported that Jones might be mulling over legal action against American Gods’ leadership because the unexpected firing led to monetary losses for him and his family. Not only that, though Jones was fired, he still hasn’t been officially released from his contract.

Union, who was fired from America’s Got Talent, also complained of a toxic working environment in which she was exposed to racism and sexism, including notes on her hairstyles and appearance, and offensive jokes about people of color.

“After initial meetings with Gabrielle Union and her representatives about her experiences on America’s Got Talent, and after learning more about Orlando Jones’ experience on American Gods, SAG-AFTRA is expanding its investigation of Fremantle Media,” the organization said in a statement on Friday. “Our enforcement actions are handled confidentially to protect the members involved, and we typically do not publicize these matters unless the affected members request that we do so. We have nothing further to report at this time.”

Jones commented on the expansion of the investigation on Instagram, writing in a post, “Thank you SAG for believing in me and for standing up for equality and for embracing my team and myself in this battle against injustice and lies and thank you to my fans because without you there is no Mr. Nancy.”

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November 15, 2019   BI News and Info
 After creating a package, what to do?

I have created the following package.

BeginPackage["AplicacionCartesiana`"]
AplicacionCartesiana::usage = "AplicacionCartesiana[f, {x0, x1, dx}, \
{y0, y1, dy}] plots the image of the Cartesian coordinates under the \
complex function f."
Begin["`Private`"]
AplicacionCartesiana[func_, {x0_, x1_, dx_}, {y0_, y1_, dy_}] :=
 Module[{xy, x, y, hg, vg},
  xy = func[x + I y];
  hg = Curves[xy, {x, x0, x1, dx}, {y, y0, y1}];
  vg = Curves[xy, {y, y0, y1, dy}, {x, x0, x1}];
  Show[Graphics[Join[hg, vg]],
   AspectRatio -> Automatic,
   Axes -> True]
  ]
Curves[xy_, spread_, bounds_] :=
 With[{curves = Table[{Re[xy], Im[xy]}, spread]},
  ParametricPlot[curves, bounds, DisplayFunction -> Identity][[1]]
  ]
End[]
EndPackage[]

But I want to know where I have to store it in my computer in order to use it (with Get[] or Needs[]) in other mathematica session.
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