![]() While executives should accept that decisions could always be better, what matters is that they make progress, achieve their objectives - and avoid disaster.īusiness Strategy: A Guide to Effective Decision Making by Jeremy Kourdi is published by Profile Books at £20. Of course, many great decisions are made every day. They engage people and gather their own momentum. The decisions that work best are honest and compelling. By deciding to go for an illegal, unethical solution to the pressures of rising shareholder expectations, senior executives lost everything. Try to see things from others' viewpoints.Įnron's decision to resort to financial chicanery and fraud highlights the fact that for decisions to work well, they need to inspire trust. If an option seems too clever to be true, it probably is. Other examples are British Airways, when under Robert Ayling, rebranding its fleet with ethnic designs and Royal Mail plumping for Consignia. These choices reinforced perceptions of consultants as lacking substance. The rebranding gaffe has been made by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which renamed its consulting business Monday, and Andersen Consulting, which switched to Accenture. The lessons from Coke's mistake are avoid basing decisions on biased research, stay close to customers and know what makes you or your product special. Unfortunately, millions of Americans decided they hated New Coke and responded to the change in formula as if the organisation had killed off a beloved member of the family. The lessons? Avoid complacency, dare to be different and recognise the inevitable: if it ain't broke, then perhaps it should be.Ĭoca-Cola discovered it was losing out to rival Pepsi so it introduced New Coke. This may have been true for a while, but it could not last forever. For years, the firm believed that its culture was geared to the customer. It was a shocking decision, thankfully now corrected. Marks & Spencer's decision not to advertise or even to appoint a marketing director came to characterise its arrogance, complacency, inflexibility and lack of market focus. Third, think long and hard about purchase decisions, and never pay more than you can afford. Second, recognise technology is only a panacea if customers want it. The lessons are: first, plan decisions carefully, understanding all elements. The telecoms industry marched into debt with massive hype and expectation that customers would embrace new 3G technology. If the solution is technology, it will be expensive and you need to get there first. With the companies caught between a slowing, maturing market for mobile telephones and pressures to keep revenues and share prices rising, the result was a belief that technology was the solution. All of the thinking flaws can be seen here: sunkcost thinking, hindsight bias, the overconfidence trap and others conspired to send the share price through the floor.Īnother flawed decision was that of telecoms companies to rush to buy newgeneration telephone licences. Its decisions, piling mistake on mistake, were based on a belief that the future core business lay in telecoms. GEC decided to buy Marconi, rebrand the business as a telecoms company and buy telecoms-related businesses. Guesstimates are inadequate understand why situations areĭeveloping and where that change might lead. The lessons? Understand the forces that affect markets. Visions of the future, market share, cost reduction and shareholder value are all welcome, but what matters most is adding value for the customer. The belief was that internet channels and content would combine to create a profit-making machine. Time Warner's merger with AOL was the high-water mark of hype exceeding reality during the dot com boom. The overconfidence trap appears when someone has exaggerated their ability to understand situations. Confirmation bias is when we seek information to support an existing view and discount opposing information. The mistakes of the past are perpetuated by sunk-cost thinking ('We have invested so much that we cannot alter course now'). The status quo trap biases us toward maintaining the current situation, even when better alternatives exist. These include anchoring, where we give disproportionate weight to the first piece of information received, and hindsight bias, which leads us to give undue weight to a recent (possibly dramatic) event. Sometimes the fault lies not in the process but in the mind of the decision-maker, so-called 'thinking flaws'. One of the biggest challenges is avoiding the pitfalls of decision-making. Sadly, business tycoons are not renowned for their humility, and their mistakes can cause disaster. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪKING decisions is like making love: tricky to do the first time, fun and fulfilling but not something to get overconfident about. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It may have been also used by the Neanderthals in fire-making. It was used as a pigment at least from the middle paleolithic. Manganese dioxide, in the form of umber, was one of the earliest natural substances used by human ancestors. It may have been kept as a pigment for cave paintings, but it has also been suggested that it was powdered and mixed with tinder fungus for lighting fires. Blocks of pyrolusite are found often at Neanderthal sites. Some of the most famous early cave paintings in Europe were executed by means of manganese dioxide. Instead, they are other forms of manganese oxide. ![]() As a coloring material, it is used in calico printing and dyeing for imparting violet, amber, and black colors to glass, pottery, and bricks and in the manufacture of green and violet paints.īlack, manganese oxides with a dendritic crystal habit often found on fracture or rock surfaces are often assumed to be pyrolusite although careful analyses of numerous examples of these dendrites has shown that none of them are, in fact, pyrolusite. When mixed with molten glass it oxidizes the ferrous iron to ferric iron, and so discharges the green and brown tints (making it classically useful to glassmakers as a decolorizer). Pyrolusite is also used to prepare disinfectants ( permanganates) and for decolorizing glass. Natural pyrolusite has been used in batteries, but high-quality batteries require synthetic products. As an oxidizing agent it is used in the preparation of chlorine indeed, chlorine gas itself was first described by Karl Scheele in 1774 from the reaction products of pyrolusite and hydrochloric acid. Pyrolusite is extensively used for the manufacture of spiegeleisen and ferromanganese and of various alloys such as manganese- bronze. The metal is obtained by reduction of the oxide with sodium, magnesium, aluminium, or by electrolysis. It also occurs in bogs and often results from alteration of manganite. Pyrolusite occurs associated with manganite, hollandite, hausmannite, braunite, chalcophanite, goethite, and hematite under oxidizing conditions in hydrothermal deposits. Pyrolusite and romanechite are among the most common manganese minerals. Its name is from the Greek for fire and to wash, in reference to its use as a way to remove tints from glass. ![]() It has a metallic luster, a black or bluish-black streak, and readily soils the fingers. It is a black, amorphous appearing mineral, often with a granular, fibrous, or columnar structure, sometimes forming reniform crusts. Pyrolusite is a mineral consisting essentially of manganese dioxide ( Mn O 2) and is important as an ore of manganese. Darkish, black to lighter grey, sometimes bluish ![]() ![]() Think about the 2022 College Football Playoff. It might be the transfer portal era of college football, but true freshmen still end up mattering a ton each college football season. The Next Wave: 100 true freshmen who will impact the 2023 college football season These true freshmen - 100 of them - are set to shake up the 2023's college football season and introduce themselves as the next wave of stars. ![]() My mom, for always making time to talk to me and my grandma for always being there for me since I was young." But I appreciate my family and my dad for always being there for me and a constant in life. Everyone is always going to have something to say about you, whether you are right or wrong. "During these times, it helped me to keep my mind off it, but when I was by myself and looking at social media and what everybody had to say, I just felt like it happened again. I didn't know if I would get to play football again, but I continued to work out and stay close with the Lord and those who love me unconditionally. Everyday, just thinking about the possibility of it all being over with devastated me. ![]() "I'm grateful for everyone who supported me through this hard time. "I also want to thank Alabama football for seeing my potential and giving me a second chance," Mitchell said. Mitchell's father announced his son's reinstatement to the team last week as players returned to campus for the summer. He was sentenced to three years probation and 100 hours of community service. Mitchell, who was suspended indefinitely by coach Nick Saban after the arrest, pleaded no contest to his charge last month. Lewis was also charged for the unlawful possession of the firearm, which was found near his passenger seat. Mitchell and his passenger, Christophere Lewis of Valley Grande, were both charged with marijuana possession with intent to distribute and/or sell. "Even though this situation was beyond hard for me, I find joy in knowing that if God didn't stop where he did, something much bigger could have happened." "I just want to start off by thanking God for not just being there for me, but also for slowing me down," Mitchell continued. ![]() 226 grams of marijuana were found in the car in addition to more than $7,000 in cash, scales and a loaded gun. A police report stated the 2023 Dodge Challenger driven by Mitchell initially eluded them at 141 mph before his vehicle was later located and stopped. Mitchell (Thompson H.S., Alabama) was arrested by Holmes County, Florida sheriffs March 15 during Alabama's spring break after the 247 Sports Composite four-star recruit enrolled early as a freshman. "But not everybody your friend and I learned this when I looked around and saw that our morals didn't align." "I was doing things knowing I shouldn't, to try to fit in," Mitchell said during his two-minute speech. ![]() Mitchell tweeted a video of a speech he gave at a banquet, which marked the first time Mitchell has spoken publicly about his March arrest for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and/or sell. Alabama freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell shared his reaction Sunday night to being arrested this spring, suspended and later reinstated to the Tide's football team. ![]() ![]() ![]() The centres shows a circle with a drive belt attached which rotates the unit and the 2 square items are a ball or roller bearing assembly that allows it to rotate. The photographs show the unit upside down, the first shows all the tubes (which hold the feed) and the second the same view but with the stainless plate over which uncovers the tubes one by one. I have some notes that will accompany the sale. The electronics are (I think) Raspberry PI and the basic programming is complete. ![]() To the best of my knowledge and recollection all the electronics needed are there. The concept is simple, feed is placed into the tubes and the unit would rotate until one measure of feed was dropped down a shoot, the unit would then wait until the next predetermined time when it would rotate to the next position and dispense more feed.Īll the hard work has been done, the tubes, plywood and stainless steel all cut to size. The feeder could be used for a variety of other animals including goats for example. The project was intended to feed free range pigs by dropping a pre-measured amount of feed directly into their run or trough. However, the student moved on and I didn’t have the knowledge to complete the project. I am selling on a project that I started working on a number of years ago when I had an enthusiastic student assisting me with the electronics. I am offering for sale an Automatic Pig Feeder - part completed project. Apologies for posting this here, it’s in Marketplace too but does not seem to be getting to the right audience there. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Total Drama Island, Gwen is the most frequent victim of Heather's cruel actions, and is even given the nickname "Weird Goth Girl." A notorious example of this bullying was in Search and Do Not Destroy, where Heather deceives Gwen into believing that her love interest, Trent, was cheating on her with Heather. 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