Erudite Relics of Loc Huu Ho

An egotist is not only selfish; he is usually ridiculous as well, for he sets us to wondering as to any possible ground for his exalted opinion of himself. The real workers do not emphasize their superiority to other people, do not even emphasize the differences, but are grateful that they may share in humanity’s privilege of rendering service.

Two little raindrops were born in a shower,
And one was so pompously proud of his power,
He got in his head an extravagant notion
He’d hustle right off and swallow the ocean.
A blade of grass that grew by the brook
Called for a drink, but no notice he took
Of such trifling things. He must hurry to be
Not a mere raindrop, but the whole sea.
A stranded ship needed water to float,
But he could not bother to help a boat.
He leaped in the sea with a puff and a blare–
And nobody even knew he was there!

But the other drop as along it went
Found the work to do for which it was sent:
It refreshed the lily that drooped its head,
And bathed the grass that was almost dead.
It got under the ships and helped them along,
And all the while sang a cheerful song.
It worked every step of the way it went,
Bringing joy to others, to itself content.
At last it came to its journey’s end,
And welcomed the sea as an old-time friend.
“An ocean,” it said, “there could not be
Except for the millions of drops like me.”

Joseph Morris

In its simplest terms, operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy. In their book The Discipline of Market Leadership, Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema sugget that operational excellence is one of three “value disciplines” that a successful organisation must choose from as its underlying operational model.

In practice, operational excellence is a means to achieving the other value disciplines: product leadership and customer intimacy. Doing things well across the organisation is fundamental, but most successful companies do one thing exceedingly well and identifying and reinforcing core competitive strengths is part of operational excellence.

The definition has three elements:

• superior performance and visibility across the value chain
• value-added delivered to customers
• effective integration with external partners.

While the concept of operational excellence is simple enough, execution is another matter. A drive for efficiency is implicit, but this must be achieved in a coordinated way by building links across the organisation so that all functions share a harmonised set of performance metrics. The ultimate goal is a “single source of truth” where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organisation, enabling management by facts. The ideal result is a high-level dashboard for senior executives with the ability to drill down into different business functions, including operations, finance, IT, and sales and marketing.

One night, when his charge was pretty high, Microfarad decided to seek out a cute little coil to let him discharge. He picked up Milliamps and took her for a ride on his mega cycle. Around the series circuit, they went across the wheatstone bridge, down through the sine waves and finally stopped in a magnetic field besides a flowing current.

Microfarad was attracted by Milliamp

A desperate woman writes to the Technical support Guy

Dear Tech Support ,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and I noticed a distinct slowdown in the overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0 .
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NEWS 5.0, MONEY 3.0 and CRICKET 4.1 .
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2. 6 simply crashes the system.
Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.
What can I do?
Signed,
Desperate Woman
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As necessity is the mother of invention, strong desire is the mother of attainment.

If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you’ll sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
If you’ll simply go after that thing that you want,
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You’ll get it!

Berton Braley.

From “Things As They Are.”