Two Lessons That Stephen Covey Can Teach Us - Business Theory

Stephen Covey (1932-2012), the business self-improvement master of our times, died last week. He authored The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, a book that has sold over 6 million copies.

In addition to having read several of Covey?s books, I saw him present at a Lessons of Leadership conference. Here are the two most important take-always from his body of work:

In his book First Things First, he differentiated between the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments and activities. In contrast, the compass represents our vision, values and direction. Angst occurs when there is a gap between what we do, and what is most important in our lives.

This distinction painfully struck home. Once, I was scheduled to attend a Board meeting during a day when my 4-year old son had to undergo major surgery. I elected to attend the Board meeting, rationalizing my decision by telling myself that my wife and father-in-law were at the hospital.

Although the surgery was successful, I regret my decision, realizing that I did not put First Things First, which is to be there for my son. Had I spoken up, the Board meeting could have been delayed.

This lesson is based on Aesop?s fable of The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs. A farmer and his wife had a goose that laid a golden egg every day. They assumed that the goose had a great nugget of gold in its inside, so they killed it. They discovered that the goose was no different from other geese. Instead of becoming rich, the coupled deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.

Covey used this metaphor to argue that we must invest energy in increasing production capacity. He called this investment ?sharpening the saw.? If we fail to do this in our physical, social, mental and spiritual lives, Covey argued that the capability to produce will be lost. In sum, effectiveness is a result of both production and the capability to produce.

In a previous post, I described how playing the game of bridge enhances one?s memory and mathematical skills. Is it surprising that Howard Buffet and Bill Gates are avid players? In tennis, I know that if I fail to do strengthening exercises, pulled muscles are the end result. My physical therapist can attest to that!

In terms of business, at Frito Lay?s production facility at Orlando Florida, the largest inventory investment is not in the potatoes, corn oil and salt seasonings that are needed to make the company?s snack products. Rather, the biggest inventory item is in parts that are required to maintain the expensive machinery. Management knows that the costs of production downtime far outweigh the investments in inventory that are necessary to keep the machines in good condition.

Some of Covey?s notions are commonsensical?they will not put him at the table with the pantheon of self-improvement thought-leaders. For example, his 7 habits include advocating ?being proactive; begin with the end in mind; think win-win, etc.?

But the ideas of nurturing the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg?and setting ones compass on true north?will stand the test of time.

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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu speaks next to Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas, left, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about the details of a federal consent decree from the U.S. Department of Justice that will be used to institute reforms in the New Orleans Police Department inside the historic Gallier Hall, the former New Orleans city hall, in New Orleans, Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu speaks next to Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas, left, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about the details of a federal consent decree from the U.S. Department of Justice that will be used to institute reforms in the New Orleans Police Department inside the historic Gallier Hall, the former New Orleans city hall, in New Orleans, Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu speaks next to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about the details of a federal consent decree from the U.S. Department of Justice that will be used to institute reforms in the New Orleans Police Department inside the historic Gallier Hall, the former New Orleans city hall, in New Orleans, Tuesday, July 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

FILE - In a Sept. 4, 2005 file photo, Lance Madison is arrested by Louisiana State Police and New Orleans Police Department SWAT teams after a confrontation at the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans during which police fatally shot Madison's brother, Ronald Madison, and another man. Five New Orleans police officers were convicted in 2011 of civil rights violations stemming the deadly shootings of the unarmed men. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce Tuesday, July 24, 2012 a series of court-supervised reforms of the New Orleans Police Department that are some of the broadest and strictest ever imposed on a law-enforcement agency. The agreement between the Justice Department and the city is designed to clean up a police force that has been plagued by decades of corruption and mismanagement and came under renewed scrutiny after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Alex Brandon, File) NO SALES, MAGS OUT, INTERNET OUT

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2005 file photo, police officers subdue a man on Conti Street near Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. At least one police officer repeatedly punched 64-year-old Robert Davis, accused of public intoxication, and another officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce Tuesday, July 24. 2012 a series of court-supervised reforms of the New Orleans Police Department that are some of the broadest and strictest ever imposed on a law-enforcement agency. The agreement between the Justice Department and the city is designed to clean up a police force that has been plagued by decades of corruption and mismanagement and came under renewed scrutiny after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2005 file photo, police officers subdue a man on Conti Street near Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. At least one police officer repeatedly punched 64-year-old Robert Davis, accused of public intoxication, and another officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce Tuesday, July 24. 2012 a series of court-supervised reforms of the New Orleans Police Department that are some of the broadest and strictest ever imposed on a law-enforcement agency. The agreement between the Justice Department and the city is designed to clean up a police force that has been plagued by decades of corruption and mismanagement and came under renewed scrutiny after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? A court-backed plan to excise corruption, discrimination and a frequent use of deadly force from the long-troubled New Orleans Police Department will last at least four years and likely cost the financially strapped city $11 million annually.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced the plan Tuesday. Holder said the agreement is the most wide-ranging in the Justice Department's history and resolves allegations that New Orleans police officers have engaged in a pattern of discriminatory and unconstitutional activity.

It comes in the form of a court-approved consent decree, an agreement the Justice Department negotiated with the city after releasing a scathing report taking the department to task on multiple fronts in March 2011. The agreement includes extensive requirements for improved training, better supervision and new technology including cameras in police cars.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu called for Justice Department help in reforming the department when he took office in May 2010.

"The people of this city should rest assured that together with the Department of Justice, we will fundamentally change the culture of the NOPD once and for all," said Landrieu, who estimated the cost at roughly $11 million a year over the next four to five years.

The agreement spells out a series of strict requirements for overhauling the police department's policies and procedures for use of force, training, interrogations, searches and arrests, recruitment and supervision.

"There can be no question that today's action represents a critical step forward," Holder said. "It reaffirms the Justice Department's commitment to fair and vigorous law enforcement at every level."

Landrieu and City Council President Jackie Clarkson both expressed certainty that the council will make the needed budget changes to pay for the plan, while seeking any and all available federal grants to help ease the financial sting.

"It's a priority," Clarkson said after Tuesday's news conference.

New Orleans police scandals go back decades. In the 1990s, they included the severe beating of a suspect in an officer's death, and the conviction of a police officer who arranged the murder of someone who filed a brutality complaint against him. It also saw a conviction in a separate case of a killer cop who murdered a fellow officer and two others during a restaurant robbery.

Renewed attention fell on the department after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Justice Department's civil rights division launched a series of criminal probes focusing on police officers' actions in the storm's aftermath.

The investigations resulted in charges against 20 officers, including five convicted last year of civil rights violations in the deadly shootings of unarmed residents on a New Orleans bridge less than a week after the storm's landfall.

The officers convicted in the Danziger Bridge shootings were sentenced to prison terms of up to 65 years. Five others pleaded guilty to engaging in a cover-up plot that included a planted gun, phony witnesses and fabricated reports.

Among the agreement's provisions:

? All officers will be required to receive at least 24 hours of training on stops, searches and arrests; 40 hours of use-of-force training; and four hours of training on bias-free policing within a year of the agreement taking effect.

? All interrogations involving suspected homicides or sexual assaults will have to be recorded in their entirety on video. The department also will be required to install video cameras and location devices in all patrol cars and other vehicles within two years.

? The department will be required to restructure the system for paying officers for off-duty security details, develop a new report format for collecting data on all stops and searches and create a recruitment program to increase diversity among its officers.

? The city and Justice Department will pick a court-supervised monitor to regularly assess and report on implementation of the requirements.

? The city and police department can ask a judge to dissolve the agreement after four years, but only if they can show they have fully complied with its requirements for two years.

The Justice Department has reached similar agreements with police departments in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Oakland, Calif. But the scope of the New Orleans consent decree is billed as the broadest of its kind and includes requirements that no other department has had to implement.

For instance, the agreement requires officers to respect that bystanders have a constitutional right to observe and record their conduct in public places. Its "bias-free policing" provisions, which call for creating a policy to guide officers' interactions with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents, also are believed to be unprecedented for a police department's consent decree.

Holder said Landrieu and Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas didn't wait for the agreement to be signed before instituting reforms.

"The problems that we have identified were many years in the making and preceded this current administration," Holder said. "They are wide-ranging and they are deeply-rooted. Sustainable reform will not occur overnight, but we can all be encouraged that it is already happening here thanks to the leadership of Mayor Landrieu, Chief Serpas and so many others."

Tuesday's announcement comes on the eve of President Barack Obama's visit to New Orleans. Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech at the National Urban League's annual conference Wednesday.

Urban League President Marc Morial is a former New Orleans mayor who saw a rare drop in violent crime amid reforms instituted by then-Chief Richard Pennington in the 1990s.

Morial applauded news of the consent decree.

"It insures that police reform is not dependent on the leadership of any single mayor or any single police chief," said Morial, who blamed his successor, former Mayor Ray Nagin, for allowing earlier reforms to die.

Mary Howell, a New Orleans attorney who has frequently represented victims of police abuse, cautioned that the consent decree will not be a permanent solution to the department's longstanding problems.

"Consent decrees have lives of their own, too, and they end at a certain point," she said. "Everything we do now needs to be geared toward the day when we no longer have that direct federal oversight."

___

Associated Press reporters Cain Burdeau in New Orleans and Pete Yost in Washington contributed to this report.

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Higgs-spotting is much easier in Flatland

CALL them the alternative Higgs hunters. A group of researchers has glimpsed a simulated version of the elusive particle in the behaviour of a handful of atoms on a lab bench.

In marked contrast to the high-energy collisions of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, where the real Higgs boson was made, the atoms in the new work were arranged in an ultracold, flat array. The work suggests that something like the Higgs mechanism, which is thought to have given mass to elementary particles in the hot, early universe, operates in a range of physical situations. Similar physics could even be at play in the alternate universes that pop up in some versions of string theory, if they turn out to exist.

"It says a lot about the unity of physics, and how this is a deep and fundamental concept that appears in many different physical situations," says Subir Sachdev of Harvard University, who studies ultracold systems but was not involved in the new work.

The Higgs boson that appears in the standard model of particle physics is the calling card of the omnipresent Higgs field. The field cannot be observed, but high-energy protons smashing into each other inside the LHC can "shake" the field and produce Higgs bosons.

Thanks to the wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics, Higgs bosons can also be thought of as waves that appear in the Higgs field when it is shaken. This idea allowed a team led by Immanuel Bloch of the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Munich, Germany, to test whether the Higgs mechanism could be at play in a cold, two-dimensional system.

The team trapped about 500 rubidium atoms in a vacuum chamber and cooled them to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero. Then the team exposed the atoms to a pattern of criss-crossed laser beams. To the atoms, the pattern looked like an egg carton: the bright areas were wells where the atoms tended to settle, and the dark areas were barriers in between.

When the laser light was intense, the wells were deep, and each held one atom. But when the light was fainter, the wells grew shallow, allowing the atoms to tunnel between them, then spread out and form a single quantum entity. At the boundary between those two phases, the equations governing the atoms are the same as those that govern the Higgs field. So the transition from one atom per well to the single quantum state is analogous to shaking the Higgs field.

When the team brightened and then dimmed the lasers, the atoms collectively made a wave. This "Higgs mode" was the equivalent of the Higgs boson in their simulated Higgs field, report the team (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature11255). "We are calling it Higgs in Flatland," says Bloch, referring to the 1884 novella set in a two-dimensional world.

But the two-dimensional Higgs mode could have real effects. For example, some suggest that the mathematics behind such flat systems could come into play in versions of string theory. "It's remarkable how there's this beautiful experiment here, and the LHC, all coming about at the same time," adds Sachdev.

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Three Simple and Effective Anti Aging Hints | The desire to reverse ...

The desire to reverse the aging process can be seen everywhere today. There are numerous ways to approach this, from skin care to keeping your mind healthy and alert. Part of staying young is because of your attitude towards life. Other factors include the appearance of your skin and keeping the proper weight. The following anti aging tips could help you get yourself started on the road to feeling more youthful by the year.

Stress is among the factors that contributes the most to the aging process. Stress can cause wear and tear on all your cells and organs, and this ages you more quickly. Being stressed out has a serious influence on your mental and emotional state. Stress, however, does not simply make you feel uncomfortable in the moment, it causes long lasting harm to your overall health. Working out consistently and figuring out how to breathe deeply are just some examples of stress reducing activities. It's also vital not to let daily stress pile up. Breathing more deeply and thinking about something else can take the edge of stress, so be on the lookout for anything that makes you anxious.

You should not overlook your skin when trying to find anti aging strategies. It's not necessary to spend a lot of time on your skin, but you have to take care of it each day. Skin care products including moisturizers can be found in several varieties, so always choose the ones that match your skin type. Everyone needs to visit a dermatologist occasionally, as he or she can give you professional assistance on any skin troubles you might have. One nutrient that's essential for your skin, and your other organs as well is Vitamin D. You could get Vitamin D from food or capsules but the sun is the best natural way to obtain it. The latest research shows that, while far too much sun exposure is unsafe, several minutes each day is healthy.

Your body needs certain types of fats, and these are also essential for anti aging purposes. There are a number of ways to get more healthy fats in your diet. Lots of people take fish oil supplements nowadays, although if you're a seafood lover you might not need this. If you are seeking a snack that's a great source of healthy fats, have more nuts. Besides consuming nuts as a snack, you could try various nut butters. Almonds, sunflowers and cashews all make yummy nut butters and peanuts of course.

There may come a time when science finds an easy way to reverse the aging process. For now, however, all we can do is practice healthy living so that we age as gradually as possible. So keep these anti aging tips in mind and make them an integral part of your daily life.

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Sally Ride, first U.S. woman in space, dies at 61

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman to travel into space and an advocate for science education, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, according to her organization, Sally Ride Science. She was 61.

Ride broke new ground for American women in 1983 when at the age of 32 she and four male crewmates blasted off aboard space shuttle Challenger.

"The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it," Ride recalled in a 2008 interview on the 25th anniversary of her flight.

"I didn't really think about it that much at the time -- but I came to appreciate what an honor it was to be selected," she said.

U.S. President Barack Obama called Ride "a national hero and a powerful role model." In a statement, he said Ride "inspired generations of young girls to reach for the stars."

Ride was not the first woman in space. That distinction fell to the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova, who blasted off aboard a Vostok 6 rocket on June 16, 1963.

But over the years only two other Russian women followed Tereshkova into orbit.

By the time Ride returned for a second flight in 1984, not only had another female astronaut, Judith Resnik, flown on the shuttle, but Ride had a female crewmate, Kathryn Sullivan.

Since then, more than 45 women from the United States and other countries have flown in space, including two as shuttle commander.

"Sally Ride broke barriers with grace and professionalism - and literally changed the face of America's space program," NASA administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, said in a statement.

Ride grew up in Los Angeles and attended Stanford University, where she earned bachelor's degrees in physics and English and master's and doctorate degrees in physics. She joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1978.

She was assigned to a third shuttle flight, but training for the mission was cut off after the fatal 1986 Challenger accident that claimed the lives of six colleagues and a schoolteacher.

Ride served as a member of the presidential commission that investigated the accident, and then assisted the agency's chief with long-range and strategic planning.

She left NASA in 1987 and joined a Stanford University security research institute. In 1989, she joined the physics department at the University of California-San Diego and directed the California Space Institute.

Ride's interest in education extended to younger students, whom she targeted with her science education startup Sally Ride Science in San Diego.

The company creates science programs and publications for elementary and middle school students and educators.

Ride also authored science books for children and served on dozens of NASA, space and technology advisory panels, including the board that investigated the second fatal space shuttle accident in 2003.

Her former husband, Steve Hawley, an astronaut who left NASA in 2008, said in a statement that Ride was a private person who never became fully comfortable with her celebrity status.

"Sally Ride, the astronaut and the person, allowed many young girls across the world to believe they could achieve anything if they studied and worked hard," said Hawley, who now teaches astronomy at the University of Kansas.

"I think she would be pleased with that legacy," he said.

Ride is survived by her mother; her partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy; a sister; a niece and a nephew.

(Additional reporting by Dan Burns; Editing by Kevin Gray and Lisa Shumaker)

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