Twittergram?

"Twittergram for Phil Boins."  Lieutenant Abrams. Return of the Thin Man.

Is Twitter the new Western Union?

Yes.

Twitter is Western Union.  The Tweet is the telegram.  Instead of opening up the envelope, you click the link to open the file.

LinkedIn is your company.  Your network connections are your colleagues.

Your Blog is your Customer Tech Manual.

Facebook is your Information Supply Chain.

Your Website is your Sales Department.

"Social Media is the Medium.  Greater than the Sum of its Parts." ~ Slim Fairview. From The Quotations of Slim Fairview.

It's not your grandchildren's Social Media anymore.  Social Media is Business Media.

Warmest regards,

Slim

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Failure? Success? Why! How!

People create obstacles between themselves and their goals.

Then, they pretend that the problems are not problems because they

• They have the solution to the problem

• They can solve the problem

Then, they work on the solution to the problem that they themselves have created.

This time wasting technique--this impediment--is a self-created, self-perpetuating, self-defeating process.

The most important part of the process of failure is the energy expended, the time wasted, the techniques employed, in solving the problem.  The process:

• Research
• Reading
• Self-Help Books
• Writing a Journal
• Watching programmes about the problem
• Talking to People in Support Groups who serve as enablers
• Irritating the people around them (who have problems of their own) causing people to avoid them thus creating the self-fulfilling prophesy.

I can also add the energy expended and the time wasted defending the above self-defeating behaviour.

If this problem is not personal but institutional, the problem may be external, but the process of failure is the same--the elaborate process that avoids dealing with the problem and perpetuates it from there.

Let's define the problem.

Let's involve as many departments as we can to avoid solving the problem.

Let's explore as many aspects of the problem as we can pretend really do exist.

(The result of 3 & 4)

1. Sales
2. Marketing
3. R&D
4. Production
5. QC
6. Engineering
7. Finance
8. Advertising
9. HR
10. Accounting
11. Shipping
12. Receiving
13. The Outside Consultant & of course
14. Carl the Pretzel Man

Right now we are witnessing the EuroCrats embracing this process.

Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Einstein, a scientist, understood the empirical method of analysis.

You do something (the experiment) and document the results.
You repeat the experiment. If you duplicate the results, you form the conclusion.

To create change, you either change the variable (V) or you change the constant (K).

Let's use the metaphor of baking a cake.

If you have only medium eggs, you can change the amount of flour using one egg to make the batter work.

If you need a bigger cake and you can't change the size of the eggs, you increase the number of eggs from one to two.  If you fail to create a cake, you keep the number of eggs (2) constant (K) and adjust the amount of flour.

Why use this metaphor?

When I was a youngster, I was at my girlfriend's house. Her sister was trying to bake a cake. She failed.  Her Mom encouraged her not to give up. To keep trying.  She tried again.  She failed.  Her Mom encouraged her not to give up. To keep trying.

I went over to help.  I read the recipe.

A recipe has three parts:

Ingredients
Quantities
Process

"Did you separate the eggs?"
"What's that?"

I showed her how to separate the eggs, beat the yolks, beat the whites, add the yolks, fold in the whites.

She baked the cake.  Success!

Ingredients?  Yes!
Quantity?  Yes!
Encouragement? Yes!

The missing element?  The Process!

All our failures: Personal, Institutional, Governmental do not routinely, but ultimately, arise from a failure in the process.

When Congress, European Leaders, and Business Leaders--the leaders who fail, not the leaders who succeed--recognise that there must be a change in the process, they will begin to succeed.

Warmest regards,

Slim

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Consultants: Credentials or Qualifications?

Consultants: Credentials or Qualifications?


Recently, what caught my attention was a discussion about people graduating with MBAs who want to go into consulting. Isn’t consulting a later-in-your-career choice?  Something you do after a few decades of experience?  The way a retired General working for defence contractors after decades of military experience as opposed to a 2^nd Lieutenant graduating from West Point choosing to go into consulting as an alternative to going into the Army?

Case in point:  The GSA did not waste money hiring jugglers and clowns.  The GSA wasted money hiring consultants to teach teamwork and leadership skills by having employees build bicycles.

Why?

Well, what are the deliverables?  The target dates?  The measure of value added?  The argument could be made that we are dealing with intangibles. I will refute that later.


The Back Story:

A few decades ago, I participated in an exercise for a class on teamwork.  The class was broken up into groups of four or five.

The exercise?  You are stranded on an islands with a list of provisions that you are to rank in order of importance.  Then to explain your decisions.  Then to discuss all the decisions to come up with a list.  In addition:  The weather is damp. It will get colder in the night. And we are told that there are no right or wrong answers.  The purpose is to learn to work as a team.

Briefly: a knife, a rope, a gun, a cigarette lighter with no fluid, a bottle of whisky.

I listened. I waited.  I began my list”

1. Cigarette lighter with no fluid.

2. Bottle of whisky—

AHA!!!!!  Whisky does not make you warmer. It only makes you feel warmer because you are losing body heat because alcohol dilates the blood vessels….!

True. But…

1.  That was not my point.

2.  The interrupter did not wait for me to finish speaking

3. The interrupter interrupted to repudiate my point based on an assumption

4.  The interrupter did not ask me why I made the rankings.

 
My Choices:

I was a Boy Scout. It is difficult enough to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together or by using flint and steel with tinder under the best of conditions.  It is damp. It will get cold.  The Whisky burns.  No claim of right or wrong.  Only the failed procedure.  Or is it?

You can figure out most of the above yourself.  The “aha” moment for me was when I realised that the instructions said, “There are no right or wrong answers.”  Yes there are.

Remember, “Who’s to say what’s right or wrong?”  I won’t go there. Why not? Simple.

You make the right choices, you live.

You make the wrong choices, you die!

Simple? 

No.

Simple!


In Business It Is The Same.

Remember Ron Johnson?  CEO at JCP?

Johnson tried to sell, “Everyday Low Pricing.”

Consumers want to buy, “Coupons and Discounts.”

Johnson tried to convince the customers to buy what he wanted to sell instead of selling what the customers wanted to buy.

Now, Bill Ackman, successful investor, has many credentials.  In fact, he has about a billion credentials.  Still, he appears on Mad Money, with Jim Cramer, in an effort to sell Penney-Stocks. I will not belabour the point.

Credentials.

Diet books, get rich quick books, and self help books, do not work.  If they did, then, as a nation, we would all be skinny, rich, and happy.  Instead, as a nation, we are fat, poor, and polarised.

The authors all have credentials.  They all sell books. They are all successful.  Like Bill Ackma, they are successful at being successful.

How many millionaires and billionaires do you know, who became millionaires and billionaires, by reading books written by millionaires and billionaires?  Get the point?


Deliverables:

 
Case 1

“Hello, Bigelow?  Highpower here. Standwell Industries.  The reason why I am calling is because the consulting firm of Seniors and Elder LLC put you down as a reference….”

“Great Job, Highpower.  In 2011, we had 41 incidents.  In 2012, that dropped to 27. And in the first half of this year, only 8.   And production went up 10% in 2012 and 10% in the first half of 2013.”

 
Case 2

“Hello, Downhill?  Highpower here. Standwell Industries. The reason I’m calling is  because the consulting firm of Young, Turk, and Wiseacre put you down as a reference….”

Enough said? 

No.

Enough Said!


If you find anything here to be helpful in terms of marketing your consulting firm, or saving money by rethinking your choices….

Please do not hesitate to send me a really tricked out MacPro and to tuck a few dollars into the envelope along with the thank you note.

 
Warmest regards,

Slim

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Russia's Syrian Strategy

Lest we forget. 

Try This Theory

Russia sends ships to Syria. Not to repulse the United States, but rather as a signal to Syria. President Assad gets the message and invites Russia to send peace keeping troops to Syria. 

Sound familiar?  It should to anyone 75 years old. 

President Assad relinquishes control of chemical weapons that he does not need, repulses the United States picking up credibility in the Middle East, cements ties with his allies in the Middle East and with Russia--as does Russia--and forestalls US Military action. 

Speak softly and carry a big stick is fine when you are the only one with a big stick; or the only one with any stick.  However, when someone else also carries a big stick, you need an alternative foreign policy.  Then, too, if many people have small sticks, you must work harder at diplomacy.  Still, even if you are the only one with a big stick, someone with a book of matches will reduce the potency of your big stick.

Let's compliment President Putin on his diplomatic finesse: 

He comes up with a way of letting Assad save face....as my Mom taught me 52 years ago, "Always give someone an out." Something we've never learned. 

Meanwhile, we watch Russia prove that they are as good at "diplomacy" as ever. 

Warmest regards, 

Slim. 

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The companion pieces: 

The Business of Wisdom in Global Affairs 

The Future of the G 20 in Good Times and Bad


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CNBC Circa 1862

For Those Who Understand Metaphors:

What if the 24 hour news cycle existed in 1864 and Europe watched the American Civil War unfolding before them?

Middle East RSVP

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us

To see oursels as ithers see us!

It wad frae mony a blunder free us,

An' foolish notion:

As I was gazing into my Liquid Crystal Ball, I had the opportunity to see myself in a previous life.  I am watching television when my programme is interrupted by a special report from Brussels.

The UN Security Council is holding an emergency meeting over the conditions in America.  World Leaders are condemning the atrocities of the Civil War citing over 50,000 dead at Gettysburg and now, after the burning of Atlanta, Sherman’s March to the Sea.

On official said, in exchange for remaining anonymous, “Will we wait until every American has been Shermanised before we take action?”

Recent reports have confirmed that 50,000 American’s died in the three day battle at Gettysburg and almost 9,000 Americans were killed in the burning of Atlanta.

Leaders in England and France have reported that they are already sending warships to the Gulf of Mexico and the Potomac Basin, but claimed this was only to prevent a blockade to prevent the shipment of tobacco and cotton to Europe.  They did, however, admit that they were discussing putting boots on the ground to intervene.

The Russian Ambassador to the UN has stated that he will veto any resolution that involves military intervention.  He went on to issue this statement:  “It took the Americans from 1776 to 1789—thirteen years—to create a constitution.  This is a Civil War, and Europe has no business interfering with American domestic problems.”

The Greek Ambassador to the UN said, “We had a democracy 3,000 years ago.  We may have made some mistakes, but we learned from them.  We will be only too happy to send a delegation to Washington to help the Americans set up a stable democracy.”

The Italian Ambassador to the UN issued a statement saying, “Our government supports the initiative proposed by the Greek government and will be happy to participate.  After all, we had a democracy 2,000 years ago. We too, made a few mistakes, but we also learned from them and want to help protect the American people from this carnage.”

England’s Foreign Minister denied reports that the warships en route to America are carrying cannons to bombard Washington, saying “We are not taking the cannon-fire option off the table.  We are only saying that it is an option that we are prepared to exercise if the carnage in America does not stop.”

The Ambassadors from Spain and Portugal will be arriving in Brussels soon, carrying a joint proposal for a cease-fire but conceded, “There is little hope.”

On a related note,  A statement from Sandringham House:

The King, The Emperor, and The Czar issued the following joint statement.

In fewer than 100 years, Democracy in America has led to this Civil War of horrific proportions. 
An Annus horribilis.  Therefore we are planning to send a delegation to meet with Presidents Lincoln and Davis and with Generals Grant and Lee to discuss the establishment of Monarchy in America.

The nice thing about the Liquid Crystal Ball is that is reveals history as it might have been.  It does not, however, reveal history as it will be.

SANTAYAN “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”

SLIM FAIRVIEW “Those who never learned history are doomed—Period!” 

Fin

Warmest regards,

Slim

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Think Tank or Work Tank?

I called it right on the European Economic Crisis. I called it right on Germany.  I called it right on China.  I will now call it on China again. 

China: Gratte-ciel

China is poised for a new round of capital investment.

China does not have a housing bubble--China has a housing inventory.

"The best way for Guinea to control its iron ore and to profit from its iron ore is to partner with China."  The Quotations of Slim Fairview.

• China needs iron ore for steel.
• China has Economic ties to South America
• China is building a canal in Nicaragua
• China has contracted to run ports in Greece
• China has contracts with Greek ship builders
• China can build a steel plant in Guinea
• China can build a deep water port in Guinea.

• Guinea has ultra rich iron ore which can be refined cost effectively.
• Guinea needs a deep water port
• Guinea can ship straight to the canal in Nicaragua then on to China

China can and will partner with Guinea.

• China is building high speed trains to bring people to the housing inventory.
• China will be building roads.
• China will have no trouble doubling the capacity of its trucks to
• Double the size of the containers they can carry to
• Speed up the shipment of cargo

In Economic Softwar, I wrote who controls which resources is crucial to survival.

Additional Reading

The Future of the G 20 in Good Times & Bad

Global Management: A shift in the paradigm of corporate America

At the end of many of my articles, specially the ones on management, I write, "if you find anything here to be helpful, please don't hesitate to send me a really tricked out MacPro and to tuck a few dollars into the envelope along with the thank you note."  

That is a satirical comment on how American corporations waste millions of dollars driving their companies into the dirt rather than spend a few thousand on common knowledge and common sense.  

However, this is different.  The global economic decline and the upsurge in competition by more and more people for fewer resources screams out:  Think Tank.  Oops! I mean, Work Tank.

If you find what I write to be helpful, please do not hesitate to provide the funding for me to establish a Work Tank.

A Work Tank is an organisation that looks to find what works using: The Empirical Method of Analysis, not to test theories.

Warmest regards, 

Slim Fairview

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PS.  Okay, throw in a MacPro along with the Funding.

Slim

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Mr. When's Chicken

Mr. When was a poor man who lived on the outskirts of a small village.  He lived in a small hut. Besides a pot to cook his food, and an ax to cut wood, his only possession was a chicken.  The chicken laid eggs and that is how Mr. When survived.

When Mr. When was younger he would say, "When my day comes....." and regal people of what he would do.  Now he is old.  Now he says, "When will my day come?"

As Mr. When grew older he was less able to take care of himself.  Soon he grew weak.  Now he is feeble.

Mr. When has a good friend, Mr. Soon.  Mr. Soon is a prominent man in the village.  Routinely, Mr. Soon goes to visit Mr. When.  When Mr. When becomes despaired, "When will my day come?" Mr. Soon says, "Soon, my friend.  Soon."

One day, Mr. When, too feeble to work, resolved to kill and cook to the chicken to regain his strength.  However, as he is headed to the coop, Mr. Soon sees him and stops him to ask what he is doing.  Mr. When tells him.

Mr. Soon advises against this.  He inspires Mr. When with the tale of The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs.  Mr. When feels better and resolves not to kill the chicken.

A few days later, Mr. Soon is passing Mr. When's hut when he sees a crowd.  He goes to find out what has happened.  The people tell him that Mr. When has died.  The doctor will be out soon.  When the doctor comes out, he informs the villagers that Mr. When has died of starvation; but that he did leave a note.  He read the note:

To my good friend, Mr. Soon.  Thank you for your constant support, your guidance, and your visits.  I have little, but to thank you, I leave you my cookpot, my ax, and my chicken.

When the people ask for an explanation, Mr. Soon tells them what had transpired.  The villagers were incensed.  They went to Mr. Soon's home and pillaged and looted.  All he had left was a cookpot, an ax, and a chicken.

It was not long after that Mr. Soon died.  

The saddest part of this tale is that Mr. Soon died never understanding why he was the most reviled man in the village.

                                                                                 fin

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Slim

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Marketing 1959

Think you're a marketing guru?


In 1959 leggings were not a fashion statement.  They were, for the purposes of this discussion, what a 6 year old boy wore to school in winter when his Mom was feeling specially cold.

As with galoshes--a medieval form of footwear designed to torture enemies by forcing their children to wear them to school, leggings were an embarrassment.  They were a scarlet letter, a hair shirt, the wrong team jersey worn on Superbowl Monday.

Then, one day, they were no longer leggings, courtesy of one of my friends.  They were now ski-pants--and they were cool.

Flash forward: 1964. Penny Loafers. Ugh!  (I had a pair of Beatles Boots!)  They, too, were a target of derision.  Then, again, courtesy of my buddy who showed up for school in a pair of penny loafers.  They were no longer penny loafers.  They were now Weejuns.  And they were cool.

When and where did I learn marketing?  In 1959.  In the first grade.  That is when and where I learned how to spin.

Grade one, my buddy is running for Class President.  I must have been one of the cool kids.  I was one of two people chosen to count the ballots.  It was a close race.  One vote decided the outcome. 

The last vote was written on a piece of blue paper.  It was for my buddy.  The vote was cast by a mutual friend.  The friend who was responsible for our friend being elected.  How so?

As he informed us that he knew that the blue piece of paper would be the last one chosen.  Spinmeister.

And you consider yourself a marketing guru because you studied marketing?

I've been studying marketing since your parents were forced to bear the shame of wearing  galoshes to school.

Warmest regards, 

Slim

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Charmer in the Dell

"The Charmer in the Dell,
The Charmer in the Dell,
He can buy the company,
But can he sell the Dell?"


I watched and wrote as I watched and I wrote about the devolution of JCP under Johnson's stewardship.  This prompted me to post:

• Your Logo

• JCP and 1000 Pennies

• Ackman: Selling Penney-Stocks

• JCP and Sheldon Cooper's Big Bang Suit

Mr. Johnson is no longer with the company.  Now, however, we are seeing the recapitulation through Dell.

There is no doubt in my mind that Mr. Icahn can and will succeed in his efforts to buy Dell.



In Your Logo:

While Mayor Ed Koch may have brought umbrage down upon himself while running for Governor of New York by disparaging Sears Roebuck suits, when I think of a suit from JCP the only thing that comes to mind is, "I didn't buy this suit at Sears, I bought it at J C Penney."

I did buy a Harris Tweed sports coat at Macy's, though.  The Logo?  A snifter of single-malt scotch.  What snifter of single-malt scotch?  The snifter of single-malt scotch I am sipping in front of a fire while wearing that Harris Tweed sports coat. (Okay, maybe Macy's is piggy-backing on the Harris Tweed Logo, still...)

To put it in simple terms: (imho...or not)

• Dell is the Sears Roebuck computer

• hp (or dy depending on how you hold it) is Macy's

• Apple is Bonwit Teller

As Mr. Ackman learned, stocks go up when sales go up. Not the other way around.  Mr. Ackman spent time on CNBC selling Penney-Stocks.  The results were predictable. 

Remember when Sears Roebuck and Kmart put together that mutual validation deal?  How did that work out for them?


As I said, Mr. Icahn should have no trouble buying Dell stocks.  However, to achieve an enthusiastic buy-in from the board, it would help to have a CEO with a plan to make Dell the laptop that will Charm the Market.  Buying Dell is not the problem. Convincing customers to buy The Dell computer is another matter.  What Mr. Icahn really needs is a Charmer in the Dell.



Warmest regards,

Slim

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The Side Street Journal Report

Editor's note:  

In Broadcast Media, the format is to use all capital letters for copy. This is hard copy and teleprompter.  The use of all capital letters in this post complies with that format. This is not shouting. Thank you. Sincerely, The Editor.]


THE SIDE STREET JOURNAL REPORT(c): COMMENTARY ON GLOBAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC NEWS BY SLIM FAIRVIEW.



EPISODE ONE:

GOOD EVENING. THIS IS THE SIDE STREET JOURNAL REPORT. TODAY WE BEGIN A NEW PROGRAMME.  WE DON'T REPORT THE NEWS, RATHER WE REPORT ON HOW THE NEWS IS PERCEIVED.  I AM THE BLOGGER KNOWN AS SLIM FAIRVIEW.  WELCOME TO MY VIEWERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.


THE CHINA BASHERS ARE AT IT AGAIN.  DESPITE THE FACT THAT CHINA HAS THE SECOND LARGEST AND FASTEST GROWING ECONOMY, AND THAT CHINA HAS ELEVATED HALF A BILLION PEOPLE FROM POVERTY, MANY STILL VIEW CHINA AS A PASSING EVENT.

WHEN THE NUMBERS FROM CHINA ARE BAD, THE EXPERTS GLOAT.  WHEN THE NUMBERS FROM CHINA ARE GOOD, THE EXPERTS DOUBT THE NUMBERS.

RECENT EVENTS REPORTED HAVE BEEN THAT CHINA HAS A CREDIT CRUNCH, CHINA HAS A HOUSING BUBBLE, THE CHINESE ECONOMY IS SLOWING.  THIS SERVES TO DISTRACT FROM THE NEWS A HAS BEEN REPORTED FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.  RATHER, CHINA RESOLVED THE CRUNCH. CHINA HAS A HOUSING INVENTORY.  HERE IS MORE ABOUT CHINA.

RECENTLY, CHINA HAS CHOSEN TO EMBARK ON BUILDING A CANAL THROUGH NICARAGUA TO COMPETE WITH THE PANAMA CANAL.  THIS TO SERVE THE MASSIVE SHIPS THAT THE PANAMA CANAL CAN NO LONGER ACCOMMODATE.  

CHINA HAS PURCHASED A UTILITY COMPANY IN PORTUGAL. THIS AT A TIME WHEN PORTUGAL IS RENEWING TIES WITH A FORMER COLONY, ANGOLA.

CHINA IS ESTABLISHING BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE GREEK SHIPPING AND SHIP BUILDING INDUSTRY......ETC.


THAT IS THE SIDE STREET JOURNAL REPORT FOR THIS EVENING.  I'M SLIM FAIRVIEW. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

VO:  SLIM FAIRVIEW IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS PRESENTED IN THIS PROGRAMME AND DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF ......


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EPISODE TWO:

GOOD EVENING. THIS IS THE SIDE STREET JOURNAL REPORT. COMMENTARY ON GLOBAL AND POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC NEWS. I AM THE BLOGGER KNOWN AS SLIM FAIRVIEW. WELCOME TO MY VIEWERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

RECENTLY, THE IMF HAS REPORTED THAT MISTAKES WERE MADE IN THE EFFORTS TO SOLVE THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CRISIS.  THAT NOW, THERE SHOULD BE A FOCUS ON GROWTH.  FOR ME, THE FORMULA IS SIMPLE: CAPITAL INVESTMENT + ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT = GROWTH.  

FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS, I'VE BEEN WARNING THE EUROPEAN LEADERS THAT YOU CANNOT CUT WAGES, FIRE PEOPLE, RAISE TAXES, AND CALL IT A SOLUTION.  THE STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE ONE-PRONGED APPROACH HAS TURNED AUSTERITY INTO A WEAPON, NOT A SOLUTION.

IN THE US, A DIVIDED CONGRESS HAS ENGAGED IN A BATTLE OF IDEOLOGIES.  THE MOST UNFORTUNATE ASPECT IS THAT BOTH SIDES HAVE EMBRACED AN INTRACTABLE ONE-PRONGED APPROACH.  YOU CANNOT CUT YOUR WAY TO PROSPERITY.  YOU CANNOT TAX YOUR WAY TO PROSPERITY.  STILL, NEITHER SIDE IS WILLING TO PURSUE ANY MEANINGFUL APPROACH TO SOLVING THE CRISIS......ETC.


THAT IS THE SIDE STREET JOURNAL REPORT FOR THIS EVENING.  I'M SLIM FAIRVIEW. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.

VO:  SLIM FAIRVIEW IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS PRESENTED IN THIS PROGRAMME AND DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF ......



CUT TO:


THE SIDE STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL:

YOU CAN'T FOOL THE LION.

LET'S SAY YOU TELL EVERYONE YOU ARE A LION TAMER.  

EVERYONE BELIEVES YOU. THEY HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT YOU.

WHEN THEY HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT LION TAMING THEY GO TO YOU.  YOU ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS WITH CONFIDENCE AND AUTHORITY.

THEN, ONE DAY, A LION WALKS INTO THE ROOM.  EVERYONE PANICS.  THEY RUN TO YOU TO SAVE THEM.  YOU PANIC.

WHY?

YOU CAN'T FOOL THE LION.


THAT IS THE SIDE STREET JOURNAL REPORT FOR THIS EVENING.  I'M SLIM FAIRVIEW. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.



Sincerely,

Slim Fairview

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Egypt Restored

Slim Predicts:


With:

• The most recent realignment in Egypt 

• No solution possible without addressing the issue of The Economy and Jobs

• Egypt being a vital strategic ally arising from the Suez Canal being crucial to global trade

• The US at the precipice of Energy Independence

• China's growing need for cost-effective energy

China will:

• Strengthen Economic and Diplomatic relations with Egypt

• Become more involved in the African Economic Development and Growth Agenda

• Build a Canal

China will be growing its economy beyond expectations through:

• Partnerships with Egypt, Arab Oil Producing Nations, an African Economic Development Agency, and with Latin American partners.

• Africa's emerging economy offering a large potential for investors in manufacturing and natural resources.

• Latin America accelerating its agricultural output

• China becoming a vital link in the Global Commodities Markets

• Egypt's economic reemergence and stability will returning to the region. 

Regards, 


Slim.

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Egypt, Brazil, Politicians, The Future

Using the wrong tools or using the tools you don't know how to use.



Report: President Morsi stepped down. Exactly what I told my wife would happen the moment he issued the statement about his determination to run the country.

Egypt does not need political reform. Brazil does not need political reform. Egypt and Brazil need economic reform.

However, politicians know politics not economics. Hence, politicians will work with what they know regardless of the fact that what they know won't solve the problems. And routinely do not solve the problems.

The same is true of the European Economic Crisis.  Except that in Europe, the European leaders are trying to solve the economic crisis using economics. 

Unfortunately, politicians do not seem to have a handle on economics.  There they are using tools they do not know how to use.

 Both paradigms have failed. And each will continue to fail. 

Then we have Congress.  In the US we do not have an economic problem. We do not have a political problem.  We have a process management problem. 

"You can't lead if you can't manage."  The Quotations of Slim Fairview


Regards,

Slim

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Google Cooks Apple

Apple is pursuing gadgets when content will prevail.

"Content is the new technology" The quotations of Slim Fairview.

Google (owns the Android market) and will pursue content to go with tablets, and may even buy into my suggestion of teaming up with Facebook to leverage 1 billion users globally--heretofore suggested as a possible Apple strategy.

Alas, not to be.

Google can handle Big Data! If i-TV were to have prevailed....or even i-Radio, ponder about this:

Every radio station plays its own programming. Jazz, Blues, Talk, Sports, but every radio plays all the stations.

With Apple's boutique statues, well....it is like the old cassette or a CD. You can only hear what you buy, what you play!

App writers will go for the Global Gold--and go with Google, while Apple will appeal to the boutique crowd.  You heard the comment about innovation, no doubt.

Keep those fancy gadgets coming.

Regards,

Slim

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People Won't Buy Electric Cars Until...

Why can't we sell electric cars?



1. Batteries Die

• The Transistor Radio

• The Remote Control

• The Razor

And, dare I say it, the car battery on a cold morning.  Batteries Die


2. Batteries Don't Last.

That is why car batteries have warranties.  



3. Unanswered Questions:

• How long will the battery last?

• How much will a new battery cost?

• How long will you keep it at the dealership inflating the service bill as you check out the car instead of replacing the battery?

HOWEVER

The biggest problem is not battery life or battery cost or sloganeering like slinging around words like 'range anxiety."


The real reason is that Americans measure distance in hours and minutes--not in miles.



This is not an American conversation.


"How far is it?"

"Eight Miles."




This is an American conversation.


"How far is it?"

"Fifteen minutes."



Question


"My wife's sister lives two hours away?  If we buy a Tesla (A Volt) can we make it to her sister's house?" 


In American:

"Do we have enough gas?"

"A little under 3/4 of a tank."

Maybe we should fill up before we leave?"

"No. I'll stop at that station by your sister.  It's cheaper there."



What if we buy a Tesla or a Volt?


"My wife's sister lives two hours away. Can I make it on a full charge?"

"How far away does she live?"

"I told you. Two hours!"

"No. I mean how many miles is it?"


"Mr. Tesla?  Mr Volt?  You are not listening to your customers.  My wife's sister lives two hours away. Can I make it on a full charge."



Electric Cars. The JCP of  Ron Johnson lives on.

• Ron Johnson wanted to sell "everyday low pricing."

• Customers wanted to buy, "coupons and discounts."

• Ron Johnson tried to convince the customers to buy what he wanted to sell.

• Ron Johnson should have sold what the customers wanted to buy.

• Don' be a Johnson.

This is what you want to sell:

• Price of the Battery.

• Life of the Battery

• Recharge Time

• Recharge Cost

• Charging Stations

• Swap-out Stations 

• How far can I go on a full charge.  In hours, not in miles.

If you find anything here to be helpful, please do not hesitate to send me a really tricked-out Mac Book and to put a few dollars into the envelope along with the thank you note. Slim.

Bob Asken
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Sincerest regards,


Slim


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