or phone, Skype, etc. – someplace where you are interacting with another human in real time). Just look at how many people feel alone even though they have a bazillion friends and followers on social media.
I’ve said it before… leadership is a full contact sport. You’ve got to get in there, mess things up, make some mistakes, get humbled, have some success and LEARN from every experience. It’s a journey that takes a long time, and is never really finished (if you are doing it right). And in my opinion, cannot be learned by looking at your phone.
Related: If you’ll be at IAAPA’s IAE18 in November, I’ll be talking about how to create a supervisor training program that fits any budget.
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Hoping to see many of you at the Expo! It’s going to be a great week!
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Great post, especially appreciate your paragraph about Leadership being a full contact sport…thanks for giving me permission to make mistakes and realize it takes a long time to get it right. I’m still learning!
Glad you liked it! Keep learning!!
– It’s never really finished – because it’s like going to the gym, if you don’t use the muscle, it atrophies. Even leaders with tons of experience can fall out of practice. Being a coach keeps the seasoned leader effective and informed.
I appreciate your work Mr. Heller.
Brewdog is Scottish brewery created by James Watt, Martin Dickie, and their dog, Simcoe, 2 guys and 1 dog bored of the mass produced swill that dominated most of the market. Since their only option was to make their own, they imbued it with their personality and disregard for what those stuffy old beer barons, who take the fun out of the drink, think.
Unsurprisingly, their unique view and attitude brought out the masses in full force and, now, they have a world-wide operation including almost 400 employees and 26 Brewdog bars. However, staggering behind the masses and looming over all that’s considered fun was, and still is, the Portman Group. They have become known as, at least to those who support Brewdog, a prudish institute of stale mentalities without a sense of humor.
The Portman Group was actually made by the largest alcohol producers in 1989 to help stop alcohol-related issues, such as alcoholism and overconsumption. However, as noble as that goal is, they have made some ridiculous accusations towards Brewdog and tried to get them blacklisted throughout the UK for their use of humor and sarcasm, because they believe it promoted anti-social behavior and overconsumption of alcohol. If you want to see how ridiculous these accusation really were, take a look at the article published in the Morning Advertiser and Brewdog’s subsequent response.
Past this insignificant matter with a small-minded bureaucracy, Brewdog hasn’t slowed down. In fact, they have a funding program called “Equity for Punks.” They are currently on their fourth round and offers many perks that increase depending how much you put in. It has been a smash hit with their customers, considering almost 15,000 shareholders were registered by the end of 2014. Check out the video below to see how it works and, if you’re interested, head to their site to find out more.
Dogma refers to a set of principles that are held as incontrovertibly true as given by an authority (thank you Google). Now, I can’t say that Brewdog is THE authority on beer, but they are an authority on their beer and their style of business. Funny that they name their special Scotch Ale dogma, does it intend to contain the company essence or is it a simple pun on their name and mascot (Simcoe the dog)?  Like the entire Amplify line of beer, Dogma is high in alcohol content at a mighty 7.4% in a 330ml bottle.
From the open, it’s clear that this will be a bold drink as the aroma fills the room with a heavy sweetness and bitter notes. The pour is thick and black as it fills the glass, forming head that foams and puffs out in a creamy, uneven landscape of undiscovered flavors and smells. Once poured the head begins dissipating quickly, evening it out and leaving only the tightly packed, typical foam of a darker ale, which stays until the bitter end.
The aroma started very typically with a bold sweetness and roasted malt, but as Dogma warmed up, the aromas became more plentiful and specific. Honey was the main body of that sweetness, hiding a light caramel note. Grain became smelling more and more like baked bread as the evidence of the many grains came forward. Most shockingly of all, there was a light floral aroma at the tail end that seemed only to serve as a rounding character in the overall recipe.
On the sip, malt and honey were very prominent, washing over the mouth in a thick, creamy texture. Dark fruits evolved shortly after, a fruit pudding comes to mind. The roasted grains and malts return and start taking over on the swallow, but fall short of the sweetness, leaving a lingering sweet roll aftertaste. The carbonation is quite mild and the astringent alcohol flavor is hidden within the complex flavors making for the smoothest 7.4% beer I’ve ever had the pleasure of tasting.
The aroma, flavors, mouthfeel, it’s all well-rounded and comes together nicely. The only negative I could find with Dogma; it’s far too easy to drink at such a high alcohol content.
Smooth, rounded aroma and flavor, quite complex and enjoyable.
High alcohol content and easy drinkability, take care with this one.
Heavier meals; honey glazed ham or beef roast with roasted vegetables & fruity and bready desserts.
Definitely a winter brew, bold and heavy.
I kinda have to agree. It's so very basic, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't really into romance novels (not just period dramas). I was hoping the writers would have freshened up the dated source material a bit, because the colour-blind casting alone isn't interesting enough in and of itself and is hardly ever addressed. The king married a black woman and racism vanished. Okay. I also agree that Daphne -- the actress *and* the character -- is dullness personified and I still can't believe she's supposed to be the lead when everyone around her is so much more compelling.

Some of the CG, the greenscreen, and exterior lighting are *super* dodgy as well and the colours are too vibrant at times. However, the set design, the costumes, and the muscles on the guys are just spectacular (the count's tits alone are worth the price of admission #2021goals). So this particular binge wasn't exactly a slog for me despite the basic writing.

And lastly, I got queerbaited into watching this, fully expecting one of the Bridgerton family members to be gay (there's six of them, so why not?) but no, that one shot from the trailer was the entire gay content and it was used for shock value, and only featured a tertiary character. Racism is solved in this universe, but apparently not homophobia. Physics and engineering Department at Stanford University have demonstrated a device which provide photons and having the same effect as a magnet effect on the electrons. This may lead to a new class of nano-scale devices that use light instead of electricity. This system demonstrates the long-awaited communication device based on light. It Successfully solves a number of problems.
Since photons have no electric charge and they are free to work, even in high magnetic fields. But soon all that could change. In a paper published in Nature Photonics, interdisciplinary team of Stanford University report that they created a device that can control the flow of photons due to the synthetic magnetism. The result may seem completely new devices that use light instead of electricity – from microscopes to accelerators and ultra fast microchips.
“It is a new way to control light fluxes. It represents unprecedented opportunities for photonic devices”, – said the Shanghai Fan, a professor of electrical engineering, senior author of the study.
The possibility of using magnetic fields to control the electrons – the fundamental principle of modern electronics. But the analogy to photons had never existed. When an electron is close to the magnetic field, it meets a restoring force and follow the path of least resistance – makes a circular motion around the field. Similarly, the new device sends photons in a circular motion around the artificial magnetic field.
Standford Steve solution uses the latest research in the field of photonic crystals – nano scale materials that can “lock” the photons within their imperfections. In this case, the researchers used to form a network of tiny photonic crystal cavities in silicon.
Experimenters have learned to change the radius of the trajectory of a photon and changing the electric current supplied to the photonic crystal and the driving speed of the photons in the system. This dual mechanism allows for exact control.
Process, at first, denied the CPT theorem, invariance of interactions combined parity and time reversal. For engineers, this means that a photon moving forward will contain different properties when it is going backwards