Dynamo Kiev
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Where the action will be at UEFA Match day 6
Match day six will culminate in filling up the remaining slots of the first round knock out phase of the UEFA Champions League. Eight teams that have already qualified and can afford to pop up the champagne bottle to celebrate their achievement. For the remaining eight slots, it will go down the wire in the following perspective:
Group A
With Bordeaux already through the battle will be between the Old Lady of Turin Juventus and Bayern Munich. The German side has to beat the Italians otherwise any other outcome would send them to the Europa cup. Juventus are fortunate to be hosting that match at the Delle Alpi.
Group B
Other than last season finalist, Man Utd having booked their place, any team among the remaining three has a chance of qualifying, Wolfsburg will host Man Utd, while Besiktas will be doing the same against CSKA. It’s interesting to note that Wolfsburg and Besiktas are tied with seven points, they have scored the same number of goals but the Germans have conceded fewer goals. This means that winning might not be enough for either team but more importantly is the number of goals a team will have won its respective match.
Group C
Two clubs that have won the champions league more than anyone else are yet to qualify in this group. A win by AC Milan and Real Madrid against Zurich and Olympique Marseille respectively would be enough for the European giants to finish the job. The only worrying thing is that they will be playing away. Olympique Marseille optimism lies in beating Real Madrid by a big margin and hoping that AC Milan will not win at Zurich.
Group D
This group has already been decided and the last fixture will be for formality purposes. Chelsea and Porto have qualified at the expense of Atletico Madrid and APOEL. However the Europa cup slot will be up for grabs.
Group E
This is the second group in which the qualified teams are also known. Olympique Lyonnais and Fiorentina being the teams in question. It will be remembered that it’s in this group that Liverpool was eliminated.
Group F
This is the only group that all the four teams have a chance of qualifying. Contrary to what many expected that the defending champion, Barcelona and Italian Champions, Inter Milan would comfortably sail through, Dynamo Kiev and Rubin Kazan have made things difficult for them. The best card for the four managers to play safe is to make sure their respective teams wins. Its only Barcelona who just need a draw. For Rubin Kazan they are 90 minutes away from making club history, if they qualify in their debut season. They will have to do this the hard way at the intimidating San Siro where Jose Mourinho will be waiting.
Group G
Spanish outfit Sevilla have already qualified leaving VfB Stuttgart to battle it out with Unirea Urziceni. Stuttgart will approach that game knowing quite well that a win is the only thing needed to qualify. The major advantage they have is that they will be playing that game at home.
Group H
The Greek side Olympiacos needs a draw when they host Arsenal, who have qualified. The only threat they have is coming from Standard de Liege who will meet AZ Alkmaar. If Olympiacos fail to get their much needed point and Standard de Liege wins, then the superiority of goal difference will decide who joins the gunners in qualifying from this group.
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Ok. i made my own little video on windows movie maker with my pics and i had mp3 music dynamite-taio cruz from emp3world.com and i even put that on the video and discription and i uploaded it to youtube.. and they said audio blocked so i had NO music at all and i searched the copy right rules on youtube and they said i need to download music from a website that gives permission that i can download or something like that i need help. please and i tried audio swap on youtube and it doesnt have the music i want. so i need a website or music download for dynamite-taio cruz adn so yah. thanks and this is gonna be uploaded to youtube.com so yaa and it has some rules about copyright and i need help thanks!
If you’re using the full song, then tough luck. That’s exactly what copyrights are supposed to prevent.
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Market Wonders: Suning Into “mass Production” Stage
The first brand of Chinese home appliance chain – Suning Appliance, national chain development into “mass production” stage. It is understood, April 23-May 1 9 days time, Suning Appliance 34 new stores, with an average of 3.7 stores per day. 51 day, Suning again in the country to open 22 new stores. Suning chain of rapid development, expanding the ability of strong, shocking! What power Suning chain spawned such a huge burst of energy?
The full liberalization of the domestic market, staged throughout China, “Su Ning acceleration”
2004 12 11, China’s cancellation of foreign-funded commercial enterprises in the region, the number of shares and other constraints, this means that the threshold for foreign capital flow into the appliance removed, China
Retail Fully open. This is a historic moment, it showed that China’s economy has officially entered the global economic integration process, the Chinese market and overseas market truly integrated, symbiotic, both unlimited business opportunities, but also great challenges.
As the Ministry of Commerce support the 20 large commercial enterprise groups, one of the first brand of Chinese home appliance chain – Suning Appliance Chain, in 2005 ushered in a rare opportunity. In order to cope with the huge impact foreign capital, Suning Appliance lay ahead of market fundamentals, the market for the initiative, take that advantage to become bigger and stronger, showing a famous
Private enterprise The demeanor, staged in the Divine Land “Suning acceleration.”
In 2004, the development of rapid chain based on the 2005 horizontal expansion to continue combination Suning vertical penetration, continued rapid growth of network coverage density. It is understood that in April Suning will open 60 new stores nationwide, has more than 2003 full-year total shop. As of mid-April, Suning Appliance new entry Nanchang, capital city of Hohhot, etc., thoroughly complete a national network of primary market distribution; new entrants, Xiamen, Dongguan and other cities continue to improve the secondary market network layout; At the same time, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hefei, Shenyang, Dalian, Chengdu, Chongqing, Jinan and other cities the same city to speed up the penetration. To May 2005, Suning Appliance stores nationwide will exceed 200, to achieve “double-double.”
15 years of hard skills, Suning chain development Accumulate
Suning Appliance Chain Why the long term to maintain the rapid development of high-speed? With this confusion, the reporter interviewed the relevant person in charge of Suning Appliance. The official said that Suning surging, momentum rainbow, this is because after 15 years of cumulative, contains enormous energy, burst forth endless source of strength.
First of all, strong human resources for the national chain of transport groups of talented people. Suning attaches great importance to personnel development, personnel training unique. With Suning national chain of large-scale high-speed development, demand for talent year after year. Suning huge amounts of money each year tens of millions of exclusion, has created a number of Talent Project, “1200 Project”, “project manager”, “echelon project,” “
Blue collar Project “… … the establishment of enterprises to adapt to the rapid development of the introduction of talents, training, training system, created a group of outstanding talents for the cause of sustained and rapid advance Suning chain provides a treasure trove of talent.
Second, Suning organization system is unique, robust and reliable operation. After ten years of operation of the adjustment, Suning Appliance Chain System point, line and surface integration of matrix organization overall shape. Chain, logistics and distribution centers, service centers, customer service center chain system, the four terminals constitute the basic unit of operation and physical platforms. Group decision-making chain of command, management operation system, resources, services and control systems division of labor, the upper and lower body, forming 16 vertical boundary, effectively ensure the smooth implementation of various systems and programs in place. Advanced and solid organizational system for the rapid expansion of Suning provide organizational guarantee.
Third, the full implementation of the “four modernizations Management”, “Su Ning standards” to become the industry beacon. Suning chain speed not only ahead of peers, but also in business administration created a “Suning standard”, and this “Suning standard” widely disseminated in the industry, as many peers to emulate the template. Today, the “simplified management, standardization management, institutional management, information management,” Su Ning system as the four pillars, supporting Suning chain-like geometric series expansion, so Suning into the fast and sound development track.
Fourth, the 100 million funding to build advanced enterprise information system. As early as 10 years ago, Suning first proposed “E chain” concept. Suning Appliance invested tens of millions each year for the information system development. In 2004, Suning comprehensive information technology to accelerate a total investment of more than 100 million yuan, the implementation of multimedia
Monitor Command center construction project, the establishment of a multi-dimensional control of the information platform for the industry of advanced integrated Information Management System. With the chain of development, information systems continue to expand and develop, to achieve a national information system network, reducing the cost of the cost, improve efficiency, so Suning operations management based on powerful information technology platform, a source of strength for the acceleration chain Suning .
The best combination of the three networks to promote chain development into “mass production” stage
Suning rapidly expanding scale, growing strength of the key advantages of integration depends on three major networks, burst out the best combination of powerful engine for development of a comprehensive 2005 Suning chain into “mass production” stage.
First, the chain expanded, establishing a large market network. Suning Appliance Chain has occupied more than 60 cities nationwide, with more than 180 stores, forming the lateral chain network; in entering the market segments, forming a complete vertical chain system; in the same city in different regions to form complete regional distribution. The increasingly sophisticated market, market distribution more reasonable and more balanced, more convenient public consumption. Suning chain to expand in 2005 than in 2004 increasing rapidly, ranking first in the industry, the industry growth in the most fierce national chain.
Secondly, a strong professional self service systems. Service is the only product Suning, Suning has always been committed to the general consumers to really sincere sun service, Suning service itself is a great brand. Suning long-standing professional self-service, linked the four terminals. Suning has its own understanding of the terminal: the terminal includes not only the chain stores, including synchronization with supporting logistics center, service center and call center, which
About the Author
I am an expert from China Hardware Suppliers, usually analyzes all kind of industries situation, such as capacitive sensors , rotary encoders.
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Poker Sit and Go Report – Early Play Should be Passive, not Tight
So many sit and go poker “teachers” have always said to be really tight during the first. I remember even once reading one of Roy Rounder’s recommendations that you should only be playing AA, KK or QQ for the first stages of the game and when you get those hands as hole cards be very, very aggressive – even all in!
Can I tell you something right now? That is utter nonsense. Everybody is on to that lame strategy that never really worked in the first place, and is even more lame now than it was 2 years ago, when I remember reading it. The simple truth is that everyone either plays that strategy or recognizes the schmuck who is using it. How can you get ahead that way? There is no winning, when playing open book poker. The best you can hope for are mediocre gains swallowed up by long losing streaks waiting for quality cards.
The other side of that debate is to play aggressive in the early going. If you have seen my sit and go training videos you surely know that isn’t what I recommend either, as it will usually result in you being an honored member of the rail in short order. So how do you balance this out so that you actually win more than you lose?
The answer is simply this. You need to see more flops in the early going for as cheap as possible, so as not to risk your tournament if the flop misses you. This strategy involves several dynamics as well which you need to absolutely master.
Playing your position. This is about the most important aspect of your game while learning, that will rapidly improve your results once you understand it. Getting in cheap usually means limping in the cut-off, button, and small blind positions, while calling a minimum raise in the big blind. You do this with hands that have potential for big pots. AX suited, KX suited, connectors, single gapped suited connectors, and any pair will qualify here.
Knowing your opponents. I keep harping here about qualifying your opponent’s style using holdem indicator, but this will win you pots without cards when the time is needed.
Playing after the flop. This also involves knowing your opponents but you need to understand flop texture and betting strategies at this stage, otherwise you may get pushed out of a lot pots where you were the clear favorite.
Pot Odds and Draws. The combined knowledge of this math will really help your decision making skills as to continue in a hand or not. Keep in mind that when drawing in the early stages, that flop had better hit you real good, and the pot odds should be absolutely juicy.
The Power to Lay Down a Hand. If you are getting into these pots and find that you are consistently asking yourself how you can continue in the hand facing yet another bet, then you are actually better off playing that lame book tight strategy. This takes a certain internal strength that comes from your character set, as opposed to pure poker skills.
In closing, see as many flops as you can while keeping your stack exposure to the minimum.
About the Author
Marty Smith is webmaster and a regular online poker player. He has a FREE Sit and GO Video Strategy Series on his website at http://www.PokerSitandGoReport.com. He is also editor of http://www.PokerCalculatorReport.com.
Dynamic Business Law Mcgraw Hill
Dynamic Business Law Mcgraw Hill
Are Dysfunctional Managers a Necessary Part of the Business Cycle? Suggested Approaches to Address Dysfunctional Management
Introduction
They cannot manage their own lives, yet they may bully to manage yours. These are the dysfunctional managers. They are focused on managing, even micro-managing, the details, getting things done, accomplishing the strategic business plan and meeting the financial goals of the businesses that pay them, but not relating to the people they supervise. While the success of the business is an admirable goal, during that process dysfunctional managers tend to alienate employees and business partners and may lose their connection with their families.
Traits of the Dysfunctional Manager
Their personal backgrounds and experiences may have included separation or divorce, strained family relationships or alienation from children, smoking and or battling obesity or anorexia; yet, they have been successful in business. It is an interesting paradox that demands exploration. How can individuals who are not focused on the people they manage, the opposite of the servant leaders who preceded them, succeed in the 21st Century? The answer appears to lie in their business successes, the short-term financial and strategic results they can engender, often at the cost of employee or associate engagement, the watchword of the later 20th Century.
A 2007 study released by the San Francisco-based Employment Law Alliance, as reported by the Society for Human Resource Management in an HRMagazine May 1, 2007 article, “Study: Bully Bosses Prevalent in U.S.,” “found that bullying in U.S. workplaces is alive and well. And, in many cases, managers and supervisors are the bullies: Nearly 45 percent of the respondents reported that they have worked for an abusive boss.”
In a September 25, 2000 article by Sarah A. Klein in Crain’s Chicago Business, “Take that you big, bad corporate bully! More firms seek ways to tame uncivil bosses, workers,” reported that “in one national survey, 53% of workers who reported themselves the target of incivility said they lost time worrying about incidents at work, from receiving a nasty or demeaning note to enduring a supervisor’s temper tantrum. Almost half of the group in the University of North Carolina’s ‘Workplace Incivility Study’ said they contemplated changing jobs to avoid the offender, and 12% actually followed through.”
An earlier recognition of problems associated with dysfunctional managers was addressed in a November 1, 1991 American Management Association article “Coping with Dysfunctional Managers,” in “Supervisory Management.” That article early in the last decade began to recognize the dysfunctional managers as “adults who grew up in dysfunctional families” and learned special coping skills, not as those adults who became dysfunctional based upon their later life experiences. Yet that summary, citing an article by Francine S. Hall in the Summer 1991 issue of “Organizational Dynamics,” has some applicability today in its observation that, “frequently, says Hall, the organizational culture unwillingly contributes to a dysfunctional manager’s destructive behavior. If control, for instance, is valued within the company, the dysfunctional manger might fit all too well into the framework.”
In a June 10, 2008 op-ed piece for “Business Wire” by Stephen Xavier, CEO of Cornerstone Executive Development Group, “Micro-Managing CEOs Are a Danger Sign in This Economy,” Xavier observed “there are also micro-managers who will jump from one large company to another. Given his record at Home Depot, one would have thought that Bob Nardelli would have had trouble getting hired as CEO of any major corporation. Yet, this old-school authoritarian CEO has found a home as CEO at Chrysler which unsurprisingly has the same history of poor labor relations, shoddy products and eroding market share.”
In The Dumbest Moments in Business History: Useless Products, Ruinous Deals, Clueless Bosses and other Signs of Unintelligent Life in the Workplace, Adam Horowitz, editor, Portfolio, the Penguin Group, New York, 2004, relates the January 2003, statement of Goldman Sachs Group CEO Henry Paulson concerning the investment banking firm’s employee layoffs for which he apologized to employees by voicemail a week later. “I don’t want to sound heartless, but in almost every one of our businesses, there are 15 to 20 percent of the people that really add 80 percent of the value. Although we have a lot of good people, you can cut a fair amount and still be well positioned for the upturn.” (p.21)
Richard Farson in Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership, Simon & Shuster, Inc., New York, 1996, wrote “many of us have the idea that as managers we can use our skills to shape our employees as if we were shaping clay, molding them into what we want them to become. But that isn’t the way it really works. It’s more as if our employees are piles of clay into which we fall—leaving an impression, all right, and that impression is distinctly us, but it may not be the impression we intended to leave.” (p. 41)
Although there has been a wealth of academic research on dysfunctional workplaces and the people who manage them, there has been a noticeable absence of material in the popular literature on the subject of dysfunctional managers. Some popular management books have addressed the “boss from hell,” such as Managing Your Boss, by Sandi Mann, Barron’s, 2001. In the section on “dealing with the boss from hell,” Sandi Mann characterizes bosses as bullies if they are continually abusive and arrogant, exploding angrily, constantly criticizing, belittling, ridiculing employees. Mann suggests that while such bosses, similar to impatient or stressed bosses, achieve their desired results, there are serious consequences to employees due to chronic workplace bullying including serious health problems for employees and lost time to the business.
A few books, such as When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses, by William and Kathleen Lundin, McGraw-Hill, 1998, and Crazy Bosses, by Stanley Bing, HarperCollins Publishers, 2007, address the demoralizing short-sighted management decisions, thoughtless actions and rude behaviors of managers and the obnoxious and dangerous insanity of managers, respectively. The Lundins wrote, “Dysfunction can be the outcome of dumb (inept, misguided, insensitive, power-driven, unfeeling) leadership or dumb (tradition-bound, blind-sided, arrogant) organizational thinking.” (p. 117) They further wrote, “we predict more and more of what this paradigm example shows as organizations, out of competitive anxiety, dash toward ‘technological fixes’ without considering how the people who have to adapt to those ‘fixes’ need to be helped to do so.” (p. 117) Stanley Bing writes “bully management is perhaps the most difficult of all tasks for those who wish to survive in a world filled with the impressive variety of sick senior officers.” (Crazy Bosses, p. 75) He noted the inconsistent nature of the bully manager with “vast emotional swings depending on mood, often seemingly unrelated to external circumstances,” (p. 75) further noting that “management by terror has been a time-honored technique because it works.” (p. 76)
The Paradox Businesses Face with the Dysfunctional Manager
Many organizations adopted a family style culture during the latter part of the 20th Century. However, some quickly became dysfunctional family styled organizations, focused on a few functional details that yielded to the short-term success of the organization and its leaders rather than the engagement and empowerment of employees or associates. Communication, sensitivity and caring, which are at the heart of a fully functioning and competitive organization are hazy or lost in dysfunctional management styles. After relating many interviews with a variety of employees the Lundins observed “the most compelling observation is how people in power—from those who manage a small department to leaders of multinational corporations—believe they have the right to manipulate and play with the emotions of their employees.” (p. 173)
An example of the bully as a dysfunctional manager is one who appears in a temper at the employee’s office questioning the status of activity or demanding a status report when it was previously provided, but the manager did not take them time to save it or look for it. Or in the mean spirit of another example, demeaning an employee with years of published and very successful writing experience with the statement “you sometimes write as though English is your second language.”
The Dilbert cartoon strip by Scott Adams has popularly and perhaps now properly characterized the dysfunctional bullying boss. In The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle’s-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions, HarperBusiness, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1996, Adams described the change in the management selection process from the Peter Principle of workers being promoted to bosses beyond their levels of competence to the Dilbert Principle of the most ineffective workers being “systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.” (p. 14)
In The Dilbert Principle Scott Adams shares an email submission that is similar to the statement of the Goldman Sachs Group CEO previously identified in The Dumbest Moments in Business History.
“A newly appointed VP of my company, in an interview printed in the internal company news rag, made the following comment when asked whether existing employees would be relocated if the company won an upcoming contract, or if the company would instead hire local people:
‘Engineers are basically a commodity. It doesn’t make economic sense for the company to pay for moves when we can buy the same commodity on site.’
Naturally, this disturbed some individuals in the workforce and a number of them showed up at an all-hands meeting held by this VP a few days later and sat in the front row plastered with signs labeling themselves as ‘Bananas,’ ‘Pork Bellies,’ etc.” (pp. 295, 296)
Yet, these dysfunctional managers are frequently successful, in a financial sense both as individuals and for their organizations. In the Human Resource Management article describing the 2007 study by Employment Law Alliance, its CEO Stephen J. Hirschfeld was quoted, that “changing the behavior of workplace bullies could be problematic for employers, Hirschfeld concedes, because workplace bullies can be high performers. Aggressive or ‘type A’ behaviors tend to be rewarded in the workplace, but Hirschfeld contends that employers need to draw the line and make sure aggressive workers don’t become abusive managers.” A Wall Street Journal article viewing the recruitment of chief executive officers observed that the characteristics of recent CEO hires have been focused on specific financial talents, details and successes rather than on the broader team leader or coach models of the past. A September 1, 1996 article on “Making it, CEO style,” in “Executive Female by D. A. Benton stated that among five personality traits of chief executive officers ”“the higher you go, the more exposure to the big picture you have, the more you might think being detail-oriented is unnecessary. Wrong. It’s just the opposite. According to near-perfect chefs, the higher you go, the more critical it is to be aware of details.”
In Management, a Revised Edition by Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello, HarperCollins Publishers, 1973, 1974, in the introduction to management and managers, Drucker observes “there is tremendous stress these days on liking people, helping people, getting along with people, as qualifications for a manager. These alone are never enough. In every successful organization there are bosses who do not like people, who do not help them, and who do not get along with them. Cold, unpleasant, demanding, they often teach and develop more people than anyone else. They command more respect that the most likable person ever could. They demand exacting workmanship of themselves and other people. They set high standards and expect that they will be lived up to. They consider only what is right and never who is right. And though often themselves persons of brilliance, they never rate intellectual brilliance above integrity in others. The manger who lacks these qualities of character—no matter how likable, helpful, or amiable, no matter, even, how competent or brilliant–is a menace who is unfit to be a manager.” (p. 10) Drucker concludes, “Organizations are far from perfect. As every manger knows, they are very difficult; full of frustration, tension, and friction; clumsy and unwieldy. But they are the only tools we have to accomplish such social purposes as economic production and distribution, health care, governance, and education. And there is not the slightest reason to expect society to be willing to do without these services that only performing organizations can provide. Indeed, there is every reason to expect society to demand more performance from all its institutions, and to become more dependent upon their performance. And it is the managers who make institutions perform.” (p. 526)
Reforming or Reassigning the Dysfunctional Manager
Returning to the American Management Association’s article, “Coping with Dysfunctional Managers,” cited earlier in this article, efforts a decade and a half ago to solve problems related to the behaviors of dysfunctional managers were in their infancy. That article stated that in solving the problem, “often supervisors of dysfunctional managers mistake behavior problems for management skills problems. But for the true dysfunctional manager, attending seminars on improving management will have only short-term success. Once a manager has accepted the fact that he or she is dysfunctional, Hall advises, a recovery program should be sought. As for organizations, how companies both recognize the problem and effect solutions will be one of the most difficult challenges for managements in the next decade.”
One method to identify the dysfunctional manager to senior management is to allow the manager to demonstrate dysfunctional incompetence in the forum it most frequently appears. For example, if it occurs in meetings find an appropriate opportunity to invite the dysfunctional manager’s supervisor to a meeting or if it occurs in written or verbal communications seek witnesses. This may, however, be a long-term effort that may not have a desirable short-term result. Another approach may be to identify documented problems seeking solutions from appropriate sources. Still another approach may be to a peer or three level review.
Rather than providing seminars and additional training for dysfunctional managers, the solution may include intensive efforts to identify dysfunctional managers and provide coaching or reassignment when those follow-ups are needed. One-on-one coaching, engaging a mentor relationship or even peer networking groups with other managers focused on identifying issues adversely impacting the dysfunctional manager’s style may lead to behavior modification techniques.
If the Problem is Not Addressed: Potential for Legislation
Some articles, such as the 2007 Human Resource Management summary of the Employment Law Alliance study on bullying in the workplace, suggest that a growing awareness of the problem could result in the potential for legislation if employers fail to remedy the situation. That article reported, “There are proposals in about a dozen states for some form of workplace bullying legislation.” It also referenced “a recent anti-bullying law enacted in the Canadian province of Quebec that gives workers the right to file suit against their employers and to recover damages for ‘any vexatious behavior that affects an employee’s dignity or their psychological or physical integrity.”
Conclusion
The inevitable conclusion, however, is that the cycle of the dysfunctional non-abusive manager may be the right type of manager for the current competitive business environment, facing cost-cutting efficiency, financial challenges and economic declines domestically and internationally. Since dysfunctional managers may have difficulty self-identifying their need to transition their management style, organizations must be prepared to assist them in that transition through coaching and mentor or peer networking opportunities. If the dysfunctional manager cannot to adapt hardened characteristics to the amiable and servant leader model of management, reassignment or termination may be the course an organization should consider.
There is hope, however, that in the foreseeable future effective managers with the hardened characteristics of the qualified manager that Drucker proposed, and who remain for the longer term, can adapt those characteristics to the amiable and servant leader model. That combined model appears to have staying power that will bring longer-term success to the organization and the relationship with its employees or associates.
About the Author
Early retirement following 30.5 years with Nationwide insurance and financial services as AVP Corporate Governance and Secretary/Assistant Secretary in the Office of General Counsel, Officer of Customer Relations, Director of Government Relations, National Staff Claims Counsel and National Commercial Accounts Claims Attorney. Earlier experience with law firm and community access television. Service on many non-profit boards as member and chair. Attorney, SCORE Counselor and managing member of Advocate for the Customer, LLC, a consulting firm.
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