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Following are the PowerPoint presentations used in Your Business Blogger's(R) Small Business Management class at the Northern Virginia Community College. Syllabus and the management course outline here.
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The best time to look for a job is when you have a job.
Question: But what if you don't have a job?
How to look?
And what to do meanwhile?
Answer: Go back to school.
Alert Reader, FaceBook and Twitter Friend, Janet, asks Your Business Blogger(R) about a common challenge:
What do I do about gaps in employment history; gaps on my resume?
If you are in this situation here's what the job seeker can do to 'mind the gap.'
Enroll in a course at your local community college.
Your Business Blogger(R)
The Washington Post
Continuous learning is, well, continuous.
And it doesn't have to be expensive.
Here are three FAB's, the Features, Advantages and Benefits of going back to class.
If you have a job or not.
First Feature
Meet a professor
Advantage
Learn subject matter.
Learn presentation -- interview -- life skills.
Get referrals.
Benefit
Cheaper than a personal coach.
Get a character reference letter.
Get employed faster
Second Feature
Meet other inquisitive minds
Advantage
Expand your Friend contact database.
Challenge assumptions.
Increased network of contacts for job referrals.
Benefit
Faster learning.
Cheaper than a job placement agency.
Get employed faster
Third Feature
Regularly scheduled class times.
Advantage
Encourages the student to get out of bed, out of the house.
Provides structure to the job seekers' week.
Forces the student to walk past career counselors' office.
Benefit
Get more done in less time.
Spend less time in Starbucks.
Get employed faster.
The purpose of continuing education is the gaining of new knowledge, skills and abilities. But this is even more important when one is out of work. A perspective employer is going to ask you a number of questions.
The first question will be, "What are you doing now?"
The perfect answer is, "As I look for my next position, I am taking a business refresher course at my local community college."
Remember: the best time to find a job is when you are working -- going to class is your job.
You may be unemployed, but you are busy: You are using your time wisely while you look for work.
As it happens, the Northern Virginia Community College has the perfect solution to help you find your next job.
Sit in my class.
NOVA has openings in my Business 200 class, Principles of Management. We will meet every Monday & Wednesday nights at the Arlington Campus, near the Ballston Metro. Beginning July 1 for six weeks.
Alert Readers know that Your Business Blogger(R) charges outrageous fees for a two day management seminar.
The same instructor at NOVA will set you back about 100 bucks a credit hour or about 500 bucks fully loaded for a three credit-hour class.
Course topics
1. Intro to Management
2. History of Management
3. Organizational Environments and Culture
4. Ethics and Social Responsibility
5. Planning and Decision Making
6. Organizational Strategy
7. Innovation and Change
8. Global Management
9. Designing Adaptive Organizations
10. Managing Teams
11. Managing Human Resource System
12. Managing Individuals and a Diverse Workforce
13. Motivation
14. Leadership
15. Managing Communication
16. Control
17. Managing Information
18. Managing Service and Manufacturing Operations
Call now to register. Operators are standing by.
Or apply on-line.
This summer afternoon class is the perfect capstone after hours and allows the student to job hunt early in the early in the day.
Come join my class. And get employed faster.
Thank you (foot)notes:
For more on your job search: tattoos, lying, resume enhancement and trick questions follow links below.
Read Job Search? PASS This Test
See how "Sarah" is getting it right. To get your next job, assignment or project PASS this test! See how the mythical composite Sarah learned new behaviors to find new opportunities.As first appeared in The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Virginia, January 20, 2002
To get a job, first get a plan and then get busy...
Your Business Blogger(R) is of a certain age from a certain generation with teenage children and is confused by various body art. I do not understand tattoos. (Except on my dad, who was in the Navy...) A future employer also may not understand body art. Not even Starbucks.
What is the first question hiring managers ask themselves? Get a Blog; Get Hired -- And the First Question
The Lie: A Guide to Fibbing in the Job Interview, it's not what you think.
Here's what your interviewer is really looking for, Job Interview: How To Tell If the Candidate Will Lie, Cheat, Steal?
There is actually controversy on hiring competence, Hiring Super Stars vs Tolerating Turkeys
Be sure to ask some questions in your job interview, Job Interview: 3 Questions for Your Prospective Boss.
Yes, High School still counts. Forever. What's the One Best Question to Ask a Job Candidate?
Why Were You Really Hired? The Two Qualities That Count.
Follow me on Twitter: @JackYoest
Watch The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey; short video
The Ultimate Human Resource Management: Your Own.
You are in control of your own career. Start now.
Learn how to earn that promotion. Learn how to get that job.
On April 29, 2009 from 11am to 12:15 a career management seminar will be conducted at The NOVA Theater at the Alexandria Campus of the Northern Virginia Community College.
Save the date. The seminar is at no-charge and is open to the public. Space is limited and registration is required. Email me to hold your seat.
We will cover:
The five rules to getting promoted:
1) Don't make the boss nervous.
2) Deliver Completed Staff Work.
3) Adopt the US Army's definition of discipline (and it's not what you think).
4) Find a friend.
5) Get your boss promoted.
Your next big job. It will be:
A) From someone you know (slightly).
B) A created position.
C) In high technology.
The thoughtful professional knows that he is constantly selling his knowledge, skills and abilities to his boss and to his peers.
The professional knows also that each position on the company organization chart can be an opportunity to be groomed with a track record of success -- to move easily to a higher level...or another company.
The professional in a job search has the choice of pro-actively conducting a sales and marketing campaign to move to his next assignment by selling the intangible of his talent.
If the seminar attendee is on the job market, his choice is networking or not working.
The seminar reviews the steps needed to secure more responsibility within an organization or even another position inside his company -- or outside his current employer.
The purpose of this career management seminar is to increase your value to your current employer and to your future company.
And to prepare the attendee to move and to be ready to change jobs in a fast changing, uncertain world.
Who: Professionals interested in earning a promotion or seeking increased responsibilities or in conducting a job search.
What: The career management seminar will equip the attendee with strategies and tactics on how to increase the attendees' value in the marketplace of talent and to command greater compensation in another position.When: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Where: Northern Virginia Community College,
Alexandria Campus, campus map
The NOVA Theater; the new Bisdorf Auditorium, room 196
3001 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311 street mapWhy: To enable the attendee to gain the greatest return on the attendees' time and talent in his income-producing career.
Cost: No Charge. Register here at JYoest@NVCC.edu. Space is limited.
He conducts career management training for professionals in industries from law to government, from for-profit businesses to non-for-profit organizations, from military to media.
He has participated in hundreds of personal interviews of job candidates and has been instrumental in the hiring of thousands of employees.
Jack also served in the Governor's Office of the Commonwealth Virginia as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources where he acted as the Chief Technology Officer for the secretariat. He was responsible for the successful Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion for the 16,000-employee unit.
He was also a sales account manager with a medical device start-up and helped move sales from zero to over $12 million, opening over 300 accounts, resulting in a buy-out by Johnson & Johnson.
Jack has consulted across industries and in China and India.
Questions? www.Yoest.com, JYoest@NVCC.edu or call Jack at 202.215.2434.
Come to this class.
Parking info at the jump.
Thank you (foot)notes and suggested class reading:
Helping sentences for employee evaluations.
The secret on how to get a letter of recommendation.
Save the Date: April 29, 2007
Please pass this link on to a friend who might be interested.
Event registration is also available to Friends on Facebook.
Details also at Management Training of DC, LLC.
1. Management and the Myth: Why everything you learned about managing is wrong.
Plan, Organize, Lead, Control. This is the traditional definition of management. Managers are taught the four parts equally with dangerous career-killing assumptions.
2. Staffer & Manager. Night & Day. Black & White. As far as the East is From the West.
Learn the mindsets of the efficient staffer and the effective manager. What is the key difference between the staffer-individual contributor-subordinate and the manager?
3. "Batting Average" non-perfect management model.
Managers: Your staff must be perfect. You must NOT be perfect. Learn the real differences between the staffer-individual contributor-subordinate and the manager.
4. The Manager's Work (Plan, Organize, Control)
How to Build the Manager's Web of relationships. Three parts deal with traditional vocational skills. But only one, Lead (influence and motivate) is the real management talent. And it receives the least amount of attention.
5. Who's zooming who? Understand the Buying & Selling & Persuasion in office politics.
Manager to staff: You must persuade me... You must sell me.
"I agree with you, I want to do it...now make me do it," FDR
6. The Manager's two greatest fears, and how to cope.
Every morning when the manager looks at her staff, she has two paralyzing fears - twin terrors she shares with no one:
1. That her direct reports will not do exactly as she directs. And,
2. That her direct reports will do exactly as she directs.
7. Why Managers micro-manage. Why is the boss is a Nervous-Nellie?
Who needs training? The manager...or the staff? It might depend on what the manager is working with. I've got kids at home. I don't need any at work. Empower workers? Nope. Not if I've got nothing but children. HR, send me a grown up!
Jack Yoest, Adjunct Professor, Business & Technology,
Northern Virginia Community College, JYoest@nvcc.edu, 202.215.2434
Your Business Blogger(R)
Thank you (foot)notes,
Why Academics...and Entrepreneurs Can't Manage
PowerPoint, Sales & Persuasion Training for Business, Government, War
The Year 2000 Rollover and Emergency Management
PowerPoint Presentation, The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
How to get Promoted
Sales and Persuasion Training: Outside Your Company...and Inside
What makes a manager nervous?
Management Training: 10 Mistakes Managers Make
The Mission and Purpose of the Manager
What two characteristics should the manager look for in considering a job candidate? "Wisdom and judgment," says Henry Ford. Why Were You Really Hired? The Two Qualities That Count
Management -- yes management -- is hard work. Read Rowing and Teamwork.
Why Academics...and Entrepreneurs Can't Manage
Entrepreneurs and Academics are typically poor managers. Not only because they might lack a particular skill set, but because of the expectation of vocational perfection. They share the passion for the perfect in their products. But to understand and practice management, a "batting-average" model of non-perfection is needed.
There is a fundamental difference between the work of the individual contributor and the contribution of a manager. The entrepreneur, as an individual contributor, brings a new vision for a new product or service. But introducing the New Next Big Thing requires basic management.
The teacher and new-product visionary are individual contributors whose work is the creation of "perfection." But management does not -- must not -- deal only in this perfection. Because it is the managerial skill set which brings the individual contributor's perfect product to market to do business.
The entrepreneur as individual contributor understands the basic formula:
But the teacher working with the individual contributor, who needs to become a manager, must emphasize that work alone will not have the world beat a path to the inventor's door.
Management has a more complicated formula with an additional variable: Network. This 'Network of Support' is the ability of the entrepreneur as manager to get the support of investors, advisors, external stakeholders, customer, staffers and subordinates.
The entrepreneur should see his role as manager with a new formula:
Work + Network = Results
The results and success of the entrepreneur's venture depends as much on his ability to manage as his brilliance in new product creation.
Jack Yoest is an Adjunct Professor at the Northern Virginia Community College and is president of Management Training of DC, LLC. He worked with Menlo Care, a start-up medical device manufacturer as part of a team that moved sales from zero to over $12 million, resulting in a buy-out by Johnson & Johnson.
He also served as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources in Virginia, where he was responsible for the successful Year 2000 conversion for the $5 billion, 16,000-employee unit.
Jack has been published by Scripps-Howard News Service and has contributed to Small Business Trends, Small Business Trends Radio, The Business Monthly, Business & Media Institute and National Review Online.
His web-log was nominated for Best Business Blog in 2006. Jack is a former Captain in the Army.
He earned an MBA from George Mason University and completed graduate work in the International Operations Management Program at Oxford University. Jack and Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., live near the Nation's Capital with their five children.
aka: Your Business Blogger(R)
The Ultimate Human Resource Management: Your Own.
Learn how to earn that promotion. Learn how to get that job.
On April 29 from 11am to 12:15 a career management seminar will be conducted at The NOVA Theater at the Alexandria Campus of the Northern Virginia Community College.
Save the date. Seminar is at no-charge and open to the public. Registration is required.
There are five rules to getting promoted:
1) Don't make the boss nervous.
2) Completed Staff Work.
3) Adopt the US Army's definition of discipline (and it's not what you think).
4) Find a friend.
5) Get your boss promoted.
Your next big job will be:
A) From someone you know (slightly).
B) A created position.
C) In high technology.
The purpose of the seminar is to increase your value to your current company so that additional responsibility will, like a magic cape, float down from on high and rest lightly on your shoulders.
And to prepare the attendee to move and to be ready to change jobs in a fast changing, bailed-out world.
Please pass this link on to a friend who might be interested.
Details will follow here and to Friends on Facebook.
Details also at Management Training of DC, LLC.
Thank you (foot)notes:
Helping sentences for employee evaluations.
The secret on how to get a letter of recommendation.
Your Business Blogger(R), also known as Your Business Professor has written dozens of recommendations for hundreds of students, clients, friends and vendors.
Question: If I wrote dozens of letters, then how did hundreds of people get a written recommendation from this very generous, very perceptive and very busy business consultant?
Answer: I didn't write them.
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Before I got smart. (This took a long time...)
Linked here is a glowing recommendation from a United States Congressman for Your Business Professor for a presidential appointment. Note the glowing language. The detailed biography. The compelling argument.
Wow! That Congressman must really know Jack! Were they roommates in college? Are they cousins? Did they serve jail time together?
Nope.
The Good Congressman hardly knows me to send me anything other than a Christmas card.
No, the Good Congressman didn't actually write my recommendation.
I did.
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Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr., the late Speaker of the House during Reagan's presidency, directed his staff to, don't take nobody that nobody brought. That the Speaker would only use his resources for someone who was sponsored by a trusted adviser.
A trusted third party...
To get a recommendation from a Very Busy Big Boss, find a friend who the Boss trusts. A trusted staffer.
With input from the trusted staffer, I composed a draft of my recommendation, which was, of course, fact checked, spell checked and signature ready for the Big Endorser's OK.
This is important: Very Important Busy People don't have time to write anything. They have speech writers.
If you want an endorsement or a recommendation, you will need to become a speech writer.
For your own content.
This is the first lesson in Completed Staff Work for subordinates. The Big Boss should only make decisions and sign his name.
The Boss does not do any work.
"Work" in the form that the individual contributor or staffer would recognized.
I tell Interested Parties if they want a written recommendation from me on why someone should hire them -- the Interested Party must first draft the letter so that I would know why I would make such suggestion.
Some one is going to have to do the thinking and the work for me.
This is how senior management works.
Some Interested Parties might suggest that Your Business Blogger(R) is not very bright and certainly very lazy.
Perhaps so. But.
This is how senior management works.
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Now that the Alert Reader understands who really does the thinking and the working, let's review what should go into the writing of the recommendation.
Symmetry and Chemistry
The letter is written for a Big Boss to be read by another Big Boss. Well, OK, maybe not. Maybe your letter will be signed by an auto-pen (or secretary) and read by a trust adviser (or secretary).
The Letter of Recommendation has two purposes,
1) To assure the gate-keeper that your criminal record is irrelevant or that those tattoos are not visible with modest clothing (noticeable only in that YouTube video that you can't get deleted). And,
2) To get you a face-to-face appointment for the interview.
The Big Boss probably will not see your letter and/or resume until you walk in his office. (Remember, he's got staff to work and to think for him.)
The Hiring Manager is looking to answer two questions with Symmetry and Chemistry:
Your Letter of Recommendation gets you two together. So what should it look like?
Personnel is Policy
The wife of Your Business Professor, Charmaine, worked in the Office of Presidential Personnel for Ronald Reagan who often said, "Personnel is Policy." No President or senior leader can make every decision at every level but he can have have trusted deputies who can act in the president's best interest -- making decisions that the president would make if he had enough time.
Your Letter of Recommendation should indicate that you will make recommendations and think and act just as The Boss would think and act.
Academics, journalists, consultants and even real managers will tell you that they are looking for independent, free-thinking individuals who advance independent thought and action.
This, of course, is a lie.
Managers want subordinates who will offer well thought-out recommendations and work to persuade The Boss -- But once The Boss makes a decision, the subordinate will implement the decision as if the decision were the subordinate's.
You will be hired for your wisdom and judgment.
Problem, Solution, Result
Give a short example of a problem you faced, a solution you devised and the result of your initiative.
"[Problem] When faced with a sudden snow storm, Mr. Jones rented a snow plow [solution] and cleared the parking lot assuring that customers could get to the store front where he worked as a cashier. His initiative not only provided a customer service and safety but increased the store's daily sales [results]."
Atta-Boys and Girls
What actions won you what awards? What superlative? All-American? Honor Roll?
"Mr. Jones never missed a session in my Business 100 class."
"Miss Jones volunteered as a researcher to find a solution to a BlackBoard software problem I was having."
"Mr. Jones would bring guests to my open lectures."
"Miss Jones got an "A" in my class and regularly contributed to the discussion."
"Mr. Jones was consistently on time."
"Miss Jones worked part-time while attending and completing her undergraduate course work."
Look and Feel
The letter should be a single page, single spaced, 12 point type, on 8-1/2 X 11 inch, with a conventional front like Times New Roman.Your draft should allow space for the Big Boss letter head and signature block.
If there is an address to a third party, provide it in the body.
Be sure to (gently) alert the Big Boss of any deadlines or suspense dates.
If the letter is to be mailed directly from the Big Boss to a third party, request a blind copy to be mailed to you. We want to know how the Big Boss Staff may have modified your draft.
Ask someone to preview your social networking pages. Not sure about that bikini picture on Facebook? Take it down. Never have a picture taken with any, ANY kind of beverage in your hand -- alcohol or not. Water looks like vodka.
So, put the drink down and take your name tag off when the cameras are close. Including cell phone cameras -- especially cell phone cameras.
Do not use your too-familiar nick-name, Corky. Change your too-familiar email address, hotstuff@hotmail.
...So What?
Your reference letter or letter of recommendation is a one-page sales sheet; a marketing campaign to get you hired.
If you have had a real problem in your past, like that really interesting YouTube, email me for a consult. (Hint: I was young and needed the money is not a defense.)
Your Business Blogger(R) was still able to get a job after that unfortunate bar fight, street racing and other assorted events in his wasted youth. (No, no, not THAT wasted...)
And no, I do not need to see that video. Really.
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Helping sentences for employee evaluations.
A Tale of Two Presentations.
A Tale of Two Wheelers.
What if Earle Wheeler was more like Elmer Wheeler?
Your Business Professor
Jack YoestYour Business Professor opens our lesson with a story from November, 1965, as told by Charles Cooper who remembers the most important sales presentation of the last fifty years -- .
Charles Cooper was a young staffer assisting his boss, Earle Wheeler who made a presentation to the Big Boss.
The Big Boss had to decide between two strategies, one from Earle, who had wisdom and judgment and experience.
The another strategic was from Robert who ran an academic team of whiz kids.
The Big Boss had to choose between nearly opposite recommendations from Earle and Robert.
Although the pitch by Earle Wheeler was done almost a half century ago, Charles Cooper remembers it as if it were yesterday. Cooper was the young man who was holding the flip chart.
The Big Boss was about to make the biggest mistake of the last 50 years...
Why? Because Earle Wheeler could not sell like Elmer Wheeler.
Sales Training
Persuasion in Business, Government, Non-Profits and War.
Well-run organizations have decision makers and influencers who are sales professionals at every level. People who persuade.
They sell to customers, superiors and peers. They are 'salesmen' who work to control events - both inside and outside the organization. Salesmen in business development who are account managers.
Who: Professionals and life-long students in management or in business development - sales, fund-raising, leadership.
What: The seminar will equip the attendee with background on how to manage and how to sell both tangibles and intangibles -- To sell ideas, and products, and services.When: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 11:00pm to 12:15pm
Where: Northern Virginia Community College,
Alexandria Campus, campus map
The new Bisdorf Auditorium, room 196
3001 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311 street mapWhy: Increase sales, Increase funding,
Sell an idea, Save the world.Cost: No Charge. Register here at JYoest@NVCC.edu. Space is limited.
Jack has developed a simple three step method to sell; to persuade:
The Push: gently encourage the client -- overcome inertial.Jack Yoest, Adjunct Professor of Business at NOVA and President of Management Training of DC, is a former Armored Cavalry Officer in Combat Arms. For over 30 years he has managed software, health care and international human resource management companies. His experience spans the military, Fortune 500, government, start-ups, non-profits, media and academia.
The Pitch: the seller must always be in the debt of the buyer -- never the reverse.The Promise: selling is a long term relationship -- love the client.
Suggested class reading:
Selling your skills, Do You Have An Incompetent Manager? From The Washington Post.
Management_Time__Who_s_Got_the_Monkey___HBR_OnPoint_Enhanced_Edition_.pdf Harvard Business Review. How not to sell in the office.
One Minute YouTube Introduction: Office Politics: Someone is always selling, Someone is always buying.
Come to this class.
Thank you (foot)notes,
See George Mason University, History News Network The Day It Became The Longest War.
Parking info at the jump.
Save the Date: 18 March 2009
Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine are spending a few days at the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel for a series of meetings.
This Ritz sold us in the first two minutes.
The car valet attendant took our car and offered assistance with our bags. Walking thru the front entrance, the staff welcomed us.
By name.
We are escorted to the check-in counter (of magnificent stone) and Charmaine addresses the lovely clerk (young, but mature and a happily married mother we soon learn),
Charmaine asks, "How did the door man know our names?"
She looks up. "He's got special powers," she replied matter of factly.
Funny. Smart. Ladies and Gentlemen Serving Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Ritz knows how to sell. The lifetime value of each regular guest of the hotel is over $300,000.
Commitment, Attention to Detail, Immediate Follow-up: Selling.
Save the Date:
Sales Training
Persuasion in Business, Government, Non-Profits and War.
Question: What lost Vietnam?
Answer: A failed sales presentation.
Well-run organizations have decision makers and influencers who are sales professionals at every level. People who persuade.
They sell to customers, superiors and peers. They are 'salesmen' who work to control events - both inside and outside the organization. Salesmen in business development who are account managers.
Who: Professionals and life-long students in management or in business development - sales, fund-raising, leadership.
What: The seminar will equip the attendee with background on how to manage and how to sell both tangibles and intangibles -- To sell ideas, and products, and services.
When: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 11:00pm to 12:15pm
Where: Northern Virginia Community College,
Alexandria Campus, campus map
The new Bisdorf Auditorium, room 196
3001 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311 street mapWhy: Increase sales, Increase funding,
Sell an idea, Save the world.Cost: No Charge. Register here at JYoest@NVCC.edu. Space is limited.
Suggested class reading:
Selling your skills, Do You Have An Incompetent Manager? From The Washington Post.
Management_Time__Who_s_Got_the_Monkey___HBR_OnPoint_Enhanced_Edition_.pdf Harvard Business Review. How not to sell in the office.
One Minute YouTube Introduction: Office Politics: Someone is always selling, Someone is always buying.
Come to this class. You might be the one to prevent another Vietnam.
Jack Yoest
202.215.2434
Adjunct Professor
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey seminar will presented at the Northern Virginia Community College on Wednesday, February 18th from 11am to 12:15.
Follows is the PowerPoint for the lecture:
One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey.ppt
The introductory lecture will be hosted on the Alexandria campus at the new auditorium in the Bisdorf Building. Click here for more information.
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey seminar meets on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at the Alexandria campus of the Northern Virginia Community College.
FREE*. Details here.
Follows is parking information if you will be able to join us.
If by car, street map.
X Marks the spot, the Bisdorf lecture hall/auditorium room 196.
Northern Virginia Community College
Alexandria Campus
3001 North Beauregard Street 22311
Circled are metered parking lots for visitors without NVCC parking permits.
The auditorium/lecture hall is at the east wing of the Bisdorf Building. Please know that the parking at the Beauregard Street Garage (AP) is convenient but there is a short up-hill walk to Bisdorf.
If you do not have a NVCC parking sticker contact me, I have a limited number of free parking passes.
If by Metro, you might wish to stop at King Street on the Blue Line. The NVCC Alexandria Campus is served by the DASH #6 and Metrobus lines 7A, E, F; 25A, B, F, G, J, P, R, B, C. Please allow 30 minutes travel from King Street Metro. For more transportation information call 202.637.7000.
Thank you (foot)notes,
* Alert Readers know that there is no free lunch. The seminar is not 'free.' It is provided 'at no charge' as a public service courtesy of the Northern Virginia Community College and the taxpayers of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Students, remember to email to me the names of your guests.
Louis the XVIII once said that Punctuality is the courtesy of kings. However, if your busy schedule prevents your prompt arrival at 11am, please come even if delayed. The auditorium is designed so that late attendees will not disturb the presentation. Better late than never.
Alert Readers know that Your Business Blogger(R) advises students and clients to memorize important presentations.
Brute memorization is mocked by educracrats, the union thugs well-meaning liberals who run public education.
Brute memorization is loved by home-schoolers, the brilliant parents and students who are get education right.
There are some facts that must be learned. Must be memorized.
Our Penta-Posse was home-schooled for a season. And have now moved into the public school system. (High school sports beckon.)
The idea for this YouTube comes from The Dude. His elementary school teacher once asked about the presidents and who followed who. The Dude knew the answer, and volunteered a bit more.
"It seems that you know all the presidents," says The Dude's teacher. "Can you name them in order?"
"Sure," says The Dude. "How do you want them? Forwards ...or backwards?"
Learn how at the end.
Here are the presidents in order Washington to Obama:
And reverse order Obama to Washington:
What to learn the State Capitals and the presidents in order? Then order States and Capitals and the Presidents by Jerry Lucas
Conservatives have the correct content and communication, but what is needed now is control -- the control seen as a component of management*.
Quin Hillyer at the AmSpecBlog, the American Spectator Blog, writes, We Need Managers,
I can think of all sorts of conservative organizations that need better management skills. Maybe they should try to learn something here.
Alert Readers know that Your Business Blogger(R) reminds students and clients that management is defined as more than merely getting things done through others.
Management is getting things done through the ACTIVE SUPPORT of others. Lean how.
Your Business Blogger(R)
at the Stern Business School
at the New York University
Following is your invitation.
You Are Invited.
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey: An Introduction
How to Manage Your Staff and How to Manage Your Manager
Well-run organizations have managers and staff who work to control events, instead of events controlling them. They anticipate the future . . . adapt to the present . . . and learn from the past.
Who: Managers who need to get in control of events or to better influence results
What: An introduction to The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
1. The Management Equation:
Vocational Time vs. Management Time
2. How Management Really Works:
The Molecule of Management
3. The Who and How of Promotions:
The Freedom Scale
Alexandria Campus, campus map
The new Bisdorf Auditorium, room 196
3001 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA 22311 street map
The class will center on the work of Ken Blanchard and Bill Oncken in their book The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey. Also used will be the Harvard Business Review article, Managing Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?, published in 1974, by Bill Oncken, Jr.. The article, an edited excerpt of the Managing Management Time™ seminar, has gone on to become one of the two most requested reprints in the history of the Review. The training summarized in the article is sometimes called the "Monkey Management" seminar.
Jack Yoest, Adjunct Professor of Management and President of Management Training of DC, is a former Armored Cavalry Officer in Combat Arms. His military leadership training and experience guides his management philosophy at the core of Managing Management Time™. He has managed software, health care and international human resource management companies.
Jack also served in the Governor's Office of the Commonwealth Virginia as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources where he acted as the Chief Technology Officer for the secretariat. He was responsible for the successful Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion for the 16,000-employee unit. He was also a manager with a medical device start-up and helped move sales from zero to over $12 million, resulting in a buy-out by Johnson & Johnson. Jack has consulted in China and India.
Questions? email JYoest@NVCC.edu or call Jack at 202.215.2434 to save your spot.
Suggested class reading:
Do You Have An Incompetent Manager? From The Washington Post
Who's Got The Monkey? from the Harvard Business Review
One Minute YouTube Introduction:
Jack Yoest
202.215.2434
Adjunct Professor
*Management is traditionally defined as planning, organizing, leading, motivating and controlling.
There is no free lunch. The class is not FREE. It will be presented at no charge to the guests.
Parking and Directions at the Campus here.
The best time to look for a job is when you have a job.
Question: But what if you don't have a job?
How to look?
And what to do meanwhile?
Answer: Go back to school.
Your Business Blogger(R)
The Washington Post
Continuous learning is, well, continuous.
And it doesn't have to be expensive.
Here are three FAB's, the Features, Advantages and Benefits of going back to class.
If you have a job or not.
First Feature
Meet a professor
Advantage
Learn subject matter.
Learn presentation -- interview -- life skills.
Get referrals.
Benefit
Cheaper than a personal coach.
Get a character reference letter.
Get employed faster
Second Feature
Meet other inquisitive minds
Advantage
Expand your Friend contact database.
Challenge assumptions.
Increased network of contacts for job referrals.
Benefit
Faster learning.
Cheaper than a job placement agency.
Get employed faster
Third Feature
Regularly scheduled class times.
Advantage
Encourages the student to get out of bed, out of the house.
Provides structure to the job seekers' week.
Forces the student to walk past career counselors' office.
Benefit
Get more done in less time.
Spend less time in Starbucks.
Get employed faster.
The purpose of continuing education is the gaining of new knowledge, skills and abilities. But this is even more important when one is out of work. A perspective employer is going to ask you a number of questions.
The first question will be, "What are you doing now?"
The perfect answer is, "As I look for my next position, I am taking a business refresher course at my local community college."
Remember: the best time to find a job is when you are working -- going to class is your job.
You may be unemployed, but you are busy: You are using your time wisely while you look for work.
As it happens, the Northern Virginia Community College has the perfect solution to help you find your next job.
Sit in my class.
NOVA has openings in one of my Business 100 classes. We will meet once each Friday from 3:10 to 6:00 at the Alexandria Campus. Starts January 16th. Call now to register. Operators are standing by.
Or apply on-line.
This Friday afternoon class is the perfect capstone to the week and allows the student to job hunt early in the week, early in the day.
Come join my class. And get employed faster.
Thank you (foot)notes:
For more on your job search: tattoos, lying, resume enhancement and trick questions follow links below.
Read Job Search? PASS This Test
See how "Sarah" is getting it right. To get your next job, assignment or project PASS this test! See how the mythical composite Sarah learned new behaviors to find new opportunities.As first appeared in The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Virginia, January 20, 2002
To get a job, first get a plan and then get busy...
Your Business Blogger(R) is of a certain age from a certain generation with teenage children and is confused by various body art. I do not understand tattoos. (Except on my dad, who was in the Navy...) A future employer also may not understand body art. Not even Starbucks.
What is the first question hiring managers ask themselves? Get a Blog; Get Hired -- And the First Question
The Lie: A Guide to Fibbing in the Job Interview, it's not what you think.
Here's what your interviewer is really looking for, Job Interview: How To Tell If the Candidate Will Lie, Cheat, Steal?
There is actually controversy on hiring competence, Hiring Super Stars vs Tolerating Turkeys
Be sure to ask some questions in your job interview, Job Interview: 3 Questions for Your Prospective Boss.
Yes, High School still counts. Forever. What's the One Best Question to Ask a Job Candidate?
Why Were You Really Hired? The Two Qualities That Count.
Here's the Business 100 course outline:
Ch. 1 Exploring the World of Business and Economics
Ch. 2 Being Ethical & Socially Responsible
Ch. 3 Exploring Global Business
Ch. 4 Navigating the World of e-Business
Ch. 5 Choosing a Form of Business Ownership
Ch. 6 Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Franchises
Ch. 7 Understanding the Management Process
Ch. 8 Creating a Flexible Organization
Ch. 10 Attracting and Retaining the Best Employees
Ch. 11 Motivating and Satisfying Employees and Teams
Ch. 13 Building Customer Relationships Through Effective Marketing
Ch. 14 Creating and Pricing Products that Satisfy Customers
Ch. 15 Wholesaling, Retailing, and Physical Distribution
Ch. 16 Developing Integrated Marketing Communications
Ch. 18 Using Accounting Information
Ch. 19 Understanding Money, Banking, and Credit
App. C Business Law
Managing Management Time(tm)
Video production credit: Peter Shinn Your Business Blogger(R) opened up my Northern Virginia Community College classroom to guests and a camera to present an overview of Bill Oncken's Managing Management Time(tm)
The video clip is divided into five segments and totals some 70 minutes. Please comment on the section that worked best for you. Or the least.
See Monkey Management Ad Campaign.
Harvard Paper on Managing Management Time(tm): Monkey Management
Instructor notes at the jump.
Your Business Blogger(R) is opening a Northern Virginia Community College classroom in Arlington, Virginia near the Ballston Metro for a one hour seminar:
Managers and Staff; Career Advancement: How to Promote and be Promotable.
There is no charge to sit in on the class. On Wednesday, Nov 19 at 4pm.
But you will need to email me to register -- class size is limited.
The easiest tactic to sell anything is to find Pain. Maximize it, magnify it, monetize it.
We Are The Change, election night 1988
There is some economic Pain in the American people. Obama promises to heal this nation and heal this pain with Change.
Change from Capitalism to Marxism. To "spread the wealth around."
As Wes Pruden writes in A game-changer by Obama, we are at the close of the biggest sales and marketing pitch in history. Pruden reports,
To redistribute wealth, you first have to confiscate it from those who earned it with hard work, and the way to do that is with confiscatory taxes. Then you give it to those who didn't earn it.
But do the American people really want to change to a new economic system? A centrally controlled economy? A Change to Marxism?
Even with a half-billion dollar marketing campaign and its extension in the compliant main stream media and a single quarter of negative growth, the voters have still not bought the Barack bill of goods. Pain as bad as it's been in decades.
Barack Obama has trouble selling this Change to more than 50 percent of the public.
This means that there is still hope for capitalism in our country. Hope for our 200 year-old tradition.
Every new presidential candidate runs on some version of change. Your Business Blogger(R) joyfully attended the Election Night victory party on November 8, 1988.
The theme of the celebration? "We Are The Change." And this was from Reagan to Bush. (A Republican rockin' party...no alcohol was served 'til after 8pm.)
The word "Change" has come to mean a bit more in this campaign season in the Obama sales pitch.
We enjoy an orderly transition of power every few years. Let us pray that change is only in political individuals.
Not in an economic tradition.
This week, I asked my college business class when the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith was written.
"1930...?" guessed one of my better students. This was as far back as she would dare recede into ancient history. Not the 200 years to 1776.
Two hundred years of tradition that unleashed the individual's spirit to create and to provide and to enrich. Centuries of building an economic powerhouse that dominates the world. Created by American Exceptionalism.
Quin Hillyer writes at The American Spectator,
There is something special about this country. The United States is exceptional. We are blessed by the good Lord, and in turn we have done more, far more, than any other people to spread freedom across the globe, and prosperity across the globe, and human rights across this great good Earth. We are a particularly good people...
Benjamin Franklin wondered if we, a good and virtuous people, could keep a republic, a system of government that would enable the system of capitalism.
Obama promises a change to Marxism. Other changes are sure to follow, if he is elected.
Thank you (foot)notes,
Hillyer continues comparing McCain to Obama,
We are a particularly good people -- and John McCain understands all this and believes it with every fiber of his being, down to his very marrow, in a way that is deeply spiritual in nature.
There is nothing fake about McCain's belief in American Exceptionalism. His belief in this is as genuine, and as deeply felt, as is a son's love for his father. He will defend this country, fight for this country, with every last breath in his body...
So there you have it: John McCain as a patriot firmly rooted in the American traditions of free enterprise, limited government, strong defense, personal accountability, and a decent respect for the cultural standards of the broad middle of the American public.
Those are the constituent elements of American exceptionalism -- and to his great credit, John McCain is an American exceptionalist, and an exceptional American.
Charmaine and Jonah at National Review both had speaking gigs at major schools.
Q: Who Knew?
A: No one.
Charmaine lecturing on campus
I drove the wife and The Dreamer, The Dude, The Diva, The Dancer, and Baby Boo* down to Mr. Jefferson's University so Charmaine could speak on women in leadership at Darden, UVa's business school. The first thing we see are well-armed police.
Uniformed dark blue. Unsmiling.
I ask the sergeant about his job and the small gaggle of 150 women, "Crowd control?"
He looks me over. I'm holding a four-year old's hand: I am not a threat.
I am the conservative.
The cop's face moves a millimeter into what passes for a smile. His head shakes a millimeter into what passes for no.
His eyes return to the assembly. He's looking for trouble.
I speak to one of the organizers about the number of attendees, the marketing of the event...the security. (Your Business Blogger(R) cares about such things; teaching Business at the Northern Virginia Community College. Where James Carville also taught.)
The event planner whispers, "We didn't publicize the event...we weren't sure who would come..."
Even though Charmaine spent ten years at UVA, earned her Ph.D. and taught (Politics and the Family) the organizers were fearful. Charmaine, a woman and a conservative who worked for Huckabee, Pro-Life, now a president and CEO of a law firm, might cause two horrors on the Campus Grounds:
1) A violent campus protest, or, worse,
2) A good conservative turn out.
The police were out in force to keep pie throwing liberals away from the conservative speaker.
Or keep a woman from making a citizen's arrest.
Or having a Democrat scratch KKK on our monster SUV, the Huck-a-Truck.
Jonah Goldberg
and wife Jessica Gavora
The police were there to protect us from the Brown Shirts with the party of death.
The police are on the side of law and order...so far.
We have been lucky with Charmaine's public speaking in academia.
It's particularly odd because the majority of the time I speak on a college campus -- even when debating a liberal -- I'm told that I'm the first conservative they've had there for a while and that I was brought in for "balance."
You'd think if that were the case, the various administrations would at least want some credit for providing equal time.
Even though, even a brief perusal of almost any college or university's events calendar will quickly show that they could have the entire masthead of National Review speak month after month and it still wouldn't equal balance...but the idea that simply inviting one or two objectively conservative speakers every couple years provides ideological balance is just absurd.The joke is even bigger when you discover as I have at numerous schools that many professors tell their students they shouldn't go hear conservative speakers.
Jonah Goldberg gets this right: students should get both sides of any debate.
That would be, well, Fair and Balanced...
* Alert Readers know our five children are also known as the Penta-Posse.
The liberal Mark Warner is running against conservative Jim Gilmore for Senate in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Mark Warner says that the "Right to Lifers" and the National Rifle Association and Homeschoolers and the Christian Coalition is,
Why do these liberals hate normal people?
Warner and Obama believe in abortion on demand through nine or ten months.
Warner and Obama do not believe in the right to bear arms.
Warner and Obama do not believe parents should educate their children.
Warner and Obama believe in homosexual marriage.
Warner and Obama believe in our surrender in the wars.
Warner and Obama believe in raising our taxes.
This is normal?
Listen to the short audio clip of Mark Warner, his voice dripping with disdain, on our conservative values,
Full Disclosure: Your Business Blogger(R) served as Assistant Secretary in Health and Human Resources in governor James Gilmore's administration.
L to R: Roxane and Jim Gilmore; Charmaine and Jack Yoest
"I was told that if I voted for Barry Goldwater that there would be war in Southeast Asia.
And sure enough, I voted for Barry Goldwater and there was war in Southeast Asia," went the popular joke after Democrat Lyndon Johnson was elected president.
We are now told that if we vote for John McCain we will have endless war in Iraq. I will vote for John McCain...and if Obama steals the election -- we will, indeed, have endless war in Iraq...
Your Business Blogger(R) has noted that Obama was a law professor for some 12 years and had published no articles, no record of advancing scholarship in peer review journals.
I was wrong.
B.Obama has indeed published an article on, what else?
Abortion.
LifeNews.com Editor Steven Ertelt writes in Barack Obama's Sole Article in Harvard Law Review Promotes Abortion,
Obama considered a parenthetical abortion issue -- whether unborn children have a legal right to sue their mothers for damage sustained during pregnancy, from such things as alcohol or illegal drugs.Obama says no and writes supportively of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case and another from the Illinois Supreme Court saying no such right exists.
According to Politico, Obama wrote: "[T]he case raises the broader policy and constitutional considerations that argue against using civil liability to control the behavior of pregnant women."
In a discussion of abortion itself, Obama wrote that government has more important business than "ensuring that any particular fetus is born."
He also decried any limits on abortion, saying the government has an interest in "preventing increasing numbers of children from being born in to lives of pain and despair."
Obama here uses the quality of life argument to end the life of a baby. This is the arrogance of the elite to determine what person might have a life of "pain and despair."
Obama's position reminds us that abortion-friendly politicians can make our society "better" by pre-emptively eliminating any person who might have, or maybe cause, "despair."
Any imperfection can be eliminated. This is why we seldom see a child with Down Syndrome. An ObamaNation would not want to be "burdened" by such citizens.
And we are a poorer nation for it.
For every 14 babies born with Down Syndrome, 146 are aborted. See Down Syndrome. . . and the Value of Life
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Alert Reader David, sends us The ObamaNation Tour,
Update: My DD, no friend of conservative pro-lifers offers, an insightful review of Barack Obama's votes on infants born alive, On "Live Birth Abortion" The Candidates Differ,
by susanhu, Mon Dec 17, 2007 at 04:48:16 PM EST
Like most Americans and the Democratic presidential candidates, I am pro-choice although I believe the first defense against unwanted pregnancy, and STDs, is prevention. (Today's Washington Post reveals that the "best-kept secret" for AIDS prevention in Africa is birth control, not giving antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women. And, notably, Africa is but one of the continents where First Lady Hillary Clinton worked hard for eight years for women's rights and economic empowerment.)There is a compelling moral exception: A fetus born alive during an abortion becomes an infant, and shouldn't be left for hours or days to die without medical care, a practice in some U.S. hospitals.
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differ markedly in their voting records on the live birth of an aborted infant.
As an Illinois state senator, Obama "joined several other Democrats in voting 'present' in 2001 and 'no' the next year," reports A.P./CBS News in "Obama Record May Be Gold Mine For Critics -- Eight Years As State Senator Were Full Of Controversial Votes, Including Abortion And Gun Control."
During the same two years, as a U.S. Senator, Hillary Clinton joined the 98-0 vote in the U.S. Senate on a 2001 amendment to the Patients Bill of Rights that protected "infants who are born alive."
In 2002, a House bill that protected infants born alive was passed by unanimous consent in the U.S. Senate -- with Sen. Clinton joining the "Yeas" -- and was signed into law.
If you think what Karl Rove did to John McCain in South Carolina's 2000 primary was brutal, just imagine what the GOP will do with Obama's "present" and "no" votes on "live birth abortion."
susanhu gets this right. Obama voted to allow infants born alive to die. McCain wants these babies to live. America deserves a president who will protect the rights of all citizens born in the USA: John McCain.
However, susahu should be reminded that a fetus born alive is called a "baby."
Your Business Blogger(R) has a degree in Education and was pressured by the National Education Association (NEA) to join the union years ago.
"The NEA is great when you get sued," said the (very large) union rep.
I declined to teach and went into a less violent business: The Army.
The NEA is having their convention in Your Nation's Capital next week. On July 2nd Pro-Life Educators and Students (PLEAS) will be conducting a rally at the Washington Convention Center from 10:00am and 2:00pm.
This press conference would have my attention even if I didn't have 5 kids in the public schools or if Charmaine wasn't speaking.
If Charmaine is speaking, you'll want to listen. And this time we own the mic.
Charmaine is pictured above elbowing aside pro-abortion NOW President Kim Gandy at a open press conference in 2005. This is the only Women in Combat of which conservatives would approve.
PLEAS Coordinator Bob Pawson says, "Pro-Life teachers, school employees, parents, and students are invited to come pray and peacefully picket...Hillary Clinton and/or Barack Obama will surely address NEA's 9,000 Delegates, as they did last year."
Pro-Life teachers are concerned that their teacher union dues support and promote abortion and political candidates who tolerate the holocaust of the unborn.
Pawson explains, "Late-term abortionist George Tiller spoke at NEA headquarters for the [pro-abortion] Feminist Majority Foundation's Leadership Conference in March 2008." Watch the YouTube video here. Warning: graphic pictures of dead children.
No pro-life speakers or political candidates are supported by the NEA.
NEA union President, Reg Weaver is backing Obama; "every public school employee needs to get squarely behind the Obama candidacy."
The union tells us,
"The National Education Association supports...the right to reproductive freedom" -- the abortion code-words.The "NEA supports the ...Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision which now permits abortion on demand through nine months of pregnancy. The NEA is silent on the Dred Scott decision which also codified the ownership of one human being by another. The Dred Scott slave owner is the Roe v Wade feminist.
UPDATE: Press Conference at the Family Research Council building at 9:30 to 10:15am, then on to the presser at the Convention Center at 10:30am.
The Women in Leadership & Philanthropy program, is hosting a conference at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
You are invited.
Charmaine will be speaking from her experience as a senior adviser to the Huckabee for President campaign.
Alert Readers will recall Charmaine also served in the Reagan Administration as a White House (unmolested) intern .
She also served in the Office of Presidential Personnel under Bob Tuttle, current Ambassador to the Court of St. James's.
The Women in Politics panel is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, from 9:30 to10:45 a.m., at the Darden School's Abbott Auditorium.
From UVA,
...[S]peakers on this panel: UVa. alumsCharmaine Yoest [Ph.D.] (Family Research Council, former adviser to Mike Huckabee) [confirmed]
Cheryl Mills (advisor to Hillary Clinton) [confirmed],
and Janet Napolitano (Governor of Arizona) [awaiting confirmation].
We may also ask [other] alums... The panel will be moderated by Vesla Weaver, assistant professor of politics and a UVA alum as well.
At this point, our conception of the Women in Politics panel is:
More than ever before, women - Republicans, Democrats and Independents - are making a difference in the American political arena and U.Va. alumnae are among those leading the way. Please join us for a panel discussion of the contemporary role of women in American politics.
Potential topics include the 2008 presidential election, the historic role of Senator Hillary Clinton's candidacy and the short list of women who may be considered as vice presidential nominees in both major political parties.
For more information on the conference, please visit the conference Web site.
Thank you (foot)notes:
Tips for visiting Mr. Jefferson's University. While at UVA, never say 'campus.' Say 'grounds.'
Address Ph.D.'s not as 'Dr.' but as 'Mr.' or 'Ms.' in keeping with our third president's sense of fraternite and Voltaire and all things French. Egalite run amuck.
See Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson.
Work and Family: One Size Does Not Fit All
Your Business Blogger(R) of Management Training of DC, LLC, is an adjunct professor of management at NOVA and a licensed agent for the William Oncken Corporation.
More at the jump.
Your Business Blogger(R) just received an email from Alert Reader Janice who tells us about Hillary's presence at the State Street United Methodist Church in Bowling Green, KY,
I just received an email letting me know that, yes indeed, the Paul Fryman who was our former student at Asbury was the pastor who preached at State Street UMC in Bowling Green, KY this past Sunday when Hillary was there. He has been the subject of abuse because his sermon was on adultery. He has received hate mail and all sorts of attacks – including accusations of being a pedophile and needing therapy, etc. He has chosen (wisely) not to react or respond at all. Paul is a humble, guileless servant of Christ.The service and Paul have been distorted unbelievably.
Here are some facts, in case someone asks you:
· Hillary's people called Paul and told him she would be in his church, it was not a request.
· He told her people that they were in a series of sermons and that the morning sermon would be on adultery from the Sermon on The Mount, making sure she knew what she would hear, the bulletins were already printed.
· Paul’s sermon was 12 minutes (not the hour-long that was in the press – that was the length of the whole service)
· Paul acknowledged the presidential candidate’s presence in the service (some reports said that she was ignored and unwelcomed).
· Reporters sat in the service with their laptops – did not participate in the service respectfully.
· His sermon will be put online as soon as possible so that people can judge for themselves. [he called for members of the congregation to make a new commitment to their own marriages and to be aware of the temptations that they face – it was not an attack against Hillary
Thank you (foot)notes:
Alert Reader Janice is a former Board Member of Asbury College and, with her husband were professors at the Methodist institution of higher learning.
See, While Campaigning in Kentucky Hillary Clinton Hears Sermon On Infidelity.
Read where CNN gets it wrong. This is not news.
But what is news is that CNN can't spell. Nancy writes into CNN,
May 18th, 2008 5:15 pm ETJust a note - please check the spelling on the word "alter," which I belive [sic] should be "altar". Or at least that's how it's spelled at my church. See, all democrats are not Godless heathens.
Nancy must be pro-life...
CORRECTION: Janice Crouse, Ph.D., is a current member of the Board of Directors for Asbury College in Wilmore, Ky.
Eli Gold, from The Harbour League writes,
Dr. Herb London
As you are aware by now, on this Tuesday May 13th the Harbour League will be hosting a talk by the Hudson Institute president and THL board member, Dr. Herb London. In consideration of the attendance of our entire board of trustees, the event will take place at: The Cloisters, 10440 Falls Road in Lutherville, Maryland and not at the Harbour League's office.
The evening will begin at 7 pm (doors open at 6:30pm)with a talk given by Dr. Herb London entitled, "America's Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion". Dr. London will suggest that the rise of secularism in the United States is a flaccid response to the challenge presented by the fanaticism of radical Islam. In the so-called war of ideas we are handicapped in our ability to thwart the inroads of fanaticism by a reflexive belief in relativism, one dimension of secular humanism.The rise of secular humanism not only challenges the traditional antecedent of the nation, it is an ineffective response to the challenge of Islam. The result? If you don't know what you believe in, you are unable to defend what is worthwhile. Something that, if understood, can change Maryland for the better.
Following the talk and question and answer session, there will be a dessert reception that will give you a chance to talk with any member of member of the board regarding the movement.
To RSVP to this for this event or to the dinner prior to the talk please visit www.TheHarbourLeague.org or call 410-753-4560.
We look forward to seeing you there.
The Harbour League
2800 Quarry Lake Drive, Suite 140
Baltimore, MD 21209
410 753-4560
410 415-0800
Thank you (foot)notes:
Herb London's daughter, Stacey London, will NOT be present (I don't think). Although he might answer questions...
Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine and The Dude will be attending.
More on Dr. London at the jump.
Charmaine giving a lecture
on abortion at Princeton Rakes, Cads and leering Don Juans -- that is to say: all normal men -- have been attempting to seduce women for 4,000 years.
Our institutions of higher learning have noticed this and are helping out. No, not helping the parents, not the girls, not our culture.
Nope. Your local college administrator, acting in place of the parents, has now made it possible for the young women to undress in front of the young men in the privacy of their own (parental-paid) room.
This is not the No-Tell Motel. It is the college dorm room.
Higher Education has been working for decades to help separate not the women from men, but women from their clothes in front of men. And now the colleges and the men have succeeded.
The colleges, Your Business Blogger(R) would suggest, are acting less loco prarentis but just plain loco.
Charmaine recently appeared on CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck Show Monday, May 5, 2008 to discuss the emergence of co-ed dorm rooms on college campuses.
Watch the clip here at the Family Research Council. Sorry for the extra clicking.
"Professor" Diana York Blaine
Womyn's Studies
Normal people think co-ed dorm rooms are lunacy.
But the "professor" on the left is a typical Leftie that passes for normalcy on the local college campus.
Womyn's Studies Professor and lunar worshipper Diana York Blaine offers Alert Readers Full Disclosure on helping college men in learning all about the modern womyn. The nutty professor Blaine teaches at USC. It is not known if clothing is optional.
Higher Education at its best.
Research Institutions pride themselves on 'advancing scholarship.'
These days, Higher Ed is advancing an agenda.
And it is not a pretty site.
Thank you (foot)notes:
But sure to catch Charmaine's recent appearance on FOX News March 1, 2008 where she debated the prevalence of shock-style -- nasty -- advertising in the media. Click here to view the video -- please forgive the extra click on thru on the FRC site. Now that's a Pretty Woman.
Full Disclosure: Charmaine has taught Politics and the Family at the University of Virginia; Your Business Blogger(R) teaches Business at the Northern Virginia Community College.
Blaine tells us on her site that,
Dr. Diana Blaine is a PhD philosopher, writer, adventurer, bon vivant and buttkicker. She's read and studied how gender dynamics function in our culture...
Emphasis mine. Some lady. Email us your comments.
Glenn Beck on CNN Today is Cinco de Mayo. Memorable for Your Business Blogger(R) for a number of reasons. One of which is our anniversary. The guys say this is not fair -- because it is so easy to remember...
So Charmaine and I are a-celebrating. Off to New York City. The Big Apple. See some old friends. Take in a couple of shows. Charmaine is looking forward to them...
I wish I was with her.
She will be appearing on The Glenn Beck Program: The Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment. (Which might be about the best reason to tune in CNN these days. CNN is trying.)
Delectare et Docere
She will debating the wisdom of the trend for co-ed dorms in institutions of higher education. See more at the jump.
Hit time is 7pm and 9pm eastern on CNN HeadLine News. Tune in and let us know what you think.
Martha McCallum on FOX Charmaine will also be appearing on the FOX News Live Desk with Martha McCallum to discuss today's hot topics:
Michigan and Florida Delegates, Celebrity Endorsements, Oprah Winfrey in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church.
Hit time is 1pm eastern on FOX News.
Thank you (foot)notes:
National Review Online is running an article by Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine on Hillary Clinton's management style:
JACK & CHARMAINE YOEST: The woman can’t manage. “Bad Management” 05/05 4:00 AM More at the jump.
Please email us your comments.
May is also the anniversary of getting my car. (This is important to car guys.)
Following is an excerpt from a panel discussion hosted by iConcept Media in New York City.
Pull Out Quotes,
If it's not core, Ship it off-shore.If your business is growing more than 20% a year, you must buy some debt or sell some equity -- this is the only way to fund receivables, unless you have a cash business (or a Dell business model...).
In marketing run the numbers down the funnel: how many touches going in at the top, to an action, to a sale at the bottom of the funnel. Work that sale backward up the funnel to learn the size needed for your marketing budget. (And remember: Half your marketing budget will be wasted. You get paid to figure out which half. Apologies to John Wanamaker.)
Your job in business is to create a customer and make a profit. If you are not doing this, you do not have a business; you have a hobby.
Your Business Blogger(R) is honored to be speaking in Baltimore on March 26th; in Washington DC, on April 3rd and in New York City on May 29th.
For more Solutions To Your Management Problems please visit Management Training of DC, LLC
Visit USAToday Columnist Steve Strauss.
See Birol's Blog for Advice, Assistance, Attitude
And while in New York City, go visit the Indian Bread Company.
If you are looking for the perfect gift, go visit NYCSubwayLine. Your Business Blogger(R) did all his Christmas shopping on-line and got the coolest backpacks, clutches, hoodies and shirts for the Penta-Posse. The hoodie is The Dreamer's favorite. The cutting edge, high quality products are the brain-child of actress Lynne Lambert,
One day, while waiting for her train, Lynne found herself staring up at the subway signs with its big colored circles with the letters and numbers inside and thought "Why hasn't anyone ever done anything with these quintessential NYC icons? I bet people would wear them if it was done right!" And so the NYC subway Line was born. Licensed from NY State's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the tees have appeared in movies like "Bring It On" and "Prime," on MTV, BET and VH1 by artists and their audience, and worn by celebrities such as rapper "Fabolous" and President Clinton. Recently, Ms. Lambert was awarded the Make Mine a Million Business award that was founded by Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence along with OPEN from American Express where she received financing from OPEN, one year of intensive business coaching and mentoring from a dream team of successful women entrepreneurs, business software and training from Intuit, discounts on shipping and business services from FedEx, marketing assistance from QVC, and assistance on work/life issues and financial security from AIG.
Charmaine speaking last year at AU
at far Right... Charmaine has two gigs today.
She will be speaking at American University in Your Nation's Capital tonight at 8PM. The Dreamer will be attending.
This is a return engagement. Charmaine spoke last year on Feminism and will be speaking on the same topic tonight.
Is Feminism Universal? will be the subject. From AU,
Join us Monday, March 3 at 8pm in MGC 200 at this exciting and sure to be lively event and listen to important women from diverse local organizations debate the nature of global and international feminism. Speakers include Dr. Charmaine Yoest from the Family Research Council, Carrie Lukas from the Independent Women’s Forum, Betsy Kim from the DNC, and the Acting Vice-President of NOW, Melody Drnach. Contact ae4199a@american.edu for more info.
Charmaine will also be interviewed on the Moody Broadcasting Network about the undercover recording of the bigots the baby killers liberals who work at Planned Parenthood. Check MBN or here for local listings. Hit time 3pm Eastern.
Actor: ...I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don't want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids.
Planned Parenthood: Yes, absolutely.
Actor: And we don't, you know, we just think the less black kids out there the better.
Planned Parenthood: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable... This is the first time I've had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I'm excited and want to make sure I don't leave anything out.
So far no one has been fired from Planned Parenthood for supporting race-based abortions.
Thank you (foot)notes:
From the Family Research Council,
Racism Alive and Well at Planned ParenthoodA shocking set of recordings was released this week that could prove disastrous for Planned Parenthood's ties with the African-American community. Lila Rose, a pro-life student and reporter at UCLA, launched an undercover investigation aimed at exposing the racism of the nation's largest abortion merchant. With the help of an actor, she contacted Planned Parenthood clinics in seven states, inquiring if they would be willing to accept a donation earmarked for the abortion of black babies. The results were jaw-dropping.
Rose was appalled to discover that every last clinic agreed. Not one employee objected or questioned the request, even when the actor insisted that the purpose was to "lower the number of black people" in America. When the caller phoned an Ohio branch, he was told that Planned Parenthood "will accept the money for whatever reason." Read the outrageous transcript from the Idaho clinic, which is also available with Rose's other recordings in a montage [here]
...Students at UCLA are so infuriated by the investigation that they are petitioning the university to cut all affiliation with Planned Parenthood. What few people realize is that the organization has a history of racism that has been ingrained since Planned Parenthood's earliest days, when founder Margaret Sanger advocated negative eugenics and spoke to a woman's branch of the KKK (Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography, 1938, p. 336-367). However, as is customary for Planned Parenthood, the organization has managed for decades to cover its tracks - and the facts. That task has just been made monumentally more difficult. Abortion has taken the innocent lives of over 14 million black children - a national tragedy that has begun uniting and mobilizing African-Americans across party, state, and financial lines.
We support a Pro-Life world-view. As found in our country's founding documents.
The Penta-Posse
election nite 2004 Me too.
As the father of the five-person cohort called the Penta-Posse, Your Business Blogger is looking for angles for college admission and funding.
And not just Title IX...
Our friends at the Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation have an opportunity for cash. $2,000. Real money.
For political bloggers. If you are a college student, or have parents looking for help, go enter the 2nd Annual Political Blogging Scholarship.
And let us know how it works for you.
Thank you (foot)notes:
Thank you to Alert Reader Jennifer Rotman, Scholarship Coordinator, at College Scholarships.
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Update: Jill Miller Zimon, Freelance Writer, Editor and Blogger has more information and -- as the main stream media like to say -- original reporting,
Hi Jack -I don't know if you have ever spoken with Daniel, but here's a post I wrote after interviewing him and one that links to a CNN article about him.
Thanks for posting about the blogging scholarship. An Ohio blogger I know used one (though I don't think it was the same one) to cover New Hampshire primary prep last summer.
Best,
Jill
Charmaine at the
New America Foundation Charmaine recently spoke at the New America Foundation on The Politics of Parental Leave. Her talk was based on her research at The University of Virginia. Her work was funded with a quarter million dollar grant from the Sloan Foundation.
Your Business Blogger found her findings most interesting. In particular, Charmaine discovered that when female academics take parental leave, women use the time off for parenting: to change diapers. Men took the time off to write a book; their wives still changed the diapers.
Who knew male academics were so...traditional?
Charmaine's topic title was, The Politics of Parental Leave: Is Paid Parental Leave an Effective Means of Promoting Gender Equity in the Workplace? From the New America Foundation website by Paul Testa, Research Associate to the Health Policy Program,
"U.S. political candidates are beginning to produce work and family policy positions in response to what most Americans feel -- that work and family balance is a major issue facing American families. Women in particular struggle with such balance and with achieving equality in the workplace. From the floors of Congress to the campaign trails Mandating paid parental leave has often been suggested as a possible solution to such struggles. But is this approach best for women as a whole?
To further this debate, Rev. David Gray, director of the Work Force and Family Program at New America Foundation welcomed Dr. Charmaine Yoest of the Family Research Council for a timely discussion of the politics of parental leave.Dr. Yoest presented research from her time as the Project Director of the Family, Gender, and Tenure research project at the University of Virginia, which focused on the effectiveness of paid parental leave in academia.
...academia was “crucial case,” to assess whether paid parental leave could really level the playing field for women. “If there’s going to be any place in America where you’d expect paid leave to work, it would be in academia,” she said.
Dr. Yoest’s research centered on a survey of assistant professors with children under the age of two in tenure track positions at universities that offered paid leave policies. Her results questioned several of the traditional assumptions about paid parental leave.
Universities with paid parental leave policies did not have higher levels of female faculty and that paid parental leave policies were not associated with higher rates of promotion for women to more senior faculty positions.
In fact, Dr. Yoest argued paid leave policies may have been detrimental to leveling the playing field. The majority of leave-taking women felt they had less-time for research and writing when they returned and were more likely than their non-leave taking peers to consider dropping off the tenure track. The majority of leave-takers felt such policies made almost no difference in their efforts to receive tenure and some suggested there was a stigma associated with taking a paid leave.
Based on these findings, Dr. Yoest concluded that, “Paid leave may operate as a political fig leaf. The institutional results indicate that the policy by itself does not result in higher levels of achievement for women, making the use of political capital to establish the policy, a poor investment.”
[Her] provocative presentation was followed by lively round of question and answers."
The New America Foundation has professionally included a video of her 60 minute talk and an audio and her Powerpoint on their site.
Thank you (foot)notes:
Also see You Are Invited: The Politics of Parental Leave at the New America Foundation
And Charmaine's next talk, MEDIA ALERT: Charmaine at the New America Foundation debating America’s Changing Social Contract
The Effect of Parental Leave Policies
Maternity leave creates workplace debate
What Are the Benefits of Longer Maternity Leave?
House leaders seek to expand staff's parental leave, By Karissa Marcum, Chris Good contributed to this article.
Worthwhile Reads:
If this is our new guide, we’re lost by Gina Dalfonzo with excellent commentary on Dr. Drew Pinsky.
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt Learn about FUD: fear, uncertainty and doubt, at Why Sell Is Still a Four Letter Word by Charles H. Green -- brought to us at no charge by Carnival of Sales & Management Success, hosted by Brad Trnavsky
Leading by Example in a World of Copy Cats By Michelle Cramer via Carnival of Leadership Development hosted by The Engaging Brand blog with Anna Farmery, Business Coach and Speaker
And be sure to visit the Carnival of Image & Influence | Vol. 2 hosted by Steve Silvers. He graciously points to my article What is the best tactic to get a referral?
But Steve minimized the best referral in one of the better posts lately -- which would be his. See references to Steve Silvers' quotes in Forbes and from an article in the Associated Press, 2 Wal-Mart Critics Leave Group, By MARCUS KABEL,
Corporate reputation expert Steven Silvers said the move may signal that the union campaigns are reaching an end, with little new ground to cover after criticizing Wal-Mart for two years."At some point an activist group has to ask itself if it's preaching to the choir," said Silvers, from the Denver-based consulting company GBSM Inc.
"What they're doing is going from rhetoric to relevance," Silvers said. He said Blank and Kofinis can have more impact on Wal-Mart from the national platform of the presidential race.
Steve would be a blogger with reach.
Thank you (foot)notes:
STEVEN SILVERS is a Principal at GBSM, Inc., 600 17th Street, Suite 2020 South in Denver, CO 80202. Go visit www.gbsm.com
Charmaine at Princeton University
April, 2007
Photo by Wes Shim Charmaine is quoted in Teen Sex Rates Stop Falling, Data Show, By Rob Stein, a Washington Post Staff Writer on Sunday, July 22, 2007; Page A01. Stein begins,
"The long decline in sexual activity among U.S. teenagers, hailed as one of the nation's most important social and public health successes, appears to have stalled.
After decreasing steadily and significantly for more than a decade, the percentage of teenagers having intercourse began to plateau in 2001 and has failed to budge since then, despite the intensified focus in recent years on encouraging sexual abstinence, according to new analyses of data from a large federal survey."
Charmaine's quote is not on A-1 at the beginning of the story, but on the continuation deep in A-16 something. But Stein did quote her accurately, and yes, fairly,
"Teenagers today live in an MTV-driven culture and are bombarded by sexual messages that say it is normative for them to get involved sexually," said Charmaine Yoest of the Family Research Council. "We need a message that sexual experimentation as a teenager is unhealthy."
The number one reason that teens have sex is not the need for intimacy, or the fun, or the good time, or the passion.
Tobacco Free Kids It's peer pressure.
The belief that every one is doing it.
And not everyone is. Just like smoking.
Proper parental supervision is more healthy than the teen's peers.
Thank you (foot)notes:
Abstinence programs should be encouraged in the same manner as teen smoking campaigns. See Tobacco Free Kids. For more information on Teens and smoking, please contact our good friend, Danny McGoldrick, Vice President, Research at TobaccoFreeKids.
See more on the marketing -- watch for negatives: The Marketing Bimbos.
The Dollars in Academia
as seen in
The Chronicle of Higher Education
where the pictures are
as good as the articlesYour Business Blogger married into a gaggle of academics. The Little Woman taught at UVA, her folks taught at SUNY Buffalo, brother-in-law is currently teaching rocket scientists at Auburn.
And we subscribe to The Chronicle of Higher Education for the (intellectual ! ) stimulation. (Click here for edukated nekked Kronicle ko-eds.)
Alert Readers will remember that we invested some 10 years and countless dollars in opportunity costs for Charmaine's Ph.D.. So we've seen the academy from the inside and it is not always as pretty as the young lady pictured at left.
John Lott, Ph.D., author of Freedomnomicis, recently told me that that the higher education tenure system is all but eliminating conservatives from campus. Leaving only the commies. (Excepting, of course, brother-in-law who may have been an EEO hire.)
The only thing worse than giving those Marxists America's students to corrupt, is to give the Marxists money. And the only thing worse than giving the Marxists money is to have the government administer the money.
The government program which handles student loans is, surprise! going broke.
The inefficient Federal Direct Loan Program, where the government lends money directly to college students, lost nearly $15 billion. Billion, with a B.
Democrats in Congress have a plan. A big government plan.
Which will fix nothing -- 600 colleges and universities have dropped out of the Federal Direct Loan Program because of poor state sponsored terrorism customer service.
The private sector is the best vector to handle the machinery of student loans. We, the taxpayers, have spent $15 Billion to prove that the government cannot do school loans.
The private market is better.
Albert Einstein
Baby Boo, The Diva, The Dancer
living proof of The Roe Effect
at PrincetonCharmaine's speech at Princeton was noted in that area's newspaper of record the Daily Princetonian.
The reporter was remarkably fair and balanced working this liberal campus -- even considering the biased title:
Anti-abortion speaker sparks heated debate
It might have been more accurate to report,
Pro-Life speaker sparks heated debate
Which proves we each have our biases. Our own world-views.
Angela Cai, Princetonian Senior Writer reports and quotes Charmaine,
"I believe Roe v. Wade is on its way to extinction ... precisely because abortion harms women," [Dr. Yoest] said.Speaking to a large audience..., Yoest faced a crowd of students and community members anxious to argue with her during the question-and-answer session that followed the lecture.
She maintained that the United States is "on the road, long term" toward the overturning of Roe v. Wade. "There is an intellectual rot at the heart of that decision," she said, noting that even many liberal scholars agree that there is no constitutional basis for the controversial 1973 Supreme Court ruling. She added that the case was an example of the inappropriate use of judicial power. [see the Alan Dershowitz quote on the slide presentation.]
Yoest argued that abortion's consequences hit home on a more personal level for many women who undergo the procedure. "It's very sad to me when you look at how many relationships break up after abortion when women say they had abortions to save their relationships," Yoest said. She described what she called the problems of Post-Abortion Syndrome, which include effects such as "drug and alcohol abuse, personal relationship disorder, sexual dysfunction ... and attempted suicide."
Alert Reader Jill noted that the title of the speech changed. Originally advertised as "How Abortion Harms Women," the more accurate and complete title is "The Politics of Abortion: Moving Toward a Post-Roe America." So Charmaine changed the title to reflect the added, expanded content.
Thank you (foot)notes:
While some in the audience nodded or facially expressed their approval of Charmaine Yoest’s anti-abortion message at Princeton University last night, others made it clear during questioning that Yoest spoke a foreign language which they had no desire to learn.
Jessica at Bush v. Choice blogged.
See Charmaine's PowerPoint presentation on the FRCBlog. Thanks to the technical influence of Managing Editor Joe Carter.
Two pictures
from Charmaine's PowerPoint at Princeton
See the Presentation here.
Thanks to Joe Carter
for uploading Information is good.
Reason and science.
Our friends on the left would prefer less information when it confronts their...religion. Its two sacraments are:
Abortion, and
Evolution.
And so Charmaine recently has braved to lecture liberals on abortion and evolution on CNN, MSNBC and Princeton University.
Alert Readers have noted that the Anderson Cooper 360 segment on CNN aired Wednesday night and will air again tonight, Friday, between 10 and midnite. Tivo and let us know.
What you think.
Her debate with Anderson Cooper was on the teaching of the theories of evolution and intelligent design in the classroom. Edu-crates do not care for I.D.
The academy at pharyngula seems less concerned about academic censorship as they do about the age of the earth. They swallow a camel and choke on a gnat.
Charmaine will also be on MSNBC LIVE today Friday, 6 April. She will be debating for the wisdom of viewing a picture of your baby before you have an abortion.
Backstory, from The Times and Democrat
S.C. House approves bill requiring ultrasounds before abortions By SEANNA ADCOX Wednesday, March 21, 2007 COLUMBIA, S.C. - The South Carolina House gave key approval Wednesday to a bill that requires women seeking abortions in this state to first review ultrasound images of their fetus before the procedure.If enacted, it would be the first law of its kind in the nation. Some states make ultrasound images available to women before an abortion, but South Carolina would be alone in mandating women see the pictures.
It seems that liberals are most unhappy because 80% of women will stop their abortions after seeing a picture of their babies (in the womb). See the picture and the baby lives. Information can save a life.
Hit time is between 3:30 and 4pm Eastern Time.
Abortion and evolution. Today.
How Abortion Harms Women
Princeton University Charmaine and Your Business Blogger will be a-traveling with the Penta-Posse (minus The Dreamer at crew camp) to Princeton University over the spring break.
Charmaine will be giving a talk on abortion/women/work/life. Alert Readers will remember that she used to teach a course The Family and Politics at The University of Virginia.
From the Princeton Campus Announcements,
Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.
A lecture titled "How Abortion Harms Women" is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in 16 Robertson Hall.The talk will be delivered by Charmaine Yoest, [Ph.D.] vice president for communications at the Family Research Council, a nonprofit lobbying organization that promotes socially conservative views.
Yoest also is project director of the Family, Gender and Tenure Project at the University of Virginia, a nationwide study focused on parental leave policy.
She is the author (with Deborah Shaw Lewis) of "Mother in the Middle" and is working on a new book, "A G.I. Bill for Moms: Mothers, the Market and the American Way."
The talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.
The event is free and is open to the public. Come by and join us and let us know what you think.
Thank you (foot)notes:
Special thank you to Andy McCarthy at The Corner at NRO for "How Abortion Harms Women" -- a forum sponsored ... by Princeton! Andy says that he has,
...duked it out before (in an exchange at Commentary on international law) with Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Dean at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She is, though, a fair-minded liberal in the great but dying academic tradition of allowing all thoughtful voices — including, yes, conservative voices — to be heard on campus.
Thank you also to Tiger Hawk for the announcement and poster pic.
See also Princeton to allow Charmaine Yoest to speak about abortion! at RealChoice: The reality of "choice" in America. In a breathtaking, courageous example of fostering real diversity of thought...
And note Abortion foe to lecture at Princeton University from The Princeton Packet.
Day care
Intelligent Design
Stem Cells Charmaine will be discussing Intelligent Design, Stem Cells, and Daycare over the next few days.
(And The Dreamer has a regatta, The Dude has a baseball game and The Diva will be singing on stage.)
Be sure to read Charmaine's article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sen. Casey confronts a moment of truth, where she says,
Sen. Bob Casey's first moment of truth in the U.S. Senate is approaching. And the issue is stem-cell research...
Given his campaign commitment to oppose federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, and given the role pro-life Pennsylvanians played in electing him, you would think the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 would be a no-brainer for Casey. Yet, suddenly there is some question about his position...
Despite the position candidate Casey took last year, bloggers pushing for embryonic stem-cell funding this year - bloggers including the Daily Kos and Californians for Cure -- have listed him as one of the "Swingable Seven," a group of senators who might be swayed on the issue...
Who would have thought that so soon in his Senate career young Casey would face a defining dilemma: Will he still follow in his father's footsteps, or trample on his legacy?
Thank you to NRO Web Briefing 3/30/07 for the link.
In reference to a previous article on day care Alert Reader Jill, from Writes Like She Talks (diplomatically) asks,
Dr. Yoest, this article, though obviously well-annotated for its time, is now almost 10 years old. Much has changed in the economy and in numbers of single-parent households. Mobility of jobs and therefore of families has increased.Given your educational background, I would hope that you could provide a similarly well-annotated update to this nearly decade-old albeit thorough analysis...
Charmaine might be updating some of the data on air. She is scheduled to be on Fox News this Saturday, 31 March, to discuss the NIH's longitudinal study on day care by the NICH&HD. Hit time is between noon and 1, but is not confirmed.
She also did a tape-to-live segment for Anderson Cooper on Intelligent Design. Free Speech and open inquiry might still be possible in the public schools. Or should liberals censor and gag?
Anderson Cooper, CNN The segment is titled Intelligent Design, Creationism and Evolution in the classroom. Watch Charmaine debate Rob Boston from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
A Pew Forum poll from 2005 is the backgrounder and says,
Most Americans (64%) say they are open to the idea of teaching creationism along with evolution in the public schools, and a substantial minority (38%) favors replacing evolution with creationism in public school curricula.While much of this support comes from religious conservatives, these ideas particularly the idea of teaching both perspectives have a broader appeal. Even many who are politically liberal and who believe in evolution favor expanding the scope of public school education to include teaching creationism.
But an analysis of the poll also reveals that there are considerable inconsistencies between people's beliefs and what they want taught in the schools, suggesting some confusion about the meaning of terms such as "creationism" and "evolution."
The Pew poll also has data on political party public perceptions,
The public also has distinctly different perceptions of both parties when it comes to dealing with religion and personal freedoms.By a wide margin 51% to 28% the Republican Party is seen as most concerned with protecting religious values.
By a nearly identical margin (52%-30%), the Democratic Party is perceived as most concerned with protecting the freedom of citizens to make personal choices.
Tune in and let us know what you think.
Thank you (foot)notes:
See the Congressional Quarterly quote on Stem Cell Research.
Also see Does God Belong in Public Schools? published in The Weekly Standard.
Be sure to visit What is Wrong with Sober’s Attack on ID? (Part III): Ignoring the Widely Discussed Positive Predictions of Intelligent Design at the Discovery Institute.
Question: Is there a liberal bias in Academia?
Answer: Is the Pope pro-life?
Protesting at Harvard Charmaine recently spoke to the Second Annual Conservative Women's Conference at Harvard University. The topic was Balancing Family and a Career in Public Service.
The Alert Reader would wonder that a room of 100 conservative women on Harvard's campus would be so strange, so counter-intuitive that the university's newspaper of record would capture the kooks on copy.
The Alert Reader would be wrong.
Harvard's Crimson newspaper can't be bothered to send a reporter to listen to conservative credentialed experts speak.
This is not the weirdness that the Crimson craves.
Conservative: No Way
Transgender: OK
The Crimson will spill barrels of bytes on gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender genders issues. As if this were news or interesting outside the homosexual community.
As in,
For Transgender, a Day to Remember
The students seem to be in perpetual protest; the Crimson consumed with homosexuals.
Conservatives are left to do the learning.
But this is, of course, not newsworthy.
Thank you (foot)notes:
See Charmaine's speech notes at the jump.
Charmaine will be speaking at the Second Annual Conservative Women's Conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachuetts on February 24, 2007.
The Alert Reader will note conservative and Harvard in the same sentence.
Who knew?
Alert the media.
Charmaine's talk will be A Higher Ambition: Women at the Intersection of Sex, Power and Purpose.
Other good-guys scheduled to speak at the conference:
Kerry Healey (Lt. Governor of Massachusetts, 2003-07, candidate for MA Governor, 2006)
Chriss Winston (first woman to head the White House Office of Speech Writing as Deputy Assistant to the President for Communications and Director of Speech Writing for President George H.W. Bush)
Kathryn Lopez, Editor, National Review Online. Her topic will be "Speaker Pelosi Does Not Speak for Me."
Women in the Military (tentative): Captain Kristin Hort, USAF
Women in Academia: (tentative) Mary Keys, 2006-07 Visiting
Women in MA Government: Christina Bain, Executive Director for the Governor's Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence
"Pro-Life and Pro-Woman": Linda Thayer, Massachusetts Citizens for Life
Panel on Balancing Family and a Career in Public Service
Carrie Severino, HLS graduate and clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Dr. Mildred Jefferson, retired surgeon and former chair of the National Right to Life Committee
Greer Swiston, Commissioner, Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, Candidate for State Representative from Newton
Harvard University
But even with this august panel, expect no real changes at Harvard with the new incoming president, the first female in its herstory. Drew Gilpin Faust comes from Radford and is a former director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. See a course sampling at the footnotes: Liberals simply cannot help themselves.
Faust's strongest credential is growing up in Virginia.
Thank you (foot)notes:
From the organizers,
The purpose of the conference is to provide conservative, college-aged women with the opportunity to hear from women who are successfully countering the liberal environments that surround them. Young women, especially on the Harvard campus, are often assumed to be liberal feminists; our conference aims to dispel this unfortunate myth.
Be sure to read liberal feminist president Drew Gilpin Faust's Mingling Promiscuously: A History of Women and Men at Harvard.
The New York Times refers to the new president as Chainsaw Drew (which Your Business Blogger likes) and that she, "...[H]ad dialogues with [her] dead mother over the 40 years since she died." Your Business Blogger has an occasional monologue with my dead dad, but he has not yet dialogued back.
Drew Gilpin Faust was the director of the The Women's Study Program at Penn. Higher education course offerings as,
THEORIES OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY -- ...we will turn to contemporary debates about the limits of transgender identity, gay pride and gay shame, the commodification of identity, the meaning of “queer,” [the Q-word used in the syllabus, no hate mail, please]
WOMEN: US HISTORY 1865-PRESENT -- ...women's liberation, and gay rights...
SCIENCE OF SEX & SEXUALITY -- “On Being Male, Female, neither or both” concluded ... with the following statement: “The definition of sex was (and is) still up for grabs.” In our post-modern world, we have become accustomed to the malleability of gender identity and sexuality. We are also aware that individuals undergo sex reassignment surgeries but by large we assume that transgender people are transitioning from one discrete category to another. Queer activists certainly challenge this assumption, preferring to envision sex, gender, and sexuality on a continuum, but these days even scientists don’t concur about a definitive definition of sex...
KING KONG: MONSTERS & THEIR BRIDES -- This course will incorporate a historical overview of gender, sexuality, race, and religion in monster images...
Higher Education in America?
Cybercast News ServiceA new book Homeland Insecurity... American Children at Risk says yes.
I think not. Red States are better than Blue States. Permit me one anecdotal statistic. Your Business Blogger packed up kith and kin and moved from the blue, communist "Free State" of Maryland and headed south, back to our beloved "Old Dominion." (Home of the University of Virginia and George Mason.)
My car insurance instantly dropped 30%. My personal property insurance dropped.
So I asked USAA Insurance why the huge savings by my merely moving a few dozen miles.
Short answer: Lower risk.
Seems that Maryland is full of terrible drivers and home invaders, criminals and crappy schools. Insurance companies assess rates accordingly.
A citizen is more apt to be a victim of a car wreck or have his home burned down and personal property stolen living in Maryland. My former county in Maryland had horrific public tax-supported education, forcing the Penta-Posse into private alternatives.
A citizen is safer in Virginia. The (apolitical) (profit-motivated) insurance market proves it.
And coincidentally, Virginia is aggressive with criminals. The Commonwealth of Virginia is prompt in emptying death row with Dead Men Walking. Maryland is more "compassionate" with crooks walking...or running for office. Murderers get a pass in Maryland. Murders are executed in Virginia.
So I moved to Virginia. Safer.
Tom McMahon And I'm not the only one. Tom McMahon originally pointed us to the United Van Lines Migration Study showing what states people move out of and into,
Maryland ... continued its 15-year outbound tradition... the United Van Lines study, through the years, has been shown to accurately reflect the general migration patterns in various regions of the country... real estate firms, financial institutions, and other observers of relocation trends regularly use the United data in their business planning and analysis activities.
The only thing United Van Lines gets wrong are the colors. "Inbound" states should be red; "outbound" blue.
Which, as Alert Readers have noted, align with blue state/red state political leanings.
Business and citizens understand the market and benefits and safety of red states.
But not liberal elites. Like Michael Petit.
Monisha Bansal, a CNSNews.com Staff Writer writes in Children More at Risk in Red States, Book Claims,
(CNSNews.com) - A family group voiced deep skepticism Thursday about a new book charging that children in Republican-leaning states are at greater risk than their peers elsewhere because of conservative policies.
[The book] says the risks include "inadequate pre-natal care, lack of health care insurance coverage, early death, child abuse, hunger and teen incarceration."
It was released Thursday by the child advocacy group, Every Child Matters Education Fund, whose president, Michael Petit, authored the book.
"Thanks in large part to the erosion of real federal spending on children and families, mostly engineered by conservatives, the child poverty rate is rising again even as the stock market has climbed," Petit wrote in the book.
"Further, more people are uninsured, real wages are declining, prisons are overflowing, and millions of children live in distressed families facing their struggles alone, thanks in large measure to conservative policy," he said.
Petit based his "red state" versus "blue state" distinctions on the 2004 presidential elections.
Based on that measure, he said, nine of the top 10 states with "the best outcomes for children today" are the Democratic voting blue states of Wisconsin, New Jersey, Washington, Minnesota, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire, with Iowa being the sole red (or Republican voting) state in the group.
Reasoned, seasoned voices challenge the claim. My favorite political scientist is quoted,
Charmaine Yoest, vice president of communications for the Family Research Council, said she was "really skeptical" of Petit's findings....
"They don't appear to have taken into consideration a variety of variables," she said. "You have to be pretty careful about positing causality, and I'm not certain that they have done that.
"They have a very simplistic and disingenuous analysis," Yoest said.
"It is very clear that they are looking for more government programs that involve more government spending and higher taxes," she said.
"Any time you hear advocates on the left talking about children you can be certain that they aren't going to pay attention to the effect of family structure on the well-being of children," Yoest said.
"This project appears to be no different," Yoest argued. "There's somehow this mythical idea that spending equals well-being for children when in fact the research data is incontrovertible.
"The overwhelming evidence has proven that the two-parent family - a mom and a dad, committed for life and caring for kids - provides the best outcomes for children," Yoest said.
Charmaine, as usual, gets it right.
Thank you (foot)notes:
My endorsement of USAA insurance is unpaid.
Full Disclosure: Your Business Blogger served Jim Gilmore, former governor of Virginia. Whenever the courts sentenced death in a capital punishment case, Gilmore always, "Declined to intervene." Virginia has good courts, too.
Cross Post from Jack Yoest at Str*ppers with the uncensored version.
Everybody's Toy, Nobody's Fool
The text and photographs by Jackie Brenner, a photographer, are from the book Friday Night Grind: Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Distributed by the University of New Mexico Press for Fresco Fine Arts Publications and Shine Media Group.
The market segment for the average reader of The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Voted for John Kerry
Doesn't go to church
Loves Darwinism; hates Intelligent Design
Hates George Bush
Hates business/commerce/filthy lucre
Loves pictures of Nekked Women...
...I made up the last point.
However, this is what the professors in the academy are reading. Are you sure you want your daughters near these guys?
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Other favorite pictures articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education include
Painted Ladies, and
This week's pictures are from the April 21, 2006 edition, page B3.
Whenever Your Business Blogger thinks of Bill Clinton, I think of
Cross Post with modifications from Jack Yoest.
The Chronicle of Higher Education arrived in my mail box. In plastic wrap. But it should be covered in brown paper. Remember, Your Business Blogger subscribes for the articles. But I can always count on The Chronicle to titillate.
Here's this edition's nudie pics.
[sorry, may not be ...prudent for Charmaine. But not me. See Jack Yoest, Higher Ed.]
The liberals in academe cannot understand why us parental prudes might not want their daughters dancing naked on campus and posing in paint for publication.
This is bad for the education business. Looks bad on a resume.
But I could be wrong.
Rachel E. Beaulieu (above in tiger stripes), a senior...is treasurer of the Liquid Latex Club,...wanted to improve [her] outlook on the way [she] looked...[and]
...the nudity may attract first-time audience members...
[but]
...Ms. Beaulieu says it is not what the show is about...
And boys read Playboy for the articles.
The co-ed concludes, "It's a very unique experience...the liquid latex allows you to do things you could never do," with conventional cloth and clothes and virtue.
This is a subtle hint to human resource managers: The more a girl has appeared nude in print, the greater the possibility that men would have seen her. And perhaps have stared. Some will oogle.
This is a longitudinal sexual harassment case study in the making.
Ms. Beaulieu, please let us know how the job search progresses.
We'll be watching.
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2006. At least the picture was buried on A6.
Full Disclosure: The wife of Your Business Blogger has been published in The Chronicle. In conventional fashion.
Basil's Blog has a Picnic.
Alert reader, Carl at Gelf Magazine has outstanding reporting and an astute observation.
Dr. Yoest, I saw your post about yesterday's NYT article ...And noticed your comment about the methodology: "The article is heavy on anecdote and fails to ever explain its methodology -- the source of its "data" is email responses from some young women at the Ivy's. So, even though I think the conclusion is interesting and one that I agree with, in all honesty the researcher in me has to point out to you that this is not terribly reliable reporting."
Carl continues:
It seems you had reason to be suspicious. Over at Gelf, to which I contribute, we've run a copy of the survey the NYT reporter emailed to Yale students, as sent to us by one of the recipients. The survey seems to have leading questions, basically implying that all Yale women must be straight and want kids: story here David Goldenberg byline .
Well done. Carl nails it down:
Among the leading questions, many from right at the top of the survey:When you have children, do you plan to stay at home with them or do you plan to continue working? Why?
If you plan to continue working, do you plan to work full-time in an office, or full-time from your house, or part-time in an office, or part-time from your house? Why?
If you plan to stay at home with your kids, do you plan to return to work? If so, how old will you wait for your kids to be when you return?
Was your mom a stay-at-home mom? Explain whether she worked, and how much she worked! Were you glad with her choice (to either work or stay-at-home or whatever combination she did)?
How do you think college-age men at Yale feel about whether wives should stay at home with their kids?/
In polling we call this "priming the pump." It is used to direct answers with subtle questions with subtle assumptions. Good polls are designed to uncover the truth (of opinion) across a broad sample. Bad polls have an agenda. This is, as Carl suggests, a bad survey.
I will have more in coming posts on The NYT's political and cultural agenda.
No matter what our differences in the blogosphere, the work by Gelf Magazine shows us why the NYT chopped 500 jobs and is bleeding red ink. The NYT has lost the public trust -- because of such questionable reporting.
Outside The Beltway has more on the NYT's firings.
Remember Professor Pottymouth?
Now comes the bestseller rankings: #1 is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. No surprise there.
And from Princeton is #6 Bullsh*t, by (tenured) Professor Harry G. Frankfurt*.
These two academic achievements have one thing in common: neither have footnotes.
*As ranked by The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 9, 2005.
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