Personal Space Presentations 2

• Things Americans do that offend people:
• Saudi Arabia - 
• India - When people ask what class they are
• Southern Mexico - Personal space. Greet with hug/kiss, more space = bad.
• Germany - dont drive on the sidewalk
• Vietnam - respect for elders
• Egypt - You must eat alot. Putting your feet up.
• Vietnam - it is not acceptable to accept items with one hand. It is not normal to split the bill. It is not appropriate to greet with slang
• India - It is offensive to touch someones head.
• India - only eat with right hand
• Chili - Not supposed to point
• Chili - always keep hands visible while eating

• Rules that are different
•  Saudi Arabia - religion guides business
• India  - Arranged Marriages, dont want to show skin
• India- slight wave - means go away

• How is Business conducted differently
• Mexico - similar, but many times it  involves corruption.
•  Saudi Arabia - Religion is 
• India - Always use someones proper full name. Handshakes okay. Proper pants and nice shirt, suits arent common.

Personal Space Presentations

• Things Americans do that offend people:
• Dutch - dont do handshakes?
• Brazil - No personal space
• Brazil The okay sign is very not okay.
• China - stand less than arms length apart
• No touching
• spitting in public is common
• Present/Recieve with two hands
• Saudi Arabia
• Stand less than arms length apart 
• Converse with same gender
• Never show bottom of foot
• Fingers toward the floor?

• How is Business conducted differently
• Mexico - similar, but many times it  involves corruption.
•  Saudi Arabia - Religion is 
• India - Always use someones proper full name. Handshakes okay. Proper pants and nice shirt, suits arent common.

Randi Mays-Knapp - It's Not About the Food

Its not about the food - Randi Mays-Knapp

Companies want to trust that you know how to behave in business & social situations and will not exhibit behaviors that will embarrass yourself or the company

The  Consequences - Do you lack the self-control to be good at what you do professionally?

The Goal -To be memorable as a conversationalist and as someone who focuses on the person and not what fork to use.

"An aggie ring can open a lot of doors, but a firm handshake and good eye contact will leave it open.

Etiquette

• The forms, manners and ceremonies established by convetion as acceptable or required in social relations in a profession or in official life.
• Times change and this affects the guidelines of etiquette.
• Common sense will typically be your best guide.

Why learn dining etiquette?

• You never know who is watching you.
• Over half of business takes place or is finalized at dining a table.
• Gain knowledge so you can navigate business events involving food.
• Allows you to focus on building or enhancing relationships.

The Little Things

• silence cell phone - not in sight
• Approach chair from the right
• Sit appropriate  distance from table
• Feet flat on floor
• Napkin on lap
• Napkin to side of plate when finished
• Napkin on chair if you have to leave temporarily
• Posture erect
• Men - no caps]

What to do with stuff

• Jackets remain on & unbuttoned
• Sunglasses, Keys, cell phone, portfolio go underneath your chair or on seat next to you in booth
• Nothing goes on the table
• Keep area in front of you clean
• Do not rearrange Items
• Handbags in a safe place

What is yours:

• Napkin on left
• B and D. Solids on left, Liquids on right.
• Everything travels to the right
• Outer fork first - smaller - salad fork
• knife with cutting blade facing in
• Outer spoon - soup spoon
• Inner spoon - general utilitarian
• Glasses sit above knives

Basic Rules:

• Anything that is removed from the table does NOT go back on
• Work from the outside in with the utensils
• Personal grooming belongs in the rest room
• No lickking of utensis or your fingers
• Wisdom is knowing when to apply the rules

Iced Tea

• Sugar packet folded & placed under bread & buttter plate
• Cup your hand over lemon as you squeeze
• Lemon in glass or bread & butter plate
• Stir quietly & do not lick spoon
• Remove spoon from glass
• No straws/toothpicks

Eating Bread

• Tear off small bite-sized pieces

Two Styles of Eating

• American or zig zag method
• Hold your fork - (like normal handhold. sortof like chopsticks)
• Cutting - fork in left, knife in right
• Put knife at top of plate blade down,

Positions

• Knife across 12, Fork from 4 to 11 - Resting Position
• Knife and for parallel from 4 to 11 - Finished Position

Eating your Salad

• May either cut with side of fork or fork & knife
• Cherry tomatoes?
• "I don't like salad" - play with food, just pretend like your going to eat it.
• WHO CARES IF YOU DONT LIKE SALAD? NOBODY EXCEPT YOU BRANDI BECAUSE YOURE SHALLOW AND JUDGEMENTAL

Continental Style Dining

• Hold utensills in your hands and rest wrists on edge of the table.
• Knife is used as a pusher
• Tines down as food is raised to mouth
• Bend from waist
• Resting - knife from 4 to center and fork from 8 to center
• Finished - same as american

Dessert

• Cut with side of fork and slip tines under small piece
• Do not bring plate up to your mouth
• Hold serving dish if necessary

Partnering with wait staff

• Signal you are ready by closing menu
• Best way to say thank you - tip
• Be gracious as accidents will happen
• Use eye-contact to get server's attention

Understanding Other Cultures

• Eating noises okay in some
• Chopsticks or fingers as utensils
• Refusing food
• Eating everything on plate or leaving something to show respect
• Study befire traveling. Watch others. Ask Questions.

Paul K Carolton

Lieutenant General (Dr.) Paul Kendall Carlton Jr. (born May 13, 1947)[1] was the 17th Surgeon General of the United States Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Bolling Air Force Base, D.C.

General Carlton was commissioned after being honored a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in 1969. He is a fellow and former Air Force governor of the American College of Surgeons. He was named a consultant in general surgery to the Air Force surgeon general in 1981. He conceptualized and implemented the first Air Force rapid-response surgical team in Europe—the flying ambulance surgical trauma team. He remains an active surgeon having performed more than 4,000 operations as principal surgeon and 6,000 as first assistant. He has published extensively in medical literature.

An active flier, General Carlton holds Federal Aviation Administration commercial, instrument, multi-engine, glider and instructor ratings. During Operation Desert Storm, he commanded the 1702nd Air Refueling Wing Contingency Hospital, completing 32 combat support missions and 140 combat flying hours in the C-21, C-130, KC-10 and KC-135. He retired from the Air Force December 1, 2002.

Christine Holliden - Fearless Foresight

• Creative Thinking -
• Right vs  Left Brained
• Right Brain tends to remember expirience and general concept
• Left Brain captures details
• When you merge them - thats where creativity and innovation come from.
• Seems like a bunch of repetitive stuff we've been covering all semester.
• Divergent & Convergent Thinking -
• Divergent Thinking - same as noted abov
• Convergent thinking - this is what I've expirienced, apply realm of reality to problem or issue.
• This is a skill that can be learned and enhanced.
• Innovation - 
• Thinking and behaving differently to create something
• Internal & external
• We apparently dont know what a freaking habbit is
• Apparently were not old enough to be drinking either? wtf?? Does she think we are Middle school kids?
• There are opportunities right before us...If you just pause and ask "why am I doing this"

Pat Thielke - CEO 1Spire and Consumer Solutions

• Pat Thielke - CEO of 1Spire and Consumer Solutions
• What organization has constantly visible leadership? The military.
• That’s where his career started.
• He dove into a mess, and found a creative way to inspire people to do better at what they did. The military would have a scoreboard, and people who did well rose up and the failures became the butt of jokes. It worked ridiculously well.
• You’re not leading so that someone pats you on the back. The best leader would make the people feel that they accomplished the work themselves. When you do things right, people won’t know you did anything at all.
• One of his factory lines made diapers, and a leader decided they needed that line moved to Bogota. Pat advised against it but they did it anyway and the line sat in customs for almost a year. It rusted, and it was a contributing factor for that company running out of business.
• Since 2000, he’s been starting up companies. Bootstrapping : Generating sales to promote the company to move further. Actively avoiding funding, no debt.
• 1spire has introduced a new form of mobile advertisement. Don’t assume because your fundraiser is successful you can just spend that and not look for more funds. You will fail. You also don’t want to abuse your support system.

Meg Lassarat - CFO - Universal Pegasus

• The case for globalization
• Economic growth in China, India, and surrounding emerging markets
• Middle class consumers are increasing their standard of living
• Must design for less expensive
• Squeezed manufacturing profit margins
• Formation of local economic blocks which put restrictions on the “Product Import” culture
• Economic zone:  avoid import/export taxes, improves local economy, set up by countries
• Moving into the future

• World population will reach 10 billion
• China will become the world’s leader in patents and “created in China” will replace “Made in China”
• What percentage of the world’s population lives on less than $1 per day? 20%
• Corporate Model: Maturity Cycle

• More successful companies have adopted a more responsive structure that capitalizes on the breadth of the organization while nimbly adapting to local changes
• 4 business models reflecting maturity of globalization
• Multinational Companies
• Global Companies
• International Companies
• Transnational Companies
• What percentage of the world’s smokers live in developing countries? 82%
• Making it Happen

• Internationalization strategy
• Market research
• Consumers
• Infrastructure
• Country/regulatory
• Employees per hour
• Operational benefits and constraints
•  Financial realities
• Treasury
• Regulatory
• accounting
• in Kenya, bribery payments make up what percentage of the average household budget? 1/3
• people

• regulation
• defining need
• finding people
•  inculcation and training
• repatriation & turnover
• how much does it cost to send someone international? 1.2 million dollars
• story on working in Saudi Arabia – females working in the middle east

The Heartbleed Bug

More than half of the businesses that run some kind of network use a security protocol called "OpenSSL" which handles the encryption handshake between the client (usually you as the user) and the server (the data you want).

Recently, a bug in the OpenSSL code was found (apparently known about by the NSA and the lies) called "Heartbleed" that takes advantage of a certain function in the OpenSSL method. Clients periodically send out a "Heartbeat" to the server, which is a chunk of data that has a keyword, and the server responds back with the keyword, as a check to see that the server still has a secure connection to the client. "Heartbleed" takes advantage of this "Heartbeat" function. It sends a keycode, and the LENGTH of the word. The server accepts this word, and responds with the WORD up to the given length. Heartbleed takes advantage of the fact that the server doesnt check that the LENGTH matches the length of the word (a bug in the code). So if the client sends "Giraffe" and tells the server it is 1mb long, the server will respond with 1mb of data starting with the keyword, and filling the rest of the space with other chunks of the servers memory. This is very, very, vert bad. With enough heartbleed attempts, the attatcker sending these can rebuild the servers memory on its side. This can include usernames, passwords, addresses, credit card numbers, or anything else stored on the server.

The problem lies with the popularity of the OpenSSL method. It is used by practically everyone. So overnight, almost the entire internet became insicure. This has a huge effect on businesses, who would be responsible if/when users data was stolen or recorded. 

It will be interesting to watch the business effects as time progresses.

I Should Start My Own Business

I have a small problem I would like to ponder out loud about. 

I do freelance App development for Iphone/Android phones as a part-time hobby/job. I found all of my work through a single craigslist ad. I have already completed and/or been working on 3 different big projects as a result of this ad.

The problem is I have too many people responding. I have to turn down tons of potential work. It really bothers me that I cannot handle that much durring school.

I feel like I need to hire a couple developers and probably a graphic designer under me, which will allow me to accept all the work that is coming to me, as well as have quality improvements in the results. I will have more people to do QA as well as better visual and UI designs.

Maybe one day when I get enough of a financial base, I will attempt this endevor.

Watching these people in class has been very, very encouraging. A bunch of the people that started their own business started with nothing more than what I have.

I will continue to juggle the idea. But I feel like as a non-business major, I will need to buy a bunch of books and get to reading.

Ideas Challenge Presentations 2

Ideas Challenge Presentations

Bonnie McLoud & Alan Colyer - Gensler

• 1st largest architect firm 
• Architecture from the inside out 
• 43 locations 
• 20 practice areas 
• 2,235 Clients in 2012 
• Diversity helped them stay successful in 2008 downturn 
• Hospitality and entertainment got hit bad 
•  Education continued to have projects 
• Offices in 12 countries 
• 152 languages spoken by employees 
•  Refer to themselves as a design company, not technically an architecture firm 
• All projects are done sustainably 
• Follow the clients – never open an office without a client in place 
• Gensler Exchange – internship programs 
• Companies responsibility to make sure their employees are equipped with the tools to be successful globally 
• Cross cultural management 
• Research the taboos 
• Avoid humor; it rarely translates 
• Avoid slang and jargon 
• Err on the side of formality 
•  Be mindful of the love/hate relationship with the US 
• South and Central America 
• Build relationships; it’s who you know 
• Respect individual and country 
• Show local commitment 
• Never speak ill of local business 
• Speak their language 
•  Middle East: been one of the most successful 
• Emphasize size, reach and blue chip client list 
• The color red is not liked 
•  Asia 
• Find the cheapest solution or merely “scare” the front runner 
• Build bilingual marketing into design collateral but avoid a complete translation 
• Europe 
• Understand the “being the biggest” is a turn-off 
•  Emphasize our breadth of expertise: it’s a turn-on 
•  Advice for working abroad 
• Don’t presume the client understands English 
• 3 work days = 5 days due to travel 
• Use local partners to minimize language and travel issues 
• Insist on a retainer prior to project initiation 
• Know that design competitions are a gamble 
• Familiarize yourself with cultural nuances 
• Social protocols 
•  Dining habits 
• Proper clothing/attire 
• Tone down your voice 
• Successful because of listening to the client and be a part of their team 
• 22. 90% of profit is delivered to the employees

Kirk Koburn - Houston Angel Investors - Surge

• Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered: if you get greedy you get slaughtered
•  CEO of Serge
• Never give anyone the “table for one” when you leave a company
• Money won’t solve your problems
• Challenge: be the best at whatever you do
• Surge

• Solve the world’s energy problems using software
•  Energy is out greatest challenge and our largest opportunity
• World is growing by 9 Billion people and double use of energy of 100 billion barrels
• Decentralization
• Software is revolutionizing every industry but energy
• Google owns the world
• Top 3 accelerator in the world
• What matters: find a job you have passion for…your major doesn’t matter
• From the skill comes passion and out of passion comes creativity

•  Even heroes have to fight dragons…figure out your calling cause it will make it easier
• Hire, fire, manage, and reward based on your core values
• Culture

• Know thyself
• Entrepreneurs first
•  Inclusiveness
• Unconventional: beer in the office, water balloon fights
• Passion creates hustle
• Integrity
• Surround yourself with people who believe in what you are doing
•  7 key areas to be successful in

• Spiritual
• Career
• Financial
• Relationships
• Physical
• Social
• Personal development
• To much is given, much is expected
• Outsource everything you are not good at

Elevator Pitch Presentations 2

• Group - 13
• Pocket lined with mobile-cloth. Keeps phone clean while you wear it.
• Hair-brush you can peel to clean
• Smart Remote - Built in helper to help turn things on/off
• Group 16
• The Great Divider - cereal divider
• Limit amount of money you can spend at certain stores
• Ring that goes around drinking glass. adds flavors
• Group 4
• Pandora-like music app. Target culture over genre.
• Barcode scanner - Pulls up expiration dates, recipies, etc
• Hand-warmer wrap to put around handle bars, gold clubs, umbrellas, etc
• Group 5
• one piece of clothing for any weather
• games built into handles on bus
• app to play mood music
• Group 2
• keyboard bodyheat -> charger
• station with iron/steamer in airports for business men/wemen
• website that will scan notes to flashcards
• Group 20

• Group 8
• Quick Cast - Plaster-like powder to form a quick arm cast
• Aquavest - Filla  vest with water. Kills bacteria
• Heated Trash Compactor-  Turns trash into fake particle board.
• Group 17
• Multi-untensil - like the multicolored pen things
• Business App - Virtual business card saver - Bump to swap info, etc
• Consolidates Monthly payments into one big payment. Add donation support
• Group 3
• Vita-Bottle  - Water bottle that cleans/provides vitamins
• Breathalyzer Bracelet -
• App that analyzes tastes to tell which foods you would like abroad
• Group 10
• Baby Mop Onesie -Baby crawls around and cleans
• Phone case card dispenser
• Shoes with interchangable soles

Elevator Pitch Presentations

• Group 22
• Displayport to all adapter
• Gutting abandoned buildings for??
• Restraunt app - take pic, pull up menu, order, pay
• Group 7
• Parking garage app - light up floor and tell you where. pay per space
• Product to prevent sex trafficking. Belt with built in GPS.
• Testing kits for foodborn illnesses
• Group 14
• Door knock unlocker
• Dashcam app for phones
• Body temp bracelet - controls AC/Heating in hosue
• Group 9
• Silent lawn-mower
• Shoe skins- go over shoes, make like brand new. Replacable instead or replacing shoe
• Chair with kickstand so it wont fall backwards
• Group 11
• Pill to reacclimate to different altitudes.
• Automated Washer/Dryer.
• Edible food staples. Keep food together.
• Group 23
• App to track keys
• Cuzi with brethalizer (?)
• Shock ring - wake you up.
• Group 12
• Bluetooth measuing cup - changes with phone
• Fire alarm app -
• Mail scanner - Notifies you if important mail shows up
• Group 15
• Holographic teaching helmet - teaches you langauges
• automatic washer-hair-dryer hat.
• Automatic food seasoner
• Group - 18
• Burn-proof oven
• Toilet - Generates electricity, poop makes fertilizer.
• Learning Apps - Like Duo-Lingo for all subjects