After many years of traffic gridlock, the Vedder Bridge was replaced this year. The new roundabout and wider lanes make for smoother traffic flow. Here is video of the “launch” earlier this year of the new bridge across the Chilliwack River.
Tag: video
Love and grace come in disguise
When you get married and start your life together, you don’t know what lies ahead. One couple shares their journey of raising a developmentally challenged child. Two quotes from the video that I can relate to:
“Love and grace come in disguise”
and
“These are love messengers among us”
Leading change
I came across a great presentation by Ron Williams, Chairman and CEO of Aetna on innovation and leadership. He made a turnaround at Aetna with new focus on employees and customers and using information technology and fact-based decisions. He spoke at MIT Sloan School of Management. This is a really great session, don’t miss it.
If you only have a few minutes, the first 2/3 of the video is what you should watch. Some key points:
- making the case for change
- transformation through technology in a very short period of time
- 92% of employees take the employee survey (45 minutes)
- key question – is my manager / supervisor practicing the Aetna way (at 83%)
- they had a situation where staff did not admit they worked for Aetna
- employee engagement moved from 48% to 78%
- the are focusing on a high performance organization (expectation, not fear based)
- their performance management system is based on results AND leadership (can’t get results while not developing and leading staff – if you achieve good results but have poor leadership = no reward!
Source: MIT World
Information Overload Syndrome
Some depressing facts (IDC survey):
- Each year the amount of information created in the enterprise, paper and digital combined, grows faster than 65%.
- Non-productive information work, such as reformatting documents or reentering documents into computers, consumed more than $1.5 trillion in U.S. salaries last year.
- Survey respondents spend as much as 26% of their time trying to manage information overload.
- Respondents split their time evenly between dealing with paper and digital information, but 71% prefer to deal with digital information.
- The amount of time U.S. information workers spent last year managing paper-driven information overload cost $460 billion in salaries.
- Reducing the time wasted dealing with information overload by 15% could save a company with 500 employees more than $2 million a year.
Source: IDC survey, Information Overload Site
And more serious:
- 28% – The percentage of the typical workday wasted by interruptions caused by unnecessary information
- 53% – The percentage of people who believe that less than half of the information they receive is valuable
- 42% – The percentage of people who accidentally use the wrong information at least once per week
So what is IOS? Watch this video!