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This is my first Entry in Wikipedia : Wow and I want to start with a brief description of me - via a poem

She is a child, a woman - she is 17. She plays in the woods with owls and thieves. She knows the roads, but keeps no maps. She wants to feel – while knowing the least.

Surreal, or Renaissance, she cares the least. She becomes the character, the theme – she dreams. She changes her moods, her cloak - her sheen. Every day, a theme- a story – a dream. She becomes the theme- the one that she dreams.

Today, she is in her eclectic streak. She stole horses, without feeling the least. She is an actress, a painter – a child – a beast. Hungry for creation, expression and feast – she visited the huts, the Urals and the seas.

What’s certain about her is - uncertainty. She changes her cloak, her dreams – her themes. Across the plains, the jungles – and the seas - she was a warrior, a poet, a queen so mean.

She lives the dreams – of no ordinary themes. Themes, she creates, weaves and dreams. She lives the lives of the princess and the queens. She is not for one with ordinary means. She creates her own – visions and themes.

She changes, not – she becomes- her dreams. The things she creates- the characters she weaves. For some, she is a poet, an inspiration - a dream. A friend, a lover, a prayer – a dream. She’s a child, a woman – she is 17!

User : Olga Lednichenko

Breaking the Cycle of Push and Pull: How to break the Vicious Cycle: managers get into
Too much energy is spent on silly things. Some call it small stuff. Some politics. Some put office or work place before politics. I just call it PUSH-AND-PULL. A bad game. Perhaps, our previous generations are to be blamed for this:

Anyway, here is my WHY. WHAT> HOW of the push-pull game:

Though I am no expert, I have noticed the following Situations:

1. Insecurity-

Many workers with low self esteem & possibly poor social development, feel insecure about their positions. In most cases this stems from paranoia and some sort of hallucination.

Insecure workers feel “small” or “insignificant” compared to confident managers & spend a lot of time thinking “how” to make them “look” small. This, obviously takes their focus away from the tasks they are allocated with & creates a completely unnecessary atmosphere of below the surface hostility.

2. Envy / Jealousy-

This trait is also quite widespread & many of such “envying” managers be from the previous group on “insecure” workers. But they are not necessarily complimentary, just an overlap I’d admit.

Envious managers can pick any quality of the envied manager, to brood about. Success, smartness, domain knowledge, social skills, appearance, acceptability with colleagues of the opposite sex & so on so forth. Just as in personal life, professional envy keeps burning up the worker every time s/he sights the envied ones.

Soon entire energy is spent on trying to prove that the “envied” one is “not” as good as the “jealous” one. As this feeling begins at a very personal level, coworkers may fail to observe the obvious giveaways of such an emotion. However, over a period of time this becomes public knowledge.

3. Competition-

This is a natural “professional” trait & very useful if handled in an unbisaed way. In many cases the competition becomes one-to-one & stoops down to a personal level. Then comes the one-up-manship. Which, again is not necessarily a bad thing. The problem is, many of us are not satisfied by doing “better” than our “rivals”! They also take a lot of initiative to “make the rival look bad” to the management or colleagues. This is one of the most unwelcome scenario & the company management should be able to identify & negate this, ASAP. The problem is, at times even senior-managers choose camps, for ulterior motives & use such “rivals” to their own benefits! Some seniors opt to overlook or avoid getting into a coaching role and allow the fights till professional death of one rival or the other. Unfortunately, the organisation gets polarised & people fail to align to the corporate goals in such a situation. As a result overall output suffers & many novices, who take sides without proper understanding, gets burnt. Weathered veterans jump ship & manage to keep their careers steady, whereas these juniors are left holding a very sour lemon indeed.

4. Inferiority Complex- This can be active, passive & rarely positive.

5. Personal Goals & Targets-

I think this is the biggest problem facing corporations around the globe. There are easy & effective solutions, which the management needs to implement. Not difficult to channelize such negative energy into very beneficial ends. But & it’s a BIG BUT, this can happen only when the management is ready “to see” and “act”.

6. Tendency to make immediate gains-

Generally related to unbridled ambition & material desires. Good corporations can sniff this habit soon

enough, or else, they become the Enrons & Citibanks of the corporate world.

IF you find my observations close to reality, we can discuss more and arrive at some solutions :)

Cheers

Olga Lednichenko

Tribal Wisdom of the Dakota Indians: Critique and Analysis: Olga Lednichenko
Tribal Wisdom of the Dakota Indians: Critique and Analysis: Olga Lednichenko

Dakota Indian tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a colloquial dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

My conjecture - in a submission I made back in summer of 2005 is inline. The short answer is: Wisdom when not followed leads to failure. Below are the examples I gave ( inline) when I supported my hypothesis - back then in the summer of 2005:

Notwithstanding the advise given my the Indians: Modern organizations often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:

Buying a stronger whip:

Examples: IBM’s Expiement with [failed] OS/2 warp, PC business, Apple’s NEXT

Changing riders:

Latest one would be Jerry Yang + Yahoo ..

Saying things like “This is the way we always have ridden this horse” :

We have up teem example of this: SO many that we cant even choose the ones that stand out : How about the NIH Syndrome.

Appointing a committee to the study the horse

Just choose your favorite country. Look inside any agency where Government owns around 50 % of Capital and you wouldn’t run short of examples: Here is One : Alstom + French Government

Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses

Now, This is called Consulting :) and if you must have an example: try Xerox

Increasing the standards to ride dead horses

The politically correct name for this would be: ” For this title we need an advanced Degree -> Got an elite MBA”…Ask your HR

Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horses

The Slicker name of this would be: Consulting + C-team. When needing examples: Check Scot Adams - aka -Dilbert

Creating a training session to increase our riding ability:

Isn’t this called Knowledge Management or Performance Assessment or Change management? -> Do I really need to provide examples? - Oh I forgot -Efficiency and Productivity Improvement workshop : Bain - Anyone? How about : Looking at any thing that smells: Large + Government + Consulting

Comparing the state of dead horses in today’s environment

This would be IBM Global Consulting or Mc Kinsey doing Benchmaking. You know those denominator games.

Passing a resolution declaring: “This horse is not dead”

This is everyone’s favorite. Mine for sure. The Psychological Name is Cognitive Dissonance. The economists call it: SUNK COST. The Consultants call it: Bootstrapping and Boot Camp. The Coaches call it ” Believe in yourself”. The Marketers call it ” Umbrella Branding + Brand-Line Extension”.

Blaming the horses’ ancestry:

History is full of examples: Lets see: Nikita Kruschev- dropping a note to his successor. Bush Blaming the Clinton Administration for Osama’s being still alive. Almost every other government does it ceremonially - comeelection time. And if you must have a coprorate example: Just pick any orgnization - fire up google and type this: “your company” + Previous Management + failure and you would hit the news..

Harnessing several dead horses for increased speed:

Look no further - Just match this: French + National Champion + Culture.. and you pick the examples you like best. Here is one of my favorite: Support of CAP ( cost : $41 Billion and going)

Declaring that “No horse is too dead to beat”:

Do you smell a consulting engagement. Pick any organization where: Stock proce = Going South + McKinsey + IBM = Coming In. How about Lucent Technologies?

Providing additional funding to increase the horse’s performance:

Gosh: Where to begin: How about : Japan + Postal. Bush + War. French +Alstom. … need more - google on it.

Do a study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper:

Sorry the new name is : Outsourcing : How about India + IT

Declare the horse is better, faster and cheaper dead:

This is called : Phased Exit. Flashier name would be : EXIT Strategy. Come on> you don’t need examples from- me - do you?

Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses

This is called Investment banking in some cases, Private Equity in Others..Latest is Lehman

Revisit the performance requirements for dead horses

This is called: Sweat Equity + Cultural Fit

Say that this horse was procured with cost as the independent variable:

This is the most subtle form of NOT admitting a mistake + Passing the buck to Finance

Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position:

Are you talking about your boss or the boss’s boss :)

Cheers

Olga Lednichenko

What is Freedom. What is Liberty? By Olga Lednichenko
Olga Math: What is Freedom. What is Liberty. By Olga Lednichenko

Here are my definitions: what are yours?

Freedom = Not having to ask “What happens tomorrow”…

Complete freedom would entail - replacing NEVER for Not.

Liberty = Control over one’s choices. Free to choose and act

Cheers Olga Lednichenko

Left brain or Right brain? What do you drive? by Olga Lednichenko
Left brain or Right brain? What do you drive? by Olga Lednichenko

Picture this - you are zooming along on a deserted dusty road. Bam! You spot a fork in the road and quickly slam on the brakes. At the fork, a wooden post dangles two directional signs…

‘Right-Brain Thinkers Only –>’ and ‘Left-Brain Thinkers Only –>

‘ Note: you don’t have to be left-handed to be a right-brained thinker and vice versa, and… you can’t go backwards nor sideways.

Which fork in the road would you take and why? Here is my answer:

I dont know about you. When you hit a fork. Think before you take one.

When you hit a fork. Think before you take one.

But its not as simple as a L or R for me.. –> And its because I am thoughtful :)

Left = predictable - but predictable = boring

Right = adventurous - yet - adventure could be draining..



Cheers

Olga Lednichenko 

What is a Woman. Every man should read - BY Olga Lednichenko
Olga Math -> What is a Woman. Every man should read - BY Olga Lednichenko

Ok. SO, I think, I am the one who has to do the man’s job : But before I do that: haven’t you guys ever stopped and thought : IF we dont know what something is -> how can we expect to read the HOw tos:

SO, in the benefit of man-kind: here it is : What is a woman?

Answer -> W O - MAN. Yes. W = Which. O= Other.

So, Woman = WHICH OTHER MAN?

If YOU STILL DIDN’T GET IT: No wonder you are a man. Here’s a bonus : Listen to the words - over and over again. And try to fill this questionnaire:

1. What is the Name of the Man - a woman first encounters when born -> Try Father ..as an answer 2. What is the Second Man she encounters –> Try Neighborhood friend - that boy-soon-to-be-man 3. What is the 3rd Man she encounters–?> Seen Malena? –> Well, its Italian -> Had it been French - it would have had different smells.. Lets not get touchy-feely-american- suddenly 4. What is the 4th Man she encounters -> Well, that Romoeo –> that Lover boy down the lane.. 5. What is the name of the 5th man -> Have you seen ads in Russian papers - those job ads? -> Read the job description -> you’ll get an education. This education is specially important to those who just WANT -> Not KNOW. 6. What is the Name of the 6th man she meets -> Oh.. lets not.. please.. get started.. here.. 7. What is the Name of the 7th man she meets –> The guy - > who is THERE and there - is not HERE.. and you know what that means.. Dont you? 8. What is the Name of the 8th man she meets -> The guy who loves but just cant 9. What is the Name of the 9th guy she meets –> This is a special breed -> they just cry - but never die.. 10. What is the name of the 10th guy she meets : Lets call him the HOPE DIAMOND -> The Liar _> Who is man enough to be honest.. Lets call him Jack Sommersby

I am pissed. Here is a video–> Simple enough for you - men ?

EVERY MAN knows –> 1 - through 10 — yet - they still don’t know what a woman is.. Yes. How to - do a woman — sells.. BUT WHAT a woman is.. doesnt. But there is good news –> Somethings money cant buy - for everything else - try a currency.

Here is in Visceral format of a woman: Now, dont be ashamed –> FACE the Pain..

and guys if you have some interest left: here is what a man is: On Vacation to Peru

On Vacation to Peru

And this is a MAN - An honest Liar -

~ by olgalednichenko on August 28, 2008.

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[...] What is a WOMAN ? For those who need to check what a woman is: here is the short of it : A W O MAN = Which Other Man. That’s ALL. The long of it can be had here.. [...]

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