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Zenfolio is running another photo contest, and I'll be competing again. The theme this time is "Character". The final three images here have made previous appearances on the blog, but the first two have never been published before. Without further ado:
MIT Doctoral graduate V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai holds an "Out of Iraq" sign which he created while sitting among graduates at MIT's 2008 commencement. MIT student newspaper The Tech quoted Ayyadurai as saying "[Commencement speaker Muhammad] Yunus was saying powerful things … and we’re supposed to be the next generation of leaders. […] I wanted to wake people up a bit. […] I was upset that no one up there said anything about the fact that we have a war going on."
MIT pole vaulter Patrick Barragán (right) makes a face at friend and coach Nathan Ball as the two wait for a flight along with other members of the MIT track and field teams.
Driver Jason Sams focuses before stepping into his car to start one of his timed afternoon runs at the Top Driver Shootout, a championship-style autocross event held at the end of each year by the Golden Gate Chapter of the BMW Car Club of America. Sams would place second overall in the event, 0.34 seconds behind the first-place driver and 0.02 seconds ahead of third.
"You see, John Hodgman likes Page-A-Day calendars. He expressed his disappointment that his first book wasn't a Page-A-Day calendar, but noted with relief that this was one of the problems remedied in his new book. He selected a page and boasted that the single page served multiple functions. Yes, it was a page of prose, but furthermore, it was yet a single page in a Page-A-Day calendar contained in the new book. And much like a normal Page-A-Day calendar, he explained, when the day is done, you just [tear it out.]
After ripping the page from the book, Hodgman slipped it back between the adjacent pages, and returned the book to its newly-chagrined owner."
From the outset, it was clear that Google's Diwali celebration would be a festival of lights, music, dance, and tradition. What became increasingly clear as the afternoon turned to evening though, was that this was also a celebration of family, friendship, and community. In this image, parents teach their daughter how to properly light a candle. The care they took conveyed the importance of that knowledge, and of the Diwali celebration as a whole.
Johannesburg, March 4, 2016 – As the digital landscape evolves, it’s important that companies have deeper understanding of their customers to ensure advertising effectiveness. Effective Measure (EM) and the IAB SA have launched EM Xtra, a range of services outside the core measurement products. These new offerings to the South African market provide deeper audience profiling and digital research to uncover strategic insights for the industry.
EM Xtra’s offerings position digital measurement and research as cutting edge amongst the media industry. These new offerings will provide publishers and media owners with the ability to add more value to their advertising message and establish closer working relationship between media owners and digital advertising buyers. Preferential rates of these products will be given to all IAB members.
“Pressure on allocating marketing spend to local publishers from global players is a hot topic. The introduction of these EM Xtra products will increase awareness of local online audiences and how to reach them, with a focus on audience optimisation rather than environment,” explains Nicolle Harding, Country Manager Effective Measure South Africa. “Eventually they will afford EM the opportunity to introduce benchmarks, improved media measurement and guidelines on issues such as ad viewability and ad recognition,” Harding added.
These new offerings will provide publishers and media owners with the ability to add more value to their advertising message and establish closer working relationship between media owners and digital advertising buyers. In addition to, and outside of audience measurement, Effective Measure will offer these additional products to publishers, agencies and advertisers that have opted into this separate ecosystem. These EM Xtra products include:
“We’re thrilled to make this innovative tool available to our IAB SA members who will no doubt gain a lot of value and insight from it,” said Josephine Buys, CEO IAB SA.
Effective Measure is a leading provider of digital audience, brand and advertising effectiveness measurement and targeting solutions, bringing best practice online measurement data to premium publishers, agencies, networks, advertisers and researchers. The EM solutions offer brands, media and agencies invested in Oceania, Europe, Southeast Asia, Middle East North Africa and South Africa, a clear insight into their online audience and the ever-growing Internet population. www.effectivemeasure.com.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) South Africa, formerly the DMMA, is an independent, voluntary, non-profit association focused on growing and sustaining a vibrant and profitable digital industry in South Africa. The IAB South Africa represents the digital industry across all sectors including the media, the marketing community, government and the public, and also acts as the channel through which international bodies can enter the South African digital market. The IAB South Africa currently represents over 200 members including online publishers, creative, media and digital agencies, brands and educators between them accounting for more than 33 million local unique browsers and over 1 billion page impressions. The IAB South Africa strives to provide members with a platform through which they can engage, interact and address digital issues of common interest, thereby stimulating learning and commerce within the South African digital space. To find out more about the IAB South Africa, visit its website, Like its Facebook page and follow @iab_sa on Twitter.
Leadership development should always be evolving to adapt to new conditions and make use of new ideas. Enter Deborah Rowland of the London School of Economics who wrote an intriguing piece on their blog, titled, “Leadership development today requires that faculty act less as experts, more as Sherpas.” Here’s the golden kernel.
“Sherpas are a tribe from the Nepalese Himalayas, whose social custom has been to provide humane and courageous guides to climbers visiting their region. There are five features of the Sherpa role that I believe form the essence of the leadership development faculty requirements of today:
3. The key Sherpa’s skill is one of deep listening, to make continued and wise adjustments to the journey
4. Having said that, good Sherpas plan the route carefully, knowing (enough of) the terrain, fixing the ropes in place
5. The deep social custom of the original ethnic Sherpas group was to help imbue each tour with spiritual meaning – climbing the peaks is a sacred act.”
This is a fascinating concept, but I wonder what it would look like in real life. The article reads like the Sherpas are members of a leadership development faculty. But, real Sherpas “walk alongside the climber,” they’re part of the expedition and share in the danger of the journey.
There are obviously other details to work out, like who selects the objective. How do we select/develop Sherpas for leadership development? Taking people to their edge “without having them fall” sounds like a good thing. I wonder where you find enough people who can bring it off consistently. What happens if an aspiring leader goes over the edge?
Leadership development must change because leadership is constantly changing. Leadership challenges change and so communication and training methods. The Sherpa concept isn’t an answer. It’s the starting point for more questions and prototypes.
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