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When Tokong Said Rasuah Caused Banjir, Remember?

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  1. limpehkong says:

    It is true that Mahathir created the environment which brought us to our pathetic situation today but it doesn’t mean we cannot change it. To me whether he is leading this charge now or not does not matter – we need to push through the required institutional change and to start that we need to vote with our feet and aspiration. Not point crying over spilt milk – it’s what we need to do next that’s our focus and first and foremost is to clean up the mess. On the Malay ethnic group, I do see a distinction betwee. The urban and rural group. Malaysia will continue to urbanize and I see that this will bode well for the country as we have a bigger pool of better educated group who can see clearly what is right and wrong and not vote on immediate cash, communal or religious tones. The base for the likes of the red shirts will continue to shrink.

    • Anonymous says:

      I disagree. Mahathir did not create the environment which brought us to our pathetic situation today. Najib brought the situation.

      No “misappropriation of funds”, no huge losses like 1MDB. Who caused the forex losses has not been determined by the RCI. No Asian financial crisis or currency speculator George Soros attacking rhe Ringgit during Najib’s time yet the situation is pathetic.

      Ang you have to explain what “environment”, why and how it is attributable to Mahathir for readers to believe you.

      • OctoberFest says:

        Who gives DBKL the rights to be our moral guardian?

        Anyone who thinks this beer fest is a vice can stay away, and anyone who wants a couple of drinks should be allowed to attend.

        • a says:

          Remember, DBKL has been guided by Article 3 of the Constitution that spells out very clearly, “Islam is the religion of the Federation.” That gave them ample rights to be your “moral guardians”, comprende?

          No other religion is mentioned in the Constitution though people are free to practice their own religions. The established religions, of course. Not such things as “Atheists” and “Free Thinkers” who may keep to themselves that they are so, without propagating the fact they are so.

          Note that even the Shi’ah Islam is prohibited in this country, arrests have been made and punishment meted out on those trying to practice it here.

          And note also that Oktoberfest festival is German culture. No such thing as importing that into this country when it involves only beer drinking as Islam forbids alcohol. Islam is practiced by about 60% of the population of this country.

      • Ang Tao Peng says:

        “Ang you have to explain what “environment” ”

        That’s masturbating over the word “environment”.

        That’s patronising the readers who are infinitely more informed than the pathetic you.

        And he is not “Ang”, who, obviously induce paranoid fear in you of being put in your place very easily.

        • Anonymous says:

          Umno is using political psychology to impress on Pakatan Harapan members in order to influence them to jump ship like Mohammad Taib, the King of Frog. Of all people, from this Umno information chief, Annuar Musa! Any one taken in or believe him must be cuckoo like him. The PM must be feeling very insecure and desperate at this moment, hence request people like Annuar and Salleh Keruak to come up with statements to boost their confidence and ego!

          • Anonymous says:

            The problem with youth in Malaysia nowadays is life is too good. Just wait for handouts from parents, or the Government. Many refuse to work hard, or even work at all. The 19-30 year olds, without any family commitment is worst of all. They don’t know what is going on, can’t be bothered with what the government or the opposition is doing. I employ plenty in my organisation and that is my honest experience. Change of has to come from old sweats like us, or those struggling to make ends meet. Forget about the youth vote changing the government.

          • Anonymous says:

            “youth vote changing the government”?

            That’d be very much welcome. Mr Cash Is King and Kleptocracy gomen must be changed. The country will be destroyed or made stagnant of progress by corruption, otherwise.

            Many will become eunuchs who perpetrated corruption in China of old. China has stagnated a lot due to corruption. Became prominent in world affairs only in the last 2-3 decades. Despite thousands of years of history.

            Mr Cash Is King does not appear to have any substantive program to rein in the youth. The Youth Minister too concerned about being PM by the age of 40 and Mr Cash Is King so preoccupied with keeping power that he has allowed the daily increase in the drug addicts population.

            From north to south, east to west, new addicts enter the market every day. The poor kampong folks have no peace, bananas on tree by the windows and jackfruits by the kitchen got walloped by the dadah buggers every now and then.

            6 of the 7 arrested for causing the fire and death of 24 hostelites and teacher in Kg Dato Keramat, KL, a few days ago were drug addicts.

            Change the leaders and let the new ones organize programs that’ll curb the dadah menance among the youth etc.

        • Anonymous says:

          Always rude and abusive Ang Tiunama even wants to masturbate the environment. Mad bugger.

          Damn conceited assuming any “Ang” is him, when that “Ang” above was a mistype of the word “And”.

          Conceit is a also a delusion of grandeur which is a symptom of his madness.

    • Anonymous says:

      卖华所谓的 “捍卫华裔权益“ 就是卑鄙地跟兽像一起恐吓、威胁华裔！！ 你们国憎欠全马华裔一个诚恳的道歉，然后滚蛋！

      卖华公公天天高喊 “捍卫华裔权益“。兽相歹人当着卖华党魁领袖以及万多名华裔面前公然当众恐吓华裔，扬言若国家不和平，你们华裔将“首当其冲当箭靶“！ 这不是公然挑衅，恐吓威胁和欺压是什么呢？ 你们马华领袖听后还不立即勇敢站起来大声抗议 “种族主义者“ ，叫他滚蛋，还无耻地带动群众摇旗呐喊，助威叫阵？

      马华竟然是这样的狼狈为奸出卖华裔，你们还是人吗？ 原来你们卖华60年来就是这样来 “捍卫华裔权益“ 的吗？祖先看到都羞耻之尽，真的走狗！

      • Anonymous says:

        Kurang Ajar Tulisan Cina Bukit

        Pendatang ini kurang ajar tak habis habis. Di beritahu dengan Bahasa Inggeris berkali kali pasal menggunakan tulisan cacing di blog yang biasa dengan BI dan BM, tidak di peduli nya. Tak hormatkan Perlembagaan Negara berkenaan penggunaan BM dan bahasa ibunda.

        Ini nyata Cina Bukit, turun temurun “hill tribes of South China” yang professor sejarah kata menduduki Selatan China sabelom penduduk Utara China turun ke selatan beribu tahun dahulu. Berkahwin campuran dah beribu tahun, tapi tabi’at Cina Bukit itu tidak hilang.

        Mereka di bawa ke negara ini dek celaka British kolonial sebagai kuli (coolies) di abad 19. Cina Bukit sudah tentu tidak bertamadun, tak reti bahasa, tak hormatkan sesiapa, tak hormatkan Perlembagaan negara berkenaan Bahasa Kebangsaan, maka telah di halau berhijrah ke negara yang Perlembagaan nya mereka hormati.

        • Anonymous says:

          Mat Taib returned to Umno a major breakthrough for desperste Umno? Mr PM Sir, wrong choice of news. Now people are laughing at you. If you were to ask me I would suggest that you call for the emergency meeting to propose that all men are much encouraged to marry 2 at least with expenses fully sposored plus cash money RM500,000.00 each, claimable to Khazanah, Petronas, 1MDB, UMNO Treasury, Baitulmal and the likes. Now, that is real news. It will create continuous verbal lovable war between men an women for a long time and people will appreciate 1MDB for sure, thus u will have a peaceful mind. Think about it. If u agree, I will send u my bill.

          • Anonymous says:

            He has no chance to marry 2. Fat Mama will tear him to pieces.

            So, sorry, he won’t pay you your bill.

            But can get your revenge on him at Pru14.

          • Anonymous says:

            This is just an UMNO in-house matter. Why need to disrupt the works of the Menteri Besars and DPM just because he thinks he has caught an old rotten fish worthy of winning back Selangor. Probably he has forgotten this guy doesn’t have any role in PKR nor PH. He was probably seating around waiting for crumbs and finally dedak came. He jumped for the bait. Good riddance. Goodbye. P/S, have you ever considered the possibility ofPH playing back all his previous speeches made in election campaign condemning UMNO & BN. just an UMNO in-house matter. Why need to disrupt the works of the Menteri Besars and DPM just because he thinks he has caught an old rotten fish worthy of winning back Selangor. Probably he has forgotten this guy doesn’t have any role in PKR nor PH. He was probably seating around waiting for crumbs and finally dedak came. He jumped for the bait. Good riddance. Goodbye. P/S, have you ever considered the possibility ofPH playing back all his previous speeches made in election campaign condemning UMNO & BN.

          • Anonymous says:

            In the sports world, this would have been akin to Real Madrid calling the world press together, only to say that they had signed a washed out footballer for their first team. Umno signed Mat Tyson to win Selangor? Mat Tyson has been a mole in PKR?

          • Anonymous says:

            Umno always spit then slurp their saliva back.

            The ones laden with flies and TB germs, let them.

            The germs will come out just b4 GE14.

          • Anonymous says:

            Hari ini dalam sejarah – Muhammad Taib’s scandal in Australia.

            In 1997, he was stopped at Brisbane airport carrying close to US$1 million cash, following which he was forced to step down from his post as Selangor MB.

            Muhammad was later found not guilty after pleading that he did not understand English and could not understand the regulations.

          • Anonymous says:

            What a joke , Najib pulled on the whole of Malaysia with his announcement about Mike Tyson. A tainted has been condemned by the Selangor Sultan in 2015. After the Trump fiasco, they must be really desperate. to spin the news.

          • Anonymous says:

          • Anonymous says:

            PAS and PKR takde DEDAK lah. TAK dapat Cari MAKAN dan CURI MAKAN. Patutlah Mat Taib’s u turn bslik ke pangkuan Umno.

          • a says:

            “the possibility of PH playing back all his previous speeches made in election campaign condemning UMNO & BN”.

            Good point. Sure PH would. No need to have a Dirty Tricks Dept (like Umno has) to do that.

            PH should have tapes of the Mike Tyson’s Umno condemnation ready and play them the moment SPR announces PRU14.

        • Anonymous says:

          This is Najib’s fifth political disaster in a week. Isn’t it enough? What were the other four Najib political disasters in a week?

          The first was Najib’s visit to White House and meeting with US President Donald Trump on Sept 12 – a national humiliation and shame for 30 million Malaysians as the Malaysian prime minister was publicly branded a kleptocrat and “MO1” in the US Department of Justice (DOJ) largest kleptocratic litigation to confiscate US$1.7 billion 1MDB-linked assets in the US, UK and Switzerland.

          And we have the Malaysian prime meeting the US president without making any attempt for two years to clear or cleanse himself and Malaysia of the infamy and ignominy of a global kleptocracy.

          But worse was to come when the Najib-Trump meeting at the White House took place, when Najib went like a supplicant, bearing gifts like “bunga mas” in olden history, with three “value propositions” to “strengthen” the American economy to make America great again.

          The first five Malaysian prime ministers – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Abdul Razak Hussein, Hussein Onn, Mahathir Mohamad and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi have never acted like a supplicant or a vassal state compromising Malaysia’s sovereignty. Making the whole farce even more incredible, the secretary-general to the Finance Ministry tried to deny that Najib had said the three “value propositions” were to strengthen the American economy – a blatant attempt to deny the undeniable as what Najib said was released in the transcript of the 5-minute 58-second Najib-Trump exchange at the beginning of the White House meeting, and the transcript was released by none other than the White House.

          The second was Najib’s speech at the MCA-organised Chinese Community Patriotic Assembly at the Umno headquarters in Kuala Lumpur yesterday where he threatened the Chinese saying that “the Chinese community would be targeted should Malaysia ever descend into chaos…If there is no peace in our country, what will happen? The Chinese will be the first to be targeted if there is no peace in this country.”

          No leader should ever threaten the people or any community to gain votes in the way Najib had singled out the Chinese community yesterday.

          Has Najib forgotten about the article “Malaysia’s Record of Democracy and Free Speech is Strong” on the eve of his US visit?

          Is this why he ignored the challenge to him to prove that he is a true democrat by declaring that he would democratically and peacefully transfer power to Pakatan Harapan if Malaysians voters decide on a change of government in Putrajaya in the 14th General Election and that there won’t be riots or any declaration of emergency as some have claimed?

          The third political disaster which Najib committed in a week is the perfunctory manner he celebrated Malaysia Day as Prime Minister of Malaysia – spending less than 24 hours in Sabah (completely ignoring Sarawak) just to attend the official events in Kota Kinabalu last night.

          Najib’s fourth political disaster in a week is to be called a “crook” by World Bank former president Paul Wolfowitz and Newsweek magazine, and Najib dare not sue them for defamation.

          Five political disasters in one week – isn’t it enough?

          • a says:

            Tapes, photos and write-ups on “Najib’s five political disasters in a week” should also be readied for use at Pru14. Including the above.

            And we must also try to preempt Najib resorting to the use of the National Security Act and declare emergency in certain areas as an excuse to postpone GE14.

            This is by talking about it as often and as much as possible. So that he knows the rakyat is fully aware of that cheap trick and must not resort to it.

          • Anonymous says:

            a, yoo can see (not sure about Ang) the association between IS and who wins in GE14. Is Najib saying if BN wins, there will NOT be any IS threats against the Chinese? And if PH wins, there wIll be IS threats against the Chinese? More likely what Najib means is if PH wins, he will orchestrate another May13 so he can declare a state of emergency. The chaos will create a necessary diversion so he can escape prison. Strangely MCA organised the Patriotic Assembly on 916 for MO1 to scare the chinese with May 13 bogeyman?

          • Anonymous says:

            “Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Abdul Rahman Dahlan, who had confirmed that Malaysian Official 1 (MO1) is Najib, said since the prime minister was not named in the suits, he is not the subject of the kleptocracy investigation.”

            Better “not named in the suits yet” and “he is not yet now the subject of the kleptocracy investigation.” At least, that is true in the minds of fair-minded people.

            Anyway, whether or not One is named, it is reasonable to think that One is nonetheless under investigation. Otherwise, why or how to have acknowledged one as MO1?

            And, whether or not One is named in the suits, One is already implicated on the basis of evidence, and there is allegedly culpable guilt. Is that not carved in eternity?

            If One is the minister of finance, One is responsible and accountable for 1MDB. Whatever deal Potus has cut with One, privately or otherwise, that deal has to be important to Potus/US and One.

            Likely, more important to Potus/US than it is to One. China? Islamic State?

          • Ang Tao Peng says:

            “called a “crook” by World Bank former president Paul Wolfowitz”

            No issue there.

            Wolfowitz, the mass murderer butcher of Iraq fell a great height into disgrace.

            And his “Pacific century” was a serious flop.

            And so was his stooge and protégé bugger Anwar!

            At least Najib has a lot more class than Kerala soiled Kelingnex ar sewipe Mugathir McKutty.

            And more class than Tamil Taiko boys’ backside bonker Anwar!

          • Anonymous says:

            You, commie Chinese Secret Agent Provocateur, arse wipe commoe Chinese boss’s assol?

            Coming out with funny opinions like “Wolfowitz, the mass murderer butcher of Iraq fell a great height into disgrace” without any substantiation or justification.

          • Anonymous says:

            Anonymous September 18, 10:49 am,

            The bloke Ang Tiunama cannot see any association, not even his clan association.

            Because Mubarak Chan has observed that he is not even a Chinaman when he berated the Hakkas and the Hokkiens.

            Calling him a Shanghai dog is very fitting.

          • Anonymous says:

            What Najib threatened at MCA Patriotic Assembly is nothing new. Badawi issued the same threat ov violence if they lost the day before the polls for GE12. This the MSM carried on the front page on the day of the polls.My question is who will cause the violence? Certaily not the victors. They will be celebrating and fighting over who becomes Minsiter of this or that. Only losers and gangsters issue these kinds of threats. Maybe he went to Trump to get his permission to issue these kinds of threats.

          • Anonymous says:

            “Only losers and gangsters issue these kinds of threats.”

            And fellas who are desperately scared of losing Pru14. The kind that at Pru13 lost the popular votes, the 2/3 Parliamentary majority and got the worst election results in Umno/Bn history. After the humongous 1MDB scandal and now the DoJ focusing on the criminal aspects of their investigations, Najib’s US visit did not bring much to shout out about, they really get weak knees.

            We must take not that the Kleptocrat Mr Cash Is King might assess he’d lose Pru14 and pre-empt it by declaring emergency in certain areas and using it as an excuse to postpone Pru14.

            Doing so under what pretext? Well … your guess is as good as mine, but pretexts there can always be.

        • Anonymous says:

          The Perlis Road Transport Department (JPJ) officer whose Mandarin skills impressed netizens has received an excellence award by the Department.

          Nur Syafiqah Azaman, 23, received an award from JPJ director-general Datuk Shaharuddin Khalid on Thursday in recognition of her actions that helped promote the good name of the Department.

        • Anonymous says:

          Umno delegate labeled China as “the future” during the 2016 UMNO General Assembly. According to Datuk Dr Wan Norashikin who is the Pasir Salak Umno delegate, Malaysians should take initiatives to establish good relationships with China.

          She also said that if Malaysians wanted to be taken seriously by China as business partner, they must first learn Mandarin in order to eliminate the language barrier. Therefore, she urged Malays to be proactive in learning Mandarin.

          Read more at WOB: http://www.worldofbuzz.com/umno-delegate-urges-malays-learn-mandarin-china-future/

      • Anonymous says:

        • Anonymous says:

          Comments in Chinese language not a high culture
          By persisting in writing in worm language, are you trying to show it is higher culture? Do be informed that “culture is defined as the sum total of the experiences of a society – the good and the bad.”

          When the bad is preponderant, it’s questionable whether that society is of a higher culture compared to others. When corruption has been prevalent in that society for over 2,000 years since the advent of the eunuchs, and remains so until now despite very harsh penalties imposed for the crime, that society cannot be regarded as a higher culture.

          More can be said, but suffice to use the endemic and systemic corruption as a measurement of the worth of a culture for the time being. Writing in a language that the blog does not use and the vast majority of readers are not familiar with also shows corrupt thinking – no respect for the blog owner and others participating in this blog. More importantly, showing no respect for the constitution Article 152 on the National Language.

          And now, that corruption has even been exported to this country via the coolies brought in by the bloody British colonialists in the 19th century. No such corruption existed in this country before the advent of the coolies. It has now become rampant, too. Precedence has been set even at the top. When that happens, others down the line follow suit.

          Najib and UMNO/BN must be toppled at Pru14 for any prospect of significantly reducing corruption at top levels in this country.

      • Ang Tao Peng says:

        Beautiful writing.

        More please!

        Guaranteed to shag any Kerala Bukit and cause him to explode his el cheapo ultra-kiasu chickenshit “supremacist” bile!

        • Anonymous says:

          Ang Tiunama Peng bastard would not understand the norms of behaviour in this country because his profile is as follows:

          Profile of Damn Racist Bastard “Ang Tiunama Peng” –

          His blood being mixed with that of Mongol and Manchurian marauders who invaded, conquered and ruled China in the 13th, 17th-20th centuries, he’s always quarrelsome and confrontational, resentful and angry with situations that he could not accept. Like what he perceived as being a Second Class citizen in this country. Not respecting and living by the Constitution, the august document that has been discussed, debated and approved by Parliament. Been told to migrate but no money.

          Descended from endlessly fighting bands of people through thousands of years of history, he doesn’t have any trust and liking even for fellow Chinese. Hence he often berates the Hakkas and Hokkiens, prompting Mubarak Chan to observe that the bastard is not even a Chinaman. Claiming to come from a family of bankers and industrialists that doesn’t exist, bluffing, lying and cheating all the time.

          His kind being deceived and bullied by the Western powers to the point that they acquired a Western Enclave in Shanghai that didn’t allow the presence of “Chinese and dogs”, Hong Kong was colonized by the British and returned to China only in 1990, he developed a strong sense of enmity against others – foreigners and Chinese alike, even his own family, who he said absconded from here with their wealth to Euorpe, abandoning him all alone here, eating fried kueteow even on Chinese New Year’s eve, like the last one that his forked tongue slipped and told us here.

          With all those kinds of background and experience, can one expect him to be decent, ruly and reasonable? No. He cannot ever be. So, just whack him to smithereens.

          • Anonymous says:

            No beer festival. But cheers to Ang for supporting the beautiful language.

          • a says:

            And you support Ang Tao Peng’s condemnation of the Hakkas and the Hokkiens, too?

            In this post comment, he said “Murtabak Hamkah Chan may well have dunked his fat square Hakka head into the Sg river ..” He did worse anti-Hakkas and anti-Hokkiens condemnation many times in the past.

            If not Hakkas and Hokkiens, what are you? Why so anti your own race? Is hating and fighting one another among you the reason why the Chinese in China, despite thousands of years’ existence, had been bullied and treated as pariahs by the West until only 2-3 decades ago? Being told in Shanghai signboards “No Chinese And Dogs Permitted” in the 19th century?

            Now having abandoned China, you people anti-one clan and another in this country also? We need peace and harmony here and that includes among yourselves, do you hear?

            Respect one another among your clans and among Malaysians, based on the Constitution of the country. You all should know the position of the Chinese language in the Constitution and that this blog has been in English and Malay, never Chinese. You should respect those readers who have been patronizing this blog since the beginning. Why can’t you bring your Chinese writing to Chinese language blogs? Being ultra kiasu?

            And you criticize and resent the German Oktoberfest Beer Drinking Festival. Again, you don’t think of the Constitution Article 3 stating that “Islam is the religion of the Federation”? You don’t think of, don’t respect the nearly 60% population of this country who practice Islam which prohibits alcohol? And that Festival is German – you want to make that a culture in this country, too?

            What’s with you and your kind who have got citizenship right agreed to by the Malays but not respecting the quid pro quo such as the Malays got Islam enshrined as Article 3, the Malay language in Article 152 and the Special Position of the Malays and the Bumiputeras of Sabah and Sarawak as Article 153 of the Constitution? Why can’t you follow the norms of behaviour that good Chinese and other non-Malays follow?

            What more do you want? Surely you are a minority among the Chinese, but can’t you use your head and conform by writing your so-called beautiful language in Chinese blogs? You want to get shouted at as uncivilized, uneducated, ungrateful ingrates, unthinking and uncouth Cina Bukit coolie pendatang each and every time you misbehave and not follow the laws and the norms of society in this country?

            Think, man, think. Behave as responsible Malaysians and don’t try to create disharmony in this country.

  2. Anonymous says:

    Rasuah under Najin’s PMship is very clear. The country has gone down several notches in the Transparency International corruption index during Najib’s rule.

    There is nothing like the 1MDB corruption. Called Kleptocracy. Clear from the statements by the DoJ.

    Hope the “criminal investigations” will lead to “MO1” being identified and responsible. And action taken on him for breaking US laws.

    • Anonymous says:

      1MDB worse than corruption. Plain theft and pilferage. The amount was banjir proportion.

    • Ang Tao Peng says:

      “…Transparency International corruption index during Najib’s rule.
      There is nothing like the 1MDB corruption. ”

      Typical slimy and slippery “blackie thambi” Kerala school of sarabat stall lying, bullock-shitting, and sheer unadulterated fraud!

      “Transparency International” can not shag with 1MDB as there is no substantiation or even a tiny shred of evidence that the”blackie thambi” Kerala soiled Kelingnex Mugathir McKutty or the “opposition” could produce to at least show they are not being so fcuking hopelessly terrible at cooking up any story to make themselves so half-believable as a bunch of perpetual wnakers without trotters not amputated by themselves playing holy pigshit self-shagging “pious” mullahs!

      • Anonymous says:

        He’s mad again saying no “evidence or proof against Najib (MO1), 1MDB ..” when the DoJ has said plenty.

        He doesn’t have a clue what proof and evidence is. Here are the definitions:

        Proof = evidence or argument establishing or helping to establish a fact or the truth of a statement.

        Evidence = the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

        Here is the legal definition of evidence:

        Legal Definition of ‘Evidence’ – http://www.lectlaw.com/def/e048.htm:

        EVIDENCE. In law, various things presented in court for the purpose of proving or disproving a question under inquiry. Includes testimony, documents, photographs, maps and video tapes.

        Trial evidence consists of:

        1. The sworn testimony of witnesses, on both direct and cross-examination, regardless of who called the witness; 2. The exhibits which have been received into evidence; and Any facts to which all the lawyers have agreed or stipulated.

        And there are 251 pages of documents the DoJ submitted to the US court for the third series of asset forfeiture court action. Hundreds more for the previous two.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Rasuah under Najib always there. Banjir or no banjir.

    After 1MDB, the rasuah banjir all the time.

    • Anonymous says:

      Banjir adalah ujian Tuhan.

      • Anonymous says:

        Kalau banjir songlap duit 1MDB, bukan ujian Tuhan.

        Ujian Mr Cash Is King. Dia nak uji can get away with it or not.

        Dengan DoJ fokus kpd criminal investigations, rasa nya tak.

    • Ang Tao Peng says:

      “always there”

      And the Kerala soiled Kelingnex ar sewipe Mugathir McKutty and the worthless “opposition” are also “always there” with their fcuking banjos like the Mallot school Yank Texicano hillbilly retard rednecks they are, just watch their PR video:

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  5. Anonymous says:

    Malaysia is now a highly regarded country: Najib
    The Sun Daily

    Yes. In reverse. Because of 1MDB etc.

    Najib US visit appeared as a rush-up job by Trump. No joint press conference, even.

    • Anonymous says:

      Yes. Any developed nation now know they could get money easily from Malaysia via Najib.

      • Anonymous says:

        And they don’t need to ask. Or say for infrastructure or what.

        Najib wants to tell the world Malaysia’s infrastructure many times better than those of the developed nations.

        So, happily give money for the developed nations’ infrastructure lah.

      • Narcos says:

        US thrives by making friends with corrupted world leaders so that US can control and manipulate them for US’s interests. Perhaps our leader is joining those puppet leaders in South America.

    • Ang Tao Peng says:

      “Yes. In reverse.”

      More like in adverse.

      Adversed abject failure on part of Kerala sarabat stall performer soiled Kelingnex ar sewipe Mugathir McKutty and the useless “opposition” to come up with any 1MDB “evidence” to turn the triumphant Najib visit to the US a flop.

  6. a says:

    Muhammad Taib was forced to step down from his post as Selangor MB after he was stopped at Brisbane airport carrying close to US$1 million cash in 1997.

    That was during Tun Dr Mahathir’s time. During Najib’s time, was any holder of a political post forced to resign? Even when Najib was found to have RM2.6 billion in his bank account.

    Claiming it to be a donation. Did not resign even when DoJ said it was money from “misappropriated 1MDB funds and money laundering”. A total of US$4.5 billion was identified by DoJ to have been of such misappropriated 1MDB funds.

    But DoJ may – hopefully – announce the full identity of “MO1” and his criminal doings with 1MDB funds near to the general elections. DoJ Kleptocracy Division is doing the 1MDB investigations and now focusing on the criminal aspects.

    If and when that happens, thank God, as such an announcement will konk Najib and Umno/Bn out at Pru14. Mr Cash Is King is unlikely to use cash to suppress such an announcement.

    • Anonymous says:

      Najib thought he could get up to 8 Selangor assembly men to defect to do a coup like Perak but the anti climax is a waste of everyone’s time.

      • Anonymous says:

        • Anonymous says:

          Chinese Language Writing, PersonalityDisorders –

          Why these fellows don’t bring their Chinese writing to Chinese language blogs is fathomable. It’s a lack of respect for the Constitution Article 152 which restricts the use of mother tongue languages e.g for communication among themselves.

          It simply shows their lack of concern for the feelings of others – the 77% non-Chinese in this country. It really is their Cina Bukit character.

          It’s a personality disorder on the part of the blokes writing in the Chinese language in blogs that usually carry English or Malay (the National Language) writing.

          There are 10 types of personality disorder. Examples:

          Schizotypal Personality Disorder: odd or peculiar beliefs appearance, and behavior. Their exocentric beliefs may manifest in unusual speech or writing that is overelaborate or vague. Additionally, they exhibit considerable social anxiety resulting from paranoid fears and suspiciousness, rather than negative self-appraisals.

          Their tendency to experience interpersonal discomfort and paranoia often limits opportunities for them to develop social skills or experience interactions that may disconfirm their paranoid beliefs; as a result, they lack close friends other than close relatives. When they do interact with others, they may display constricted or inappropriate emotions and poor psychosocial functioning in general. Overall, it is estimated that Schizotypal Personality Disorder characterizes about 1% of the general population.

          Narcissistic Personality Disorder: they exhibit a grandiose sense of self-importance, need for excessive admiration, and lack of empathy. They may display a sense of entitlement, believe they are exceptionally unique and can only be understood by or associated with an elite few, and/or be preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, beauty, intellect, or ideal love. Nonetheless, the appearance of superiority and arrogance actually masks the thin-skinned sensitivity to rejection, criticism, or defeat.

          Their arrogant attitudes, behaviors, and interpersonal exchanges primarily serve to enhance and maintain self-esteem. This maintenance of self-esteem is often dependent on relationships with others and individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are often interpersonally exploitive such that they will try eliciting admiration from others in service of themselves. Limited empathic responses are characteristic of these individuals and the motive behind any seemingly altruistic behavior is to enhance self-esteem. Overall, it is estimated that Narcissistic Personality Disorder characterizes slightly less than 1% of the general population.

          Antisocial Personality Disorder: characterized by a pattern of disregard for or violation of other people’s rights since adolescence. They exhibit a tendency to violate social norms, and may engage in behaviors that may lead to run-ins with the law. They may be involved in deception, lying, or conning for personal gain or pleasure. They have a tendency to be impulsive and/or aggressive, leading to physical altercations. They may have little awareness of personal or others’ safety.

          They lack a sense of responsibility, leading to failure to meet work demands or financial obligations. Furthermore, individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder lack remorse and may rationalize negative consequences that they may have inflicted on others.

          • Anonymous says:

            The Perlis Road Transport Department (JPJ) officer whose Mandarin skills impressed netizens has received an excellence award by the Department.

            Nur Syafiqah Azaman, 23, received an award from JPJ director-general Datuk Shaharuddin Khalid on Thursday in recognition of her actions that helped promote the good name of the Department.

          • Anonymous says:

            She helped foreigners in Malaysia who should learn a bit of BM or BI, otherwise don’t travel.

            RTD is not the Tourist Dept.

            The award was out of place.

  7. Anonymous says:

    “Najib power” is about making dreams come true. Around the globe, world leaders avoid Trump, but Najib was desperate to be seen shaking Trump’s hand. He engaged a Washington lobbyist, Healy E Baumgardner-Nardonem for US$250,000 to make this possible. In the end, Najib’s motto, “Cash is King” worked.

    A “Najib Business Trip” is one on which wily politicians combine work and play, so that the tab is picked up by the Malaysian taxpayer. It is also known as an “Umno-Baru study trip”. Even innocuous visits to Disneyland have been paid by the long-suffering rakyat.

    The rakyat has paid for one of Najib’s most expensive photo shoots. Apart from the fee for Baumgardner-Nardonem, there was the use of a private jet, the retail therapy to keep the self-styled “First Lady of Malaysia” (FLOM) happy, the upkeep of the entourage, the Harrods therapy, paying for officials both at home, and in Washington and London, to leave their desks and wave the happy couple off at KLIA, or to welcome them in Washington and London. Most Malaysians can only afford the overseas holidays, once every few years. Not so the Najibs.

    Malaysians are still wondering what they gained from Najib’s Washington junket.

    “To do a Najib” is to avoid the issue. Last year, two ABC reporters, working on the Australian Four Seasons programme, flew to Kuching, hoping to meet Najib. Initially, Najib looked pleased to see the gwai loh faces in the crowd, who seemed eager to speak to him; but they asked the wrong questions.

    The reporters wanted to know why many millions of ringgit ended up in Najib’s private bank account. So, after the PM “Did a Najib” the reporters were arrested, then deported and received “Najib hospitality”, as the foreign media call it.

    • Ang Tao Peng says:

      ” “Did a Najib” ”

      No where close to the slimy and slippery style of Kerala sarabat stall performer of lying, bullock shitting; and sheer unadulterated fraud of Kerala soiled Kelingnex ar sewipe Mugathir McKutty.

      The “blackie thambi” Kerala Kobra never had the shrivelled raisins to answer any of the questions posed him during and after his 22 long years of despotic reign.

      Barry Wain did a book on the Kerala Krook devious corrupt Mother of All Corruption, every page oozed Mugathir corruption but never once did the Kerala Konman faced any of his accusers.

      What can you expect from a self-denier who does famous swallowing of his own spit from the longkang drain going back and forth of his own words, and doing acrobatic U-Tuns as a testicle pilot for his Protons!

      The 2%”Malay” even sold out his own father by falsely claiming a 98% mongrel is a 2% pedigree!

      And that is, ladies and gentlemen, “doing a Mahathir”!

      • Anonymous says:

        How to believe what madman Ang says – he hits at Tun Dr Mahathir but at the same time he also does so at Najib, saying is not worth even RM1.00.

        No principle, no stand, anarchistic bugger, just saying anything that crosses his dirty, uneducated, uncouth mind.

  8. Anonymous says:

    • Anonymous says:

      Despite being told in the past,

      the bloke comes out again with worm writing in a blog where the readers are used to BI or BM, possibly thinking his is a higher culture, not respecting the Constitution of the country Article 152 stating the National Language of the country is BM.

      He should read the following:

      The Myth of the Chinese Cultural Pre-eminence

      Ancient Chinese records aggrandized Chinese culture while at the same time denying the achievements of other cultures and races. Chinese historical documents had often been re-written, making it difficult to ascertain the truths.

      The burning of the books occurred not just over 2,000 years ago during Emperor Chin Shih Huang Di, but also in the 1960s during the so-called Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedong.

      Chinese history claimed China as the “Middle Kingdom”, others around them, and even far away, as “barbaric and uncivilized”.

      Those thinking theirs is a higher culture and others have a lower one must read what History Professor Wang Gung-Wu (formerly of Universiti Malaya, now in Singapore?) said in his essay “Early Ming Relations with S.E.Asia” pg. 36:

      “ … All peoples who believed that they alone were civilized did so because they thought their neighbours less civilized than themselves. This view was often proved wrong by subsequent contact with other civilized peoples.”

      Another academician, Albert Kolb, also pointed out in his book, “East Asia”, 1971,

      “For a long time, it (Chinese culture) was taken to be older, and possibly also richer in original features, than in fact it is”. (Pg 25).

      “Chinese culture cannot be thought of as originally Chinese because the Chinese themselves emerged gradually as a blend of many races and peoples”. (Pg 26).

      According to Professor Wolfram Eberhard, in his book “A History of China”, 1977, writings about ancient China were inventions of a later period, what were said to have been done by the Chinese rulers and the dates they were said to have been done appeared to be even later still. All these indicated that historical writings in China were meant to serve certain politico-ethical objectives.

      These are the words Professor Eberhard himself wrote:

      “Furthermore, we can now state with certainty that the historical data which were given in written documents for times down to 1,000 BC are false. They are the result of astronomical-astrological calculations, made by specialists of later times who pursued their own special political aims by doing these calculations”. (Pg 1).

  9. Mubarak Chan says:

    Ladies & Gentlemen. If the homeland of the Pulau Pinang State Government, Singapore could turn the stinking and smelly Singapore River into a pristine and clean waterway within 8 years, why the Pulau Pinang State Government could not in 8 years alleviate the horrendous floods which dislocated the Rakyat ? Was the copy-cat think-tank thinking within this period of 8 years which is a long time in politics !

    • Ang Tao Peng says:

      Murtabak Hamkah Chan, you should direct question to your favourite other running sow of LKS, soiled Kerala Kelingnex Mugathir McKutty junior.

      As a (black boot)polished pirated copy of the “blackie thambi” “Top Bitch” of LKS, the running sow would be in the best position to shag off a reply to what “Superman” tHew “Melayu bodoh!” Kuan Yau revealed of DAP = Dead And Past party strategy “use the Malays to screw the Malays”!

      Murtabak Hamkah Chan may well have dunked his fat square Hakka head into the Sg river but the water was dirty only and not exactly “stinking and smelly” but cleaning the river only took four years, and is not exactly of the same level as flood control of which CAT = Corrupt Arrogant Tokong has no idea for, anyway!

      A multi-million feasibilty study would be required, all the same, but that does not mean Bungalodeshi minister greaseball BrylcLim Guano Eng needs do anything as it has nothing to do with his swimming pool.

      • Anonymous says:

        Ang Tiunama Peng is a madman who will criticize everybody except himself.

        His madness symptom often exhibited in this blog is claiming he is cleverer, better qualified, richer, etc, than any one else. He is not any of those.

        Claiming to have degrees from “four top US and UK universities” is plainly mad. See his CV, often published in the comment section of each post of this blog where all those are explained.

        What he says is therefore not valid, no logic, etc.

      • Mubarak Chan says:

        You are a paid employee of this Blog to clean the toilets which smell better than your foul-smelling snout of a dirty pig !

      • Mubarak Chan says:

        Toilet cleaner, fake, I did not realise you clean the smelly toilets in the offices of this distinguished Blog, dirty pig !

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Wednesday, 23 December 2015

HR Plans for 2016

Still need to do your planning for 2016?  You may interested in reading this white paper I wrote for HRZone and CoreHR:

What are your plans to be more effective in your HR role in 2016?

Focus on these four strategies, based in the reality of the working environment, to become more efficient and effective throughout 2016.

Curated and written by independent workplace expert and commentator Jon Ingham, this piece looks in detail at core things that HR need to focus on in 2016 and provides insight into how to make sure you are doing these things well - like finding the right talent and making it count.

If you're looking to become more effective in 2016 and ensure you're focusing on the right things at the right time, this is a must read.

Don't delay - get up to speed with what's important in 2016 today.

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Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Speaking at ATD ICE 2016

I'm also going to be speaking at ATD's International Conference and Exposition in Denver in May 2016.

I'll be talking about learning evaluation having become a bit frustrated by some of the other sessions by the Kirkpatricks, Jack Philips and others whilst I I have been following the event on Twitter over the last couple of years.

Last year there was even a session on Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard which completely missed out the opportunity to tailor this tool for the talent development agenda.

It's really not that hard people!

I'm also hoping I'll get a chance to help promote ATD's new Talent Management Handbook.

Do let me know if you're going to be at the event too.

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Monday, 21 December 2015

Fleming Gamification in HR & Customer Service Summit

Also just to not that I'll be speaking about gamifying HR at Fleming's Gamification event in Amsterdam on 8 and 9 June.

I'll be helping participants identify for themselves the main opportunities to gamify aspects of their HR (and Customer Services) processes.

If you're interested in ways to make HR more engaging and natural for your employees do come to the event and find out how to do this.

Also see Friday's post on gamification of reward and talent management.

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Friday, 18 December 2015

Reward Gamification in Talent Management

One of the other key trends in Reward and broader Talent Management I'd expect to see even more focus on next year is gamification, supporting a broader shift from financial to non financial reward.

Here are some thought on this, also taken from the new Talent Management Handbook published last month by the Association for Talent Development (ATD) and which features a chapter from me on innovating reward (matching the existing transformation in talent development).

Financial to Non-Financial Reward

We know that financial reward tends not to have as much impact as people often suggest so it often make sense to refocus on intrinsic reward by building a compelling environment in which people can become intrinsically motivated.  Edward Deci and Richard Ryan’s self determination theory suggests that this requires an emphasis on autonomy, competence and relatedness.  Dan Pink develops these ideas in his popular book, Drive, to suggest a focus on autonomy, mastery and purpose.  Creating an environment which encourages these things is still not going to be easy but it may well be more productive to put time and effort into this than putting more and more money into financial incentives.

To the extent that this is possible, the shift should also emphasize a move away from complexity and towards simplicity by aiming to pay people enough to get reward off the agenda (paying them what they are worth and ideally what is possible rather than just what you can be got away with) and then focusing on other things.

One particular approach which is worth reviewing is gamification which is one of the newest trends in business and HR as this can have high relevance for reward as it can for talent development.

People engage in lots of other activities, including games but also other voluntary activities, for lots of reasons that have nothing to do with reward.  In fact, they are often much more engaged when they are undertaking these activities than when they are at work, even though they are not being paid to undertake them.

Gamification uses the mechanics and components of games which make these activities fun and applies them to aspects of work to make these work activities more compelling too.  The three main three mechanics are points, badges and leaderboards, also called PBL.  Used inappropriately, these game elements can lead to unhealthy competition and dysfunctional behaviours however there are a broad range of game components which can be used.  One of these which is highly relevant to the reward agenda is virtual currencies which can be used to help people measure their progress and achievement against their colleagues, and can be converted into something valuable for them at a later point, providing potentially greater motivation but without the same cost to the employer.  Innovation systems are often based upon this mechanic.

However gamification can also be about meaning, collaboration and many other mechanics which drive intrinsic reward for example allowing people who are successful in an activity to do more of this activity.

One good example of a gamified approach is IGN which uses what it calls viral pay in which a proportion of profit is shared with employees through $1 tokens which can then be distributed throughout the workforce according to the wishes of each employee.  Although distributions are kept secret the company does publish the amount received by the most successful employees, as a way of inspiring other employees.

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Thursday, 17 December 2015

Pay Transparency in Talent Management

I posted towards the end of last month about my issues with today's pay differentials, included in the ATD's new Talent Management Handbook (in which I wrote the chapter about Reward).

However changing differentials isn't the only action that's needed, we also need to be more transparent about the differentials we have.

This is particularly relevant in the UK given recent reporting that the gender pay gap for women in full-time senior employment is now higher now than it was in 2005.

It'll be interesting to see whether the introduction of mandatory gender pay gap reporting in the UK next year will tackle this and even more importantly whether it will start to increase broader transparency at all.

Here is this section from the Handbook...

Increased Pay Transparency

Most organizations encourage people to keep their reward secret as people tend to judge the worth of other people by focusing on what they can see people doing rather than the real challenges in a job which tend to be more intangible, meaning that pay levels can be hard to justify.  However we are living and working in an world where people are easily able to share information with each other and more importantly, there is a greater expectation that things will be shared.  Given this increasing level of transparency, trying to maintain secrecy around reward or anything else is increasingly unsustainable.

Transparency is also increasing externally as well as internally, particularly with the growing popularity of sites like Glassdoor and increasing amounts of legislation  around external pay reporting.

However the main reason that pay transparency may be needed is that it is difficult to ask people to trust pay systems when they are opaque, particularly when trust is already low, and also when pay is going to be increasingly person rather than job based in future.

In any case, pay transparency tends not to be a major issue in countries where all or some of the salaries are made public.  Also we in the HR / Talent Management function already know and accept peoples salaries and there is no good reason to think we can handle this information but that other people cannot.

One of the businesses promoting pay transparency is Buffer which emphasizes how transparency breeds trust and leads to better teamwork.  Supporting its open salaries approach the company has published how it calculates salaries, bonuses and equity payments and also provides the amounts all its staff receive.

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Monday, 30 November 2015

Core Values - Moving from Laminated to Lived

I also had this article published on Workstars blog earlier this year.

These are the five suggestions I make for improving the use of Values in an organisation:
  1. Use the values to integrate management and HR processes
  2. Embed values in development centres
  3. Gain senior level sponsorship
  4. Consider the key moments of truth in the organisation and to ensure these reinforce the values
  5. Make the act of recognition a social activity.

Details are on the Workstars blog.

I'll be having another couple of articles up there soon too.  So do check out the blog and the recognition system too.

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Sunday, 29 November 2015

Happiness, Reward and Work Life Balance

Earlier this month I had some comments published on employment happiness, relating to my comments last week on reward:

“Whilst it’s interesting to see which professions pay the most money, it could be a fruitless goal for those setting out on their career path as there is far more to work than money alone. Much as we want to have a strong standard of living, for many employees a work life balance is far more of a priority.
Employee reviews on our website show that on average they reported a work life balance satisfaction rating of 3.2 out of five. This has steadily declined from 3.5 in 2009 which isn’t the direction we’d like to see it move in.
Working 24/7 in high pressured environments is highly rewarding on many levels for some people - but it’s not a one size fits all solution for all. Our research has shown that jobs such as a web developer, commercial manager and a research assistant are rated the highest for work life balance. These jobs might not offer the highest salaries but if it leads to happiness at work it’s priceless.”

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Friday, 27 November 2015

Talent Killers (Speaking in Cyprus and Ukraine)

My main trips for the last two weeks have been to Nicosia and Kiev where I’ve been speaking about talent management.  However I’ve noticed that although much of the focus in the conferences has been around talent, most of the conversation has been around the broader societal factors which constrain or enable talent management.

IMH / PWC - 14th Management & Human Capital Conference

So in Cyprus, a panel following on from my two keynote sessions came up with the problem of what they described as talent killers - cultural practices which stop companies being able to manage talent as they would like.

In Cyprus, the main talent killer was seen to be the family culture of the country.  So it doesn’t matter if a company wants a certain employee to focus on a certain area or work in a certain way, if this doesn’t align with the perspectives and needs of the family it isn’t going to happen.

I enjoyed the conversation, and particularly since my brother in law’s in-laws are Cyrpiot, have some direct experience of the family culture people were discussing.  So I can understand the issue, but still tend to feel there must be some good opportunities for addressing it.  Perhaps by interviewing a candidate together with representatives of the family for example, or by giving a contract to a family unit, reducing emphasis on which member of the family will be delivering it (a bit like McDonalds’ Friends and Family approach built up further for this even more for this more family oriented environment).

Of course you’d also need to avoid any tendency towards nepotism and I’d suggest here more focus on creating the organisation as a complementary family type unit, not to replace the real family but to take on more of its attributes in order to feel more resonant for employees.

PRP / Mondelez - Kyiv Employer Branding and Engagement Forum

Then in Ukraine, the panel following my keynote there seemed to focus heavily on the difficulty getting people to take responsibility for making things happen, especially in government.  One of the panel even suggested the culture seemed almost infantile, with people wanting to have everything taken care of for them.

To an extent that resonated for me too.  Eg I remember when I worked as an HR Director based in Moscow (and covered the Kiev office which I visited several times) that we had a couple of people whose jobs included organising holidays to the Russian sanitariums (and I stayed in one in Sochi myself.)  I always thought that this travel agency function within the HR team, supported by broader Soviet traditions, contributed towards HR being seen in a very administrative sort of way.

Ukraine has clearly developed a lot since I was last there, though there seems still to be quiet a lot which hasn’t, eg there still seemed to be almost as many notary offices around as I remember.  But I can accept a legacy reluctance to accept responsibility could be a significant talent killer there.

I think it’s also a harder killer to deal with than Cyprus’ family culture one.  But I was interested to hear about some of the new leadership schemes operating in the country, taking high potentials away from the broader environment for a year and helping them to develop new values, which it is believed will be maintained through peer pressure as these people progress as business or public leaders within the country.

At home in the UK / in the US etc

These two experiences have got me thinking about the talent killers back at home, and in other Anglo Saxon cultures, too.

I think one of these  is the high pay ratios I posted about yesterday.  (Whilst these are designed to recognise talent I think they play a bigger role in distorting and destroying it.)

Another is probably a focus on dressing firms up to look more valuable rather than worrying about creating that value in the first place.  The best example at the moment is Pfizer’s planned acquisition of Allergen to enable an inversion into Ireland’s lower tax regime.

Most M&A’s are a diversion away from the true value which could be created by a better focus on talent management.

However Pfizer’s latest transaction doesn’t even try to argue a case for synergies and hence value creation.  As long as we remain more interested in moving bits of business around rather than investing in people and creating new products and services, I think we should expect that talent is going to continue to die.

But moving away from this culture is going to be even harder than addressing Ukraine’s lack of responsibility is going to be.  But perhaps George Osbourne’s new Apprenticeship levy in the UK will be one part of rebalancing the economy in the UK, helping to tilt focus away from easy options to develop the right talent a company needs to build the business for the future?

What about you, what’s the main talent killer where you live, and what needs to be done about it?

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Wednesday, 25 November 2015

ATD Talent Management Handbook - Pay Ratios

A new provocative report has been published by the High Pay Centre - Pay Ratios: Just Do It.

The report argues that companies should report the ratio of CEO pay to that of those in the middle of the organisation and that this would help understand their attitudes to pay.

That would seem to be quite important, particularly given John Cryan's remarks that as the CEO of Deutsche Bank he "doesn't understand the way additional excess riches drive people to behave differently".

"I promise you I will not work any harder or any less hard in any year, in any day because someone is going to pay me more or less."

Perhaps Cryan should check out the ATD 's new Talent Management Handbook where my chapter focuses on reward and tries to provide some of the missing understanding.

Here are my comments from the handbook on pay ratios:

Reduced Pay Differentials

Organizations have increasingly recognized the differentiated performance of their employees over the last few decades.  Some organisations suggest that their high performers are worth several tens or even several hundreds of times their low performers.  The result of this is that pay differentials, in Anglo-Saxon cultures at least, have increased substantially. For example FTSE 100 CEOs are now paid around 180 times as much as their average employees.  However, and perhaps because of this, there is also a growing belief, supported by the points raised earlier, that we have gone too far in incentivizing and rewarding talent and high performance and in increasing executive compensation disproportionally compared to other employees.  There are also rising society demands for increased equality and these are likely to grow stronger if we see more pay transparency.

However the most important reason to reduce differentials is that this can improve overall business performance.

High pay differentials make perfect sense from a perspective which emphasizes the contribution of individual employees, which is the case with most talent management practices, particularly those that might be described as being focused on human capital management (HCM) ie which are concerned with creating and accumulating human capital as an outcome of talent management practices.

However these activities can also destroy the social fabric of our organizations.  This can be shown by reviewing one of the other findings  of the Edelman Trust Barometer which suggests that one of the few relationships which has seen an upswing in trust over the last decade is what Edelman call a Person Like Yourself, or PLY.  This is somebody you have a personal connection to that brings you together as humans, for example you come from the same home town, you have a similar taste in music, or you support the same football team.  The concern about high differentials is that if your CEO is paid 180 times as much as you are then you are very unlikely to see them as a PLY and you are less likely to trust them as a result.

Organizations might therefore be much better off with a less well paid CEO even if this person creates less dazzling business strategies since at least people will be more committed to support the strategies they do come up with and a well implemented average strategy is much better than an amazing one which is left on the shelf!

This is the reason that Whole Food Stores limits the reward of its highest paid executive to just 14 times that of its average employee.

It is also why increasingly organizations need to take not just a human capital based perspective to talent management but a social capital based on as well.  In this perspective there is no point undertaking reward or any other talent management process which increases human capital if it destroys social capital in the process.  This does not negate our increasing understanding of a growing gap between the contribution of high and low performers  but recognizes that this difference is often the result of relationships with and the support of other people.

As well as reducing pay differentials I would expect to see the coverage of benefits and share schemes being extended so that all staff including executives are rewarded in the same sorts of ways, even if the proportion of these, compared to other total rewards, varies according to position.

I'll be featuring more comments from my chapter on Reward and reviewing chapters from the rest of the book covering over areas of Talent Management over the next few weeks - check back soon.

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Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Innovation and the Future of Work - Milan

Last week I was in Milan speaking about HR Innovation:

I shared some examples of innovated practices but also emphasised that innovation generally comes from understanding what we need to within a particular organisation, breaking free of traditional best practices and understanding new best fit opportunities.  Once we have developed this new mindset, it’s generally fairly obvious what we need to innovate.  (Of course coming up with the right innovation is still difficult, but it’d be no fun if it was easy!)

Supporting this idea, we need to get away from the idea that there’s a set and predictable future of work.  For one thing, this would just be replacing one set of best practices with another, and that’s unlikely to be useful.  Secondly, the main shift that’s take place over the last couple of decades is that people are now the main source of competitive success.  This means that we need to create new business strategies based upon our people (not just using our people to execute new business strategies!).  But it also means that we need to differentiate our strategies from our competitors and other organisations since if a strategy isn’t differentiated it’s not really a strategy.  So a strategy that aims at helping us prepare for the future of work isn’t really a strategy either.

So instead of innovating based upon the future of work, we need to understand the tools and approaches which can help us innovate the way we manage people, and perhaps some alternatives which we can pick from or tailor to support what a particular organisation requires.

An example I’ve been thinking about recently relates to the way we respond to digital business and its impact on jobs which I posted about on Friday, and also in this post on Symposium Event’s blog which reviews Tammy Erickson's inputs at the Drucker Forum in Vienna the previous week.

Erickson also made some observations about how we need to respond to this environment which I thought were quite smart:

  1. Increasing our ability to change organising by tasks and projects rather than individuals in roles - and therefore removing job titles etc.  I don’t completely agree with this - also options for developing around people (creating value)
  2. Enabling us to take action in real-time rather than planning and co-ordinating in advance of actions.  The key for this is understanding humanity (and that real value will only come from discretionary effort from people - the stuff you can’t command them to do) and creating an environment which will stimulate this.
  3. Understanding people and the way they want to relate to work - developing multiple relationships with people in your portfolio, including contingent workers, in a sophisticated way.

These are all good ideas but they’re not the only options, or even the only good options.

Eg organising around tasks makes sense but its not very people centric.  An alternative, and perhaps even better idea is still to organise around people, but to sculpt jobs around the people rather than fit people into existing boxes in the way we tend to do now.  After all, anything which can be organised into standard tasks is going to be better performed by robots.  So the areas that we need to concern ourselves with are those based on relationships, values and change.  And these can all get done best for focusing on the whole person, not just applying part of that person to a specific piece of work.

I think some organisations will want to do this, but many won’t, which is fine.  And it is why innovation always need to be focused on what a particular organisation has to and needs to do.

See my blog post on career partnership.

And also see this post at HR Zone about preparing for the futures.

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What’s “Client Attraction”?

Do you know what client attraction is?  It’s about making the right client connection with everything you do in your business.  Targeting, positioning and figuring out your unique selling proposition are all about attracting the right clients.  When there is synergy in your business “client attraction” is like honey in a pot it will attract bees.  It happens because you have set up your business so that your ideal client knows exactly what you are conveying and that they are in the right place to get what they are looking for. Social engineering concept

So who is your ideal client?  Do you know your demographics?  You hear people say that everyone is my client.  No way!  Not everyone wants what you have and not everyone will be attracted to your business or maybe even your personality. The more you can narrow down your “niche” the better it will be for your business.  After all what’s the point in advertising to potential clients who are not in your ideal “niche” or “market” it’s a waste of your money and time.

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Here’s an example. Recently on Facebook, I asked for a reference for someone who does weed control in my area.  I had about 12 suggestions in under an hour.  What was I looking for?  Someone who was referred to over and over again. Those were the companies I narrowed my inquiries to.  There is an old saying “cream rises to the top” and I was looking for the “cream”.

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All the lies are starting to make my hair hurt. Can anyone provide a quote for me where Obama apologized for Hiroshima?

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You know, I’m going to — I resent this. When you consider…all we have done just in the last century alone to save Europe from themselves. I resent this. I think it’s outrageous, the media’s ignored it. But don’t you think this is like the Dixie Chicks?
I don't get Sean's point about the Dixie Chicks. Perhaps its because I'm a big fan? (In fact, I'm a bigger fan now that I was before the controversy.)

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LCF MA Graduate Showcase... Joseph Turvey

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Last Thursday, the London College of Fashion unleashed its future fashion stars as it hosted its annual MA student showcase in the ornate surroundings of the V&A museum. Twenty two students unveiled their collections in a true celebration of emerging design talent. Unfortunately, I was tucked up in bed with a debilitating case of man-flu but thanks to the live stream, Susie's catwalks shots and the ever insightful student showcase that is Showtime, this blogger's aches and pains temporarily evaporated whilst my appetite was whet for the class of 2012. As always, to celebrate the cream of incoming crop of graduates we aim to speak to each of our favourite students to learn more about their collections. First up, one of our real favourites, the smile inducing printed sartorial world of Joseph Turvey.

Now, if the name sounds familiar that's because his illustration work has long been admired by us (we still love gazing at his E. Tautz illustrations) and many, many others. Originally from Shropshire, Turvey actually began his training with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Womenswear Fashion Design. His interest in exploring traditional pattern cutting techniques and transferring them to unconventional fabrics soon became apparent with his first womenswear collection which took inspiration from the original Miss Marple, Margaret Rutherford. The collection was duly selected to be shown at Graduate Fashion Week and deservedly received many plaudits. Despite this success, Turvey realised that his heart lay elsewhere. "It was never really an option for me to study menswear design, during my BA the focus was primarily womenswear," the design talent remarked before continuing, "it wasn't until I applied to do my masters at London College of Fashion that I stopped to think about who I really wanted to design for."  Thankfully, the talent turned his attention to menswear as he furthered his design education at LCF. "My now course director pointed out during the interview that my womenswear was extremely masculine. I think he was the catalyst for shifting my focus onto menswear. When I think back I've never actually designed or wanted to make dresses I think I should have been designing menswear from the start." Womenswear's loss is our gain. Today, his clean illustration style transfers into his menswear as the talent explores the application of surface design through digital print. Here, he talks us through the influence of Albert and David Maysles's documentary Grey Gardens and shares extracts from his research and garment development drawings...

"My starting point was the amazing documentary Grey Gardens. Years ago my Mum introduced me to the documentary and the two Edie's have stayed with me ever since. Their amazing attitude towards life astounded me and I wanted to try and capture that in the collection. Little Edie has a distinctive style and is an endless source of inspiration. This prompted me to look at all the unconventional style icons that I admired. Hattie Jacques, Margaret Rutherford, David Attenborough are just some of those icons. Their ability to wear amazing clothes in their own individual way no matter age, size or shape was a true inspiration to me. I then began to research fabrics and I was lucky to gain sponsorship with Hardy Amies, Aquascutum, Sophie Hallete Lace, Halley Stevenson waxed cotton and Alcantara. This meant I had the opportunity to work with such high quality fabrics. Alcantara sponsored me with some of the digital printing of my original illustrations within the collection. This gave me freedom to fully explore the use of print. In Grey Gardens Little Edie was searching for her “Libran husband” so I started to illustrate my vision of this and before I knew it my grey garden boy was created."

Captivated by the world lived by the two Edie's, Turvey was drawn to unconventional style icons. His sketchbook was alive with illustrations of real and imagined icons. With the support of sponsorship from Alcantara, the designer was able to explore digital printing of his original illustrations throughout the collection...

"The way I work in my sketchbook is very messy. I like to draw and scribble everywhere. However, for my portfolio I try to extract my favourite pieces of research and present them in a similar way I illustrate and design clothes. So I am sharing with you some of my garment development and research pages as my sketchbook is far too chaotic to share."

"My design aesthetic is very clean. I like simple wearable shapes that take reference from traditional menswear which I juxtapose with my unconventional fabrication, print and knit." Turvey takes inspiration from traditional menswear tailoring and textile surface design, fusing them with iconic figures such as David Attenborough and Edie Bouvier Beale scribbled, sketched and reimagined in his notebook. These iconic figures from the past and present enable him to create interesting and original designs. It is Turvey's ability to explore textures and print within his designs whilst challenging traditional menswear that pushes fashion design to new and interesting areas. When asked how he'd describe the collection, Turvey simply summarised it as "Fun. I want people to smile when they see my Grey Garden boys." The runway shots certainly raised a beaming smile on my face...

A colourful selection of catwalk shots snapped by Susie.

If the above leaves you desperate for more, I happily point you in the direction of Joseph Turvey's tumblr and blog that both explore his inspirations and illustrated world. However, on the the basis of his accomplished MA collection, something tells me that we'll be hearing a lot from this talent in the seasons ahead and beyond...

"I have a few different projects coming up. Some I'm not allowed to talk about just yet. However, I am very excited that I have my first stockists. So I'm looking at starting production with this collection and hopefully starting research for next season."

I'm looking forward to watching this talent make his illustrated and delicately crafted mark on the London menswear design scene.

Duck said...

OK, thanks for posting this! Eyes opened to a new designed I shall have to track down :) I really like the illustrations, although it's making me sad that I never bought any of that Jil Sander collection with the creepy sketched faces. And the pink/orange see-through lace number! I hardly have the body for that but maybe if I wore something else underneath it...

Hope you feel better soon xx

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Wow ! Wonderful Designers at their best work.

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Stunning work. So colourful. Thanks for brightening up my grey Tuesday.

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Orgasm denial (November 13th)

The reality of the night before starts to set in and harshly too,i wake later than normal and like a slut. i am highly aroused,my balls aching and full,my cock rigid,but i am not regretting not releasing as i need to know how it feels to be so close and yet so far,i receive a text telling me how Miss feels and what she likes and how i am to learn how to please her,which adds further to my frustration and my continuing chastity,I've never ever felt anything like this before in all my sexual experience, how i no longer have control of the basic sexual relief a male may have"masturbation" a simple act of pleasing yourself enjoying the sexual feeling of an orgasm,so basic,so enjoyable,the excitement of pulling my cock out and playing with myself,feeling how turned on i feel, but so far from my thoughts at this current moment in time,I try not to think of anything sexual but am reminded from time to time.
But I also realise something very important and also a very frightening thought this is the easy time of my current Chastity this is not happening in "real time"and that scares me but also excites me too,i know at the moment i can control how i edge,how far i take and push my edging,how close i can go"but that will change" at some point and someone else will be taking even that little control i have at the moment away from me and then i will see how good i can be,and i also realise that the same person will tease and distract me so i fail and she has an excuse to punish me for doing so,not that Miss needs an excuse to punish as i have been reminded of and all BECAUSE SHE CAN.Miss will have full control of even my basic function as a man

We have often spoke at length of Control Focus and Attentiveness and all three have fallen very quickly into place and i understand fully my position within those three words.Miss has the Control and all i have is focus and attentiveness and all i want from deep within is to show her i have learnt to understand just the basics

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