What is the most urgent priority in your business today? If you are either a lean startup or a mature business CEO the most urgent priority is sales and how to generate more. No matter what day it is, sales is the mostly tightly aligned priority to business CEOs, and here is a question for you to ponder…
Are your business’ sales, marketing, and operations efforts sophisticated,…
5 Tips to Implement Sales and Marketing Infrastructures with Your Sales Model Programs
5 Tips to Implement Sales and Marketing Infrastructures with Your Sales Model Programs
by Steve Conner
Increasing sales in an organization is tricky, why else does Entrepreneur Magazine produce articles about the number one struggle of Fortune 500 businesses being that of consistency in sales departments? So I thought I’d do you a favor and discuss some tips that even the big guys struggle to figure out.
1. Begin by developing a sophisticated sales process to consistently be used…
Now that summer is in full swing, we can’t get enough of beachy blown hair, beautifully sun kissed skin and of course any photo with a beach. Our featured submission has us taking a trip to California.
This week’s STYLE Exclusive comes from Photographer Steve Conner, who spends much of his time between California and South Africa.
The model, Summer Crosley, is from the Midwest and considers herself a small town girl at heart. She landed her first role on the series Nip Tuck and was later also featured on Californication. Summer has been in over 100 magazines worldwide including GQ, Vogue, Elle, and Esquire.
Photographer: Steve Conner
Model: Summer Crosley
Wardrobe: Helmut Lang’
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This week's STYLE Exclusive editorial submission has us California Dreaming: Now that summer is in full swing, we can't get enough of beachy blown hair, beautifully sun kissed skin and of course any photo with a beach.
Having just written about the natural technology of fusion I was interested to see Steve Conner writing in The Independent about recent develops at ITER, the international effort to harness fusion as a commercial energy source by way of a tokamak reactor (i.e., employing the technology of magnetic confinement).
Conner has compared the project to the Tower of Babel for the inevitable confusions and misunderstandings that have arisen from the participation of scientists from 34 distinct nation-states, but the pretext of the article is that crucial parts of the reactor have been given the go-ahead so that the enormous reactor itself can literally come together, with actual assembly of the reactor having commenced.
The article quotes Brain Machlin:
“There are a million parts to the Iter machine and this will be the most complex and technically challenging assembly task. The tokamak reactor is 30 metres tall and consists of 18 toroidal magnetic coils weighing hundreds of tons that will each have to be positioned with a precision of less than two millimetres.”
Reading this I was reminded of a documentary I watched recently, Journey to Palomar, based on the book The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope by Ronald Florence. In this detailed account of the design and construction of the Mount Palomar 200 inch telescope this great scientific instrument is called "the perfect machine."
Given all that has been put into ITER, and all that is likely to go into the project in the coming years, we might well call this tokamak fusion reactor "the perfect machine" of our time.
