The Perfect Help

[Barb Frison]

Inthe book Art & Fear (audiobook), authors David Bayles and Ted Orland share a surprising story about a ceramics teacher. This story just might reframe the way you think about setting goals, making progress, and becoming better at the things that are important to you.

At the end of the term, he was surprised to find that all the best photos were produced by the quantity group. During the semester, these students were busy taking photos, experimenting with composition and lighting, testing out various methods in the darkroom, and learning from their mistakes. In the process of creating hundreds of photos, they honed their skills. Meanwhile, the quality group sat around speculating about perfection. In the end, they had little to show for their efforts other than unverified theories and one mediocre photo. 1

Art. If you want to be a great photographer, you could go on a quest to take one perfect photo each day. Or you could take 100 photos per day, learn from your mistakes, and hone your craft.

Writing. If you want to write a best-selling book, then you could spend 10 years trying to write one perfect book. Or, you could write one book each year, learn from your mistakes, and trust that your books will get better each time.

Business. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you could scheme and think and try to plan out the perfect business idea. Or, you could try to get one customer, learn from your mistakes, and experiment with new ideas until something comes easily.

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James Clear writes about habits, decision making, and continuous improvement. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits. The book has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 60 languages.

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I'm often asked by internal hiring managers and even HR colleagues on occasion if we can skip the required strategy meeting at the start of new recruitment event. Why so much resistance to this brief session? We're busy. Our schedules are full. Our customers demand attention. Our employees need leadership. I get it! All the more reason to make time to do something as critically strategic as hiring the right people in the most efficient way possible.

I give the same answer each time. "This 15-30 min strategy session is critical to our success in searching for and finding your ideal candidate; I promise that this will be time well spent, and the outcome will be a higher caliber of candidates meeting your expectations." Then I explain, that I won't assign the position to a member of my team without setting them up for success! That usually takes care of it..but why am I answering this so regularly? Why don't hiring managers request it?

Speaking frankly, I'm skeptical of any recruiter who takes a recruiting assignment and doesn't ask to talk to the hiring manager to get clarity on the role, or an understanding of the job description first. I would expect the same request, regardless of if it's an external recruiting consultant/headhunter or an assigned internal recruiter. I'm equally skeptical of a hiring manager who has no investment in the process (allows for the blame game later).

I require the HR Business Partner to participate in addition to the Hiring Manger in our brief sessions. That way we all hear the same thing at the same time. It prevents miscommunication among the critical partners in this process. It also prevents incorrect details being included in our search process which can cause issues later.

The biggest resistance comes from hiring managers who recently filled a similar role. "Can't we just post the position the same as last time?" Yes, we absolutely can, but let's spend 5-10 minutes discussing any unique skills you wish to add to this new role, or confirm that nothing has changed. Let's review our previous slate of candidates for talent we may wish to go back to. If our pool was slow with the last search, let's rethink our strategy with some fresh brainstorming. Let's review who we know. Let's talk to about how to engage other team members in sending referrals.

Recruiters don't create work for themselves which will not add to their ability to be successful! Don't make us chase you to be a partner in filling YOUR open position. WE are here to help YOU build your team, and deliver to YOUR customers. Give us a little bit of your time, we'll make it worth it in our delivery!

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I am hoping to enlist the help of board members with a problem I am having with my Stargazer installation. My Malibu is a 2006 Response with a 340 Monsoon engine. I purchased the PP Stargazer system used (was working on the boat it was pulled from) and I took it to my local Malibu dealer to have it installed. The technician installed the system but can't get it to work. When tested in the shop in RPM mode the systems beeps as the throttle engages but doesn't "take over."

My dealer doesn't have much experience with PPSG, 99% of their volume are wakeboard boats with standard Malibu cruise. I was hoping to draw upon the expertise of board members. Has anyone experiences anything like this? Any thoughts, ideas or advice on what to try next?

I have PP on my 05 MC. I had a grounding issue. I had to cut the ground wire and run it to the battery. Not sure what yours is, but you might have better luck getting the boat back and fixing it with PP yourself.

Hey everyone, recently I've been getting into more advanced modelling but I've ran into an issue and the research I've done hasn't helped

For reference, I'm currently on 3ds Max 2017.

I have two car bodies. One is the original and the other is slightly edited with new front and rear bumper included, but mostly is the same. The edited one was imported with a scale factor of 1, however the original body is roughly 90% of the imported one.

After doing all I know about scaling I've gotten to here:

From the top view picture, I snapped the two top points together by vertex and scaled down the new body to 90%. It's almost perfect however the front and back doesn't perfectly match (pictures below), so the scale needs to be 89.xxx (89 being too small).

(Black = original body)

Front

front

Set the object snap to vertex and then use Tools, Measure distance and find the distance between a point near the front of the car and one near the back of the car. Then measure the distance between the same points in the other car. The ratio of the two distance is the scale factor. Note, it's usually a good idea to set your display and system units to the same units.

I guess I'll need to play with the option "retract amount before wipe"? The thing is: How does this work? I understand this is a %. But from what value? My retraction is currently set to 0.8 mm. Does this mean that, if I set this option to 50%, the machine will retract 0.4 mm before the wipe? And if yes, after the wipe, will it retract the other 0.4 mm that are left over, or wil this be a different value?

In a perfect world, the printer would only extrude what we tell it to in the slicer. In reality, physics and filament charactertics tend to get in the way. Features like retraction, z-lift, wiping and coasting (Cura) have been added to compensate. Linear Advance and filament diameter and extrusion multiplier calibration go a long way towards getting filament to perform more like the ideal. With a bit of work anytime I try a new filament, I can usually getg results with:

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