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Is your meticulously crafted strategy falling flat during execution? Discover a powerful approach to making your strategic vision a lived reality.This blog post is a summary of our webinar What is Strategy Activation? Watch the on-demand version now. For anyone responsible for leading change transformation in their organization, an effective strategy activation approach is critical to bringing a strategy to life. Too often, strategies are meticulously planned but falter during …

Or, to quote one of the Carry On films, “what’s this thing called, love?”. So if you take a picture of a thing, are you capturing the surface appearance of the thing or its essence? (And why would you care?) Edward Weston took multiple pictures of shells, fruit and perhaps most famously, peppers. What he said about his work was “To see the thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed …

Kill Knight is an intense arcade-style isometric shooter that challenges players to master fast-paced combat and strategic use of abilities. Here’s a short guide on how to play and improve your gameplay. Pistols & Active Reloads Your pistols are your primary weapon but come with limited ammo. When your pistols run out, they need to be reloaded. Overdrive Reload: To reload efficiently, press the Shoot Pistols button at the right …

Strangely compellingBack in August, I posted about an extravagant garden ornament at Peckforton, Cheshire in the form of a large stone carving of an elephant bearing a turreted castle on its back. I mentioned that the symbol of the elephant and castle was a medieval motif (which survives, for example, in the names of some pubs) and that one example of the medieval period was a wood carving in the …

With the track down, wired and tested; time for a little painting. In days of yore I would do this with a brush and it took an age. Now I wait for a reasonable day, take things outside and use the Nevard-lifted method of two or three colours of Halfords finest which takes a matter of minutes. Some cleaning up and a polish of the rail tops and it's done.Retesting …

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Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope published 1861-1862 Last year in the Clothes in Books Christmas scenes series, I looked at The Small House at Allington, a later book by Trollope, which had a tremendous description of a very boring Christmas. Around that time (but not in the comments to that post) someone told me to read Orley Farm for its Christmas-y content – alas, I do not remember who, please …

Maintaining secure integrations between Active Directory (AD) and identity management platforms like Keycloak is a crucial task in any modern IT environment. Password management for service accounts, especially those used in sensitive environments such as LDAP integrations, can become tedious when performed manually. However, automating the process reduces errors, enhances security, and saves time. In… The post Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto appeared first on Justin's …

Today on We Hunted the Mammoth we explore Donald Trump’s apparent use of hypnotic techniques in his speeches, looking at Trump’s recent comments about women and abortion, and uncovering four hypnotic tricks that may be influencing MAGA’s collective unconscious. Embedded Commands: How Trump disguises orders as predictions Confusion Technique: Using incoherence to bypass rational thinking Repetition: The power of rhythmic, incantatory speech patterns The Hypnotic Voice: Trump’s sometimes unusually smooth …

Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween screen printing project! Create t-shirts, tote bags, and poster prints that’re hauntingly fun and frightfully easy! Party Prints - Speedball Night Glo Acrylic Ink on Paper! If you’re a Halloween lover this project is for you! Using the Speedball Acrylic Night Glo Ink we made our own glow in the dark Halloween poster. This ink really gives your prints a twist. Great …

If the candidates for the Tory leadership sound much like ministers in the last year of the Conservative government, it’s because the leadership campaign started well before Sunak lost the election. But they lost that election very badly. To many it seems odd that the leadership contenders, at least publicly, appear in complete denial about this loss, and are carrying on as if it hadn’t happened. Given the nature of …

Forgive all the self-linking but this post continues a story. It’s been about 18 months since the big change. A few months later, I wrote about its ups and downs: I wanted to continue doing what I truly love to do on the web without that daily pressure to make the donuts. I like to think my donuts are tasty enough to enjoy even if they weren't available every day. …

The official Tour de France race guide ALWAYS SELLS OUT. It has all the info you need to follow the Tour de France. Here is how to find it.

The lovely Swan Public House in Clewer won a huge award last month. This 18th Century pub close to Windsor was awarded the nation’s best community pub in the Great British Pub Awards. The Swan is truly a special place with the amazing Green Room School having a classroom there. There is something going on every evening with groups as diverse as tabletop gaming, bicycle repair, German language practice and …

I live in El Granada, California. Wikipedia calls us a census designated place - we don't have a mayor or city council. But we do have a Community Services District - originally responsible for our sewers, and since 2014 also responsible for our parks. And we get to vote for the board members in the upcoming November election! My partner Natalie decided to arrange a "candidates forum" - effectively a …