Organic growth of innovation vs Centralisation of institutions, MRT

Innovation

1. Malaysian Government under Najib has a funny way of doing things. When things dont work, they undermine the whole system by duplicating the role. Take EPU. Planning without execution, botched megaprojects etc.. create PEMANDU.. hooray lots of megaprojects and EPPs for all ETP, which will meet the NKEAs being tracked by NKRAs. RMK10 throw in the dustbin. MOSTI not paying attention to the I, fine - create UNIK.
2. Leadership is about getting the right people on the bus, and making sure the wrong people gets off the bus. Especially in situation requiring hard decisions. Constrained resources. People respect you for doing the hard decisions, but you must explain yourself. The waffling, flip-flopping nature of Pak Lah's administration is now replaced by waffling, you-can-get-away-with-anything administration of Najib. At least, there are decisions. Wrong, but decisions nonetheless.
3. Now this creature of UNIK. What does it do first? Come up with an Akta that centralises innovation powers in its hand. The la-la hypothesis is that the Chief UNIK is a know-it-all and a snap of his fingers will cause the whole of Malaysia to tremble in fear and be innovative. Sounds like a Stalinist / Hitlerist maneouvre to me.
4. Why cant ppl in Malaysia be trusted to do the right things through incentivising innovative practices, and then discouraging stupid acts of giving some inflated contracts to unqualified people? Why cant the best global talents be facilitated into the country and lead and mould best practice entities, and hoping there is enough tech absorption by creating the environment for people to accept best practices? Why cant we do away with just giving some pieces of the cake to people we know who can talk their way out of trouble but probably lacks the competence and gumption to make a difference? Where are the innovative entrepreneurs (not the innovative rentiers) that the country has produced so far, and give them a free and facilitating hand to expand? What are incentives to offer to private capital to come in?
5. Instead, UNIK will have powers to 'streamline' existing funds and appoint innovation ambassadors. Fine, there are opportunities to improve, but these are incremental improvements, not game-changers as those outlined in Item 4. If UNIK can only do incremental stuff so that the game-changer explodes, I'm afraid innovation will still occur in Malaysia, but it will be inspite of UNIK not because of it.
6. Innovation will thrive when the environment allows it to. Lifelong education, primary, secondary, tertiary. Entrepreneurial training - engaging Entrepreneurs in Residence to mentor successful ventures. VCs and PEs need the deal pipelines in place, and this can be done by co-locating them into major innovation centers - and sorry, but somehow that means not in KL. Target sectors should be able to access global markets, but sorry, knowing a couple of MNCs may not be sufficient. Someone needs to tap local agencies with global reach, and large MNCs to open up market access. And this is no small matter if we look at some of the areas that we are interested in - large pharmas - US, Europe and India, industrial biotech - US, China, Europe, Brazil, ICT - mainly emerging markets, other sectors as relevant.  
7. If after no 6, what we do is centralisation, I'm afraid someone is hopelessly deluded. Innovation ecosystem and culture - and centralised in one single agency because the multi-agency committee / ministry failed to execute its function before. Perhaps this can be dismissed as just another Malaysian cynic. Maybe so. But if people up there are serious to do good, Rakyat Didahulukan and all that stuff, this is one hell of a strange way to carry out your functions - relying on one smartarse to perform what a ministry has failed to do.

MRT

1. It's shameful that the absurd costings and silly alignment that the EPP for MRT as shown in their open day kind of shows the shallowness of the proposal. The project feels and looks rushed. Accepting an unsolicited proposal from the private sector and after protests appointing the same company as a project manager, and then promising a Swiss Challenge is merely an afterthought. Just one question. Where is the bloody masterplan incorporating the whole transport planning for the Klang Vally and its adjacent satellite towns. If there isnt one, shame on PEMANDU, SPAD and everyone related to this proposal! Federal Highway will still be jammed because Subang Jaya isnt part of this planning. Where are the traffic forecasts? Where is the costing? Where is the inputs from the planning agencies from all the local authorities? Who is driving this - SPAD, PEMANDU, or GAMUDA? Who bloody cares about the increased property prices?
2. Worst thing (or Best of all) about all of this is a Citizen-watchgroup calling themselves TRANSIT has a proper masterplan and proposal to do this. Malu weh.

Malays, Chinese and other non-Malays II

10. Another day, another flip-flop. Or perhaps, a recalibrated and elaborated comment. At the end of the day, where is my position on issues? Do I trust or do I mistrust?

11. At the end of the day, we the Muslims, the Malays, the Malay-muslims, individuals, need to build our internal capabilities. We should not be dependent on handouts from the government, which equates to a handicap, not a permanent handicap but one we should grow out of. The Malays cannot be perpetual children depending on handouts and protection from parents, but slowly building up its own capabilities and maturity to take over the role of protectors.

12. Coming from that point of view, we should be wary. We shouldnt be naive. The Chinese has enormous organisational capability, so should we. The fact that we dont, the fact that we are so divided is the crux of the issue. The Chinese can sit down and agree on issues of common benefit to the community, like Chinese education. Even if there are disagreements, it is self-suppressed for the greater good. We should learn from this, not envy this unnecessarily, and invoke the fear that they will overcome and dominate us.

13. At the moment, many Malays are cowed into supporting UMNO. See Tun M's rant about Nik Aziz, deliberately pointing fingers at the inadequacies of his rival, exaggerating some of the views held by the some strains within PAS instead of looking at his strengths, not that I'm expecting him to do that. Tun understands the Malay psyche perfectly, that they sit back and look to see the winner in a duel, and then herd unthinking to the winner's camp. It's the classic feudalistic viewpoint. Deliberately sidesteps the fact that UMNO kicked PAS out of BN when they were already united back in the 70s. Ridiculing the Islamic state as a mindless cutting off hands brand of Islam without elaborating on the distributive justice, and therefore equating PAS's orthodoxy as some form of Talibanism.

14. I want the best for the Malays, the Muslims. It's not good to distinguish this identity, although in certain situations it needs to be done. But the best is for people to be educated, to be strong, to have convictions and to be firm. Not cower in fear.

15. For that to happen, people like Tun must be relegated to the background. His comments only inflame PAS's supporters, and further drive the wedge into the fractures. UMNO cannot continue in this 80s mode. If Tun really says he wants unity, it is by appealing to common interests. Economic strength, yes, but morality, justice and other human capital aspects are just as urgent and important, if not more. The common interests are that wealth is redistributed to middle-class and lower-class malays. The scholarships given out to outstanding students is the start of a dedicated, intensive program for the development of the malays - which perhaps must be a mandate for Teraju. No giving out of freebies to buy silence. Silly, crap cronistic businesses which drain life out of the community and the nation is killed off ruthlessly. No selective decisions based on you-know-who, but purely based on merit., starting with the malay community first if the political will is not there to implement it within the NEM.

16. Tun has done wonderful things as a PM. At the same time, the nation disintegrating in front of our very eyes cannot be rehabilitated with the same dosage that Tun has been dishing out. I am ashamed of the DSAI trials in 1999 as it is now. It is a sham trial, especially when RTC and CSL is walking around freely. This is gross injustice. Tun M doesnt recognise the damage this is doing to the nation, and insists that procedurally this was correct. If he cannot / will not recognise this as a defect, he cannot rectify it, and the damage to institutions and the national psyche this causes far outweighs his contributions. He should remain silent and let Najib do damage limitation, not that Najib doesnt have enough problems with models, NEM or Mongolian.

17. Malaysian politics is described as sham, colourful, interesting etc. In fact, it's a lie. It's too dishonest and it overshadows all the good work the government could have done. If Tun desists, PKR will probably shoot itself in its foot, femur and face. But right now, it's a reminder of how bad things were before in Tun's time. Probably, he is in fear of being painted in the same colours as Mubarak, Gaddafi and Ben Ali.

Malays, Chinese and other non-malays

1. Utusan went to town Saturday on PAS back-tracking and giving support to the Malay agenda. TERAS Chairman (?) said that the Malay economic issues must be addressed satisfactorily and not be glossed over by Pakatan Rakyat. In Primaya, there was this CNY celebration which was quite strange as it was the first time a Chinese celebration was held there after 3 years. Reading MI makes you want to knock your head against a wall when Chinese chauvinists go over the top in their criticisms of anything UMNO. (and you can sort of visualise the kid gloves when talking about MCA or other non-Malay partners in the BN)
2. There is truly a need to go to a common concensus on upholding basic principles. Addressing the truth for instance is a good start. So, call a spade a spade if you must, no covering up. (what was the word scully used again? obfuscation?) That goes not just to Chinese chavs, but also the more blinkered of all politicians.
3. Let's start by listing too many of the contentios issues and try to lay it down to rest once and for all. First, is UMNO a British stooge who won independence? To my knowledge, this is not true. Looking from the British perspective, once decolonisation became a policy due to the burden of maintaining far-flung colonies, there was only the question of who their preferred partner will be. Regardless of the fact that their insistence on the Alliance arose from the fear of "islamist" / left-leaning elements in Hizbul Muslimin or other less savoury alternatives, the due process was accorded and recognition must be given when there was support to the Alliance from the populace (through democratic elections) as well as the monarchs of the federated states. In the end, the federation model and its subsequent Constitution became the de facto model of the state. The question of a British stooge does not arise.
4. Social contract - citizenship in return for power, and later on the acceptance of Malay dominance through its monarchs and special position. That remains, and should not be questioned.
5. NEP was introduced, and was the right prescription for the issues of economic disparity amongst the races in the 60s. (It should have brought about greater social cohesion. The fact it does not means that the pendulum has swung too much the other way)
6. So now that I have affirmed UMNO's position, there is no issue right? Wrong. UMNO has made major mistakes - the vasectomy of judiciary prime amongst the loss of confidence in public policies. Malays are angry that the Malay-centric policies do not benefit the general classes, the non-Malays are angry at continued marginalisation due to the ineffective execution of Malay-centric policies as a whole. in 3/08, the Opposition made massive political inroads.
7. Then they started making a mess of things. Instead of taking on issues they were mandated to do, like becoming a more effective public administrator, they started to act like UMNO 2.0 and BN 2.0. Politicking about taking over the federal govt through the backdoor. Acting like schoolkids on the Perak takeover. Bleeding elected reps, members and supporters - no signs of coagulation yet. Talking daft things on changing State constitution, not recognising a Federally appointed State Sec, even when procedures have been followed etc. Token support for justice in the form of ISA etc, but full-blooded support when one of their own is "unjustly treated' - DSAI, TBH etc. If BN thot the voters are daft, PR acted like the voters are daft. At least, BN is actively wooing neutrals and fencesitters. PR acts as if the votes they gained in 2008 are their perennial property.
8. In the end, here we are. The Chinese electorate are invigorated. They are sophisticated, socially instinctive to safeguard their own interests and unwilling to take risks as regards to their self-interest. The Indians are too fragmented to impact on the political scene, so the stakes are between the large Malay electorate and the solid Chinese king-makers.
9. What of my personal view? The need to always speak the truth, stand up for truth. If anything, the issues are still issues of what people will bring to eat at the table. Looming global challenges are looming. Our politicians continue to squabble about the arrangement of the deckchairs on the Titanic after crashing into the iceberg. Chinese issues and Malay issues are different, but the solution is the same. Return to the needs of social justice and equality. The same concepts that Islam came to enforce. Let us not be too defined by the colour of our skin. Malays have progressed since 1969, we are no longer a race of fishermen and farmers. Many are now professionals. Unfortunately, the continued awkward execution of NEP means that we are now a race of government officers, GLC professionals, toll booth operators, bank tellers, and others. Create a level playing field. Let the Malays compete. Let them find the solutions. Let the government step back. Allow Islamists to dominate Malay society. At least we wont be reading daily news items of abandoned babies.

BIOMASS ENERGY


Biomass -- an umbrella term for plant matter that was recently alive -- can be used to make all kinds of energy including heat, electricity and fuel. Research on the environmental and economic effects of biomass energy is ongoing, but the United States currently has more installed biomass power capacity than any other country in the world. In fact, biomass accounts for roughly half of all the renewable energy produced in the United States. Although ethanol from corn kernels has received the lion's share of attention paid to biomass lately, the dominant commercial use of biomass is wood waste, which is burned for heat and power in the lumber, pulp and paper industries.

The U.S. ethanol fuel industry has boomed over the last few years. Initially it took 10 years for the industry to produce a billion gallons per year, and 10 more years to double production to 2 billion gallons per year. In 2007, production increased again to 6.5 billion gallons. This growth is a testament to the will and dedication of responsive growers and foresters, who have sparked capital investment, economic development and job creation in their communities. But it also raises critical questions of sustainability -- to date, the majority of biofuels produced have had unintended effects on the environment, and as a result, it is time to stop making more food-based biofuels.

Wood is a particularly promising source of biomass if it is derived from sustainably managed operations or reclaimed waste products.

The challenge is to ensure that all biofuels, whether traditional or "next-generation," are produced in ways that conserve our natural resources instead of subsuming natural areas, adding to water pollution and contributing to global warming. Fortunately, American farmers now have tremendous opportunities to grow sustainable energy crops, power their own operations with renewable energy and eventually manufacture fuel on a larger commercial basis.

Wood is a particularly promising source of biomass if it is derived from sustainably managed operations or reclaimed waste products. Sustainable forest management requires, for example, the protection of old growth forests and critical wildlife habitats, rather than wholesale conversion to intensively managed, monocultural tree plantations. Tree plantations may look like forests, but they provide only a fraction of the habitat and ecosystem benefits of a diverse natural forest. The waste products best suited for use as biomass are those that would otherwise end up in a landfill, such as construction debris.

Wood can be burned to generate electricity and heat far more cleanly than its fossil fuel counterparts. Lumber and paper companies have burned wood waste for decades, but this chart shows that the practice is now spreading -- and illustrates the massive scale of wood biomass compared with that of ethanol. Communities and businesses can burn wood biomass for electricity, heat and steam.

Ethanol Production from Wood, in Billions of BTUs



Source: Energy Information Administration (DOE 2008) Annual Energy Review -- Renewable Energy. Online: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/renew.html

How Biomass Works

Today's biomass energy comes from annual row crops, such as corn and soybeans, and organic leftovers from forestry and agriculture, such as corn stovers, rice husks, wood waste and pressed sugar cane. Researchers are now developing ways to produce energy from special, fast-growing "energy crops" such as willow and switchgrass. Collectively called biomass , these crops can be treated in different ways to produce electricity or vehicle fuel. Biomass can be:

• Burned in power plants to produce heat or electricity, with fewer harmful emissions than coal.

• Fermented to produce fuels, like ethanol, for cars and trucks.

• Digested by bacteria to create methane gas for powering turbines.

• Heated under special conditions, or "gasified," to break down into a mix of gases that can be burned for electricity or used to make a range of products, from diesel to gasoline to chemicals.

Where It's Used

Most biomass in use today is burned for heat or used to make ethanol, but bioenergy can be generated in many ways. Biomass power plants across the country burn wood and agricultural waste to generate electricity for industries and residents, and more than 100 plants in 31 states burn methane gas collected from landfills. Together these facilities contribute 7,000 megawatts to the national power grid. In the Southeast and Pacific Northwest, the lumber, pulp and paper industries generate 60 percent of the energy they need to run their factories by burning wood waste.

A small but growing number of conventional power plants substitute biomass for a percentage of the coal they normally burn -- a process known as cofiring, which reduces emissions of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide. When one medium-sized power plant adds sustainably sourced biomass to its mix, the reduction in its global warming emissions is equivalent to taking 17,000 cars off the road.(1) The process works best when the coal plant is physically close to the source of biomass.

The Importance of Getting Biofuels Right

Amid the growing consensus that we must act now to stop global warming, invest in our economy and secure our energy future, biofuels have been alternately hailed as the solution to all our woes and condemned as a bad idea that might even contribute to global hunger. The reality is that we can cultivate biomass and convert it into fuels in ways that are deeply destructive, or in ways that reap environmental benefits.

When using food crops or any biomass grown on prime arable land, we need to be careful about our impact on the global land and food markets. While prices for these commodities are driven by many factors, including a growing population, changing diets and high energy costs, corn ethanol and soy-based biodiesel do add to the competition for resources, and thus play a role in driving up food prices and speeding the conversion of natural ecosystems such as rainforests. While more research is needed to determine the scale of this role, it is imperative that we invest in practices that reduce these environmental and social impacts so we can transition to alternative biomass sources and biofuel technologies that better address these risks.

At this point, we cannot afford more food-based ethanol and need to move on to the next chapter in the biofuels story.

At a minimum, we need to ensure that biofuels reduce global warming pollution compared to gasoline and diesel over their full life cycles, accounting for emissions impacts from land use changes. Land-impact considerations must include soil erosion and water runoff, soil and water quality, and wildlife habitat. One action that a small but growing number of ethanol refineries have taken to reduce atmospheric impacts is biomass gasification, whereby both heat and electricity generated by a single biomass fuel source drive the fermentation process. Combined with better agricultural practices, this could significantly reduce global warming pollution.

At this point, we cannot afford more food-based ethanol and need to move on to the next chapter in the biofuels story. Spurred by high oil prices, federal and state incentives, and the ethanol boom, researchers are now developing biofuels from the cellulosic (non-edible) parts of various plants. Once commercialized, these technologies will allow us to adopt biofuels far more widely, including fuels that do not compete with food for land. For instance, crop residues and winter cover crops, if managed carefully, could provide hundreds of millions of tons of dry biomass each year. While these technologies are promising, and help to address concerns surrounding food prices and displaced food production, they are not immune to the same land use issues raised by grain-based ethanol. Even cellulosic crops must be managed in a way that protects soil fertility, water quality and wildlife habitat.

These changes have been greatly enabled by the federal renewable fuel standard outlined in the Energy Security and Independence Act of 2007. Calling for 21 billion gallons of "advanced biofuels" -- based on materials other than corn -- by 2022, the act spells out lifecycle greenhouse gas performance standards for biofuels,(2) as well as biomass sourcing safeguards designed to protect our sensitive wildlife habitats, federal forests and most threatened ecosystems, such as native prairies and natural forests.

As both fuel and food prices demonstrate greater volatility, we are entering a new world in both energy and agriculture.

Federal safeguards are a critical first step toward securing sustainable biomass over the long run. If biofuels are going to deliver on their promise to be an environmentally preferable alternative to petroleum-based fuels, they must be produced sustainably. Rigorous international standards for the sustainable management of biofuels will help ensure that a consistent standard is applied throughout the global market, preventing the "export" of unsustainable production methods -- such as tropical deforestation to plant biofuel crops -- to other countries. Multi-stakeholder efforts to develop international standards are well under way (e.g., the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels) and hold the best promise for ensuring that biofuels lead us to more secure and sustainable fuel systems.

As both fuel and food prices painfully demonstrate, we are entering a new world in both energy and agriculture. As the focus of biofuel research moves from corn and other food-based crops to better, more diversified options such as agricultural residues and cover crops, farmers are still at the heart of the solution. American farmers will have to embrace new crops, new practices, and new policies that reward performance rather than production.

How Much It Costs

The cost of energy produced from biomass depends on the type of biomass being burned, the type of energy being produced (heat, electricity or fuel), the technology used and the size of the plant. Power plants that burn biomass directly can generate electricity at a cost of 7 to 9 cents per kilowatt-hour.

Direct-Fired Biomass Combustion Technology Characteristics

Performance

Typical Duty Cycle Baseload

Net Plant Capacity (MW) 35

Net Plant Heat Rate (HHV, Btu/kWh) 14,500

Capacity Factor (%) 80

Economics

Total Project Cost ($/kW) $3,000-5,000

Fixed O&M ($/kW-year) $83

Variable O&M ($/kWh) $.011

Fuel Cost ($/MBtu) $0-3

Levelized Cost of Energy (¢/kWh) 6.7-1.5 cents

Applicable Incentives

Open loop $10/MWh PTC, seven-year MACRS*

Closed loop $20/MWh PTC, seven-year MACRS*

Technology Status

Commercial Status Commercial

Installed US Capacity (MW) 7,000

* The Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) is the current method of accelerated asset depreciation required by the U.S. income tax code.



Source: Black and Veatch, Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative, Phase 1A, table 5-1.

Over time, if the growth of biomass is sustainably managed, burning biomass can result in zero net carbon dioxide emissions, meaning that the carbon dioxide released in the burning can be absorbed right back from the atmosphere by growing more biomass.

Advantages

• Farmers and foresters already produce a great deal of residue. While much of it is needed to protect habitat, soil and nutrient cycles, tens of millions of tons could be safely collected, and even more could be collected in the future with the right management practices. Every year in the United States, roughly 39 million tons of crop residues go unused.(3) Properly harnessed, this waste could produce about 7,500 megawatts of power -- enough for every home in New England.

• Unlike coal, biomass produces no harmful sulfur or mercury emissions and has significantly less nitrogen -- which means less acid rain, smog and other toxic air pollutants.

• Over time, if the deliberate growth of biomass is sustainably managed, burning biomass can result in zero net carbon dioxide emissions, meaning that the carbon dioxide released in the burning can be absorbed right back from the atmosphere by growing more biomass.

• Using biofuels in our cars can potentially produce less global warming pollution than gasoline, and allows us to invest our energy dollars at home rather than in foreign oil.

• Switchgrass, a promising source of biofuel if planted in such a way that it does not replace native habitat, is a native, perennial prairie grass that is easier to grow responsibly than most row crops. It can help reduce erosion and nitrogen runoff, and it increases soil carbon faster when mowed than when standing.

• Many ethanol production plants are owned by farmer-cooperatives, which help preserve the economic vitality of rural communities.

What's around the Corner

• Aggressive action to develop advanced biofuels by 2015 could allow America to produce the equivalent of the same amount of oil by 2050 that we currently import from the Persian Gulf. If at the same time we make our vehicles more efficient and make plug-in hybrids widely available, biofuels could help virtually eliminate our demand for gasoline.

• Flexible-fuel vehicle requirements are being considered at the national level that will prompt manufacturers to equip all new cars and trucks for both gasoline and biofuels within about a decade.

• Improved high-tech "gasification" systems could bring down the cost of biomass energy to 5 cents per kilowatt-hour.

• Farmers will find innovative ways to produce more food and more biomass utilizing sustainable management practices that increase yields, generate useful by-products and improve degraded and marginal soils, while simultaneously protecting critical ecosystems. Researchers are testing the ability of fast-growing, cost-efficient trees such as poplar and eucalyptus, and grasses such as switchgrass and alfalfa, to be harvested as biofuels.

• More power plants will soon burn biomass along with coal to reduce their polluting emissions. Facilities can recover the cost of adopting the new technology within a few years.

Renewable Energy Meets Wildland and Wildlife Conservation

Certain sensitive lands -- such as parks, monuments and wildlife conservation areas -- and ecologically sensitive marine areas are not appropriate for energy development. In some of these places, energy development is prohibited or limited by law or policy, and in others it would be highly controversial. NRDC does not endorse locating energy facilities or transmission lines in such areas. Siting decisions must always be made extremely carefully, with impacts mitigated and operations conducted in an environmentally responsible manner.

For more information on the intersection between clean energy development and wildland and wildlife conservation in the American West, including locations of parks, wildlife refuges and other conservation areas, see this Google Earth-based feature.

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Lessons from Tunisia

1.       Wikileaks identified that there were engagement issues, ie Tunisia was flying under the radar from US policymakers. As such, any direct linkages to the expulsion of Ben Ali may be tenuous at best. This does seem like a proper people-led uprising, instigated by the suicide of 2 Tunisian citizens fed up with unemployment and hardship under the regime.

2.       So, what are the real learnings once the foreign conspiracy angle is eliminated? Educated and civilised people fed up with corruption, bureaucratic incompetence spontaneously showed courage to stand up against brutality and bullets to protest and show displeasure at the administration. (78 died, so far)

3.       Shades of the Reformasi in 98, when people got really fed up with Mahathir’s removal of Anwar with trumped-up charges. Most of the anger has been skillfully dissipated in the intervening years, but there’s an underlying dissatisfaction just below the surface. Najib will do well to heed the lessons.

4.       In the meantime, the governance model really needs to be tweaked – Rakyat Didahulukan must be more than a slogan. Sultans, PMs don’t come into it as know-it-all governance. Najib can use the Tunisian experience for his benefit and sidestep the right-wing elements within his party. There needs to be strong and decisive leadership now.

 

 

Personal motivators

Had a MAPP report generated identifying my most personal, most intrinsic motivators. MAPP is an assessment survey that seeks to surface our internal motives and is particularly useful for career planning objectives. Who thinks any HR will be interested in this will be a bit naïve, as I had highlighted before about deficiencies of organizational “human resource”. Forget the crap taglines of people are our greatest resource and all that, cos those are crappy bullshit, and the larger the organization the crappier. In any instance, if you want to take the opportunity to take your own career planning into your own hands, you could do much worse, or another way to put it is this is the best way, to determine your options.

 

My personal MAPP summary as below… I’d need to strategise my letter then!

 

 

We are pleased to present you with the highlights of top six motivators! These were automatically generated when you completed the 71-question MAPP assessment based on your specific answers. This report is as unique as you are!

Your report has six bullets – one bullet for each of your top six motivators. Each motivator is explained followed by advice on how to apply this to your career.

• You thrive on change, and know how to capitalize on it. It is important that you have enough change and variety in your work.
• You derive personal satisfaction from directly helping others. Position yourself so you can work directly with people to help them.
• You are motivated to cause good, growth and gain in the lives of others. You are also insightful as to the personality, intentions, emotions, ethics, values, and moods of people. You are effective in helping to develop other employees or interacting with customers
• You desire to share ideas with the intent of helping people.
• You understand the meaning of ideas and words, and use them effectively in written or oral communication. You have the ability to express key concepts.
• You naturally generate lots of new ideas and ways of doing things. You like to be included in brainstorming sessions, or whenever new and different solutions must be found. You are also highly intuitive, and likely to suddenly "just know" the solution.