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UPDATE: Here's a link to the city's survey, please fill it in to let them know what you want in the new park: https://lnkd.in/gUCi8dga ORIGINAL POST: Tonight's the night! I look forward to seeing all of you lovely OC Bikers, Skaters, BMXers, Scooters, Rollers and Bladers tonight at the Irvine Town Hall at **6pm at Portola Spring Community Park!*** I'll be wearing a bright yellow Digit Bikes T-shirt if you want to find me. I'm told that the city is quite commited to developing a multi-use facility as a starter kit for all-wheeled fun, and hopefully later developing more specialist features such as a BMX track, advanced skate features, etc... They want our feedback on how to include everyone, and to see that there's community support for it! Local bike leaders - I think your voices would be valuable. There might be opportunities for your organizations and our local community to benefit from this at little/no cost (The city is NOT looking for funding). I've proposed that it would be great to have a bike share from the train station with lock/charge facilities around the park. Perhaps local commuters could use this too - imagine a bike shop with leased secure storage at the train station, where they could do maintenance and sales. Maybe an ebike demo facility? The city liked these ideas. Perhaps you could help orchestrate something like this, or inject better ideas at the meeting... See y'all there.

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So is your solution at the top of the map? Is it leading the drive to the right? If not you, then who? If you aren't the most visible source of value to your customers, which of your competitors is? How long do you think they'll wait before they cut you out of the stack? If you're not planning to lead the move to the next tier of service, which of your competitors will?

My friend Mark Gilmour recently competed in the Atlas Mountain Race – an epic, self-supported off-road cycling race through the Atlas Mountains in Morocco 🇲🇦 from Marrakech to Essaouira covering 1,300 km and over 21,000 metres of climbing, including a lot of challenging terrain. 🚵♂️ When Mark lined up, I very much doubt he was looking (or wanted) to set an example of great decision-making, but that’s exactly what he ended up doing. ⁉ Mark made a very tough call – halfway through the race, and doing very well, he slipped on some rocks and twisted his knee. He decided to scratch (i.e. not finish). He tried to continue and did what he could but in the end, decided to withdraw, not wanting to do any long-term damage to his knee. 🤔 You might think this would have been an easy decision – Mark still had half of the grueling race to go after all. Think again. Mark had waited three years to do this event which was cancelled in 2021 during Covid when he originally signed up. He had trained, spent money on travel and kit, planned, and gotten halfway through doing excellent time. I’ve ridden with Mark. He is a very strong cyclist, more than capable of not only finishing the event but doing so in the upper part of the field. When you’re “in it”, it is always difficult to make the right call. In this case, it was all that investment in training and effort, the mindset of not giving up, the short-term goals right in front of him, and the ego not wanting to get a bruising, all of which would have made it difficult to not keep popping painkillers and finishing the race. Mark did not do that. He gave it a try after some rest. He didn’t rush to decide. He zoomed out and thought longer-term and concluded he ought to scratch. I am sure that wasn’t easy. 🏔 There are plenty of decision-making lessons in this, applicable to a wide variety of contexts. You can watch Mark’s videos about the race in his post (it looks stunning!). Mark will be back and will finish the unfinished business of that event. Decision-making is a practice. It’s not easy to understand intellectually at times and even more difficult to put that understanding into practice. Kudos to Mark for doing that here. 💡 Stay tuned for a “Decision Reactions” video from The Decision-Making Studio about this because there is so much good stuff here! https://lnkd.in/e2Ue-2Qt #decisionmaking #cycling #adventure

Another reminder that humans are experiencing the effects of their own pollution and that of big corporations and companies who are ignoring the huge problem until it’s too late and money is worthless because the planet’s climate is on a faster decline. Currently, I noticed that the earth's climate temperature is quickly on the rise. The two most valuable currencies are water and food at that point. Pollution from many products and manufacturing has increased cancers and other ailments in humans and animals over the last 33 years. Now, we no longer have a four-season world climate, we have a 2 1/2 season climate. I recall when there was actually an autumn season in the early 2000s. The last true fall season I experienced in Houston was three years ago which occurs every few years until it's entirely non-existent.

There are few approaches that are as powerful to bring together an organization towards a shared understanding and purpose. From executives, to technical teams, to finance, to new employees #wardleymaps let everyone see how they fit into the effort of the organization to deliver value. They also let you see where investments could and need to be made with strategic purpose.

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Capital project investments in football & basketball are a given so it’s exceptionally admirable to see significant investment in capital projects for other sports as well.

I give you a new edition of the horseshoe theory.