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By
Nick Ashton, CEO/Founder, Tracometry Group of Companies.
Planning is
both part of our social and business lives and effectively managing your
valuable time is of the utmost importance.
Today, we use digital diaries, calendars and of course, all on our smart
mobile phone. The appointments that you
make are walking around with you and the electronic reminders keep us in-touch
and on time.
You can
make the appointment and plan what that meeting is to be about and what you
want to achieve. If it is a one on one meeting, you have the
opportunity to control the content and guide the outcome. In some respects, it depends on your character
and the acceptance, in business, of the other party’s reception of you.
If you, and
a team are meeting with a potential client, there enters the massive variables
of conversation and how you are now just one of a group, guiding your client to
the desired outcome for all. Difficult,
when the script is among your team and you have free flow input from your
client, he or she may have just page one of the script, but, the final scene,
has never been rehearsed or finalized.
The team
has the pre-planned goal, with individual overtones and the client is having to
listen to different people, voices, personalities and all within a time
constraint. The clock is ticking and so
it should, the time window of opportunity is ever diminishing and the structure
for completion on time and target for all parties is vital.
How often
do you have day of appointments with three different clients, all on the same
subject, but from different perspectives and keep on track, on time and on
point? I know, a long question, but why
I bring it up is simple, I am proud to be part of a winning and successful team
that provides services and solutions that are second to none and serve our
clients and potential clients in a most professional cohesive manner.
We have two
ears and one mouth and listening to your client’s situations, what keeps them
in a business sense, up at night, is
so important for both of you. When there
are five in the room and one a speaker phone, it is not the most conducive environment
and in many cases, doomed to fail. Not in
our case, I was pleased and proud to be one among the team and have respect for
all in the room.
Meeting
people for the first time is not easy and the key is simple, be you, listen and
importantly respect the time window you have.
Sure, traffic can play a part on being on time, use the phone and call
if you know you are running behind and stopping for all traffic lights. That is respect to the potential client.
So
yesterday was one of those days, a great day for all concerned, our team and
potential clients, as we have respect for all and their input to allow us to
provide the solutions in a more than amicable way.
I plan for
days like this every day and it is the initial connection and follow through
that makes the difference.
Thank you
team, and thanks to our folks we meet with...
together we can make that important difference.
WE are in the NOW and KEEP YOU; in the KNOW...
Call: (317) 426.0110
Email: team@tracometry.com
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Run-down,
dilapidated, crime-infested and drug-ridden are descriptors that homeowners
typically avoid attaching to their neighborhoods — unless those terms describe
what the area was like before its revitalization.
Wait a
second! What revitalization? Our neighborhoods are going to hell in a hang basket!
Have you
driven around your city, I mean places you have never been or seen before? We just did and wow! Houses boarded up, seedy folks hanging on the
only house left on the block, if you can call it house, on a street with folks
hanging on street corners, which look like they just dropped in from a scene
from Escape from New York.
Seeing a
neighborhood fall apart in front of your eyes, never happens, it is like, now
you see, now you don’t. Like driving to
work the same way each day, you miss the construction of a tall building,
until, you stop in traffic at a place you have never stopped before, turn, and
see this monstrosity that seems to have appeared from nowhere, right in front
of your eyes. You know the feeling…
So what has
happened to a country that had it all?
What are we, a third world country?
Do we need to go to the United Nations and ask for aid? It sure looks that way! No disrespect to Third World countries, at
least you are moving forward and this nation has taken an almighty drop…
I look at
pictures of Africa, Syria, Haiti, and Cuba, blinking and cursing under my
breath on what I am seeing and feeling on their situation. I have walked the
streets of London, I grew up there, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Liberia, smelled the
poverty, kicked the trash and looked in the eyes of hopeless people, knowing
back then, that we, in America, had never had it so good. How wrong I was! Today, just look at us! How can we just continue as if nothing is wrong?
Detroit is broke! It has nothing but people who live day to
day, children who have no future if the family stays. Then again, where do you go, when you have no
money for the bus, if it is still running?
The Michigan
governor has brought in a financial manger to assist in finding out what has
gone wrong and how it can be saved. Do what?
A bit late, when your own administration has run it into the
ground. Once the King of the Automobile industry
is up on blocks and the body has been stripped of all that was worth saving. Who is next on the list? Have you looked out the window lately?
The news
tells us each day of the violence, sexual and domestic abuse, crime and the death
of another teen or someone in a home invasion.
It will take education, intervention, employment opportunities and a real jolt of reality which is not going
to happen, unless the community and neighborhood roll up their sleeves and can
see the path out of their pitiful existence.
So what are
you going to do? Sitting there drinking your Latte, in a sterile
Starbucks, among others who choose to ignore the blight that is all around
you.
I am not!
I am a doer, like the city I
live in and cities around me that have a vision, an achievable vision and daily,
work on all the aspects of running a business.
Communities are a business and so are the people within those
communities and they cannot be left to their own devices. Cities and municipalities
have the citizens as their clients and must serve them to the best of their
abilities. Those that wish to continue,
the “them and us syndrome”, you will
be left by the wayside, only to be found by our future anthropologists and historians
in the big book of failure. Examples of
how not live your life and to be a dis-service to your fellow man, woman and
child.
You see, we
are seeing the results of the entitlement
generations that is firmly entrenched in their DNA. This is the government assistanceprogramites. A sickness that has been left to fester and
placed on the bottom of the list of
things to do.
We do not
need mouth pieces who only come out when the television news cameras are
rolling and go back to study their books and just prayer for action. We need and require people who have a conscious
and the will to be part of the biggest change America needs right now.
It is about pro-activity, not delayed reactionary failure.
So are we
going to write it off or pick-up the pieces?
I know
where I stand and the effort I am placing on picking up the pieces…
Call: (317) 426.0110
Email: pickitup@tracometry.com
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By
Nick Ashton, CEO/Founder, Tracometry Group of Companies.
I mean, you
can get cozy with many people with one Tweet, then on the other hand, you can
enrage them beyond committing murder through the Internet connection. In fact they want to reach out and throttle
right through their screen. Isn’t that
nice that we are surround by happy social people.
Twitter and
Facebook are excellent social tools when you know how to use the system. Too
Much Information (TMI) Syndrome is prevalent among all users and it is only
after something awful happens they realize, said too much and the wrong
picture. If only I had been thinking!
Anti-social
behavior is driving criminal problems. Social
media is a part of the conduit with communicating to create public acts of
violence that these individuals think is cool and only a prank. We were only
having fun, as they damage store fronts, overturn clothing racks, push
young children to the floor, flashing loaded guns and firing shots in malls and
thinking nothing of it, as it was all a prank!
Cities are suffering with increased crime, which include murder, violent flash mobs, community street violence and a total loss of respect for each other.
The listening ear reveals much. There is a strain on our society balloon that is being pressured from so many angles it will burst and that loud noise is not what we want to hear.
It is an all hands on deck situation to weather this storm and seek calmer waters, which we all deserve. Think before you thumb…
Call: (317) 426.0110
Email: partnerships@tracometry.com
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By
Nick Ashton, CEO/Founder, Tracometry Group of Companies.
Life is so
funny that it can make you cry. I think
I have said that statement a few hundred times in my life and only yesterday I really
thought hard about it, due to phone call.
As a
businessman who comes from a family of marketing and management, I have to look
at what aspect of business I dislike and most detest. People saying No
and saying it through fear of losing what they think should be their original idea. It is just they never thought of it or by
slight changes will be a success.
I have been
in this world of business over forty two years and in my early days was aggressive
in my development and marketing skills.
Have I mellowed? Sure, not much,
but I have vastly more experience and success today that I ever did. Was I back then making deals that where risky
and on the edge? Yes, back then we had
no new technology to assist us, so to speak.
This was the early 1970’s, when I with partners developed major
solutions in both bomb blast protection and counter terrorism techniques. With a great team, created the Oriel 2000
micro-computer and changed the way of life for accountants, companies and the
safety of the world.
This is where the fanfare comes in
and the curtains open and I bow and thank you all with a speech… Humor…
We have to
laugh and shrug our shoulders at what goes on as the clock turns and the
seconds to end, tick by.
As you age,
like a fine wine, your characteristics blossom and take over your overall temperament. The enjoyment of the chase and final capture
or gratification becomes a significant delight and when working with a team,
the celebration of the fact you succeed in all you stated. That is the be all and end all of life.
The Rule of Three:
1. Tell the folks what you are going to do
2. Then do it
3. Then tell them that you have done it!
Some never
get it and there is no rule four, as there are only three chances in life.
Sadly,
those that say no, will never get that chance to understand or participate in
it all. It is not I or the team that is
being rejected, it is those that spake
the word and opinion of NO, that have lost the opportunity
for themselves and those that would have been greatly affected by the success
of the project.
It is not
about us, you, me and ownership, it is about listening with open ears, minds
and seeing the bigger picture in all we do, say and hear. Get off your high horse and come to a street level and see for yourselves what No really means!
No, to solving community problems, stopping teens killing
teens, to teaching Trust, Respect and Pride, to society, is not
the road we must be travelling. Without
roads or paths it is difficult to get from A to B, thank goodness the Romans,
pure planners, giving us that opportunity find our way. Why be
a road block to success? When you know full well what has happened before
and continue to do it the same way today, which is not working and then reject
commonsense and assistance?
Why cut of your nose to spite your
face?Why?
When
working in business development or implementing a proven project, even a
partnership, or the integration of a far reaching solution, you are always
looking to the next step, idea or improvement of someone’s original plan. Thank
goodness we don’t see the same picture or solution, it would be boring.
Edison saw
it one way and Tesla saw it another, they worked as a team. Edison was the head
of the team and was awarded thousands of patents, others assisted. It was people listening to each other to resolve
the issues. I think a light bulb just
went on!
There is
never time to rest. You typically have an API (Application Programming
Interface) that is in computer terms. In
general, it is the same for any business minded venture. You have the means to train, implement and
execute for the success. You need to
hand hold the next partner or project to get their integration up, running and
a success for all concerned.
This is not
to say you can’t enjoy the wins as they come. Yes, enjoy them. But remember
with every new deal the expectations get higher, the numbers need to continue
to go up, etc.
For all the
glamour and sexiness that comes with working on the business side of a project,
the reality is that you are only good as your last project and there is very
little time to rest and enjoy current success.
NEXT!
This is a big vast
world with problems, alone, we cannot do it all, and it is the partnerships
that make the difference.
Call: (317) 426.0110
Email: partnerships@tracometry.com
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By
Nick Ashton, CEO/Founder, Tracometry Group of Companies.
I was up
working, writing a new overview to save the world and noticed it was 1:59 a.m.,
I just happen to look toward the television and the cable box displayed time
caught my eye. Suddenly, the clock
changed to 3:00 a.m.!
I had, for
a moment, forgotten the clocks changed and this was weird and a thought rushed
through my mind. What just happened,
where did that hour go? In an instant I
was robbed of an hour of my life…
I am the
lucky one, I have my life! People are
robbed of many things, money, gold rings, cars, mobile phones and oh, their
lives. Our society is hell bent on doing
damage to each other in this, “I want it now” society. It is their right to take what they feel is
theirs, without working for it. The “entitlement”
generation, so to speak. In some cases
they know nothing else. They grew up
this way, it is a passed down lifestyle which is about to cease. The brakes are being applied and
accountability will be the responsibility of all.
This early
morning, the clocks changed and sprung forward.
When you arrive at church or the family get together, you might be a little late if you forgot to spring forward
and change the clocks. It is not the
only thing that is changing in people’s lives, education, community spirit and
concerns have risen to the surface and are being reinvigorated to the point of
being achievable and can be a success for all.
It first
starts with recognizing and accepting the problems, but for some, they are
among the problems and cannot see the wood for the trees. It has become a daily rigmarole of habitual concerns.
Poverty, no money, food, heat or seemingly that no one cares. Teens due to boredom are lethargic and trying
to get work, failing and turning to selling drugs, using a little on the side
is common and getting more and more in our daily lives. The downward spiral that has got to be
stopped!
It is sick
and I, and others, are tired of it! In
fact more than tired of it, we are working to rid our streets of the problems,
improve the education of our children and teenagers, bringing back Trust,
Respect and Pride into the neighborhoods so we can rebuild the community
to what life should and deservedly be.
It is not
too late if we act NOW!
Remember
when children went to school in their own neighborhoods by walking or riding
their bikes, taking only minutes to get to school and home again? As kids ourselves, we were so much better-off
in own environments. Educated, playing,
working and living with friends.
Building those relationships without the traveling hassle of having to
leave home nearly before dawn to get to school, getting home after sitting on a
bus among people who you really have no relationship with you, except the same
traffic jams and delays to contend with.
They say “home is where the heart is” and the
more time spent in the community builds ties, connections and harmony. That is why the Pied Piper Project
encompasses schooling (education) improvements, ridding the neighborhood of the
crime and criminals with use of the laws already on the books, changing
attitudes of tenants and landlords, encouraging commerce to return and even
have start-up businesses for the youth to work in and even own.
Not a lot to ask for, I was once told that you work with the Rule of Three (3):
1) Tell the Folks What You Are About To Do 2) Then Do It! 3) Then Tell Them You Have Done It!
We need your help to implement HELP!
It is that
simple and straight forward. The Tracometry
Group of Companies has the full circle of services, options and
solutions to nip these age old, ignored, problems in the bud.
It takes our following items:
Digital Data Collection from the streets and neighborhoods
Crime analytics, including tracking, calls for service data, next event predictability
Pied Piper Project, changing neighborhoods, bringing back Trust, Respect and Pride. Retraining and introducing a cohesive plan for the residents, public safety departments and commerce
recoupeit, reuniting revenues. Collecting the monies owed to municipalities and allowing to pay for services without increased taxation
So, the
lost hour was not that bad was it?
We have the
opportunity to spend the rest of lives wisely.
