Lights Out at Arcadian Networks

This just in on Arcadian Networks, the once touted Wireless Network Provider!

Just a couple of tweaks, Arcadian never actually owned any spectrum, they had an option with Access Spectrum to lease the spectrum to their customers.  The flaw in Arcadian's business plan always was the fact that the spectrum was never transferred to the user, only leased.  While the Arcadian folks brilliantly assembled a business plan to attract $90 million in capital from the "investors" on Wall Street, apparently all of the brilliant MBA's performing due diligence to protect the investors' money didn't bother to talk to the customer base about the obviously flawed business plan!

Read Jeff St. John's December 12, 2011 article which gets it almost right!

Marc

The Spirit of L&W

As I have the opportunity to travel around the country visiting clients and helping our sales team grow our business I am always impressed with how many people recognize the L&W name. Over the years our name has become a symbol of quality in the telecommunications engineering and PM world and I am extremely proud of our accomplishments. We have an extremely competent team at L&W, but so do our competitors. So what is it that sets L&W apart? Well it is quite simply the The Spirit of L&W!

The spirit of this great team is hard to describe. You can't point to one specific thing, it is millions of selfless acts of caring by our team. It is:

It is Friday lunches
It is trivia nights and competitions
It is Hawaii shirt Fridays
It is “trash talking” between engineers and sales team folks about who are the best golfers.
It is team members recruiting new team members with passion and excitement
It is team members working all night to get a project completed
It is team members telling each other how good they are
It is mentors who let team members fail and then help them recover and grow
It is doing what others think is impossible
It is people caring more than most dare to care to support a fellow team member
It is raising $2500 in a matter of hours to support a soldier’s family who none of us know
It is a prayer chain for someone in need
It is each of our team members contributing and supporting the rest of the team as if they are their families.
It is . . . a special place our team has created.

Our team is the greatest in the world, not only because of how good they are but how good they are to their team members!

Perseverance- A Secret to Success

Perseverance - to persist in pursuing something in spite of obstacles or opposition
-Webster’s Dictionary

A Secret of Success

We'd like to think that perseverance has everything to do with it. Yet in saying this, we still haven't helped you. If you were lucky enough to be part of a creative community where everyone around consistently succeeded in creating and sharing wonderful things in the world, then you would most likely gain the traits of those around you. This is why stimulus.com was created, to give you the advantage of being with a community that shares its secrets with you.

If someone told you that anything could be accomplished by just sticking with it, you'd probably agree, yet not feel any better about experiencing this success yourself. What we are going to teach you here, is a secret to perseverance.

Now people who are called "naturally talented" are merely people that gained an interest in a particular skill early in life. There is rarely anything genetically special about them. Its just that when someone learns how to do something at an early age, they tend to excel at that talent in comparison to others. Later in life when they compare their skills with others, they feel a confidence that few around them have.

When you create something, you are guaranteed to overcome obstacles. If you have a lot of experience in the area where you are creating things, then the obstacles are easy to overcome, and thus you are known to be "talented" at that skill. Again, there is nothing special about this. It is just the result of experience.


When we say "perseverance," we mean the ability to finish what you start. Take a look at the graph to the right, it illustrates the common experience of completing a complex project.

Notice that the difficulty constantly increases as the project continues. Just before the first level of success is accomplished, the difficulty level does two things:

Peaks
Levels Off

This brings us to the secret: You always know when you are about to succeed, because the difficulty level will peak to a nearly unbearable level, and then sustain. Typically people in creative environments look for this pattern over and over again. When they feel the difficulty leveling off, their second wind comes crashing in to fuel the fire of success. Sadly, most people interpret this sustained level of difficulty as an impossible barrier and a sign of when to quit, never knowing that they were only moments from their destiny.

How can this apply to your life?

Never quit, and when you think you just can't bare to continue, you are most likely about to accomplish success. Here are a few examples that always follow this rule:

Learning an instrument
Painting and illustrating
Writing stories and music
Building things

As with any skill, the more successes you have, the easier success comes, fewer obstacles get in your way. Even a large collection of finished failures can give you the confidence required to continue to succeed. Don't rely on others to support you. If this happens, it is a wonderful thing, however. Without your vision being successfully completed, the chances of someone understanding what you're attempting is minimal at best.

Good luck, and see you at the top.