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Mankind has always been preoccupied with measuring and recording the passage of time. Timekeeping has been essential for the development of civilizations; from knowing when to plant or harvest crops to identifying important events in the year.
Time has historically been measured in relation to the movement of the Earth; a day, is one revolution of the planet; while a year is an entire orbit of the Sun. Calendars were developed from as far back as 20,000 years ago when hunter-gatherers scratched lines and gouged holes in sticks and bones to possibly count the days between phases of the moon.
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Civilizations from the Ancient Egyptians to the Roman Empire have used differing methods to discover what day of the year it is. However, measuring time as it passed throughout the day had always proved difficult to early mankind. Sundials were perhaps the first time pieces and they can trace their origin back over five thousand years; when obelisks were built, possibly to allow the telling of time by the cast of their shadows.
History of Horology - Sundials to Atomic Clocks
However, the time told on a sundial was based on the movement of the sun in the sky, which would differ throughout the seasons and of course would not work on cloudy days or at night. Other methods such as water clocks or the hourglass would simply act as crude timers. Telling the time of day would prove difficult with people relying on comparisons as time references such as: "As long as it would take a man to walk a quarter mile."
People were reliant on these methods and others such as bell ringing to indicate important moments until the 14th century, when mechanical clocks first appeared which were driven by weight and regulated by a verge-and-foliot escapement (a gear system that advancing the gear train at regular intervals or 'ticks'). These clocks were far more reliable than sundials or other methods allowing accurate and reliable telling of the time of day for the first time in human history.
The next step forward in horology came in the 17th century when the pendulum was developed to help clocks maintain their accuracy. Clock making soon became widespread and it was not for another three hundred years that the next revolutionary step in horology would take place; with the development of electronic clocks. These were based on the movement of a vibrating crystal (usually quartz) to create an electric signal with an exact frequency.
While electronic clocks were far more accurate than mechanical clocks it wasn't until the development of Atomic Clocks and around fifty years ago that modern technologies such as communication satellites, GPS and global Computer networks became possible.
Most atomic clocks use the resonance of the atom caesium-133 which vibrates exactly at a frequency of 9,192,631,770 every second. Since 1967 the International System of Units (SI) has defined the second as that number of cycles from this atom which makes atomic clocks (sometimes called caesium oscillators) the standard for time measurements.
Atomic clocks are accurate to less than 2 nanoseconds per day, which equates to about one second in 1.4 million years. Because of this accuracy, a universal time scale UTC (Coordinated Universal Time or Temps Universel Coordonné) has been developed that maintains a continuous and stable time scale and supports such features as leap seconds - added to compensate for the slowing of the Earth's rotation.
However, atomic clocks are extremely expensive and are generally only to be found in large-scale physics laboratories. However, NTP servers (Network Time Protocol), the standard means for achieving time synchronization on Computer networks, can synchronize networks to an atomic clock by using either the Global Positioning System (GPS) network or specialist radio transmissions.
The development of atomic clocks, GPS and NTP time servers has been vital for modern technologies, allowing Computer networks all over the world to be synchronized to UTC.
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senior government officials, including Attorney General Eric Holder and the Minister for Internal Security Janet Napolitano hosted a forum on the protection of consumers against the Creator and the theft of intellectual property. 15. December 2010.
I was sitting in the office of the owner of a furniture company in Kansas City. It was a medium-sized company - about 80 employees - and she had been telling me that their last round of layoffs was putting a lot of pressure on certain teams that had the same workload but less people to get it done. I asked how she was dealing with that issue.
"Well," she said, "The vendors who sold us our credit application software just released a new version. They gave us a demo last week, and we're going to upgrade. It seems a little easier to use, and it has a couple of new reporting features that'll save us some time."
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I nodded and asked, "How much does something like that run?"
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"It's about 0 dollars a license, and we have about 30 analysts who use it."
"That's actually not too bad," I replied. "I was expecting it to be several hundred dollars more. If it does what you wanted and will save you enough time to justify the cost, you got a good deal."
"Well, that's per month," she said.
I paused for a minute. I actually wanted to whistle, but I try not to react badly in front of business owners.
"So, that's 00 a month for this new software," I said, carefully.
"Yes," she said. "I know it sounds like a lot, but I think the new features are going to be worth it. It's not too much more than what we're paying now."
"Well, sure, you always have to run the numbers and make sure that sort of thing will save you enough time to earn you some money. Let me ask you, though. These analysts who have all this extra work you were telling me about, what sort of productivity improvement training are you sending them to?" I asked.
"Oh, well, we're not going to do something like that," she answered. She even chuckled a little.
"If you don't mind me asking," I ventured, "why aren't you making that part of your plan?"
"We just can't afford to budget for training this year."
I just sat quietly for a moment. She and I had worked together, before, and I knew I didn't need to say anything. I didn't wait long.
"I know what you're going to say," she said.
"What am I going to say?"
"You're going to say that I'm spending five thousand dollars a month on software and no money at all on the people who'll be using the software, even though I'm asking them to do more work with less people."
"That does sound like something I'd say." I started to smile a little bit.
"And this is where you'll take your notebook out and show me that I'll get more productivity per dollar if I invest in the people before I invest in their systems."
"That also sounds like me," I said. "Do you really need me for the rest of this meeting? You're doing fine all by yourself."
She chuckled and asked what the next step was.
"Well, let me ask you some more questions about this situation, and we'll get all the facts down, and we'll see if what you helped me say so well turns out to be right or not."
It never ceases to amaze me how much money companies will spend on equipment, software, buildings, services, and all sorts of things to raise revenues, lower expenses, and increase productivity. Yet, they won't spend a single dollar on the people who are allegedly using all these things and driving all this productivity.
A CFO once told me that his company didn't think of people just as "company equipment." That's good, but the sad reality is that, for many companies, thinking of their people as equipment would actually be quite a step up!
If you get nothing else out of my little story, take this away: your biggest gains in profitability come from upgrading your people. Other kinds of improvements are nickel and dime ROI compared to the results you'll get by increasing a person's performance, or a team's performance, or a manager's ability to get more out of her team.
If you want your business to survive, and even thrive, in an economy like this one, you have to intelligently plan your strategies and allocate your resources around what will give you the most return, and that is easily your employee base. Improve that, and the effect on your bottom line will be amazing.
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