ZD's Exclusive "Master File" of Strategy & Productivity Material I Have Been Using, PLUS, Undocumented Workers Building Condos & LAUSD Board Fears

Although ZD is leaning heavy on his stack of internationally recognized marketing strategy, quality & productivity, quantum physics/neuro-linguistic/effective PR communication consulting material; there will still be occasion to blog about some of
the nefariousness and fraud, waste and abuse that continues to flow like Niagara Falls, crashing down on the pueblo rocks, below.

But a little too much weak-ass spin from the defeated spinflys reminded me of a few things non-strategy related. You see, Deming says, "There is nothing worse than bad competition." (See "ZD MASTER FILE AT ZumaTimes.com for 40 page "master file" (with more/the rest to be added) of ZD's 20 years of research and information from some of the top, internationally recognized authors and consultant in the world, synthesized for all the leaders within the city and community (YES, that means YOU City Council -- and their staffers...and all city workers and involved members of the community from neighborhood council, homeowners associations, clubs and organizations, committee commissioners, media personnel, and involved constituents who show up for these meetings and activate the rest of the community.)
CLICK READ MORE, THERE IS MORE:
You can laugh at ZD all you want for feeling this way, and I don't think there's anyone reading this who can accuse me of being a naive sucker, or "Mr. Happy-Happy, Joy-Joy" -- but I mean it when I say, if everyone reading this post, would read THIS (click "this"), in it's entirety, however disjointed and however many typos that I am working on correcting, the City will
automatically reduce waste and become more efficient (no matter what else they are doing behind our back regarding fraud and abuse) and will become more innovative and creative in planning and implementation of the solutions to the problems before us.

I hope you agree, and if not...at least it didn't cost you anything.

Meanwhile, there are still concerns to be discussed, and back to the point of the weak spin that triggered my subconscious mind to think of and type the following words posted below: You've sat there round the clock and attacked me on everything except the content of the text (and in text form you can't see my hat and glasses and I'm not speaking too loud, or on City time)...but the spin is getting so thin and so weak, THAT seems to be the thing that pissed me off!!! It's the little things. I realize...you wanna piss me off and place me in a lifetime of heck...post the most stupid stuff imaginable, like you have been doing more recently. For all the stuff you have said about me, it's the stuff like, "there are a thousand marketing books out there", or to say, "more mayor gossip because the comments go up." WHO CARES IF THE COMMENTS GO UP?

Of course Entertainment Tonight gets bigger ratings than and LAUSD board meeting on KCLS. Of course the National Enquirer has more readers than a City Council agenda. Of course kids will play X-box instead of reading a text book.

I really have to question a lot of the people who I have spent a lot of time with, previously, discussing issues which they were scared to death about, in their community, and now it seems like too many people simply have personal axes to grind; and the things they are mentioning and blogging have nothing to do advocacy in a true sense of positive community spirit. Is THAT what you are fighting for? More talk about personal stuff? I know, I know...it's hurting his political career and that's good. But I'm not hearing enough about Eminent Domain, density without the necessesary infrustructure and mass transit, undocumented workers building condos, the new Villargarcia LAUSD school board that is steamrolling right over the parents, kids and heading straight for the construction and facilities money and contracts.

So to all the people who are pissing me off, for all the wrong reasons...read my quality and productivity material and please apply it to the following areas:

* Why does Los Angeles City Council allow un-documented workers to build the condos they are approving through Planning and Council?

Then, the legal workers can get work while you continue to raise their taxes and tack on new and innovative fees?

* LAUSD: Watch for the board to do everything possible to eliminate the parental input they campaigned they were going to include more of.

Things like once a month meetings (less opportunity for parents to attend), requiring a majority vote in order to allow a boardmember to even ask a question on what they are voting on. Cutting back the amount of time of public input (after cutting back to once monthly meetings), but they will allow everyone to speak; they will just divide
up the time equally, so you may only get five or six seconds. (NO JOKE!)

PLUS, the entire annual order of business what magically sent overtomonica garcia from King of Education, Mayor Antonio. Hmmmm, did Antionio hold public input hearings and get back the results of all those questions they needed, that wasn't even in the field yet?

And if it was the first board meeting, how could it have all been done already?
Didn't the new board members have any say in the annual order of business? In
Tamar's case, that is probably a good thing, since she has less experience with LAUSD than a first grader. (Who at least has been through kindergarten.) But if you spend a million bucks to get elected, I'm sure it means she isn't just sitting there to approve mayor-friendly construction projects while she waits for a council seat
to open up.

But this thread is going to be about LAUSD, and I haven't even mentioned the Riordan crew from the old pirate days, who somehow seem to be the current cast of construction money pirates.

And since the mayor probably forgot to aks Bloomberg about mayor control in NYC, ZD
is gonna post the results of how that debacle, along with all the others
across the country have been going from an achievement and financial level.

* How much is Ruby De Vera gonna cost the City?

The closed door settlement talk has been called by City Attorney to Budget and Finance Committee this week. And someone should include the price of a copy of the constitution and show it to a few folks on the wrong side of the rope.

* METHANE GAS POLICY: Why are reporters saying it's fraudulent and non-existent?

* WHAT'S going to happen to City Hall's fantasy subway to the sea and magic bullet trains/mag train needed to accommodate "Dumb Growth" and "Hideous Density" when the pueblos say go f*ck yourself over all these billions in bond money at the polls.ANDAKS YOURSELF THE SAME QUESTION ABOUT THE SCHOOLS. Cause ZD's market research says that well is about to dry up. Research says "negatives" going "up" when issue of more school bond money is raised in the questionnaire . (I hope they get em built before the money runs out. But if I know the City of Los Angeles, as planners, they end up with a bunch of half-finished school,un-completed; rather than getting a few actually built -- which better be the strategy cause vote patience and "yeses" are running out.

* ZD doesn't have to check the budget to know that the number of 311 operators were cut back first week of July, right when the new budget kicked in. Every try
calling during the day, now?

Trust me...no one is gonna sit on hold that long. Quality Management guru Dave
Elliott would like to remind you, "311 is the representation of how
constituents and "customers" (as the mayor calls them on the line) will
judge their business experience with the City of Los Angeles If the
city considers itself to be in business, then the mayor should be
striving to reduce the time on hold between first ring and connection
to the appropriate party. NOT INCREASING ON HOLD TIME AT A GEOMETRIC
RATE OF PROGRESSION.

MAYOR, I know it seems like a small thing...those damn 311 lines for those damn people calling about things you don't care about.

But you are taking the opportunity to make a good impression on everyone who calls in to city hall, and pissing 'em off, right off the bat. And if they are calling to complain in the first place, well you sure ain't spinning the right way on these former supporters either.

BUT, for the threads, I am going to focus on undocumented workers (unsafe) who are building condos in L.A. that also take the jobs from those you increase taxes and add new fees. (And we haven't gotten those 1000 new cops yet, although the fees have been
raised?) AND, the scandalatLAUSD (Hey Monica, where's the inspector general?

You'd hire Kellen Keller for the position if you could, wouldn't you. I
challenge you to have him in the room at allLAUSD board and committee meetings (if you ever have one). I mean, if you care about kids and schools and fixing the system, and making sure no one bamboozles all the money away like in other major "mayoral
controlled" cities...wouldn't you WANT the inspector general to be as
involved as much as they would like to be, so as to do the job and protect the money.

I mean, it doesn't do any good to allow fraud, waste and abuse to rob the
kids of their future. And the Inspector General is there to protect against that. So what does it say if AB 1381 wanted to eliminate the inspector general, and you supported this move, and it is quite clear to the whole world that you don't like the position ofIG? [I'm not passing judgement, necessarily, just aksing what it would mean if you were LAUSD school board president and wished you were "Bewitched" so you could wiggle your nose and send the IG to Bombay.

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