The easiest money

I already had some understanding, a little earlier in Moscow I met with the head of MasterCard in Russia, Andrey Korolev, and the head of the Visa representative office, Lou Naumovsky. They said they were ready to work with a new bank. Korolev gave contacts to the MasterCard Advisors division, a division that helps banks formulate technology and build an IT platform in the credit card market.

What follows are statements that may seem peremptory, but they are mine. America is the most competitive country in the world. This is the only country where business has been elevated to the rank of science. We have sociology, political science, physics, mathematics, and they have another science - business. There are huge universities, departments, schools, colleges where they approach it from a scientific point of view. Accordingly, it is very difficult to compete with American businessmen. They are the most aggressive, the toughest, somewhat cynical, but very effective. They achieve what they want, they know how to share, to compromise, but with one goal - to earn even more.

And she glared at me with her one eye. I shuddered involuntarily, seeing at the bottom of her muttering an incipient attack of madness. He was the strongest I have ever seen. It seemed that the old woman was one step away from losing control of herself. And, apparently, she is unlikely to be able to get out of the quicksands of madness in the near future, if she plunges into them.

It seems that I will have to make a difficult choice: either take the risk and fall into the past of the Lord, being in the same room with a witch, ready to surrender to madness; or - until it's too late to scratch from here in all shoulder blades. And given that the stench of the Lord’s breath is already felt on the back of my head, it’s worth taking a chance and choosing the first option. So I did.

He waited until Marya Nikitichna scribbled runes on the mirror with a trembling hand, and then stood in front of the artifact and after a few seconds hooted into its depths.

And when our transport arrived at the settlement, I immediately saw Marya Nikitichna. She met me, impatiently pacing up and down the porch. And immediately, without a “hello,” she beckoned me with her withered hand and almost galloped into the darkness of the corridor. Apparently, she was greatly excited by the imminent arrival of the Lord. She rushed so that I could hardly keep up with her, seeing in front of me long gray hair that fluttered behind the old woman's hunched back like a superhero cape.

The grandmother rushed through half of her dwelling in a whirlwind, flew into the room with a mirror and hurried me with displeasure, although I was just a little behind her.

Quite often, Russian companies, having developed a KPI-based remuneration system, only update the planned values ​​in the future. In this case, the system loses its effectiveness and turns into a formal tool, for the support of which the organization spends its resources - human, temporary, financial, but does not receive the expected result.

It becomes necessary every year to update not only the planned values, but also to bring the goals in line with KPI. Hold an annual strategic session to develop the company's goals, and then make a decomposition, both temporary - based on 3-year goals, set goals for 1 year, and structural - based on the goals of the company, develop goals for directorates, departments and divisions, and then specific employees.

Until now, many companies do not decompose goals and reward department heads and employees only if the company's goals are achieved. Such a remuneration system is unlikely to motivate, because the lower the employee's position in the hierarchy, the less the degree of his influence on the final business results. Even if the head of the department or employee is productive, competent and works 10 hours a day, it is unlikely that he will significantly affect the goals of the company (a different situation is observed with top managers and small businesses), which means that such remuneration will not stimulate him to work more efficient.

I still don't understand how one person could interfere with our work? Kuruz Zhai Crow continued to wonder.

– He was not alone. Very quickly, he found associates and like-minded people. We did not know, but for a long time in the highest noble circles of a number of principalities a conspiracy was ripening against us. At the last moment we managed to liquidate the leaders of the conspirators. But as it turned out, we were too late. Very quickly, the wolf took over the reins of the dissatisfied. He, at the head of a small detachment, was able to pe*****te our closed territory, reached the Citadel, and even met with the ruler of the colony, the ferry Laik Kairos.

- So what? We failed to destroy it? Kuruz Zhai Crow was surprised.

- The wolf managed to find the dissatisfied inside the Citadel, one of them was a Gayan, he worked for a long time in the maintenance of engineering networks, as it turned out, unfortunately, too late, he managed to install explosive devices throughout the Citadel. They were ready to blow themselves up along with the building, Par Like Kairos was forced to let them go.

- What kind of utter nonsense are you talking here? Some human being was able to single-handedly mine the Rionika Citadel, and after that get away with impunity? Kuruz Zhai Crow stamped his foot in indignation. “And why did you take some upstart’s word for it?”

“Unfortunately, they have provided undeniable evidence by blowing up one of the key centers of the Citadel.

- It's no good. Par Like Kairos must be recalled to the capital, he must be judged and roughly punished. Such mistakes are unforgivable,” Par Hor Taverus said.

And his words were supported by the rest of the ichors and kuruzes, who were part of the Extraordinary Commission.

The idea of ​​hypertext caught on very quickly. Soon a large network of hypertext documents grew up on the Internet, which gradually became known as the World Wide Web. In addition, in 1993, a team of programmers, led by Netscape founder Marc Andriessen, developed the first browser with a full graphical interface and allows you to work with a mouse - Mosaic. This could not but add to the popularity of the rapidly developing Web.

Over time, the Internet became in demand not only by scientists: ordinary users also came to it, and their number was steadily increasing. For many, it was obvious that HTML, which does not imply any dynamics in the documents created with its help, is rather boring and nondescript. This gave impetus to the development of CSS technologies, the introduction of support for Java applets, and then scripts (JavaScript was the first language).

It should be noted that with the formation and growth of the Network of creators of HTML, the "purity" of their offspring was seriously excited. There were not unreasonable fears that browser manufacturers, which were soon to come to the market, would "spoil" their users with branded innovations, which, of course, would be supported only by branded browsers. In 1994, an organization was created that took over the development of uniform standards for the development of WWW - the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This organization also took up the preparation of HTML standards (starting with HTML 2.0). True, despite the presence of the W3C, innovations in HTML began to be supported by browser manufacturers much earlier than this organization standardized them (for example, it was the case with frames, with scripting in HTML documents, with the document object model, etc.) .

Moving smoothly and silently, the Hunter stepped under the canopy of trees twisted by the explosions of the last war. There was an eerie silence in the park. Not a single animal, not a single bird, if they were here, made a sound. Walking slowly, the Hunter more comfortably grabbed the butt of the machine gun, which lacked such stupid details as, for example, a safety catch. After the 200-year eclipse, no one believed their own mother either. It took too long to switch the fuse.

This park was a great place for a new base for the city garrison, but it scared the warriors who could only kill people. The best researchers of the special services did not have time to enter into the bestiary all the new types of Creatures that arose after each more or less significant skirmish. With the beginning of the use of radiations according to the type of the Montauk project, developed even before the first eclipse and the separation of countries, terrible-looking animals (or modified people?) filled all the free territories of the planet. After the first two nuclear wars, governments decided to abandon the use of atomic weapons, and switched mainly to Montauk hard radiation generators, named after the project that first developed it. But even the Great March of Mutants of the first Winter cannot be compared with a real revelry of abomination. There have been speculations that super-strong electromagnetic fields are causing a rip to other dimensions. Where these creatures come from, but so far the confirmations have been only indirect.