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Who is Reed Hastings?Reed Hastings is not just the co-founder of Netflix. He is the man who has touched our lives the most in terms of how we entertain ourselves in our day to day life. Let us understand how.In the era of 1960s and before we saw movies running in movie halls for weeks, months and years. Silver Jubilee, Golden Jubilee, Diamond Jubilee were very common. It continued in the 1970s, this is when we saw videotape entered home use, creating the home video industry and changing the economics of the television and movie businesses.1985 to 1997 was the David Cook era, this is when Blockbuster LLC as a company started to grow as Cook realized the potential of video rentals. There were the times when video players and home video became extremely popular. The cable TV and video game market boomed as well. There was no looking back for Blockbuster.As per Wikipedia:Blockbuster expanded internationally throughout the 1990s. At its peak in November 2004, Blockbuster employed 84,300 people worldwide, including about 58,500 in the United States and about 25,800 in other countries, and had 9,094 stores in total, with more than 4,500 of these in the US.Who is Reed Hastings?Image source: File:Reed Hastings, Web 2.0 Conference.jpg - WikipediaReed Hastings was born in 1960, he served in the peace corps and then graduated from Standford University in 1988 with a Masters Degree in Computer Science. Hastings found his first company Pure Software in 1991. After learning from some mergers and acquisitions, in 1997, Hastings and Marc Randolph co-founded Netflix.Netflix innovated by combining two technologies (1) DVDs, which were much easier to send as mail than VHS-cassettes, and (2) A website which provided an online form from where DVDs could be ordered instead of a paper catalogue. This meant the users could order movies sitting at home and there was no need to go to the store.Blockbuster could not stand the competition from Netflix, it started to lose its ground in the 2000s. Eventually Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010. Netflix grew like a dream with no looking back, Netflix has amassed a collection of 100,000 titles and over 100 million subscribers.Here is a snapshot comparing the business of Blockbuster and Netflix.Image Source: Netflix vs Blockbuster – Perfect example of an industry replaced by a more efficient version of itselfThe secret why Netflix grew like a dream has a lot to do with the Netflix culture built by Reed Hastings. Consider these aspects…(1) To attract and retain talent Netflix is known to pay salaries that are typically much higher than normal, it also provides options where employees can choose annually how much of their compensation they want in cash versus stock.(2) Instead of providing average raise to employees who do not meet expectations Netflix provides them generous severance package.(3) Netflix also innovated by allowing employees to manage their time off and eliminating sick and vacation time.Other than the culture, the success of Reed Hastings and Netflix has been because of enchant for having the right strategy to remain a market leader by taking fast action to deal with market shifts.With the growth of The Internet and taking cue from success of YouTube Reed Hastings soon realized the need to cannibalize its own business of DVD rentals by aggressively promoting streaming even if it meant lower margins. Netflix chose growth over defensiveness.In 2011 Analysts predicted end of Netflix when Hastings split his own business into DVD and Streaming and allowed them to price independently and compete with each other. But Hastings proved everyone wrong, in hindsight we can see the brilliance of this decision. He did not defend his “core” product for too long and pulled off market transition from one platform (DVD) to another (streaming).This proved to be a master stroke with long term vision as the world shifted to smartphones and tablets. Netflix changed the way entertainment is being delivered, not just the movie watching business, but also Television and the content industry.Next time when you watch any online content, remember Reed Hastings is the man who has contributed the most to get rid of those long queues at the box office.References:Blockbuster LLC - WikipediaReed Hastings - WikipediaNetflix - The Turnaround Story of 2012!

Sadly, your son will continue to be bullied until he eventually stands up for himself in an unambiguous way from a position of confidence that he can defend himself if required. More importantly, he must learn how to stand up to bullies without becoming one himself.I want to tell you a personal story that should help drive the point home, but first, before I lose you, here’s something you can do NOW I believe will provide you and your family with material help in addressing this important situation.BULLYPROOF - The best program I’ve ever seen for kids to achieve this is called Bullyproof. I’m pretty sure you can get the series on dvd on Amazon, but many clips are available freely on YouTube. I encourage you to google it and do some research.That’s my advice, but allow me to tell you a personal story to help illustrate my point and explain why this is a good move:I grew up in Texas and come from a family of tall people. My father was 5′11″ tall. His only brother was 6′1″. That uncle had three sons each who were well over 6-feet tall. My mother’s only two brothers were both over 6-feet tall. One of those brothers ended up having 5 boys. How tall were they? You guessed it, each well over 6-feet tall.Me? Well, I never got any of those genes. Even today I’m quite short in stature. That growth spurt my family kept promising would come never did materialize.My parents divorced when my twin sister and I were about 3-years old. My father had visitation rights every other weekend, but being a single man in his 20’s, many of those weekends I didn’t see him because he was busy with his social life.My mother re-married just before I turned 4-years old. My new step-father was not from Texas, rather grew up in the Bronx. He really knew how to handle himself. In fact, I remember watching him get into a fight with another man when I was quite young and he pretty much handled the guy like a rag-doll. As strong and capable as he was, however, he never stepped in to teach me any fighting skills, mostly at the behest of my mother, an elementary school teacher by profession who strongly disapproved of using physical violence as a means to solve problems.As a result, I didn’t grow up with a strong male role model when it came to learning how to defend yourself. Add to that the fact that we moved around a lot (I never spent more than 2 years at a single school until I reached high school), I was rather puny, and was often the new kid on the block, and you have a perfect recipe for bullying.Being the smallest kid in my class, I was an easy target for bullies. When I’d come home with bruises and tell my mom what happened, she gave me the same advice year after year. Here are some of them and why they never worked.Just stay away from those kids - They sought me out. Staying away was not an option. On several occassions I even got cornered on the playground or out of view of other adults while kids took turns punching or kicking me.Tell a teacher - This did nothing. First, the incidents were so frequent that teachers just got tired of my complaining. Some would call me a tattler even.Let’s talk to their parents - This usually resulted in your experience. Kids who bully are not often offspring of responsible adults.So my mother enrolled me in Karate when I was 7 or 8. At the risk of sounding like a martial arts snob, this was an utterly useless tool. Perhaps I was taught incorrectly. We learned katas (choreographed martial arts steps), but not how to use it in an actual fight.I even remember trying to apply this when a habitual bully attacked me at school and failing miserably. Eventually I quit karate and never took up a martial art again.This all changed when I was 13 years old in 7th grade when my parents decided to move the family to Salt Lake City.My mother was considering a graduate program at the University of Utah and we had some limited interaction with mormons while living in Texas and were impressed by their values and devotion to their religion. We came to the state with an open mind and a positive outlook on our future. But that changed fast.My sister and I were enrolled in a junior high school in a well-to-do neighborhood on the east side of the city at the base of a mountain range.We quickly made friends and to my surprise even seemed popular with the local kids. We learned a lot about the mormon church as most kids repeatedly invited us to visit what they called their “ward”, kind of like a church as far as I can gather, but also sort of like a district of the church.We thanked them for the kind offer but reminded them we were Catholic. The invitations evolved into what amounted to direct requests to convert which grew more an more intense as our polite rejections persisted.In almost an overnight change, it seemed like the entire school declared war on us. My only friends were the very small number of non-mormon teenagers who were also treated as outcasts.Abuse and bullying took many forms. One day, all my clothes were stolen out of my gym locker. I had to attend the rest of class in my gym clothes being ridiculed and walk home in deep snow in tennis shoes. When the snow thawed in spring, my clothes were all found in a damp pile on the football field.One time, a group of older boys threw a brown bag filled with gravel and pebbles at my sister’s face. The boys were never punished when my mother took this to the principal. His response was “The boys say that it was just a sandwich in the bag, so what’s the big deal?”Books and folders were deftly lifted from under my desk during class and hidden around the school. This made getting an education very challenging. When my mother visited the principal again to report this along with other incidents in which I’d been tripped, kicked, or punched, his response was “I understand your son was found breakdancing in the hallways. Isn’t that unacceptable behavior?” (Yup, this was during the early 80s, can you blame me? It was all the rage!).These are some of the most minor infractions. I could literally write a book on the subject.Nothing seemed to be working and I began to sink into depression. Then something happened that changed my life forever. A pivotal event that to this day I consider to be one of the most defining moments of my life.One day, I came home complaining of another attack and my step father just lost it!!He exploded at my mother yelling “I can’t keep quiet any longer! From now on, we’re doing this MY WAY!!”. My mother tried to interject and he literally told her to sit down and shut up (I had NEVER seen him speak this way to her before).He sat me down in a chair at the kitchen table, looked me in the eye and said this to me in his thick New York Bronx accent (I can still hear him saying this like it was yesterday)>“Son, if anyone and I mean ANYONE lays so much as a finger on you at school, this is what you are going to do. You are NOT going to ask them to fight you. You are not going to argue. You are not going to ask them to meet you after school. Instead you will do this.You are going ball up your fists as tight as you can. You will look them straight in the eye. Then without saying a single word, without a warning, without hesitation, you will pull your fist back as far as you can and you will punch this asshole right in the f*&king face.Once that punch is done, you are going to immediately pull the other fist back as far as you can. Then you will punch him in the face as hard as you can with that fist. And you will do it again and again and again. If he’s tall, you will grab a chair, smash him in the knees as hard as you can till he’s down to your size. Then you will begin punching him in the face.When he goes down to the ground, here’s what you are going to do. You will kick this sh*tty M*therf&cker in the face as hard as you can. Kick him while he’s down. Kick him hard and don’t stop until someone pulls you off of him.You may be sent to the principal, but I will have your back. You may be suspended, but I will be there for you. As long as you defend yourself when attacked and ONLY when attacked, you will have nothing to fear at home.”Then he finished with this last warning saying “If, however, you come home and tell me that someone bullied you and you did nothing… then I’m the one who’s going to kick your ass when you get home.”As the magnitude of his words began to wash over me I felt the sensation of a huge weight being lifted. Now, I know what you are thinking. Maybe this is somewhat overboard. You may be right, but this is what actually happened. Having grown up on the streets of New York, I can see this ‘rule of the jungle’ making perfect sense to him.A couple of days later, I was in a crowded school hallway during lunch. Lots of kids were milling around. Then I notice a group of kids hanging around another kid often bullied. One boy in particular was pushing the victim around and calling him names. I decided to step in and told him to leave the kid alone.The entire group’s attention turned to me and with a sneer he walked up to me and said, “Oh yeah? What if I don’t, huh? What are you going to do about it, Tex?” (they all called me Tex making fun of my accent). Then he gave me a light shove in the chest with his palm.There it was, the green light I needed to justify what was about to happen. He had touched me and it was a mistake. Suddenly, I didn’t care about getting my ass kicked. I didn’t care about how painful it was going to feel. Being pushed around so many years and having endured so much injustice was more painful than a thousand sucker punches to the gut.I remember almost seeing streaks across my eyes as adrenaline rushed into my blood stream. As my dad had instructed me, I pulled my tightly clenched fist back as far as I could saying just before it landed full force across the bridge of his nose “Here’s what Tex is going to do about it!”.I don’t recall how many punches flew, but each one landed on its target until he pushed me off of him. “Here it is.” I thought. “Here’s where I get my ass kicked like always.”. My adversary began to position for a response then something crazy happened. He actually turned around and ran!In a fit of pure rage, I chased after the guy, jumping on this back and started punching him in the face from behind. I pulled him down to the ground and he began to take a position behind me. I had to let go of him. Again, I thought this was where I would get my ass kicked and I stood up preparing for the onslaught of fists. But to my astonishment, he again turned and ran.Once more, I repeated my chase and attack until someone pulled me off of him and he slinked off.I’d actually won my first fight and a crowd had formed to witness the whole thing. A few other fights took place in a similar manner over the following week and word quickly spread that I was unpredictable and dangerous.Eventually, I was expelled from school. I never finished 7th grade and we moved to Oregon recognizing Utah wasn’t the place for us.In an exit interview with my teachers, the Phys Ed. coach urged my mother to enroll me in wrestling once we got settled in Oregon.A year later, I made the varsity wrestling team in high school as a freshman. I still got in a few fights, truth be told, but I never was bullied again.That experience in Salt Lake City gave me the confidence that I could defend myself if I had to. I might not win, but I wasn’t afraid any more. I don’t know where I’d be today if I’d never had that experience in Utah.Now, I’m a father myself. My kids aren’t that tall either. I ordered the Bullyproof DVD series when my son was 3 and my daughter was just 1 year old. The program has lots of fun little rough housing games you can have with your kids that actually give them a foundation in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ).The program also includes several lessons for parents in how to interact with your kids and talk to them about bullies. It has “Rules of Engagement” that teach your child what words to use with bullies to disarm the bully and stand up for themselves.In retrospect, I wish my parents had given me such a gift when I was young. Unlike those useless karate katas, BJJ is a lot like wrestling and it’s more useful IMHO in a confrontational situation than any punching / kicking style. With BJJ, you get close to your opponent fast, preventing them from punching or kicking you. Then you take them to the ground and control them.I didn’t intend for this to be such a long post, but I wanted to really impress upon you the psychological devastation that bullying can inflict on a child.More importantly, I want to stress how critical it is that a child learns how to defend themselves physically. Negotiation and words DON’T WORK WITH BULLIES.If you find yourself shaking your head thinking, “this is totally not the way to go.” then ask yourself this. Were you ever a victim of persistent physically violent bullying? Okay, then you have no idea, not even a clue what it’s like.Your child will only have the confidence to stand up to bullies and tell them to stop if they believe in their heart that they can handle themselves should the exchange turn into a physical altercation.Give your kids the tools to be successful and have fun in life.Wow! You made it through my whole answer! Thanks!! Look, I put a lot of time and passion in my answers. 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I am going to use the research of Ruby Payne because it seems to mimic what I have found to be generally true when I have taught in the schools, dealt with as a parole officer, and had to work through as a therapist . Like all societal research, human beings mess up the base lines as there is always someone being the exception.The General graph is:Hidden Rules among ClassesA framework for understanding povertyThe authors assert there are five economic classes:Generational PovertyWorking ClassMiddle ClassNew MoneyOld MoneyGenerational poverty is also called welfare poverty and the essential difference between generational and ordinary poverty is that generational poverty requires at least two generations of poverty. What is important in this class is survival, relationships, and entertainment. There is always a TV or DVD because entertainment is so important. The basis for security (besides welfare) is other people. Becoming educated is dangerous because this means the educated person leaves.A three year old from a professional family usually has a larger vocabulary than the average adult in a welfare household.The difference between “new” and “old” money is that the former is about income and the latter is about net worth and connections.If one is raised in the middle class, decision making revolves around three issues: work, achievement, and material security. Things generally are seen as possessions and one hidden rule about money is, “I don’t ask you about money, and you don’t ask me.”If you come from wealth of two generations or more, your efforts will focus on keeping and growing wealth. Decisions, here, will focus on financial connections, social connections, and political connections. Such connections are a form of safety, and possessions are rare objects, pedigrees, and bloodlines. A hidden rule of wealth is, money is not discussed but investments are. A person does not introduce oneself. Persons of wealth are introduced by others in respect to their connections—firm, family, etc. If they have no connections, they are introduced as, “..my very dear friend.”With these definitions in mind, the authors then jump to “Hidden Rules in General.” Rather than using the five classes as described, they narrow it down to three—poverty, middle class and wealth.The “hidden rules” for possessions, money, personality, social emphasis, food, clothing, time, education, destiny, language, family structure, world view, love, driving force and humor are then considered from the viewpoint of poverty, middle class, and wealth.in respect to knowledge level, the following applies:Unskilled Labor—“What I can do.”Beginning supervision—“What I can get others to do.”Mid-Management—“What I know.”Executive—“Who I know.”Still another example, in respect to schooling the following applies:Unskilled Labor—HS diploma or less.Beginning Supervision—HS graduate and usually some college.Mid-Management—Couple years of college or college degree.Executive Level—Often an MBA.Emotional Resources are graded thusly:0—No emotional stamina. Impulsive. Engages in self-destructive behavior including addiction, violence, abusive relationships and casual sex.1—Moves between voices of parent and child. Blames and excuses. Impulsive. Mood swings.2—Uses adult voice except in conflict. Outbursts of anger. Sometimes engages in in impulsive behavior.3—Uses adult voice in conflict. Avoids conflict. Rarely impulsive.4—Uses adult voice in conflict. Confronts, yet maintains relationships. Is not, not impulsive.AND What sets it up, is language.The five styles (registers) are as follows:FROZEN: Language that is always the same—wedding vows etc.FORMAL: Language with sentence syntax, complete sentences and specific word choice.CONSULTATIVE: Formal register when used in conversation; not as direct as in formal style.CASUAL: Language between friends and is characterized by a 400-800 word vocabulary. Word choice is general and not specific. Conversations depend on non-verbals. Sentences often not complete.INTIMATE: The language between lovers, twins and sexual harassment.These differences are that poverty and minority students are not exposed to the formal language style at home; hence, they often can’t use formal register at school and are almost completely reliant on the casual style.Dr. Payne also opines that the inability of the poverty class to organize their thoughts and get straight to the point, makes for difficulty in understanding them. This is a difference in story structure from the direct approach used by those speaking in the consultative or formal style.[Edit]I have added this for those who wish to look into those who have been criticalThis is purported to be about classes but others seem to want to make it about politics. These are supposed to be models which explain a phenomena in order to understand classes.But the poverty issue is being raised, so:The right-wing argument is that poverty stems from the limitations of the poor and is largely impervious to outside intervention. So they will tend to glom onto researchers like Edward Banfield, a conservative political scientist, who introduced the idea that the culture of poverty was immutable. He attacked the key assumption of the “War on Poverty” his 1970 book, “The Unheavenly City,” The idea that government can help the poor get out of poverty. Banfield argued that poverty was a product of the poor’s lack of future-orientation, and that nothing government could feasibly do would change that orientation or stop parents from transmitting it to their children.Ironically, Ruby’s position for lower class.Edward Banfield, The Unheavenly City (New York: Little Brown, 1970), He starts out:"This book will probably strike many readers as the work of an ill-tempered and mean-spirited fellow." The facts as he sees them are grim indeed. There is no possibility to organize lower-class people to work for their own improvement because "the lower-class person (as defined here)[1] is incapable of being organized" (p. 130). Lower-class people don't mind the squalor of slum living; actually, they like it"The lower-class individual lives in the slum and sees little or no reason to complain. He does not care how dirty and dilapidated his housing is either inside or out, nor does he mind the inadequacy of such public facilities as schools, parks, and libraries: indeed, where such things exist he destroys them by acts of vandalism if he can. Features that make the slum repellent to others actually please him. He finds it satisfying in several ways. First, it is a place of excitement "where the action is." Nothing happens there by plan and anything may happen by accident - a game, a fight, a tense confrontation with the police; feeling that something exciting is about to happen is highly congenial to people who live for the present and for whom the present is often empty.Second, it is a place of opportunity. Just as some districts of the city are specialized as a market for, say, jewelry or antiques, so the slum is specialized as one for vice and for illicit commodities generally. Dope peddlers, prostitutes, and receivers of stolen goods are all readily available there, within easy reach of each other and of their customers and victims. For "hustlers" like Malcolm Little (later Malcolm X) and the youthful Claude Brown, the slum is the natural headquarters.Third, it is a place of concealment. A criminal is less visible to the police in the slum than elsewhere, and the lower-class individual, who in some parts of the city would attract attention, is one among many there. In the slum one can beat one's children, lie drunk in the gutter, or go to jail without attracting any special notice; these are things that most of the neighbors themselves have done and that they consider quite normal." pp. 62-63Banfield (1968: 258) sees little possibility of the lower class being absorbed into the dominant culture. So dedicated is he to the proposition that programs to alleviate poverty do more harm than good that he views it as a "frightening fact" that middle and upper class people want to donate their time and allocate money in an effort to solve the problem (pp. 253-54). The measures that Banfield is willing to countenance are made of sterner stuff: removing lower-class children from their parents either temporarily or permanently (pp. 229-37), and placing young lower-class males who have not (yet) broken any law under varying levels of surveillance, parole, or incarceration according to the probability that they will commit future crimes (pp. 182-84).The first issue deals with Banfield’s understanding of class. Criticscontend that his derivation of class based on a person’s psychological orientation to time is an oversimplification. They note that even though conventional sociologists consider present-orientation in their definition of class, it is never taken as the sole measure (Danzig 1978, 163; Mundel 1972, 303-5; Rossi 1971, 817-818). One reviewer refers to the work of Oscar Lewis, pointing out that Lewis included time horizon as one of 79 variables (Elesh 1971, 252). Another reader connects Banfield’s simplistic view of the lower class to his general skepticism regarding policy success (Lampman 1971, 830-34). The dispute over defining the lower class based solely on time horizon also leads several reviewers to attack Banfield’s claim that poverty should be determined using an absolute measure of hardship rather than a relative standard (Mundel 1972, 305; Sennett 1970, 24; Todd 1970, 51-55).The second issue focuses on the permanency of the lower class. IrvingKristol admits that he can not refute Banfield’s pessimistic claim that the lowerclass never has assimilated into conventional society, however Kristol thinks it is untrue on an intuitive level. He notes that in European cities lower class children have moved into the working class and beyond (Kristol, 1970).In one of the few reviews that Banfield acknowledges as valuable,Russell D. Murphy wonders about the distribution of people who fit Banfield’s definition of low class relative to the more traditionally defined economic classes. Murphy offers reason to believe that some whom Banfield would characterize as low class do rise to higher economic classes over time. He notes that many who migrated to the city (particularly from the southernUnited States) would be low class using Banfield’s definition. However, he suggests that “immigration to the city would seem to be pirma facie evidence of the migrant’s future-orientation, of his hopes and positive expectations for himself and his progeny” (Murphy 1971, 218).Finally, the critics raise an important issue pertaining to the factors that drivehuman behavior. The question, reminiscent of the debate between nature and nurture, is whether the anti-social behavior Banfield attributes to his lower class is the result of a person’s external environment or internal pathology. This is significant because if behavior is pathological, it will not respond to changes in environment and so policy intervention is, as Banfield suggests, unlikely to solve problems. Several reviewers oppose this point (Mundel 1972, 310; Sennett 1970, 24; Todd 1970, 52). By classifying lower class behavior as“pathological” rather than environmental. Banfield, the critics argue, ignores established research, particularly that of Herbert Gans (1962).The anthropologist Oscar wrote a book, the widely read “Children of Sánchez.”Lewis argued, there are elements in poverty which keep those socialized in poverty, mired in it. Machismo, authoritarianism, marginalization from organized civic life, high rates of abandonment of illegitimate children, alcoholism, disdain for education, fatalism, passivity, inability to defer gratification and a time orientation fixed firmly on the present.Things Ruby Payne describedOn the other hand:The standard left-wing argument is that people are poor because of low wages, discrimination and bad schools. This can change with improvements in these. An example of how this is being worked on is the Spanish word Oportunidades.Oportunidades is now the de facto welfare system in Mexico, and it marks the first time modern Mexico has had an effective anti-poverty program.The elegant idea behind the program — give the poor money that will allow them to be less poor today, but condition it on behaviors that will give their children a better start in life.It is called conditional cash transfers, and the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank promote it heavily. At least 30 countries have now adopted Oportunidades, most of them in Latin America, but not all: countries now using or experimenting with some form of conditional payments include Turkey, Cambodia and Bangladesh. Last year, officials from Indonesia, South Africa, Ethiopia and China contacted or visited Mexico to investigate. Perhaps the most startling iteration is in New York City. Opportunity NYC, a pilot program begun last year after Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Mexico, will test whether the Oportunidades model can help the New York neighborhoods where poverty is passed down from parent to child. Britain has been successfully using a form of conditional cash transfers to keep teenagers in school and is now running pilots to broaden the program to other areas. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is starting a pilot program in several American states to test whether low-income students will stay in college if they get cash payments to do so.The most widespread criticism of the program is that it should attach more conditions to the handing out of money. These observers say that student achievement, not just attendance, should be rewarded. Oportunidades is now running a pilot program for this, but figuring it out is complicated by the fact that school quality in Mexico varies widely, and in rural zones it is largely awful.