【特約作家Dennis/加拿大溫哥華】
本土強投潘威倫赴韓一事，在統一獅與SK飛龍眉來眼去至今已近兩個月，仍然無法達成協議的情況下，嘟嘟旅外之夢似乎面臨破滅。不過，根據近來SK釋出門倉健與對媒體頻放話等動作來看，種種舉動讓原本以為旅外無望的潘威倫再次燃起希望，也顯示飛龍隊對網羅這位本土強投仍未死心。
自從得知SK飛龍隊有網羅之意後，嘟嘟就如一般有機會旅外尋夢的青棒學生一樣，毫不掩飾的表示，他對赴韓乃抱持著樂見其成的態度。如果不是SK飛龍對中職現今的轉隊機制不能認同，潘威倫赴韓一事，可能就如過去林英傑、林恩宇和吳偲佑等中職強投挑戰日職一般，早在該年年底前就已拍板定案。
由於現在潘威倫在中職的身價為年薪612萬台幣，依照中職旅外條款，SK必須支付潘威倫至少1.5倍的薪水，大約是920萬台幣左右，外加一筆不小的轉隊費給統一獅。不過精打細算的SK當然也不會因此而照單全收，據了解SK現在願意付給潘威倫的價碼大約在月薪70萬台幣上下。
Every presentation worth doing has just one purpose
To make a change happen.
No change, no point. A presentation that doesn't seek to make change is a waste of time and energy.
Before you start working on your presentation, the two-part question to answer is, "who will be changed by this work, and what is the change I seek? "
The answer can be dramatic, "I want this six million dollar project approved."
Sure, but he's our bully
There have always been bullies among us, and it's worth taking a moment to see how our culture has built a role for them to be useful heroes. Taught or not, bullying keeps showing up.
We often (for a while) view bullies as powerful or brave or important--as long as they are our bullies. Richie Incognito, Chris Christie, Rob Ford—each has a long list of supporters, people who have defended a particular bully as a passionate man of the people, as doing their job, as the visceral anti-elite, winning a battle that's worth fighting for.
At some level, it makes sense to have a bully on your side. If you're going to war, the thinking goes, who better to represent you than someone intent on belittling and demeaning the other side?
If it's us against them, the bully who represents 'us' is our hero.
1,000 bands
Brian Eno possibly said that, "the first Velvet Underground record may have only sold 1,000 copies, but every person who bought it started a band." [*]
It certainly wasn't a bestselling album, but without a doubt, it changed things.
The scarcity mindset pushes us to corner the market, to be the only one selling what we sell.
The abundance alternative, though, is to understand that many of us sell ideas, not widgets, and that ideas are best when used, and the more they get used, the more ideas they spawn.
