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Topic: How I won the SourceCon Sourcing Challenge by Joshua Kahn: iration, well placed breaks, spying on what the other contestants were doing, some slight misdirection, and some skill. I think with the right mix of those components anyone of the other people participating could've won. The differences between us all were slight. I must give kudos to the SourceCon brainwizards for putting this together. Well done. Kudos also to Julia Stone who I think was just hours behind me in finding the NYC guy. Good on you to Amie Ernst, Rushit Shah, and Shoheb Shaikh, who were right there as well, and also to a host of sourcers from India who were also pushing the pace. Thanks to Suzy Tonini and Jeremy Langhans for their help and support as well. I wanted to put this story together in a way that would clearly show my approach, where I got lost, where I got found again, purple squirrels and a bit of mild paranoia. First Clue: http://www.sourcecon1.org/newspad/newsletter.asp?article=33 Keys to finding site: Harry Smith, Guru, "sales/telemarketing front/end work" Confirmers (how I knew I was at the right place): "live in fairbanks" , ID = 898617 Clues for later: SCIP, SSS, recruitingblogs, Sourcers Unleashed, ERE forums Purple Squirrels: mONEY At the time of the search, I didn't formally organize the information this way, but looking back its how it fell into place in my head. The information could be used differently than how I used it. With this information a teammate of mine, Rob Hoefer, and I started searching a bit. He found the 'Guru' site first, kudos Rob. It was as simple as finding guru.com, then searching there with Harry Smith, his 'location', his area of expertise, or ID number. Throughout the challenge I had that spelling and peculiar capitalization of 'mONEY' in the room in my mind where I kept all those bits of information of which I endlessly questioned the importance. Nothing is on accident right? No, but sometimes its misdirection. Second Clue Site: http://www.guru.com/emp/view_profile.aspx?g=ihLZ88u2WqJwfuQkS% Keys to finding next site: "I can be found talking between 1:00-1:30pm everyday", "Love web2.0 technology for keeping in touch with my friends" Secondary keys: the timezone in alaska (AKDT) + 1-1:30 timeframe Confirmers: that Moose icon, the date 14 DEC 2007. Purple Squirrels: that Harry actually lived in Fairbanks. Exacerbated later when Harry revealted an address on Peger Rd in Fairbanks, Alaska, curse you Harry! This one took a bit to figure out. I went down many wrong paths on this one, which I'm kicking myself for now, because it looks so obvious in hindsight. I was looking for radio shows, podcasts etc related to lead generation or anything like what Harry had in his profile. I posted a few questions on a few recruiting sites to no avail. Its almost embarrassing now to admit, but its part of the gymnastics your mind does to figure out the important bits from the unimportant. I even emailed Maureen Sharib because I knew she did a bit on the Recruiting Animal's show on Wednesdays and of course her expertise is lead generation. She was very nice and helpful, albeit not sure what the heck I was talking about. This was not the first time I would send out a bizarre email. I also harrassed 'Slouch' or Jason Davis for info to no avail. I finally figured this one out via a bit of inspiration and following a fellow competitor. I noticed that Jim Stroud had a recent posting about not seeing many recruiters on Twitter. Ding! Twitter you twit! So I searched around Twitter until I found harrysmith. Except that did me no good, he had no updates, no followers, and was not following anyone. So I searched instead for my competitors. I searched for 'Tonini' and found Suzy Tonini's twitter, and looked at who she was following. Hello Harry! There was Smithharry74 with that ersatz Moose icon, and the same date as the guru profile. From there I set my gtalk to follow smithharry74, and also set up an RSS feed in my netvibes to follow his updates as well so I could look at them later. I also figured that Harry was in the eastern time zone because he was giving clues at 5 o'clock EST, the end of someone's real world work day. Third Clue Site: https://twitter.com/smithharry74 keys to next site: DOD challenge guy's sister (DavidClarke from challenge 2 last year), "where headhunters hang out", cache.valleywag.com/images/thumbs/757f5a7cffea7d0c878a1550c72daed4.jpg , 'Mary' or MC, Mcclatchy secondary keys and confirmers: lives in LA or SF, was recently in the desert, hippie, smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/03/30/brazil13_wideweb__470x252,0.jpg , Cardinals, Ducks, Hawks and Blue Jays, ariba.com/img/ss.gif purple squirrels: Don, "the party", Harry Douglas Smith, "did you ask your boss", did you check recruitingblogs yet?, and many more... This is the point in the challenge where my brains slowly started to scramble. At this point I began placing significance on the wrong things, every email, every update to RSS feeds that could be connected to the challenge through the most tenuous of connections was suspect. There were two stages to this one for me. The first was figuring out who the DOD challenge guy was. At first I thought this was a separate challenge that had happened outside of the sourcecon thing. I looked for DOD challenges, and there are some! But I quickly decided this wasn't right. Then I went looking for clues in the explanations given by last years winners. I figured out the DOD guy was DavidClarke ClarkeDavid from last year. I still wasn't sure which was his real first name or last name and emailed Suzy Tonini for suggestions. She was helpful but I still couldn't find 'Mary'. I was looking for 'headhunting' groups all over the place. I was also fixated on the 'desert' clue here. Suzy suggested maybe the burning man festival. Turns out she was right. I also thought it could be the 'Las Vegas Recruiting Roadshow' that had just happened. So I emailed John Sumser to see if there was anyone on the attendee list there with the initials MC. He answered, but no MC. I was suspecting he was involved in the challenge in some way. The list of busy people that I bugged for information was growing and didn't stop here. The second piece that did it for me was the valleywag photo URL that Harry gave as a clue + the McClatchy bit. First, the photo. I tried using some photo search sites, and tried to find a search engine that would search using images as the operators. Tried searching valleywag, but that was proving tedious as well. Then in another bit of inspiration I used the page freshness bookmarklet to figure out when the photo was last modified. August 28, of 2006. Now we're cooking with gas. I went into Valleywag's archives to find the posts for that date and voila, there was the exact photo of Mark Pincus and his dog Zinga. Quick image search in Google found the 'other tshirt photo' Harry had mentioned, where Mark had a Tribe shirt on. Headhunting, Tribe, riiight. McClatchy was significant because they now owned Tribe. A quick trip to Tribe.net, a quick search and I had found Mary. Fourth Clue site: http://people.tribe.net/maryclarke90210 keys to next site: friend in NYC, 1 degree from 83494544 secondary clues and confirmers: hangs out in maureen, sourcers, and passive groups, "favorite numbers 70 or 07 or maybe devide them by 2, or maybe not 100% not sure". purple squirrels: for me the sentence, favorite numbers 70 or 07 or maybe devide them by 2, or maybe not 100% not sure, was a big purple squirrel. From here I actually found the profile attached to 83494544 very quickly. I thought ERE immediately because of the clue Maureen. She has a group there called ASK Maureen. So I went to ERE and noticed that within the URL of an individuals profile is 'ID=' then a number. So I replaced the number with the one from the clue and got Russ Moon. http://www.ere.net/erenetwork/person.asp?userid=83494544 I figured Russ wasn't the guy because he didn't fit any of the confirmers, wasn't a member of the right groups etc. So I emailed him with a cryptic as hell email about favorite numbers etc and did he know anyone. He responded with, "I'm too busy with real world searches" but did agree to connect. Classic. I figured that 'one degree' in Mary's clues meant our target person was in the network of Russ. Problem was, Russ has a network of 1591, this was going to be tedious. I was also trying to figure out how in the world that first series of numbers that Mary gave was significant. I tried every iteration I could think of to no avail. I also tried to understand how the spelling 'devide' might be important. Device ID? DevID? Developer ID? I still don't know how I should've used those numbers. In fact when I decided to forget about those numbers and focus on Russ's connections, that's when I got to the end. Mary's clue to me when I first found her, that the NYC guy was shy, suggested a person with few connections. Harry's clue that someone had gotten close, and that NYC had two connections, one being to another person in NYC was the kicker. I just went to Russ's network, messed with the URL to get to the lower end of his network quickly and manually searched through the people with 2 connections. Took 10 minutes and I had the guy, Jason Taylor. He had Mary Clarke in his profile, then I fired an email and waited. Harry/Mary/SourceCon took the weekend off. So I tried to forget about it. I noticed a message Julia Stone had sent someone about finding NYC. We exchanged messages about what time she had found him, and figured out that I had found him earlier by not much time. Monday, got the confirmation that I won. Looking forward to meeting you all at SourceCon, and competing against big Mike and the other challengers! Cheers, Joshua…; Added by SourceCon Dude at 8:57am on March 20, 2008

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Comment on: Topic 'OT - The Olympic Torch Is Lit - The 2012 London Olympic Games are Underway - Yo…': d the discipline of sport as a powerful educational tool. One day, following an inter-schools athletics meeting, he ended his speech with fine oratorical vigour, quoting the three words "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (faster, higher, stronger).Struck by the succinctness of this phrase, Baron Pierre de Coubertin made it the Olympic motto, pointing out that "Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. That is why we gave them this motto ... a motto for people who dare to try to break records." This phrase, "Citius, Altius, Fortius" is the Olympic Motto.The Olympic Game is the international arena viewed by millions where the athlete's spirit, mind and body endeavour to excel and achieve the higher standard than the presently existing ones; thus fulfilling the Olympic Motto. THE OLYMPIC CREEDPierre de Coubertin got the idea for this phrase from a speech given by Bishop Ethelbert Talbot at a service for Olympic champions during the 1908 Olympic Games. The Olympic Creed reads: "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." The creed and motto are meant to spur the athletes to embrace the Olympic spirit and perform to the best of their abilities. http://www.mapsofworld.com/olympic-trivia/olympic-motto.html The Business Case.... WIN WIN...You be the judge. London Business School "Business Section Win. Win. Spring 2012:The worlds of business and sport are more closely related than ever before." Georgina Peters explores the mutual attractions. The lure of sport Sport is global and dramatic; people identify passionately with the participants; there are winners and losers. It is a source of constant fascination for all in the business world for two other fundamental reasons. First, over the last fifty years sport has become a huge, global business, employing some of the brightest and best people. The commercial numbers are impressive and growing. In the sporting world, brands can be created from next to nothing – witness the astonishing success of the cricket’s Indian Premier League where few eyebrows are raised when a lesser club such as the Rajasthan Royals is valued at some $33 million. Second, excellence in sport has close and obvious parallels to excellence in business. The greatest sportsmen and women share the same focused, dedicated and passionate beliefs seen in those who are successful in the business world. Finance and performance are an irresistible combination. Olympics Inc. The commercialisation of sport is a relatively recent phenomenon. It hasn’t always been like this. Formula 1 drivers and cars are now festooned with the logos of their backers. But, commercial sponsorship was only introduced in 1968. In the mid-1960s Formula 1 cars carried national colours rather than a thousand brand names. Equally, shirt sponsorship on football shirts was not introduced in the English league until 1978. If you wish to identify the moment when business and sport became inextricably intertwined as good a moment as any is the 86th Session of the International Olympic Committee in New Delhi in 1983. Horst Dassler of Adidas made a presentation to the 78 IOC members in attendance. “You, the IOC, own the most valuable and sought after property in the world. Yet the Olympic rings are the most unexploited trademark in existence. No major corporation in the world would tolerate such a situation.” Dassler’s pointed observations set the IOC down a more commercial route. Soon after, it began bundling Olympic rights together into four-year exclusive marketing packages. This offered companies one-stop shopping for their global Olympic involvement. The first four-year period with the Olympic Partners (TOP) programme operational covered the Calgary Winter Games and the Seoul Summer Games between 1985 and 1988. It involved nine partners and generated $96 million. The programme has gone from strength to strength ever since. Covering the Torino and Beijing Games, TOP generated $866 million for the Olympic Movement between 2005 and 2008 (up from $663 million during the previous four year period). From being on the brink of bankruptcy after the Moscow Games in 1980, the Olympic was re-invented as the ultimate sporting brand. The balancing act “From a marketing point of view, the Olympic Games are beyond value. No wonder, then, that companies are prepared to go to enormous lengths to be associated with the Olympic rings. For the official sponsors and the TV companies that possess the broadcast rights to the Games, the rewards can be spectacular,” says WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell. “But it is because they remain true to the Olympic ideal that the rings retain their magical aura. The Olympic brand, in all its associations, has to strike a delicate balance between financial stability and selling out to the god of mammon. That it has managed to do so is testament to the way the brand has been developed, nurtured and protected over the past two decades.” As Sir Martin Sorrell points out, the relationship between sport and finance is a delicate one. The growth of the Indian Premier League in cricket has been accompanied by an explosion in betting. Three Pakistani cricketers were jailed in 2011 for a betting-related incident. In this and other ways commerce can be seen as a pernicious influence. In a number of sports the demands for more product to put on the world’s television screens is drowning out the athletic realities that sports people on the line for the sake of ratings. The Olympic Games remains the benchmark. It appears to have blended modern-day commercialism with abiding core values. Olympic stadia remain free of advertising for example. But the balance is always difficult and will become ever more so as sport and finance become more truly global. But how The financial side of sport is one thing, quite another is the practicality of making sport happen and the nature of great sport. For those in business, the event is an impressive feat of logistics. Organising an Olympic Games or any large scale sporting event is a massive undertaking. They offer compelling lessons in project management, supply chain management and logistics. The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games cannot be delayed by a week or two. It has to happen on time – though, it must be said, not always on budget. In an interview with Business Strategy Review, Lord Sebastian Coe, one of the leaders of the London Olympic Games, gave some idea of what is involved in winning the Games in the first place and then delivering them: “A successful bid is, essentially, a successful communication programme. You need to be able to explain exactly how you are going to deliver, in the space of 28 days, 26 simultaneous world championships — and then do pretty much the same with 20 Paralympic world championships. The host city has to cater to 10,500 athletes, 4,500 Paralympians, 800,000 visitors and 22,000 journalists. As part of doing that, I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do. “Of course, a bid is very different from the delivery stage. For the delivery, you start out with the bid team and then you build on that. You determine the skills sets you need to manage: the siting and building of the venues, the marketing of the games, ensuring the infrastructure needed for moving people around — and the people with those skills tend to come from outside of the world of sports. My chief executive was chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs for many years. My human resources director ran HR at the BBC. My communications director was, essentially, doing pretty much that job at the Sydney Games. Our commercial director was one of the founding fathers of Sky Television. And we have a Paralympic director of integration who has won more medals than any other Paralympian in history. We’ve brought the best of the best to the table.” Leading by example As Sebastian Coe powerfully illustrates, the human side of sporting performance is the other abiding fascination of those in the business world. Teamwork, the need for excellence, the relationship between the individual and the team, leadership and motivation are among the constant themes of both business and sport. Sporting leadership has become more complex and subtle. Players are rewarded as never before and under constant media scrutiny. Faced with an under-performing group of multimillionaires, the old ways of leading and motivating no longer work. In their book, Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?, Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones tell the story of an incident when Glenn Hoddle was the coach of the England soccer team. David Beckham was practising a particular skill. Despite trying it repeatedly he couldn’t master it. Hoddle, once a great player himself, took the ball and perfectly demonstrated what was needed. Great leadership? In some situations the fact that the leader could actually practice what he preached would be seen as a good thing. Not so in the eyes of the English team. They regarded Hoddle’s behaviour as a personal insult to Beckham. He had shown Beckham up in front of his team mates. This confirmed their view that the coach was full of self importance. Of course, the case for subtle forms of leadership may be overstated. In the football world, research by Deloitte proves that the higher a team’s wage bill, the more likely it is to be successful. Whatever happens at the 2012 London Olympic Games, drama and personal achievement can be guaranteed, but so, too, can unprecedented logistical, financial, marketing, organisational and human resource achievements. http://bsr.london.edu/lbs-article/645/index.html …; Added by Valentino Martinez at 9:10pm on July 28, 2012