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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"Yeah the the other aspect about that. This brilliant is and i kind of wish. More salespeople had this experience with some do because long term relationships but knowing how the customers implement the solution and the things they actually have to live with impacts how you position and sell the product as well. I totally agree ran. Who's been in sales his whole career and yet my first soccer. He was a sales engineer. And i hired him as a product manager and he worked as a word for me for about five years of product manager and then one day said. I'm tired of fixing everybody else's problems. I'm going into sales twenty years later. He's still selling and he has become a trusted advisor knows the technology he knows the domain he knows the market space and he consistently gets inbound calls from people on his cell saying. I don't know where you work now. But i need some advice. So it's not that they're calling. You know the big name competent. They're calling bruce right because he knows how to implement solutions in this market space as powerful reputation and a half and the work with individuals not with companies and the other little side. Note that i'm sure is true. Is he prime made a whole lot more money as l. salesperson. Probably get okay. There was one other thing that you said that i think is so valuable talked about it a little bit on the podcast before too. You said one sentence from executive can mean a month of time for the product team. The product managers the developers. Let's just explore that for a minute as we wrap up here Tell us more about what you mean by that sure. I took on a job where i sat down with the president. The president said you've got to do something about bella. Those guys are terrible. So i go to development and i say hey the president tells me guys terrible. What's going on here and they say well. That's always building bridges This this one way of thinking of it but we're practicing a method call requirements aging. We don't work on anything or a lyle. And as we're as he's telling me the story the bp development comes in and says guys. Stop what you're doing. I'm getting they requirements. Every monday company has a senior leadership meeting. And they all come up with a thousand new ideas and they dump them on the developers every week and the and the developer. Said you know we're not going to work on anything until it's gone through a few senior leadership meetings. So i went the following monday to leadership and i said i found the problem in development. It's in this room. You guys need to shot If you have an idea do not go to development. Bring it to me and i will put it in the queue. I will prioritize it for business value. And i will put it on the road. Map and then development can be the factory that you want developed to be a and this had gone eighteen months without finalizing a release and after my arrival. We had a release in three months. It wasn't a big release. I mean it wasn't like i changed the future of the world but we got into a release train angry three months worshiping a new version and we tried to go fast or we were able to but our customer didn't want software that fast so we actually got down to a kind of a continuous release but a formal core a quarterly launch..
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"Well here's what i think is happened over the last ten years we adopted agile ninety plus percent of us. Most of us adopted scrum. Scrum says need product down and a bunch of product. Managers got renamed product owner. and before. you know they're completely subsumed in develop development says. I need you sitting next to me all day long. I need you to represent the customer. But you can't go visit them right so what we've seen is a lot of product. Managers became product jenner's and our And don't have time to research the market and product marketing. If if one team doesn't do his job the other teams will fill the void product. Marketing is finding itself in this thing. Well you know. I guess i better figure out who the personas are and what problems they have and what markets we're gonna sir at what products we ought to build and so in many organizations product. Marketing is now doing the strategic parts of management. And guess what that means. They're no longer doing growth. You know focused on the product. We have now on how expand its success in the marketplace. So once people stop doing their job other people step in to fill it up but then a white. They're not doing their job. But your question reminded me of a session. I did a few years ago. There were nine product managers in micro. And i had gone on my little rant about sales and and support services and one of the the prime minister said you know steve. I don't hate salespeople like you to like do. don't give me rock i. Don't i don't dislike salespeople. I love salespeople wants some of my favorite people are sales people but product management's job is not to support them. I just want everybody to do the job right so anyway he said but the thing is i liked that stuff i like doing demos. I like writing. Rfp's i like going on sales calls. And i'm like that's great. It's also called something else. It's not called product management. But you know hey if you want the product management title and you wanna take on that role you know fine but this kind of screw up everybody else in the industry and what we ended up doing with them was kinda was really funny. Let's do it that way we there were there. Were two others. Who said i feel the same way. I love going on sales. I love it when we go to national sales kickoff. And they say hey. Steve is our number one product manager. 'cause he supports the sales team I love that i went. We'll great why don't you three of you. Devote one hundred percent of your.
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"It's easy get pulled in lots of directions Knowing when we should stay no so we can focus on what we need to as really important. It is and yet you know. I i wanna be a good guy right. I mean i when there's a an enormous sale on the cusp. And i'm the guy who can you know. Make it happen. That's cool but that should be the exception right. The concern i have is when it becomes the rule it becomes standard and now i'm staffing a different department and do work i was hired for is kind of funny When i when. I took over a marketing department. Years ago i said to the marketing team never invite salespeople to meeting and they went crazy you know like sales people want be here and they've got all this inside and i'm like you know i agree with all the things that you said but at the end of the year if the sales guy doesn't make his number having helped you on a trade show or campaign or program is not going to save his job. Right right At the end of the year it development doesn't ship co that works. It doesn't matter what else they got involved in. You know and it just seems like everyone's pretty clear about the primary role of sales or services or development or marketing and product. Managers should become clear on. I'm the expert on the problem. Let the solution people solution. Let the delivery people deliver and yeah. I wanna help out. On an exception basis right and i think teen up the conversation ahead of time on the exception basis important. Because as you said you know if you got pulled in to help with the big deal you know the big sale. That feels good personally. So i can't. I moved the ball forward for organization and got to build new relationships. It feels great to be part of that at the same time. You did great words so guess what's going to happen next. You're going to get asked to do that. More time. Right right absolutely so t- ended up ahead of time and say okay. I can help with this. But we're gonna need a system going forward so this doesn't become the norm. I important conversation kept got two more things for you. Okay one is that you talk about all these titles I really liked the distinction that you made between what we think of. Today is product manager and product bartender and the product merger is working on the now stuff the products we have today. How can we do a better job of selling those. Maybe do markets getting people to to be repeat customers that sort of thing and product manager more focused on. What's coming next the future. I'm just curious about your reflections on both of those roles. And maybe even like which one you would prefer which when you like the And i asked this. Because i have quite a few product marketers. That must be listening to the podcast because they get the emails every now and then they asked the question. Well how how can i get into product management and after talking with them a little bit. It often is the case that they're actually already doing. Quite a bit of product management. Say yeah not only are they now looking at. How do we take our product and maybe re frame it for a different market or different use. They're they are very much involved with well. What is the next version of the product to be. And that's future right this product management. So i would love to hear your thoughts on these two can standard roaster out there..
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"Got distracted by thinking that the people who carry the product are the people who buy the product right and having we get as close to the customer as we can which means we should be talking to the customer and getting those insights. So how how do we have more confidence that we're going in the right direction with our future products as you said it's research and those customer interactions which leads me to another question. I want a little more context about so. You're talking about what we do now. Nexen future right and what we do in terms of the market and the customer and you made a comment about. We need to eliminate everything as product as in. This context is problem. Managers product that we need to eliminate the activities of focus on single customers. And i want some more context about that because you know talking to individual customers is really valuable for us fair enough. I would agree with that statement What i see is on it manager. Spending an awful lot of their time as subject matter experts for the salesforce more services or for customer support Because those organizations are either understaffed or under skilled and i worked with an organization last year they had. I don't know ten or twelve sales people and no sales engineers and they had a very complex products sold through direct sales and the product managers. Were going on. Sales calls continuously. And i agree. That sales needs a sales resource but it should come out of sales group. We should have sales engineers or pre sales consultants. Whatever you call it and my comment the cto. I'm sorry to the. Ceo was how many other departments are hiding their head. Count in product management because product managers are level three support their writing statements of work for professional services. They're creating know doing product support. Is i call it out in in my slides. Didn't you want them to be doing. You know the strategic bits. It's the biggest distinction we pulled into things and that was announced that you talked about was. You said if one team doesn't do its job..
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"I've always had three or four or five customers that i could share my secrets and no they weren't going to go any further I runs called a cto at a well and a well known company and said you know we're dealing with some security issues here. Can you walk me through. You know we're thinking about addressing it this way. What do you think. And having that continuous feedback from the market is the i think the critical aspect of knowing that you you're planning the right product having those relationships is very important so a good follow up question that would be building those relationships and my personal experience. I have found sales the sales team useful. A lot of that. Depends on the trust level. You have with the sales team. I trust that you're not going to mess up their account that makes a big difference But getting those introductions to the to their contacts and then earning that trust be able to have those kinds of conversations and it sounds like your customer buys reward was an informal thing that you created that i don't even know. What did you tell anyone else that you had this thing now. I didn't i didn't secret tools. Yeah was secret. Saw the first customer advisory board. I did was really quite funny It i was newer at this and and the sales team nominated people to be on the customer advisory board and at the first meeting. I figured out that they were all the wrong people. You know they were all buyers. Not users They many of them were really very self center which you would expect people to to be somewhat self serving at one break one of the. Bp's came over to me and said you need one of us. Needs saly that guy or me. Because i he he's telling you about how to customize the product for him and only now and the others were much more community oriented. I mean they were much like you know. I know we need this but let's make it available to everybody in the mark. Anders stood that we were software business consulting counter. Anyway yeah i think. Customer advisories are great and getting getting sales by an for that is wonderful but it can't be a sales tool. It has to be a research tool right and some organizations that i've worked with. We don't have easy access to the customers. And i think the because the organizational context itself. You kinda get stuck in that mindset like well. We don't have people we can talk to. For example we have relationships with distributors that are serving our products but not actual end users And then it's kind of breaking out of that mindset and say what can i do could i is there some way i can conceive intercepting customers. Where were they are buying their product where they're using our product and try to get some direct feedback and there's ways to do that. I think in every instance it might feel a little bit a natural. Because you haven't gone down that path before ryan. I think you you know you call out is unnatural and it's a shift in mindset. I was working with the company who you probably know their name. And i i had suggested strongly that product managers need first hand experience with customers and potential customers and the people in the room. Many of them were from the sales organization and they just kind of flipped out and they're like no way are any of these products. You're talking and i said and they said you know we're we get everything we need from our customers and we the sales team will tell you and i said okay. We'll tell me about your last engagement glass conversation you had about future capabilities for the product. Who were you talking. And they said well we were talking to our chicago sales office..
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"Okay great information's a few questions for you. That came up as went through that I kind of the foundation of all this is that the difference between are we solving problems or are we putting out fires. And i think a lot of product managers at least the ones i talk to would say that. They're spending too much time. If not all their time putting out fires and some have have said you know chad. I don't know what i'm going to be doing when i go to work any given day other. There's new fires put out and they can. They are consuming my time and energy and that's not. I am sure that's not what we want to be about. And that's not what you're proposing were about right about that rank ac- non problems well researched tells us that product managers have spent forty seven percent of their time on unplanned activities. You know the firefighting. So you're right. I mean any given day. Odds are you're walking into some sort of storm but if we could chest if we could just get ten.
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"To be billable so the sales team didn't have access to the professional services people anymore and somewhere along the way somebody said what about statements work. That's not billable either. And so they tried having the salespeople to which turned out to be a disaster as you might imagine and then they said we'll who else is board and so they started having the product managers completing the statements of work and the statement of work would clearly fall in. The customer powell. That's something that should be done by professional services. Likewise i is sales people saying i. I don't have an adequate sales engineer. So can you support me or marketing. Says we don't know that much about the domain of technology. Can you help us write this book. Help us know what trade shows to go to or you know. Help us in our marketing plans. And with the adoption of agile. It seems that many product managers have stopped being product managers and are now really development managers or at least development resources. Doing what i call reading aloud from jira. So that's the real question for us to ponder today is. Do we want someone focused on strategy planning and growth or do we want to relegate the product management role to a support role. So here's what you can take away with this session right down all the activities that you expect from your protein today Do presenting the roadmap stakeholder communications Writing requirements writing stories writing personas Creating business documents list out everything you can think of and then eliminate those that are related to single customers product. Demos going on sales calls answering sales questions over the phone and then take the ones that are laughed and prioritize those that are related to market problems. The ones that will help us to find what products we should build next products. We should build a future and how we can do a better job of supporting the products. We have now an unknown academic at yale university in nineteen sixty six. I don't know how we know that. Not albert einstein but he said whoever it was that if i had one hour to save the world that was the first fifty five minutes to finding the problem so maybe we should be problem managers instead. I think a lot of times the just the word products throws people they say. Will you should know everything about the product or you should do everything related to the product. Maybe should be talking about problem manage rather than product and you get more ideas like this in my book. On modern product management called turn ideas into products vailable now on amazon. But let me finish with less store..
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"Or do you want to continue squandering. This valuable resource called product management as they provide product support to development and services in sales and market will be back in just a minute. This podcast is sponsored by the rpm experience. The rapid product mastery experience in just nine weeks meeting seventy five minutes a week. Product managers teams and leaders become product masters creating more value for customers their organization and themselves. You will build a broad foundation.
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"But in all of this who is responsible for understanding market problems understanding both market. And the market's problems. And that's where i put. Product management product management is about both the now in the future. It's about problems. And it's about market and the other challenges product management is often called different thinks some companies call it product management other companies called product marketing. Some companies are now calling an offering management. There's lots of different titles there. But when i when i think about this myself when i'm in teams of of consultants like me. We tend to think of product management. This product management is about finding identifying problems in the market that we will build things in the future to saw whereas product marketing is looking for problems in the market or the products. We have today the products we have now and that problem is those problems are growth related. It's how do we sell more of a. We have not so much. What product should we build but what products. How can we sell more. We have so. Here's how i think of the primary responsibilities in a typical company that i work at and you can then use this as kind of a template for all of these activities that were doing so if we were to look at this grid say all right. Let's talk about customer discount rate which is a funny phrase. I mean customer discovery is really market discovery but customers goverry is engaging with the market and identifying problems that they have that we want to build a solution for and that's about problem discovery and from that we write stories and requirements and then we move into solution by doing say a prototype and from there we build features which we ultimately demo to the customer. Now it's interesting to me about. This is as we went through those three columns. Other departments took the lead role. And we'll come back to that point A similar one product. Marketing has one of been number. One forms of research for product. Marketing win loss analysis. It's a great way of finding problems. In the way that we sell in the way we sell and market and deliver and so we do loss analysis and we realize that we're answering questions badly or were not articulating. Something clearly and we sit down with our friends in marketing. Say we got this problem. We're seeing in our win loss analysis. How do you suggest we solve it. And they say oh. Gosh you know. We get sony questions about that. We ought to create an ethic. You databanks or maybe we should create a video with our cto talking about our technical underpinnings. Or maybe there's an e book in here about you know industry trans. But based on win loss analysis we create an faq database and that drives all of the rfp work that our sales teams have to instead of responding to rfp's one at a time. We've got a database of answers that we can copy and paste raw and what we're finding is if one team doesn't do his job other teams fill the void. I don't know that much about sports. But i'm pretty sure you're goalie is not supposed to be your top scorer. You know people say things..
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"steve johnson" Discussed on The Everyday Innovator Podcast
"I wanted to bring one of those episodes back now because two weeks ago grant hunter discussed what is product management and. This discussion was steve. Johnson that we had at the summit really fits well. He also happens to be a business partner with grant s masterful job at the summit addressing the nature of product management. What is it really about for us. In a provides an important perspective for anyone in product work as this was a summit presentation. The format of the show notes will be a little bit different but we do have those show notes available for you the easiest way to find them. Just go to product mastery. Never about what is what is product manager says by a repeated guest from the everyday innovator of that steve johnson joining us is also one of the founding trainers and longtime pragmatic marketing and now well known for his work under ten where he put that together where he does speaking like this for groups. He also has written a number of resources including his book turn ideas into products and a prime most of off coaches thousands of teams about product. Work so steve. Thanks so much for being with us and to be here tell us about. What is the product manager. Well that's what my presentation is about today. John just jump in less jumping. So what is product management a. This is the kind of inquiries that i run into all the time. When i do my consulting work i feel like i'm one of the two bobs. What did you do here. And what i hear. People say is seem to just sit in our office in shootdown bad ideas all the time and sometimes the bad idea. Shoot back So you know a sales guy comes by and says i talked to a guy or a marketing person comes by and says hey of you heard of the cloud An executive comes by and says you know. God spoke to me in a dream this morning. And we've got all of these ideas and we're not really quite sure what to do with many of them and That's why perhaps forty seven percent of our time is spent in unplanned activities. It feels like we're cleaning up the mistakes made by others or perhaps putting out the fires created by others and so the question for today as do you want to put out. Fires put out products. And here's what keeps executive teams up at night. It's the elephant in the room. How do we sell more of what we've built. Can't we build what we've planned and have we plan the right products. And it's unclear. Who takes the lead on each of days. You know in some cases you might say well. Vp of sales sakes lead on this and the market takes the lead on that. But i see all of these. His product strategy issues and yet titles are an absolute mads. What one company calls a product manager. Another company calls a program manager or product marketing manager. And so that's what we'll look at day. A very simple way of thinking about activities and titles and trying to answer the question of what is product management. So if you were to look at all the activities were involved west. We do things like customer discovery..
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"steve johnson" Discussed on WJR 760
"That's the phone number for you Feel free to call or text will get to you. Uh, here in just a second. But the reason why we're talking about this. The reason why this hasn't gone away is because if these if there are numbers That are if there are people. People family. Your family members there were in a nursing home and passed away after contracted Covid 19. There's a There's a lot of reasons why we need to find these numbers out one simply for for some sort of peace, peace of mind as a as a as a as a loved one of somebody who lost their life. Either in a nursing home or after contracting virus in a nursing home. That's number one I think families are at least owed that. But number two. I think there's been a lot of Um they certainly criticism About certain aspects and handling of certain things here in the state from from the governor's administration. And there had been talk about. Well, let's let's not let The virus run rampant in a nursing home. Let's let's move them to a different place where it's not as compact. Not as tight, not as you know, they're not as as you know, heavily populated. It's as some of these nursing homes are. And then I think the other part of all of this is in retrospect, right as we as we exit the pandemic as we return to some sense of normalcy. I think we need to do Uh And I don't mean this in a morbid way, but we need autopsy. What we have done in this state We need to. We need to go back and look at the decisions that were made and were they proper? Were they improper? Could we have done them differently? I think there's a lot of questions. That's around that. So that's why I think these numbers are important. So we'll see when we get those numbers. I mean, Steve Johnson is going to push for the head of the oversight committee. We'll see how successful he isn't getting the auditor general's office into the mix here. 805 90957 to Shelby Township. Let's talk to Paul. What's up, Paulie? Well, thank you for taking my call. First of all, um, where are you going To put these people if they contacted Covid 19, you're gonna put them in the hospitals. The hospitals were filled already, For God's sakes. That's one. Often the The board there. The second of all is who determines how they died. The doctor writes on the death certificate. The how that person died and we're in the state is regulating all the nursing homes, so I don't see where there's any reason for going into this rich hunt going to blame the governor for people dying. For Covid 19. That's like people contracting polio, For God's sakes. I just don't understand it any of them because Wait a minute. Let me finish. Let me finish. Okay. The point is that we find out how they died. So are you gonna do with that information? Somebody tell me that you know they they're dead. Paul. We okay? If they died of Covid we know how they died. That's true. We will. We already know how they died. It was the policies that were put in place. Could that death have been mitigated? Could that was that death? Needless Don't you want to know that? Wouldn't you want to know that? Dr automatically puts down how they died. Someone has to sign that book how they died. We know how they contracted Covid and died. We know that it's not the cause of death. It's were was the virus allowed to run rampant in a place when it didn't need to were the practices that were put in place to protect the the folks in the nursing home? Were those flawed and if because they were flawed and that the administration knew it in hindsight, are they covering up the numbers? That's the question It's not about how they died. We know they contracted Covid and they were very old and as you get older, you get weaker. Your immune system goes to I mean, we know how they died. It's not cause of death that we're interested in. And I don't think it's a witch hunt. I don't think anybody who had who had who had a family member nursing home die. I don't think they think that's a witch hunt. And believe me, it wasn't just Republicans. Who had a family in a nursing home die. So if this isn't I wouldn't classify this as a witch hunt. It's finding answers. It's it's preaching what the governor has set a goal for herself in being the most transparent governor in our state's history. Well, okay, let's see if that's the case, and if she's if these numbers come out to be right on the nose And she can come out and go. I told you I told you It's very simple, or you got something Maybe you don't want out there. That's the issue that we face here, so it's not cause of death. We know the cause of death. 805 90957 today to David. What's up? Well, I can't believe that last caller, I am Are you got to be kidding me? Yeah, people died. I get it, but what we want to know is is it's somebody's unilateral decision. Contribute to him. Needless death And what we knew. And I know this because my wife managed three of these nursing homes on the West side in Benton Harbor. She saw herself, You know it was a policy. That allowed the co mingling of what we knew were covid positive patients with patients who did not have it at the time, and they ended up needlessly dying because of a decision from government period And I think This is my opinion. I think what we're seeing here is because we know that the definition of homes of the aged and some of these Medicaid facilities and nursing homes are all different. Adult foster the same That's right Adult foster care, and it's not the same from state to state. Other states put it all together. Our state does not. And she knows that, And I think what we're seeing here is a little bit of C Y a That's why you've got her tell over there, making the the kind of comments that she was. If you listened to her words, it was specific to nursing homes, but the state doesn't define it the same way. So I think we're seeing some C Y a here And based on what the behavior of our governor. Not following her own orders taken off to Florida to defy her own orders. All of this other stuff that she was doing making a name for herself on late night. I think when you add it all up, what we're seeing here is someone who At the very least, is a bit reckless in her policies. Um and that the worst is is, um Well, I'll tell you what, I'll leave it up to your imagination because I don't want to go there. But look, look, David, Here's the dear, I I think you're right 90% of the way, I think you're right. I think it's it's not about. It's really about the policies that were established and again. Here's Here's the rub of all of this right is this was such a weird thing. That popped into our lives I out of nowhere, and we just expect perfection in in in in its roll out and making sure that everything is done the right way. Well, that that's not the case because we're sitting in June of 2021. We have the ability to look back now. Which is what we should do. We should look At the policies that were put in place and decide now with information. Um and and and I guess just with a little bit of hindsight to determine if they were if that was the right course of action. And if it wasn't If it wasn't I think that then we need to create a plan. Let's let's let's learn from our mistakes. If it's a mistake, I'm not saying it was, but let's learn from what we did good or bad. It's It's very cut and dry for me. 808 590957 805 90957. We will continue on with your calls momentarily will step aside. Take a break from Marie Osbournes News. And then on the other side. Selfridge loses the bid for the F 35 training facility, and it's an It's an absolute blow. Certainly the Macomb County, the Selfridge but to our region and our state, and you've got state senators that are ticked about it. We'll talk to Mark Hackel about that coming up next first off to.
WJR 760
"steve johnson" Discussed on WJR 760
"R and D that's going to create that bad read that has range and people have trust and confidence in and then make sure we are building it here and we have to have policies that make sure it's good here. Chinese government subsidy Congresswoman spoke with Paul W. Smith. April home sales were up 55% from the covert induced coma from last year, and prices are up almost 17% Jeanette Schneider of Re Max of southeastern Michigan, says inventory is at a 20 days supply. Is this a new record? I'm going to go out on a limb and say, Yeah, this is probably the lowest we've ever we've ever seen. It is unlike any market most of us have had worked in about a year ago. The home market was shut down by the state imposed restrictions, but Snyder's says closings are roaring back to life. There's a new controversy surrounding Governor Whitmore's trip to Florida in March to visit her ailing father. The FAA says the plane that was used was not authorized to operate as a charter flight chartered flights, her subject to stronger requirements. Another flight Cos. Winners office said a chartered flight was used because of ongoing security concerns. Earlier controversy about the flight centered on how it was paid for Republican lawmakers are still concerned about the issue. Representative Steve Johnson, the chairman of the Michigan House Oversight Committee, said he might send a letter to the governor's office with questions that he would like answered. He would also consider holding hearings on the matter. Another shortage added into the list. Fox Business Networks Jeff Flock reports this time It's not a specific item. Rather, it's the people who deliver the items. Planes. Maybe faster trains may be cheaper, but when it comes to getting freight from point a to point B trucks do most of the work. And the shortage of qualified people to drive them is now hitting home See Sue Energy in Texas is now offering to pay experienced drivers $14,000 a week. Because the CEO Jim Grundy tells Fox business I just can't find enough drivers. We have folks making 3 $400,000.90 year, driving a tractor trailer in their mid twenties with college degrees that That's Fox's Jeff Flock reporting from Houston on Wall Street this afternoon, the Dow still remains in negative territory. The Dow was down 58, the S and P off five. Traffic and weather Next WJR news time approaching 204. This is your time for a good time. Now go live your life to the funnest leave boring behind and come to the place made for non stop action and excitement..
Beach Talk Radio
"steve johnson" Discussed on Beach Talk Radio
"And get yourself some fresh out spray are you. Don yeah all right folks now wait. We're not done yet. I need to tell you the story about the public. You going on and on about the questions about the lights and we got nothing resolved about the lights. I don't get it. I don't understand why it's it's complicated and i'm not even an engineer. Who watch those meetings and your eyes glaze over. because they're talking about looming kelvin's in this high and that high in yellow right light and the poor turtles are disoriented. And they're flying out this way. I i think it is a very calm lighting a very complicated process and getting it right. But i do think here on the beach. There's there are limited options so to focus on what they can do which is protect people and protect turtles. Seems to be focused on the amber light. So would seem to really saying. But jim saying why. Why is everybody married to the amber lights. He's making it seem like that. The amber-light is not the only solution. And i thought that if i felt like what he was saying that that's really the only solution because there's no way this gym. Don't this is what. I'm taking from steve's conversation and partly from emily is that there's no way to to shield the white light enough to. Wow somebody might lie enough to to make the turtle not gonna be bleed out or trespass light trespass. We don't want light trespassing so anywhere. So let's say you come to the conclusion that they've decided on amber lights. How how many polls do you need. How many lights do you need. How many driveways are on a sterile boulevard. So that you can get enough polls in if there are too many driveways and then you have the construction from artery. Deville going on. That's going to take several years so there's so many there's so many different going on there. But if you're going if you go if you've decided that the amber light is the only light do you know how many polls and and how far apart they does anybody think. Why does you know that idea about the. I think if they look at it they'll be able to figure it out when we can walk. The road won't up and down the road one hundred miles on the amber lights. They can. they'll tell you how many polls additionally you might need but the other thing is putting the lights in the row or not. It saves two turtles. He's better as did the road though. Now you're gonna there's got to be a wayne. I think the choice between putting the lights in the road and building four hundred can go in that building. Four hundred poles at seven point two million dollars. I think that the decision easy right there. I don't know how much it would cost to dig up the road. They just put down parts of it and put the lights. And i don't know how much digging they would have to. Maybe they just. I doubt they just velcro on the road. I'm pretty certain they gotta do something. You do like to get nice sidewalks. There's some places where they have lights coming out of the sidewalk to shoot into the road. Why can't you do have to be careful but the shooting light..
Beach Talk Radio
"steve johnson" Discussed on Beach Talk Radio
"Let's say a high pressure sodium and going to umbrella these or going to a four thousand a white led and but there's no chance so four thousand dollars a years actually with the cost but there's no chance anyone's gonna approve a four thousand four thousand k. Led light on terrible act of the matter. Is that right now. We have high pressure sodium off a number of them every turtle right so if you put bright white on the corridor work. There's no way that it's not gonna loom nate the beach where i think the minor okay. I know it's directional that's the advantage of led led wiley delights extremely efficient. They do they do what they do so well. It's too well. I think in my personal opinion. So i don't understand how even again if they shield them. Robin trendall said in an email to town council is without question white life will never will never be turtle friendly that they put three thousand k. White led's on the side streets and some of those ended up at the accesses and they installed them late summer and prior to the end of the turtle season. We already had a disorientation. Man it was live streamed on facebook because the lady who found them all our nathan drainage ditch underneath the light streamed. it's i can get you that clip. That'd be interesting sort of what happened so the so let's say the amber light is the chosen light because the council in two thousand nine hundred ninety way. They were certainly leaning toward making sure they were. They didn't maybe they didn't use the word amber what they got the email the night before it seemed for a from. Wc or whoever is on that trail that they wanted focus on the turtles. Well they want to be compliant too. Regulates your issues. This is emily hit mentioned. Actually the way that my understanding is the way it works. Is that while she had said that. The town itself is responsible for writing the tickets while it's the town lighting so the town doesn't right themselves to ticket if there is is take which means knowingly a turtle. It's twenty five thousand dollar fine turtles so you can imagine if you not from the towns from fw. Say well from from you. Us fish and wildlife. Really the so. You're saying installing the wrong lights knowingly killing the turtles and your in your ears on one hundred twenty five thousand dollars times a hundred for a hundred turn that that gets run over. So let's so let's say the amber light is chosen. How high off the ground and the lights have to be how close to the polls have to be so that you can drive down. Stir boulevard from times square to the beach theater and make sure that you're not blinded or or your lose sight of the light from one pole to the next aids to be uniform..
Beach Talk Radio
"steve johnson" Discussed on Beach Talk Radio
"No so if you were to receive a violation it would be from your local government. Because that's where it's on the books in your law that the local government has it so as you mentioned that the streetlights which are city owned are in violation of your current local governments. And that's because that language was just updated and so usually there's some sort of a grace period but you know like somewhere you have a transition because you put this on the books and of course. Everybody's not going to be able to change everything just like that. So it does take a little bit to make those adjustments and having the city had this ordinance theoretically they would be one of the first to make those changes you know if they lead by example type thing you know you change your lights. expecting private sector also changed their lights so but being city being county. That sort of thing. We have to go through certain steps as you were mentioning the different stages of this kind of processes the meetings that have because you do have to have it open to public opinion because it is a city basting so it does take time to do that. Well emily we wanna thank you for coming on and if you were here you'd get breakfast for fifty percents off or maybe you'll need to take a trip down here at some point bombed. I miss that you have a great weekend. Thanks for coming on grace. Thank you so much for having me. I really do appreciate it. And i just want to. If anybody has questions they can be sure to. Reach out to me. And i reached at emily. Em iowa conserve turtles dot org. And we'll make sure that we at information on our site too so thanks a lot for coming on emily. We really appreciate thank you. We wanna make sure we We keep steve here now. Steve what what was your conclusion. Or what did you think of the meeting of the second meeting and went. It was two hours long. You haven't seen the meeting yet. you can go to. The town of fort myers youtube page. And you can watch it there and they did a presentation at the beginning then took questions and answers after. What was your conclusion your thoughts on that. Well they changed after. I watched it a second time. Actually going back and play in replaying the the meeting. I i have I have concerns that these you know this town. Lighting consultant is not looking at our local locale in their recommendations that the stakeholder meeting was based on their they presented design criteria that they thought should be applied to the project. The problem being is that design criteria is not for coastal community. It seemed like it was a design criteria that they would have rolled out to any municipality anywhere in the country so was not targeted toward our community. Which is what we had asked to. The town's credit they had done a wonderful job writing up requests for proposal. The bid proposal was well written as to what our needs were. And i don't see. I did not see that. They address those As we needed them to okay so let's just back up for a second you're saying that the rfp was written the right way but we're at a stage now in the second stakeholder meeting that europe believe they're following the rfp. No i don't. I mean i don't think that at all that or it's a lack of communication at this point Because we still maybe right out of the gate. They should explain immediately. What will be done during turtles seasons to me. There's two seasons here there's turtles season and non turtle sees right so are there. Are they attempting to address. Both in one fell swoop. Are they going to submit the different plans..
Beach Talk Radio
"steve johnson" Discussed on Beach Talk Radio
"Thank you for having for coming to the show. and how. How long have you lived in marco island. Been there about thirty seven years now. Nice very nice and we were talking a little bit in the green room about the incident that you had out there with the police chief and the fire chief in the covert thing so you know when every little small town what would it be like without drama. You need some kind of drama so you just want to do something. Yeah for those. I think is innocent stupidity but it was and for those that don't know i think i may be getting it wrong little bit while you get the you'll get the point. The vaccine was coming out and either the chief. One of the chiefs got in the in the queue earlier than the residents or something like that and the other one new and they. It's it's like getting to the front of the line when you know the old people that are dying. Probably should've had exactly. Yeah even though the gentleman that the husband of the fire chief are shooting. The police chief was of age to get the vaccine boss senior. Yeah it was. Yeah it was just all the way around. So how long have you on the beach theater now. Since we opened at nine ninety ninety nine nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine now what do people still go to the movies after the covert thing and not so much. No so how do you. How do you get them back in the theater. And you're humping way ahead i am. Yeah i having start something like this. You're not really participating. Give me a minute so the history of the building and all of that tell us. Tell us a little bit about that. It's it's quite an interesting history. Actually we open. We open marco in one thousand nine hundred hundred. Oh there's theater. And marco to marco and marco marco movies. We opened at nine hundred ninety and at the time. There was no such thing as a food person food theater. It was actually written in the contract that you couldn't serve food or alcohol in the theaters. And we're talking about contract with disney assists thick. And you go through every page and sign it and so first of all. We opened up as a first print theatre which means that this is back when we had thirty five millimeter film and before the digital which is just an amazing transition. But you have. Let's say hollywood. Twenty would open up Star wars on twenty screens while that was thirty. Twenty prints of thirty five millimeter film and after they sucked up the entire audience in two weeks..
The Functional Tennis Podcast
Peter Smith - Coach of Steve Johnson & Sam Querrey
"Hype Peter Welcome to the functional tennis podcast. Well, I mean you're the man when it comes to all this stuff Bobbio, so it's my pleasure to be on and. You know excited to chat with you and to be on the PODCAST I. Don't know fun demand. Tobin winning matches I'm not sure what what help I have help and play with matches. That's where you've carved your career, so I'm really excited to have you on an ever. Since was a Brett Mossy was on here. He was like you gotta get Peter on. You GotTa get Peter on, so it's taken probably thirty episodes all probably down to me because you said, get me on any time so I'm glad to finally have yawn like I, said it's a pleasure so. Hopefully I can I can say something that helps someone or that's worth listening to. I'm sure you can't so. Let's start first of all. Which Your College tennis success. How many years were you head? COACH USC I was a head coach at USC for seventeen years. I was the head coach in college. For thirty two years. I coached at long, beach state where I played Fresno State Pepper, nine and University of Southern California so all within California's sports. And so you know was was real honor to coach at all four of those universities. Was dateable stint up to be a fresno state when you were there. No, he was after he was after but I I know Dave. Yeah, I certainly I think. He played for Oh God man. Oh, A now, Fresno! No, he's at Fresno Fresno Yep. No He's black working for. Integrate call the lucky. Yeah, no, it's too lucky and you know I mean a little bit about me that you don't know is. My Dad was born and raised in Kevin County so I'm A. I'm very much Irish. Yeah, so That's an never been airland means crazy I was born in Rome mid late and I left her nose two weeks old, and I've never been back and I'm Irish are fifty percents I was there when I was very young. Know I've traveled the world, but I've never been to those two places. You probably meant to be at Rome with Steve. This year. And maybe still happen. We don't know so. We'll see what what the future holds. I really hope the tour can start up with Washington, and they can put this the correct safety protocols in place her, and really for the most part. Just get everyone back working because it's this huge industry. That supports lot of different people, and you know not only the players, but you know the TV crews in the tournament organizers and you know so many people involved in running the kind of tournaments they play. Definitely a lot of people are on the sidelines. Waiting for things to pick up with a wasn't a plan to touch on this subject in this interview which you would. What is your thoughts on term star embark on hold procedures that are in place, player team sizes, and what's happened in Croatia, wit Novak, and now the case in the states as well with Francis Ooh. What are your general thoughts on? I think you know this. A lot of sports are starting up I. Think it can be done if you put this correct safety procedures in place, you know I'm not gonNA comment on. On what happened, you know over in in Europe but I know Atlanta. They put a lot of safety precautions in place, but you know still. They learned a lot. We learned a lot from you know what happened in. Serbia and I think they've learned even more with Atlanta. I think the mistake they made in Atlanta was. They tested all the guys? Guys, but they didn't test them the day before so obviously. Francis did not get covid from the tournament because it happened on the first day, It just doesn't happen that quickly, so he had been tested i. think a week before, and so you know they just need to test I. Don't know if it's daily, but they should definitely test everyone. When they arrived to the tournament and but other than that. You Walk Away I. Mean I think it's A. It's actually a great lesson that someone had code and we'll see, but it appears. At this point, and maybe it's too early. Say that no one else got it also so. If no one else gets covid I think that's a victory that they had some in there that had it and it didn't spread. So again, it's probably too early to save for sure, but I know. Stephen Sam have been tested repeatedly since that day last Friday and again it's too early to say for sure, but so far they've they've tested negative, and so has everybody all the participants
First Light
French Open women's draw -- Simona Halep wins first-round match
"And four will be in washington on saturday and monday tennis french open underway the skies finally brightened a little bit in paris on the women's side serena williams got her comeback started by beating kristina plus a six and four she'll face seventeen seat ashleigh barty of australia in the second round thirty gardenia mugabe rousseau in straightsets yesterday other winners included americans bethany matic sands and taylor townsend as well as maria sharapova number one simona halep laser first round match this morning against american allison risk while number two caroline wozniacki at number four elite lena have second round matches today over on the men's side top seed and defending champion rafael nadal needed two days and a tiebreaker to complete a straight set win over simone bolelli adele now eighty and to all time in matches at roland garros number three see marin sillage also won in straight sets us winners included nine see john is ner and steve johnson while fourteen seed jack sock took a powder in five sets to seeds alexander's era of and four c grigory dmitrov will play their second round matches this morning golf the pga tour will be at the memorial at dublin ohio that'll be teeing off just about this time tomorrow morning nfl organized team activities continue training camps just about two months away ncwa baseball tournament begins friday at sixteen regional sites the women's college world series for softball starts tomorrow in oklahoma city the top eight teams are there including a number one seed oregon and the two time defending champions from the university of oklahoma that is wednesday.