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Part I: Speaker

Succeeding Quietly in Our Recognition - Obsessed Culture

Source: HBR
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/succeeding-quietly-in-our-recognition-obsessed-culture/

A written transcript will be available by June 20

[Rephrase 1, 12:22]

AceJ

Part II: Speed

Seattle Moves To Curb Uber, Other Ride-Share Services
BY Bill Chappell| March 10, 2014

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Uber, Lyft, and similar companies that pair people who pay for a car ride with drivers who operate outside the traditional taxi system are facing new limits in Seattle, where the City Council's Taxi Committee recently voted to cap the number of "ride-share" drivers.

The full council had been scheduled to vote on a limit of 150 drivers per ride-share company today; the vote, which has sparked intense interest in the city, has been postponed until next Monday.

Taxi companies have been vocal opponents of the web-based services, which they say have an unfair advantage because they play by different rules. Observers say Seattle's plan to place limits on Uber and similar services could spark new caps and regulations in other U.S. cities.

Uber currently operates in 37 U.S. cities, according to its website; it's also active in more than 30 countries. The company's Seattle outpost has defended itself, especially its lower-cost UberX service, saying that it's providing jobs.

"Right now, we partner with 900 small businesses just on the UberX system," Uber Seattle GM Brooke Steger recently told local KIRO Radio. "These are live, active drivers, so that doesn't include people who are in the pipeline or that have stopped driving."
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In deciding to limit the number of drivers, Seattle's council members also voted to add 200 more taxi licenses over the next two years, as the Puget Sound Business Journal reported last month.

Steger tells KIRO that those limits would change how the company and its drivers work, particularly at peak travel times. Right now, drivers are able to log into the system and work whenever they chose, allowing them to take breaks for meals, she says. That could change under a cap system.

"We see well over 150 drivers active on the system at any given time," she says, "especially on a Friday or Saturday night, when a lot of people are drinking and a lot of people want to get home safely."

In the past year, taxi drivers have organized protests against the ride-share services in several U.S. cities. To draw attention to their claims, they circled City Hall in Los Angeles last summer; in Denver, more than 100 drivers recently clogged the street around the Colorado Statehouse.
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Source: NPR.blog
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/10/288730929/seattle-moves-to-curb-uber-other-ride-share-services?sc=17&f=&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app  

Uber Rules
How to loosen the chokehold of taxi commissions
BY Siona Listokin| Jan 9, 2014

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Should Uber, the mobile app car-for-hire company, get to play by different rules than the rest of the taxicab industry? Taxi regulators in almost every major U.S. city have tried to impose rules on Uber that could drive it out of business. Fans of Uber, including Slate’s Matt Yglesias, contend that this is a mistake, because the company doesn’t need to be regulated beyond the driving laws that apply to every car on the road.

This is absurd; there are very good reasons to regulate hired vehicles. Giving my friend a ride somewhere in my car has different economic and social implications for a city than picking up a stranger and driving her someplace for a fee, Uber style. That said, Uber should be regulated differently than other taxi services, for a reason that may seem odd at first: The company collects a plethora of data that has never before existed in the cab industry. For the first time, Uber’s data can allow policymakers to directly measure taxi fares, the availability of cars, and the safety records of drivers without having to control every element of the market. If cities are smart, that could mean better oversight with less regulation.

Historically, it has been impossible to monitor what actually happened inside taxis because we didn’t have the technology to track the location of cars, the behavior of drivers, or the price of fares. And so, regulators have relied on meddlesome taxi commissions to control licensing, dispatching, and meter rates. The goal is to protect customers and ensure predictable taxi service, and heavy-handed regulation may help deal with some of these issues. But it’s also susceptible to manipulation; entrenched cab company owners can use the rules for their own advantage. For example, regulations that restrict new taxi firms from entering the market have driven up the price of medallions and owner profits.
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Uber’s business model makes possible an entirely new approach. The company’s business model depends on technology that matches driver and passenger locations, controls payments electronically, and evaluates driver conscientiousness. The company has used its data to compute which city neighborhoods host the most casual sex and how the federal government shutdown impacted rides to and from the U.S. Capitol. It can certainly track data of more obvious use to public officials, such as pickup times in low-income neighborhoods and price surges. Uber can accurately and seamlessly measure safety, pricing, and equity of service—the goals at the heart of taxi regulation. This means that the company is right that it shouldn’t be subject to the chokehold of the taxi commissions.

But that doesn’t mean Uber shouldn’t be monitored altogether. Rather, commissions should observe the company’s actual performance in key areas like safety, pricing, and car availability. Uber’s data can help establish standards for hired cars that up to now have been impossible to determine. Old-fashioned taxi companies, with their archaic dispatching processes and lack of data, should still be subject to the old rules.

It is in Uber’s best interests to shape the parameters of these data analytics. Are accident records a better measure of safety performance than hospitalizations or customer complaints? How can the company provide a sample of pickup times and locations while protecting customers’ personal information? Answering these questions will require collaborating with local commissions on the use of verifiable, anonymous, and practical market data. In effect, Uber must introduce regulators to big data, an area in which the government has severely lagged behind.
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Other tech-sector companies are moving in this direction already. PayPal, which is fighting its own battles with federal and state regulators, recently wrote a report on the role of big data in regulation. In a move that’s both savvy and self-serving, the paper suggests that regulators collaborate with the companies that they oversee.

Regulating companies like Uber and PayPal based on the new data they can produce won’t be easy. The costs of collecting and verifying good information can be high. The taxi commissions probably aren’t ready to crunch a lot of new numbers, and they will continue to squeeze Uber under the old rules until lawmakers or public pressure forces them to do otherwise. Finally, there is the matter of privacy. Customers may be willing to share their locations and weekend habits with Uber in exchange for good service but may balk at the prospect of a government agency trolling through their data, even if they are assured anonymity.

But it’s worth trying to surmount these obstacles. Uber has managed to revolutionize how the boring and outdated taxi industry operates on the streets. Now the company can help remake the rules, too.
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Source: Slate
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/01/regulating_uber_data_collection_is_the_key.html

AceJ

Part III: Obstacle

Michael Wolff: Uber invades the world
By Michael Wolff | June 16, 2014

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The pseudo-German name Uber isn't helping in Europe, where licensed taxi drivers have stalled traffic in London, Paris and Madrid to protest this virtual transport company's invasion of their markets.

This bald incursion, traducing standard livery service regulations, has inspired not only the ire of official cabdrivers but the passion of investors, who have bid the value of Uber to $17 billion, making it the world's most valuable transportation company even though it owns no vehicles.

That seemingly outlandish value ought to be qualified by the anecdotal evidence of how many people in casual conversation turn out never to have used Uber or even know what it is — rather like the Internet in 1995. The Uber revolution, in other words, may be just beginning.

And, indeed, the conversion of non-users to dedicated adherents seems to be as rapid as the mass adoption of the Internet, in part because Uber seems to offer similar miraculous results. You push a button on a mobile app, and minutes later, without any negotiation or logistical discussion, an exceedingly polite driver is at your service.

EARLIER: The tech company of the year is Uber

True, this is hardly that different from calling your local black car or jalopy service, and yet, the lack of friction and greater reliability make all the difference. So much so that Uber, played out in a logical fashion, is a transformative threat not only to the taxi and limousine industry but to car ownership itself. With Uber, many of the more and more people who live in cities can easily and economically do without their own cars. (The urban young are already demonstrating a marked resistance to car ownership.)

That potential makes Uber the biggest business story of the day, and a massive economic disrupter, too — perhaps as big as or bigger than the shift from U.S.-made to foreign-made cars in the 1970s (this is not necessarily good news for the rest of the economy).

And Uber has ambitions well beyond this. It envisions itself as a new on-demand transportation infrastructure. In New York, an Uber driver will bring you, at your asking, an air conditioner. Uber proposes to be the Internet of the actual world.

There is an obvious impact here on employment, too. All you need are a driver's license, some social skills and a clean car to make what the company suggests can be a six-figure income.

All prompting the question: Is Uber dominance inevitable?

Curiously, its sudden and powerful promise is matched by its obvious fragility.

After all, Uber doesn't really exist. It has no fleet. It employs no drivers. There is no dispatch hub. There is no dispatcher at all. It is, rather — and, one might think, quite precariously — a system based entirely on mutual and convenient availability. Uber's software automatically provides a connection between people who want a ride and people in the business of providing one. Uber itself has no real relationship or, even, actual interaction with either party.

What's more, it's not fancy software. It's neat — you know where your car is, you watch your car come, no money changes hands — but it's trivial, and its functionality is largely available off the shelf. Almost anybody could do it. The technological barrier to entry is small.

Halo, one of its competitors, uses basically the same software and, to boot, is partnering with taxi companies and complying with local regulations. And yet the Uber valuation and its media reception suggest that it is, like Google and Amazon, on its way to creating a one-company market.

While it may not have mastered the transportation business, it is triumphing in the look-and-feel business. It is selling the illusion of effortlessness. It offers a respite from life's messiness. It is, really, in the life-enhancing business.

That means it is in a race with reality.

Can it project such awesomeness and such a new vision of happiness to shame local, Lilliputian regulation? European bureaucracies and labor unions are not easily shamed.

So far, Uber's high level of compensation (it splits 80/20 with its drivers, with drivers getting the 80) has supplied it with a perhaps unnaturally poised driver base. But as demand increases, you need more drivers to satisfy it, so you inevitably go to a less meritorious pool. Cars crash, drivers insult passengers, road rage reveals itself. Already, once smartly dressed Uberists seem a bit more disheveled, eating something smelly in the front seat. There are illusion-busting religious trinkets and deodorizers hanging from the rear-view mirror.

Can Uber remake the black car paradigm, imposing some new sense of order and propriety, before the black car paradigm remakes it?

Uber's biggest investor is Google. That also helps create the sense of deal done, case closed, future foretold. And yet Google, with its dream of driverless cars, may ultimately be an Uber competitor. Uber, whether it knows it or not, may merely be a stalking horse for the true mobility revolution to come.

And, too, this isn't the Internet. The road is real, not virtual. And what about the businesses — UPS, rental car companies, the automotive industry itself — with actual fleets of vehicles? Do they not lumber into consciousness?

Meanwhile, the Uber illusion is, so far, rather wonderfully real. In Paris, on the day of the taxi protest, I merely summoned an Uber to circumnavigate it.
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Source: USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/wolff/2014/06/14/the-rise-of-uber/10417655/

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Speaker:
who?         skilled professional, hugely important, rarely thought of   
their response to the describe?         happy and think it is meaningful
e.g.         people, nature of the work, skyscraper, amazing
feeling?         happier, experience, satisfied, more fulfil
characteristics?        motivation, respect by their peer, ambitious people, love challenge, interesting   
Time2: 1'10" 173 word/min
UBER and companies like it faced constrictions in Seattle because Cab association thought they engaged unfair competition.  
facts -> reasons -> more details about UBER
Time3: 52" 193 word/min
governments regulation -> more drive license and less drive-share -> analyze -> past protests in other cities
Time4: 1'38" 198 word/min
raise a debate: whether impose regulate on UBER -> author's opinion and advantage to do so -> concerns related to regulation
Time5:1'15" 213 word/min
UBER's advantage and innovate approach -> it still needs some regulation, and cab-industry should under the old rule -> UBER should share its date to better formulate the regulations
Time6: 1'02" 188 word/min
Challenges in formulating the law: oversee, costs, consumers response. -> conclusion
Obstacle: 5'53 150 word/min
Introduction of UBER and its service :most valuable transportation company, innovate approach, spread lots of cities -> its advantages ->its competitions: both real and potential competitors

行者无疆945

怒斩前排，明天提交！
Speed
Time2-3
Lately, the concil has been scheduled to voted on a limit of 150 drivers per ride-share company.
The taxi companies are the vocal opponents of the services because they thought these services have an unfair advantage over them and limiting them can spark new caps.
But the company defended itself by saying that they provide lower-cost service and jobs.
Those limits can cause a great change in the company and its drivers work.
They may lose the right to choose the working time they want.

Time 4-6
Uber, a mobile app, is being drived out by taxi regulators through imposing rules on it.
Fans of Uber think that this is a mistake, because the Uber's data can allow policymakers to monitor the taxis on the street,something that can never be done in the history.
Since it can accurately and sealessly measure the goals at the heart of taxi regulation, it shouldn't be subject to the chokehold of the taxi commissions.
It should still be monitored in some key areasby the commissions to help establish standards.
Besides Uber, other tech-sector companies are moving in this direction already, such as PayPal.
But there are some difficulities of regulating these companies such as the high costs of collecting and verifying good information, the resistance of the taxi commissions and the consideration of privacy by costomers.
In conclusion, it's worth trying!

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最近各种期末论文，都忙晕了.....写完居然没有点提交......多谢主页君提醒！

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Speaker: Invisible people are those who are highly-skilled and rarely think of public,focus on project.They do not mind people's less recognization.They are happier and more satisfied,fullfilled when they are rewared by the value of their work.Their key driver are more intransivic.But they also ambitious people.Challengers are a better motivation to them than money.We need to be more and more recognized now.People nowadays want to get more followers,brand themselves on many platforms.This is a culture now.But if you simply concentrate on your work instead of focus on promoting yourself,you can get better result.Doing good work gains a lot followers.People can recognize those well-done work.Simply focus on work and do your work really good,people will recognize and repect.Just keep doing,even it takes some time.Don't afraid to take on responsibility.People who want responsibility, who have a desire for authority,there is a strong predictor of people who will automaly to attain power.

01:06
Seattle will pass a limition on ride-share drivers provided by the web-based services.

00:47
These kinds of companies said that they really provide more services and job opportunies to people.Taxi drivers are main opponents.

01:48
The new uber services really need rules.But as a new kind of services,it needs some different rules from taix industry and less regulations.Rules in taxi industry both has advantages and shortages.

01:29
The tech of Uber can provide the goals at the heart of taxi regulations- safety, pricing and equity of service.But Uber should also be monitored.Uber still has many problems to be fixed.

01:01
Other tech companies are also moving into this industry.Taxi commissions will keep squeezing Uber.The next problem of Uber may be privacy.But Uber really managed to revolutionize the taxi industry.

07:26
Main Idea: the discussion of Uber
Uber is the most successful tech company this year and growing rapidly.It offers a different services from traditional taxi industry.It not only changes the industry,it also changes car owners themselves.
Uber provies a new on-demand trasportation infrastracture.It alsp provides employment opportunires.It said that you need few things to earn more money.
But its suddent and powerful succes matches its obvious fragility.Uber actually does not exist.It just has a software to provide a connection between people.This software is not fancy but neat.The technological barrier to entry is samll.While many competitors are entering this field,the potential problems is becoming obvious to Uber as a pioneer.
For many factors,the future of Uber is still unobvious.Time is needed to observe the future of Uber.

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time:1:04.44
The introduction of the votes to limit Uber and other similar companies that are outside of the traditional taxi system.
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time:0:44.92
The future changes--more taxi licenses and other.
The reason why taxi or drive share services are especially needed on weekend's nights.
Protest before.
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time:1:46.90
Should Uber be regulated by rules?
Answer--Yes,but in a different way(not as the same with the traditional taxi system)
Pick up stranger and sent his/her home.This should be regulated.
Traditional taxi commision.Uber's new way--collect data.
Police can use Uber's data to make rules and better regulate this new type of drive share services.
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time:1:29.76
Details about how to use Uber's data to better regulate the company and improve this industry.Use data to anaylyze several parts(safety,price..).
Uber should be regulated with traditional taxi.(in different rules)
Uber's data should be improved to better provide information.
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time:1:02.46
Other companies that make similar solutions--use data to regulate.Paypal.
Obstacles:
1 high costs
2 taxi commission's protest
3 consumers don't want to share their information under government control
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time:5:58.49
Uber faces protests in Europe.
The introduction of Uber--now the world's most valuable transportation company.
But Uber may be in the beginning--because many people still haven't used it or even heard about it.
How does Uber work--its services.details.
Uber's impact:
1 traditional taxi system
2 car ownership
3 economy
4 employement--six figure income
Will Uber donimate the world?Answer--no.
1 Uber doesn't really exist--it's based on Internet.
2 Uber is not a great software--neat but easy to be copy--the example of halo.
But Uber really invades the market and may be monopoly.
Should Uber be regulated by rules?It will face serious protests in Europe.Will Uber change the car paradigm?
Uber's big investor--Google may be its competitor in the future.
But now,Uber is become dominated.

perl

没有分开计时，不是回忆，是看文章的时候写的笔记。
Seattle Moves To Curb Uber, Other Ride-Share Services
P1: seattle 租车问题，出租车抗议
P2：taxi公司抗议
P3：uber，和uber的解释
P4，uber详细解释
P5:西雅图考虑限制uber
P6：limits will change current workflow
P7：Uber说周五周六人最多
P8：其他城市出租车司机示威。

Uber Rules
一共四五分钟左右
P1：uber rules要不要
P2:两方面的观点
P3：出租车公司的弊端
P4：uber做到了P3做不到的
P5：observe uber in key areas
P6:uber会分析data
P7：paypal，big data
P8：面临的困难：not easy to collect data，privacy
P9，总结，positive。

Michael Wolff: Uber invades the world
六分钟！没有做笔记！
介绍的uber的商业模式，前景和问题。

小蘑菇开始打怪

这期我要占呜呜 菌菌 我要下周四考完试才能做啊...
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谢谢Ace~~

speaker:

the most important work is not having much followers but you do an important work and then attract many followers

invisible is not a bad thing for many people

the relationship in business field is more concentrated on how to broad yourself

there are someone want to take responsibilities and gain power

time2:

in Seattle, the City Council’s Taxi Committee voted to cap the number of ride-share drivers to limit the advantage of the web-based services

however the Uber provides jobs for these drivers

time3:

the web-based services change the rule of taxi service

time4:

the car-for-hire system may need some regulation and regulation must be different from the traditional one

even through we want but we can not control what happen in the taxis for we do not have the technology to track the car

time5:

Uber uses it advanced tech to monitor the cars and set standards for hired car

time6:

if traditional taxi industry want to apply the database system, it need to pay a lot of money and spend a long time

time7:

the Uber revolution, in other words, may be just beginning

Uber may change the industry

Uber has no drivers and no cars but it has a high value

Uber need to solve some problems or face some challenges if it want to become bigger

醒醒Shine

[speaker]
people with highly skilled but invisible
1-do they like this
2-happier ?
3-manager: how to handle ambicious one. money & challenge
much too focus on promotion,not the work
4-recognization: when you work so hard ,people see
5-how people to be  recognized by boss: by simply doing really good work, take responsibility

[time2]
1-case: cap the ride-share drivers

[time3]
2-to do next: limiti shareone; add taxi one

[time4]
1- app car-for-hire out or in?
2-author: need to regulate
3-bg: history. impossible monitor

[time5]
4-support: new approach
5-concede: monitored altogether;introduce regulators to big data

[time6]
6-other obstacles:competitor;regulate,privacy-----but worth trying

[obstacle]
1-bg:Uber, not help in Europe, but passion of investors
2-threat
3-dominace inevitable?-------rather wonderfully real.
no relationship;neat,trivial,functionality

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喜欢今天的Speaker推荐的文章。
Sometime just because you focus too much on the promotion, the really hard work gets ignored. The highly sikilled people always choose to work best at first. Then the other results will come in time.Just focus on the really important one.