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Question by Shari S: Can someone answer a Missouri question for me?
I know nothing about Missouri as I have never ever been there. We are planning to go to Branson at Thanksgiving time. If we book a room in the Ozark Mountains, is that near or in Branson or how far away or what? Thanks

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Answer by Ro-Z
Umm Branson is in the Ozarks!

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Question by jule092826: is it possible to ask richard branson a question & get a resonse from him?

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Answer by omnidigitalbrain
Most of his philosophy, even his secrets for succeeding in business, has been published, so I doubt he can tell you much in person that he hasn’t already shared in public.

For example, he has always said that he views business not as traditional business, but as an adventure through which he can fully experience life while building stuff he’s proud of.

Good luck with your endeavours!

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Question by heliondady: Question mark about Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Group.?
He is said to have dyslexia, how come he could run a successful magazine, called Student? Or it is merely a legendary tinge he added to his success stories?

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Answer by Tim W
ITS TRUE HE HAS PEOPLE HELP HIM

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Question by baby731: Question about Branson, Mo?
Just wondering if anyone knows of anything for a 10 month old to do in Branson. My husband and I are planning a weekend family vacation b/c he’s a basketball coach and has been gone a lot lately. His season just ended and we want to get away with our son but aren’t sure what activities there are out there for a 10 month old. Branson is only about 2 1/2 hours away from us and we both really like it, but have never taken our son.

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Answer by matt
Branson has lots of Magic shows. I would check those out.

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Question by beth: Question About Branson, Missouri?…?
My friend and I are planning a trip to Branson, MO in August. We are kind of on a limited budget, so we were wanting to know what is a place that we could stay that is nice, but not rediculously expensive.

Also, what is some of the must see attractions in Branson? We already know about Silver Dollar City & we plan to do that. We have also heard about Dixie Stampede. Has anyone been there? If so, what is it like??

Thanks A Bunch!

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Answer by me
There’s a Super 8 not to expensive on Green Mountain Drive You should see Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum not up on the shows

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By Philip A. Janquart

NewSpace Magazine

 

Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 — In December 2009, over 800 members of the press gathered at Mojave Spaceport in California as Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShip Two, the company defining the spacecraft as the world’s first “spaceline.”

 

Scaled Composites, the company developing the craft for Virgin Galactic, completed its first glide test October 10. Meanwhile, Virgin is tentatively setting its first flight with paying customers for 18 months from now. Private citizens will experience a five- to six-minute suborbital flight before returning and landing, presumably safely, at Spaceport America in White Sands, New Mexico.

 

When it does, space tourism will no longer be a distant dream: it will be reality and the fact that companies are jockeying for position in the fledgling space tourism industry has caused something of a private space race, though not many would characterize the state of the industry quite that way.

 

After all, haste makes waste; or, rather, accidents.

 

“It’s going to happen, it’s just a matter of when,” said engineering professor Donald Plumlee, referring to an almost unspoken rocket engineering truth: accidents are inevitable.

 

“I love the idea of commercial space flight, but it’s a risky venture because there are a lot of opportunities for something going wrong,” he said. “I think commercial spaceflight will be great at first and then there will be an accident. I hate to say that, but there probably will be. The question is: what will happen at that point?”

 

But many aren’t aware, or have already forgotten, that an accident has occurred, at the cost of three lives. On July 26, 2007, about 18 months before Sir Richard Branson and engineer Burt Rutan unveiled SpaceShip Two, three Scaled Composites employees died during a rocket oxidizer cold-flow test.

 

The accident didn’t seem to do much to slow the industry’s progress, but what if an event comparable to the Challenger or the Columbia were to happen? Plumlee feels he sees the writing on the wall.

 

Clay Morgan is a writing professor at Boise State University. He did research for Excalibur Almaz, working on their marketing plan, and he knows the story of space tourism is just beginning.

 

“I think the first tourists, their training will be so intense and inclusive that they and their families will be aware of the risk,” said Morgan, who is the author of “Shuttle-Mir: The United States and Russia Share History’s Highest Stage.”

 

“I know at Excalibur Almaz, we were talking about that (accidents) and an astronaut crew – my wife (Barbara Morgan) was an astronaut – accepts the risk years before they fly. But if a major accident happens, it will be a major blow to the industry for sure. But, if competition remains, the people who still want to go will be able to.”

 

There are, however, facts that suggest the risks associated with spaceflight won’t be quite as dramatic as it has been for military or government flights.

 

“There was a lot of hard-won knowledge in the 50′s and ‘60′s and a lot of the things they put in rockets are things they learned the hard way over the years,” said Plumlee, who also worked for Lockheed Martin on structural airframes for the Atlas rocket. “The basic structure of the Atlas was derived from the Redstone rocket and was modified over the years to become an ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile) in the ‘60′s. Then, I think, they mothballed it when the space shuttle came about. But after the Challenger blew up, they still needed a path to space, so they went back and redesigned it.”

 

Morgan testified that proven technology is the foundation upon which most companies in the space tourism industry are building their programs.

 

“The shuttle is a 1960′s, 1970′s design,” he said. “The avionics have changed, they just changed the insides. Excalibur Almaz already has Russian technology they know works.”

 

And, companies like Scaled Composites, Boeing, Armadillo Aerospace and Xcore Aerospace are taking advantage of that hard-won knowledge, hiring veterans of space flight technology, such as Leroy Chiao, a former NASA astronaut who is now Excalibur Almaz’ executive vice president and director. Chiao has an impressive resume, having served as commander of Expedition X aboard the International Space Station (ISS) among his many other assignments.

 

Morgan has confident in the private space industry and even alludes to a very bright future.

 

To read the entire story, log on to www.newspacemagazine.com

 

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Books, TV and the Internet are awash with small business advice. But if your company is not as successful as you’d like it to be where do you start?

If you are looking for the Holy Grail, a particular nugget of information that will transform your enterprise in to something Richard Branson would be proud of, maybe you’re looking in all the wrong places!

Because sometimes when a small company is not going so well, a question is the answer you’re looking for.

The questions that owners ask themselves are critical to the extent that it may determine their success or failure. For example, you may get some advice that you need to spend more on marketing or spend your marketing budget differently when in actual fact if you asked and answered deeper questions such as:

* Do my customers really want what I’m selling?
* Are we an attractive company to do business with?
* Is it clear what we do for customers?
* Am I clear about what makes us unique?
* Have I got the right business model?

you may realize there is little point reconsidering your marketing strategy when you haven’t quite got your basic building blocks in place.

Questions can be revealing which is why they are a key tool used by business coaches. In fact, this is one of the major benefits of coaching because your coach will not only ask you the difficult questions, they will also give you an honest answer to your own questions (unlike friends and family who often don’t want to offend you!).

When enterprise owners get used to asking themselves deeper more difficult questions, they are far more likely to find the real answers.

Yes, educating yourself with all the resources on TV, in books and on the Internet is enormously beneficial to your organization, but you also need to make sure you’re not missing the blindingly obvious. Don’t go searching for the Holy Grail when the real answer (and the very best small business advice) is right here on your doorstep – the asking of better questions.

Very often the question is the answer!

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Is there a magic ingredient or proven recipe for leadership success? Or; is there one answer to the question “what makes a good leader?” There is an abundance of leadership books available at the local bookshop, each book selling the authors own, unique, recipe for leadership success.

If a single, proven recipe for making a good leader existed, then all people would look to the same role model; however, some people look to Richard Branson while others aspire to emulate the style of Jack Welch or even Mother Theresa.

Most aspiring leaders will identify a role model, a successful leader who they aspire to be like, someone whose books they read and whose stories they tell.

With an increasing diversity of books and reference material on leadership becoming available, the challenge becomes selecting the type of leader we aspire to learn from, someone whom we should to strive to model our beliefs and behaviours on.

How can do we choose the right role model?

Choosing the right can be difficult especially when our research quickly identifies good leaders with such diverse attributes as Richard Branson, Jack Welch and Mother Theresa.

When I ask people to identify a good leader, they always surprise me with who they choose, and their reasons for doing so. My advice is to select a few leaders to be your role models. As a minimum, choose one who appeals to you and one who was successful in your filed.

Note: Good Leaders Achieve Results

However, instead of looking at the person or personality, the path to success becomes more apparent when we focus on what a good leader achieves. A good leader achieves results, Richard Branson, Jack Welch and Mother Theresa all delivered results in their field and they did so because of the attributes that they do have in common.

All good leaders all have the attributes of passion, persistence and resilience in common.

Passion

Good leaders are passionate about what they are doing; they not only seek to be good leaders but also to continually learn more about their field.

Sales Example:

If the good leader is in a sales environment, they will seek to maintain their knowledge of sales and customer service, keeping abreast of contemporary research, the latest thinking and trends within their industry or in other industries. This knowledge is detailed process knowledge, which will enable the good leader to discuss sales with their employees.

If you discover that you could improve the sales experience if your employees gently touch the customer’s hand as they return the customer’s credit card or change, then you will never stop talking about it.

You will be persistent about the things that are important for your business.

Manufacturing example:

If the leader is in a manufacturing environment, they will be passionate about the products manufactured by the business and/or the final product that uses your components.

A manufacturing leader will also be passionate about the moment of truth; that point in time where the customer receives the benefit from using your product.

(Sales folk should also be passionate about their business and the products they sell)

How to be passionate:

To be passionate you need to prioritise and allocate time to

1. discussing your business, its processes and products with your employees

2. seeking customer feedback directly, don’t rely on reports and survey results3. investigating best practices within and outside your industry

The passion cycle

The passion cycle builds: as you acquire more knowledge from your customers and your best practice research you will use this knowledge when talking to your employees, they will feed on your passion and inturn their passion will build

.As your employee’s passion builds, they will start to source relevant product or process information and will begin sharing the information with you.

Together you will build a passionate organisation.

Persistence

Why persistence?, because you will hit roadblocks, people will put obstacles up in front of you and even when you are hitting home runs it may take some time for the results to show.

When you first start talking to your employees, (Management by Walking Around) about your processes or your research they will not respond to you. Some of your employees will be cold others will preach failure, however you will need to be persistent.

It may take 6 weeks for the early adopters, (First employees to respond positively) to respond to your passion and even longer for the rest of your employees.

Resilience

Resilience is a personal quality that comes with confidence, experience and achievements.

Resilience is;

1. Knowing that you will be successful, no matter what happens, what challenges you face or if you have an occasional failure, you pick yourself up and try again.

2. Holding steady – once you have your plan people will start to tell you why it will not work, once you start a change initiative people will tell you that it is not working.

3. Holding your nerve, keeping your faith and continue selling the vision.

4. Never loosing your passion

5. Never loosing you persistence

You can now see that it does not matter which leader you select as your role model. Passion, persistence and resilience are the mandatory required traits of a good leader where a good leader is someone who delivers results.

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Question by Quinn R: I love a girl to death. She doesn’t love me. PLZ ANSWER MY QUESTION!?
Yesterday and today, our youth at church went to Branson, MO. At Celebration City I hung out with her, her step-sister, and my friend. Ashley, her sister, is trying to help us get back together for a year, now. (fyi I am 12 She is 13. We dated for 6 years. On March 17 of last year, she dumped me.) Today, We all went to Branson Landing. Summer( The Girl )Ashley, And myself All hung out. It was literally the best 2 days of my life. last night I CRIED! because I couldent rewind that day. She even flirted with me( i think )PLZ Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Answer by brad c
Find someone who it nice and likes you.

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