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Domino’s first CEO, David Brandon, set a goal of changing the culture at the company. He introduced a new leadership training program and spoke directly with employees to find out what was wrong. It wasn’t long before Domino’s became a top workplace. When Doyle took over the company, he stuck with the core values that were established by Brandon and continued to encourage this line of communication.
A domino is a small, thumb-sized rectangular block of wood or plastic, with one side bearing an arrangement of dots resembling those on dice and the other blank or identically patterned. A complete set consists of 28 such blocks. Dominoes are used to play a variety of games, both positional and draw. In some games, only the ends of a domino that is connected to another are available for play; others allow additional tiles to be placed on the straddled ends of doubles or cross-ways in a layout. Dominoes are also used to construct shapes such as hearts and flowers, and to make patterns on the ground.
The most popular domino games in the West involve emptying a player’s hand while blocking opponents’ play. Some of these games, such as bergen and muggins, count points, while others such as matador and Mexican train determine the winner by counting the number of pips in each player’s losing hand.
In the past, dominoes were made from a range of materials including silver lip ocean pearl oyster shell (mother of pearl), bone, ivory or dark hardwood such as ebony with contrasting black or white pips inlaid or painted onto the edges of the tiles. More recently, domino sets have been made from polymer materials such as PVC and ABS. These offer a cheaper, durable alternative to natural materials.
When a domino is pushed, the potential energy stored in its pips converts to kinetic energy, giving the domino the push it needs to fall over. Once it falls, the rest of the dominoes in the line continue to move forward, converting their own potential energy into kinetic energy and pushing them over as well. This continues until all the dominoes in a domino game are finished falling.
Hevesh, who has more than 2 million YouTube subscribers, is a professional domino artist and works on impressive setups for movies, TV shows and events. She follows a process similar to the engineering-design approach: considering the theme or purpose of an installation, brainstorming images or words related to that theme, and then creating a design to match. When she has a design in mind, Hevesh creates a prototype to test the mechanics of it and then uses the results to create an entire setup. She then photographs the completed dominoes and posts them on her YouTube channel for viewers to enjoy.