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Unlearning
“Learn to unlearn.” Benjamin Disraeli. I had a friend named Ray Motsavatge and he was a memory expert. Every week he would memorize the entire current issue and then he would tear up the magazine […]
Year: 2010
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Automatic Learning
I went to a five family yard sale out in the country today. It was about eight miles from my home. For two dollars I purchased a Sears Solid State Cassette Recorder in perfect condition. […]
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Selling Safety in Corporate America
If you don’t toot your horn then who will? One of the many schemes I employed when I worked for a corporation was to team up with a fellow who headed a different department. We […]
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Little Things Mean A Lot
When you get down to the nitty gritty at that tragedy at BP oil disaster recently and lay all of the evidence on a scale, it took a whole lot of little things coming together […]
Weekly Memo
Loving what you do
Somewhere I read a study that suggested that there is a direct relationship between loving what you do and doing your work in a truly professional manner. In other words, if you find that you […]
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Do’s and Don’ts of Safety
When you cut all the way down to the quick then you might say that safety consists mostly with a whole mess of do’s and don’ts. When I began working for the railroad they had […]
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Discontent
Thomas Edison once said, “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” As I ponder this thought I look back and see that most of our world’s progress occurred because some folks, somewhere, had a burr […]
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Preparation and Rehearsal
Almost a century ago, well it was around 1957 actually, I took a Christopher Leadership Course which was a Dale Carnegie Course in disguise. It had a wonderful series of public speaking segments and the […]
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Working with Tragedy
I was looking for some humor for our humor section when I came upon the offering below. It is what I would call sick humor. That is, making light of a tragedy. At one point […]