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Articles by Art Fettig
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Sound Bites by Art Fettig
Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what we know that gets us in trouble, its what we know that just ain’t so.” I can’t figure how I survived in my career as a professional speaker […]
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Safety Is Our #1 Priority…Almost
Sounds good, doesn’t it? Looks good too in print on the list of corporate objectives but it doesn’t bring in those multi-million dollar bonuses to Corporate presidents or CEO’s.. Cutting costs, making profits, paying dividends, […]
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And the flow goes on – Art Fettig Talks About the BP Oil Spill
The BP Oil Spill – It is Friday afternoon and BP just announced that the current flow of oil into the Gulf is double that earlier estimated. And you know something, that is just what […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]