Art Fettig

Dodging Bullets

September 6, 2010 Art Fettig 1

As our North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue recently put it so well, here in North Carolina we just dodged another bullet. Hurricane Earl came and went and most of us here in North Carolina are […]

Inspiration

August 31, 2010 Art Fettig 0

I went to a yard sale and picked up a half a dozen Og Mandino books for just $3. I read five of them already and I was reminded of a conversation I had with […]

What is Hazardous?

August 16, 2010 Art Fettig 0

Forty years ago as I began working outside the railroad industry I sat down and made a little survey. I was seeking an answer to the question, “What industry is the most hazardous?” I just […]

AA Almost Andy

August 9, 2010 Art Fettig 0

I have a sort of an anniversary coming up on August 13th. The other night I did two thirty minute stand up comedy shows here in Hillsborough and a friend said to me, “Do you […]

Today the process of mentoring is quite popular but in the very early seventies when Herb True a professor at Notre Dame University first began mentoring me even the word “mentor” was not in common […]

Which Came First

July 26, 2010 Art Fettig 1

I was watching the end of an Andy Griffith Show and Andy was walkin with his son Opie down a trail and they both had fishin’ poles and Andy was whistling their theme song. The […]

Whatever is Special

July 19, 2010 Art Fettig 0

I got up early for an early appointment with my eye doctor and as I was driving east on Interstate 40 in fairly heavy traffic it suddenly dawned on me that many of the drivers […]

BP People

July 12, 2010 Art Fettig 1

Sometimes when I get mad at a big corporation I forget that there are a lot of fantastic, wonderful, caring people who work for that organization. Perhaps you have done that in the past too. […]

My 81st

July 5, 2010 Art Fettig 4

Eighty One years old today and just what have I learned in that time? Not a whole lot. I can’t understand the war in Afghanistan. I can’t figure out how BP did such a rotten […]

Sound Bites by Art Fettig

June 27, 2010 Art Fettig 0

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 […]