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 […]
Art Fettig
Nuggets
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 […]
Nuggets
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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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 […]
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Will Work For Food
Heck of a title, now what do I do with it? When I think of all of the long hours I have put in at my typewriter since I set out to be a writer […]
Nuggets
When More Is Less
One day, many years ago, I was talking with the president of our railroad and he gave me some priceless advice. He said, “Art, if you hire one more employee you should not automatically believe […]
Nuggets
Listening To Others
I’m reading a book about Billionaire Howard Buffet and he is quoted as saying, One does not have to be correct very many times in a life time; twelve investment decisions in my forty year […]
Nuggets
Publish or Perish
In academia there is a long standing understanding that professors must publish their works on a continuing basis if they expect to remain on the staff. In the railroad industry I won awards in 1964 […]
Weekly Memo
Almost Who?
I’ve been digging through some of the photos and mementos I have collected in over a half a century in the safety field and I started to realize that I have played a number of […]