From Owen D. Young (U.S. motivational speaker):  ”There is a single reason why 99 out of 100 average businesspeople never become leaders.  That is their unwillingness to pay the price of responsibility.  By the price of responsibility I mean hard driving, continual work… the courage to make decisions, to stand the gaff… the scourging honesty [...]

Congratulations to all who passed the April 2011 Professional Engineering exam.  If you took the test, and did not pass – what will you do now?  Please consider taking the test again.  Work to learn from your past experience and succeed the next time.   Here are some encouraging words from TV personality Mr. Pat [...]

I love the word “Yes.”  Have you ever thought about how beautiful the word is?  Sometimes I ask people, “What is the most beautiful word in the English language?”  To me, it’s “yes”.  It’s even continuant.  It goes on forever. Yessssssss. “No” is the end of the line.  When you say “no,” that shuts the [...]

How should you motivate others?  With a cheerleader’s rallying cry?  Through a Knute Rockne “one for the Gipper” speech? Via fear, carrot dangling, or force of cutthroat competition? The surprise answer is, none of the above.  People must motivate themselves.  You, however, can create an environment where self-motivation is not only possible, but probable.  Your [...]

“COMMON SENSE” is common only because it’s the way most of us approach the process of decision making.  Practical thinking means coloring within the lines and solving problems the way everyone else solves problems.  So our solutions are probably the same old solutions everyone else comes up with – and probably are not solutions at [...]

Q:  How many executives does it take to change a light bulb? A:  None. We contract out for things like that. A:  One, but he needs two outside consultants to help. A:  One to spot the burned-out bulb and issue the requisition, a requisition typist, 12 clerks to file requisition copies, a mail clerk to [...]