Month: January 2013
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Bizarre view of the world
This is like the early 19th Century view of the universe as a watch, the same argument that everyone uses to justify the use of Excel for every task. If all you have is a hammer, then everything is a nail.5. Every employee is a project managerProject management means having a mindset of systematic planning,…
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Death
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.Benjamin Franklin
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Perspective
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.Abraham Lincoln
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Snow Problem…
On a bitterly cold winters morning a husband and wife in Duluth were listening to the radio during breakfast…They heard the announcer say, “We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side of the street, so the snowplows can get through.” So the…
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A little girls plane ride
An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, “What would you…
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Leadership
It is not fair to ask of others what you, are not willing to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
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Perspective
Ladies, ladies, ladies! This is a scrimmage, this isn’t the last chopper out of Saigon, could we please crank down the drama a notch.Frank Kowchevski, Freaks and Geeks, Episode 11