Recognizing What’s Valuable: Doing your best. Giving your all.
“Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret to success.” – Sivananda Sarasvati
Losing Control: Whatever Happened to Transitions?
“How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clusters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times for I would never have picked this way for the world.” — Joseph Heller You remember them. As Webster describes, transitions are the
Denise’s Page: Against the Wind
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Besting the Real Competition: Set Your Company’s Standard of Excellence
"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself." – Anna James Enthusiasm is wonderful. Having confidence in yourself is a necessity. Believing in your company is a basic requirement of success. No team ever won a championship with a negative attitude. However, believing in yourself and your company doesn’t mean you must
The Best Definition of Leadership: Crime Doesn’t Pay (the Deductible)
Though the story seems like perfect fodder for a Dragnet episode, the following event is, well, just the facts. This is the city, Fort Worth, Texas. Doug Germany works here. He carries a clipboard. [Enter theme music – “Dum-de-dum-dum. Dum-de-dum-dum-dum …”] It’s 10 a.m., and the day at Craig’s Collision Center, on Beach Street, starts
The Best Definition of Leadership
No subject generates more discussion than the topic of leadership. The bookstores have shelves full of titles claiming to be the answer for how to become an outstanding leader. There are thousands of men and women who make their living conducting seminars and selling videotapes on superior leadership tactics. Many of the world’s most able
To a Happy New Year
It’s a new year. Your resolutions have been made. You have plans. You have goals. You have a list of accomplishments you hope to achieve.
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The Joy of Flight
It’s Your Decision
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.” – Elbert Hubbard
A Learning Experience
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty.” – Henry Ford