MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES Every few years business leaders celebrate the birth of "new" management techniques and new gimmicks that promise to solve employee, customer and product quality problems. It's as if new were synonymous with better.…
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GRANDMA HAS THE BRUSH Dad telephoned his home. His teenage son answered. "What are you doing, Son?" "I'm just lying here in the living room watching television." "Where is your mom?" "She's out painting the…
PRESIDENT DOES THE GOOD STUFF A foreign leader is about to arrive at the White House. The flags of the visiting nation ripple down Pennsylvania Avenue. Secretary of State James Baker hurries into the Oval…
SUPPRESSING THOUGHTS Pennebaker writes: All of my research suggests that the best way to get out of it is to not try to suppress the thoughts. Confront them by writing about them and talking about…
LIFE PLAYED BACKWARDS Life is tough. It takes a lot of your time, All your weekends, And what do you get at the end of it? ...Death, a great reward. I think that the life…
FORGIVENESS LIST When Louis XII became king of France he had a list made of all those who had been his enemies and persecutors in the years before he obtained the throne. Before each of…
LEVERAGE IS Leverage is having something the other guy wants. Or better yet, needs. Or best of all, simply can't do without. Donald J. Trump, Leadership Quotes
GETTING LARGER CROWDS Sir Winston Churchill had just made a speech. And the large crowd had stood and applauded. A woman walked up and said to him: Sir, isn't it flattering that so many have…
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POLITICS IS Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx
GOD HAS CHILDREN God loved the things he had made. But he had no children to share them with him. In all the earth, there was no one like himself, no one to say, "How…
TRANSCENDERS There was a report in the newspaper about a psychologist's study of "transcenders." These transcenders were children, who lived through impossible childhoods and went on to become successful. They "transcended" their surroundings, and refused…
PARENTAL PRACTICES As so many abused children learn, without forgiving those who hurt us, we cannot free ourselves from the grip of history... I have a friend whose marriage has gone through rough times. One…
BEING A BOY AGAIN Dagwood comes in the house holding his injured hand and tells Blondie, "I cut my finger." Blondie says, "You'd better put something on it right away." With a pained look on…
GOD AS A STUDENT There's no poorer, lowlier, and more despised pupil on earth than God. He must be everybody's disciple. Everybody wants to be his schoolmaster and teacher. Martin Luther
SALARY SECURITY The personnel manager said to the job applicant: "We keep salaries low so you won't have so much to lose if you get fired." Anonymous author
WHY ONE WIFE? A thirteen-year-old girl in Kansas City asked her Pastor-father, "Why can't a man have more than one wife?" Her daddy, the Reverend Parker Dailey, told her to open her Bible to Matthew…
A CONTRAST FROM GRACIOUS FATHERS During this time, too, I first noticed that my father was not like other men who came to our house, for he was always grave and quiet, and had little…
HAPPINESS NOW People seem to believe that they have an inalienable right to be happy -- "I want what I want and I want it now." No one wants to wait for anything and, for…
WOULD IT BE CHEATING? A pair of golfers sliced their drives deep into the rough and went in search of their errant golf balls. The grass was high, the trees were thick, and tempers flared…
UNSIGNED CARDS A really good friend is someone who mails you an unsigned birthday card -- so you can mail it to someone else on short notice. Anonymous author
