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| WORDS OF WISDOM |
| Some random "Words of Wisdom" from various sources. A person's work is a portrait of oneself. The best helping hand I ever got was at the end of my own arm. Anyone who thinks the customer isn't important should try doing without him for a period of ninety days. Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose. The future is not a gift - it is an achievement. The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men or women to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. The world is moving so fast there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by someone doing it. My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there. Theodore Levitt of the Harvard Business School offers this observation on how to be an effective Manager: Most managers manage for yesterday's conditions, because yesterday is where they got their experiences and had their successes. But management is about tomorrow, not yesterday . Tomorrow concerns what should be done, not what has been done. "Should" is determined by the external environment - what competitors (old,new and potential) can and might do, the choices this will give customers, the rules constantly being made by governments and other players, demographic changes, advances in generalised knowledge and technology, changing ecology and public sentiments and the like. |