So, this March Madness season has been humbling for me. As a “self proclaimed” basketball expert, it pains me to say all my selections were eliminated from the tournament before the Final Four. I will finish in the lowest 10 percent of all participating. I bow to you all. It’s been a great tournament filled […]
Posted by Howe Q. Wallace on Friday, April 5th, 2013 in Safety
Tom Lucas sells treated lumber to export customers and he shared a safety note he saw when visiting a shipping company, Crowley Transport, in Jacksonville, Florida. The port operations manager, Doug Walker, has this on the back of his business card: Safety: It’s Not Silent. I wish I had thought of it. I can imagine […]
Posted by Howe Q. Wallace on Thursday, April 4th, 2013 in Motivational
One of our colleagues, Doug McLaulin, shared this with me: “Imagine that you had won the following prize in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400.00 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules, just as any game has certain rules. The first set of rules would be: Everything […]
Posted by Howe Q. Wallace on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 in Communication
In the heat of the moment! If you made a list of the profoundly regrettable actions you have taken, how many of them came “in the heat of the moment?” I was reading an article on “self control” yesterday and the simple advice provided by the author Randy Conley was to avoid acting “in the […]
