I love to give away prizes. I love to see the comments as you share your posts about the articles I post on Youngdashboard. The # of posts for the win was 35 on “thought starter ifferisms”. We recieved to 32 comments. So I will place other incentives our there to share your thoughts and byRead More

    “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominateRead More

Please try this. Just take 5 minutes, set your phone alarm for 5 minutes and think about this for 5 minutes. Ready? Have you set your watch, your phone alarm for 5 minutes?   Now think about this…… 1. What does the best look like in your lives?          In our business?          In our department?          InRead More

“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones,     there is always another chance for you.”  -Mary Pickford       Pickford added, “What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.” She might have been inspired by an ancient Chinese proverb: “If you get up one more time than you fall, you willRead More

The Catfish story Let me tell you a story of the cod fish. At the turn of the century cod fish were in much demand on the east coast. News of this tasty fish spread across the country all the way to the west coast. There was however a problem. How could they get theRead More

Codfish and Catfish A number of years back the codfish industry on the northeast coast of the US had a problem. The fresher the fish the better. So how could they keep the codfish fresh while they transported them across the country? When they froze the fish they lost too much flavor. When they transportedRead More

The catfish effect is the effect that a strong competitor has in causing the weak to better themselves. Actions done to actively apply this effect in an organization, is termed catfish management. In Norway, live sardines are a few times more expensive than frozen ones. It was said that only one ship could bring live Sardine home, and the ship master keptRead More

The Main thing is keeping the Main thing the Main thing.   What do you think the “Main thing” is?   Let me know your comments and then I will give you what I think “the Main thing” is.   Have a great start to the week and make BIG things happen. sysr

“If you treat men the way they are, you never improve them.     If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.”   -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe       These words–presented in slightly different ways in different translations–come from a character in Goethe’s 1795 masterpiece, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, but they almost certainly representRead More

The story is told of a young man who approached Socrates as he sat by a lake. The young man told Socrates he would do anything to gain the wisdom Socrates possessed.     After a moment, Socrates stood up and motioned for the young man to follow him. He walked into the lake until he wasRead More