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When you cut all the way down to the quick then you might say that safety consists mostly with a whole mess of do’s and don’ts. When I began working for the railroad they had a big, thick rule book and the transportation people had to read and to write the entire rule book every [...]

May 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Nuggets, Weekly Memo

One day, many years ago,  I was talking with the president of our railroad and he gave me some priceless advice.  He said, “Art, if you hire one more employee you should not automatically believe that you will increase the amount or the quality of work you produce.  You might just be hiring someone for [...]

Mar 22nd, 2010 | Filed under Nuggets

When I approached this newsletter this morning there was this big blank space where an article was supposed to be and suddenly I had this weird impulse to just skip over to one of the books I am currently working on and dropping a whole book into this slot.  Or perhaps I might make an [...]

Feb 7th, 2010 | Filed under Nuggets