2011 Eddy Currents
Tips For Getting Your Project Approved
By Heather Stagl
Unfortunately, not everyone in your organization has the same understanding or feels as strongly as you do that your project should be implemented—whether it is the entire change initiative, or an enabler such as training or software. While some projects might fly under the radar in the beginning, at some point someone with power has to say “Yes, let’s do this” for the project to continue.
The following tips are compiled from my many years as an industrial engineer, when one of my key responsibilities was to justify both capital and human capital projects to gain approval by the leadership team.
Did You Know Emotional Words Affect Our Judgment?
By H. Bernard Wechsler
Did You Know Emotional Verbs We Read Affect Our Judgment?
So What
How important is persuading, influencing and convincing folks to your career and relationships? For me it hits 99% because we are social animals and work with others or present what we accomplish to others. Get this: seeing someone or an audience Smile, Laugh or Frown triggers the muscles in our own face to duplicate their emotional expression.
10 Facts About You
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1. You’re reading my comment
2. Now you’re thinking that’s a stupid fact
4. You didn’t notice that I skipped 3
5. You’re checking it now
6. You’re smiling
7. You’re still reading my comment
8. You know all you have read is true
10. You didn’t notice I skipped 9
11. You’re checking now
12. You didn’t notice there are only supposed to be 10 facts
The 3D Manufacturing Revolution
By Jim Pinto
The industrial revolution ofthe late 18th century brought the mass production of goods and created economies of scale which changed the economy and society in ways that nobody could have imagined at the time.
Now a new manufacturing technology is emerging which does the opposite. Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands and thus undermines economies of scale. It will have as profound an impact on the world as the factory did.
Most of today’s manufacturing is “subtractive” — it trims chunks of material to required shapes — cutting, grinding, shaving, trimming. Then the parts are assembled into final products.
It's Okay for Things to Be Easy
By Mike Robbins
A friend of mine called me out on something important last week. He said, “Mike, this ‘story’ you have about things being ‘hard’ for you isn’t really true. It seems to me that things come pretty easy, you just make them hard by saying they are. What if you started saying and owning that certain things come easy to you?”
As I heard him say this, I had a mixture of emotions and reactions. First of all, I felt grateful (I love having people in my life who are willing to call me out, even if my ego gets a little bent out of shape in the process). Second of all, I felt defensive and noticed that I wanted to justify myself against his challenge. Third of all, I felt a sense of fear and resistance to the idea of things coming “easy” to me.
Punch Lines
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- Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
- Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
- Don’t drive as if you own the road, drive as if you own the car.
- No matter how hard you try, you can’t baptize cats.
- Families are like fudge… mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
Rules of Flight
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- Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory.
- If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
- Flying isn’t dangerous. Crashing is what’s dangerous.
- It’s always better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here.
- The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you’re on fire.
Recovering from Burnout and Finding Fulfillment at Work
By Sonia Gallagher, JD, Certified Life Coach
If you find that you are on your way to burnout or already suffering from burnout symptoms, there are things you can do to work against it. One of the most effective things you can do to fight burnout is to create fulfillment at work. This has a very large effect on you because we spend many hours of our day at our jobs or business.
The following list includes suggestions you can implement to find more fulfilment at work.
Safe-Driving Strategies for Teens (and the rest of us)
By William Van Tassel, PhD
Most teens start off with used small cars. These can be major money savers in that insurance is typically lower, dings and dents don’t devalue the vehicle as much, and the gas savings can be as much as 50% or more compared with full-size sedans. However, small cars also tend to be riskier than larger vehicles, with fatality rates more than twice as high as those of gas guzzlers. Here are some tips to help your teen make small-car driving as safe as possible.
Buck Fever: Part 1
By Barry Jenkins
Collins English Dictionary: Complete and Unabridged, describes “Buck Fever” this way. buck fever Noun 1. Nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter. Fever – intense nervous anticipation; “in a fever of resentment.”
Paul McFedries – The Word Lover’s Guide to New Words as (BuK fee.vur) n. A phenomenon that causes heart attacks in out-of-shape hunters who get overly excited from sighting or shooting deer, or overexert themselves dragging a killed deer out of the woods.
ZigBee does the "Waggle" dance for Wireless Networks
The name ZigBee was inspired by none other than the Bee. Bees perform a “dance” known as the waggle to communicate to other bees in the hive. They are able to share information with the other bees as to where they found food (how far it is from the hive and in what direction). Bees work in a system much like a network, sharing information. Much like the bees, ZigBee focuses on distributing information among its different devices to form a mesh network. ZigBee is a wireless technology designed for small systems targeted at radio frequency applications.
