This woman has made a statement for all human kind.

 

My wife and daughter have both been stricken and overcome this dreadful disease. My daughter asked her medical doctor to perform preventative surgery twice. On the cancer threat and the BRCA1 gene she inherited from my wife and her family the doctor played GOD and denied her. It was less than four years later that she found her cancer and had the surgeries and the chemotherapy. The chemotherapy at the least could have been avoided and the trauma and fear inflicted on her young children could have been avoided.

The medical and insurance communities need to grow up and not be smug about their role in the lives of their patients

Thank you Angelina.

The time is now.

The more things change the more they stay the same. A common expression isn’t it? Well I also want to repeat that “continuing to do what you have always done while expecting different results is insanity.” We seem to have reached a level of social equilibrium in our parts businesses. We are continuing to do the same things and the results continue to be the same.

Isn’t it time we break out into new things?

We need talented people – so provide them training. Classroom training, webinars, self-study programs – either on the internet or from books are available at your suppliers, your business associations and other professional sources. Are you taking advantage of them?

The time is now.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 6 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

Another great quote is from Eleanor Roosevelt: a woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is, until she gets into hot water

The time is now.

In the last Musing we touched on Leadership. This subject is worth pursuing a bit further. Leaders rarely are born. People become a leader – they are given the role of a leader by their team members.  This is not something that is commonly believed. Many feel there is a “royal jelly” that is on some people. Well perhaps that is true sometime but in my experience it is rare. For example – some people are wonderful conversationalists in the eyes of other people at a party but typically this is the person that have listened the most. This is also true with leaders. Leaders rarely have to show off their position… they live it. They enjoy the success of their team members in fact they set the team members up to succeed.

They also become expert in their Industry. They are students of their Industry and are constantly learning. Who is growing sales and who is not? What new developments are there and where are the threats. They are constantly on the lookout for the new and the unexpected.

They are also constantly growing. They read obsessively. They are also involved in other activities from charities to schools and churches. They believe that the moment they stop growing will be the end of their leadership. You can see examples of these people in all walks of life. Are you a leader? The time is now.

After our first four months into the blogosphere and input from several respected people we are going to begin a more predictable and we hope a more useful structure for the blog.

We will continue with some of the staples such as Friday Folosophy and Book of the Week but we will begin to feature a Parts Blog, a Service, a Product Support Selling & Marketing Blog and a Management Blog. Each of them will be done weekly and will be on the same day each week. We hope you will enjoy and benefit from this new structure and we would welcome and thoughts you might have on it. The time is now.

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”    John Maynard Keynes.

We are captives to our upbringing and education and have a hard time both hearing opposing thoughts or thinking them. One of the few times I agree with Keynes. The time is now.

 

This is a wonderful site. Everyone has something they will find interesting on here. Check out Rory Sutherland. The time is now

 

“How can it be that institutions that serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed towards establishing them?

Carl Menger

The time is now

All good things must come to an eventual end. I am on the road again this week. The time is now.