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On Incompetence Road: we stumble over people and processes; we get bogged down in problems' potholes and ruts.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 9, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

1.     There are lots of potholes where I drive and I listen to self-help CDs while I am driving.

2.     Business Contains Only 3 Things: People, Process, & Situations

Like roads, some Situations contain potholes.

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Business Contains Only 3 Things | Humour | Solutions & Opportunities | Thought Tweets

If you want to teach people how to drink water, don't stuff garden hoses down their throats.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 9, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Good things come in small packages.

Good education comes in small packages.

If you want to teach people how to drink water, provide them repeated opportunities to gain experience sipping from small, half-full drinking glasses.

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If you want to teach people how to drink water, bring the right tools...bring simple tools, like drinking glasses...no garden hoses...no fire hoses...no artesian well trackers or fancy 24-hour, on-demand pumps or state-of-the-art osmosis gizmos...

...just drinking glasses.

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The thicker the explanation, the less absorbent the message. It's like a paper-towel paradox.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 7, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

If it don't make sense and the explanations that follow make even less sense...methinks the person doth protest too much.

When you mess up a communication - stop, think, accept the burden of error, and speak concisely, with clarity.

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Communication: Improving Communication | Humour | Thought Tweets

In pre-historic times people who didn't listen got eaten...now they are able to roam the streets and work in offices.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 7, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Could it be 21st Century predators are a forgiving lot of creatures?

Could it be Darwin was wrong?

...survival of the fittest? ... or was it survival of the most adaptable? ... or is it survival of the least able to listen?

Assuming evolution is an accurate theory - and I'm not so sure about that any more - How many generations will it take for human ears to shrink and disappear through lack of use?

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Communication: Improving Communication | Humour | Thought Tweets

The only reason you are not a donkey is that your mother and father were not donkeys.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 7, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

1.     "The only reason you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father were not rattlesnakes." Dale Carnegie, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', (1939 - Toronto publication)

2.     Don't judge too harshly. Don't judge too quickly. Don't judge.

3.     ...in search of political correctness...Sure hope no donkeys are reading this.

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A coach transports people to where they want to go.

by Rick Baker
On Jul 6, 2014

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

That applies to sports stars. It also applies to people on a nice vacation.

Sometimes it applies in business...

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