“If anything can go wrong, it will” Murphy’s Law

Murphy’s Law is often quoted in life as well as in business. It implies the truism that seldom does everything turn out perfectly. All the planning in the world can’t prevent the unexpected from happening. We can’t control the unexpected. But we can control our attitude toward it. We can view situations negative or positive, as a problem that gets in the way of our business, or positively, as a chance to look at a situation and solve it creatively.

In the Chinese language, the symbol for the word problem translates into the word opportunity. In the view of many successful leaders, we have no problems, just opportunities for change. While we might quarrel with this outlook, the point is that as individuals we can approach most “problems” with a positive mindset and view them as challenges to be dealt with proactively. Identifying problems and solving them are important skills for people who are faced with dilemmas that require judgments every day. We must begin to ask ourselves why it’s important to use strategies that can be used to solve problems, and what can make your problem solving efforts more productive.

Conflict: A Modern Perspective

Learning to manage conflict is a critical investment in improving how we, our families, and our organizations adapt and take advantage of change. Managing conflicts well does not insulate us from change, nor does it mean that we will always come out on top or get all that we want. However, effective conflict management helps us keep in touch with new developments and create solutions appropriate for new threats and opportunities. Much evidence shows we have often failed to manage our conflicts and respond to change effectively. High divorce rates, disheartening examples of sexual and physical abuse of children, the expensive failures of international joint ventures, and bloody ethnic violence have convinced many people that we do not have the abilities to cope with our complex interpersonal, organizational, and global conflicts.

Bill Gates…...The Ultimate Realist!!

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!


Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school.


He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.


Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity..

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listenin g to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.