Entropy Made Me Do It!

Nobody likes change – but today I explain why change is irresistible!! 1. The universe is a lazy place…. If it could sit instead of stand, it would – if it could lie down instead of sit, then it would lie down… it is like ‘a river flowing down through caverns measureless to man’. This is explained by the second law of thermodynamics which states that that THE ENTROPY OF THE UNIVERSE IS ALWAYS INCREASING, or the tidiness of the universe is decreasing.

The Perfect Vee – Reflections in Water

As I was driving home from dropping my daughter at dance. The Salish sea was close to sheet glass smooth. A single boat made its way north to desolation sound or some point north. It's bow cleaved a perfect vee of a bow wave, which tailed behind the boat spreading across the entire Malsapina strait. …

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Survival

When I was a young and naive process engineer I was snapped up to be a shift supervisor in a mill. this was a fabulous experience and opportunity to learn and grow. I felt lucky to have been plucked from technical to operations, into the hurly burly and 24/7 production pressure, and the overtime was …

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Meeting Meetings Everywhere

Do you remember a bad meeting? I suspect that you do. We have all been in them; a time waste land that dragged on for hours with no clear outcomes, started late, too many people and too many rat holes. As a result some leaders will slide out the door like quick silver at the …

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