In 1912, Otto Frederick Rohwedder an American inventor and engineer who created the first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial use. It was first used by the Chillicothe Baking Company.What a great idea: a simple machine that could...
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Don’t try to be the ‘next’
“Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.” -Seth Godin
John Francis "Jack" Welch is an American business executive, author, and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure...
WHEN TO STICK AND WHEN TO QUIT
“Think of those who, not by fault of inconsistency but by lack of effort, are too unstable to live as they wish, but only live as they have begun.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND,
In his book The Dip, Seth Godin draws an interesting analogy from the three types of people you see in line at the supermarket. One gets in a short line and sticks to it no matter how slow...