OK, that was good.  Now touch the bottom of your foot to the inside of your other leg.  Good.  Now the other one.

Now put your feet on the floor and tap your toes up and down.  Good.

Now touch your thumb to each of your fingertips.  Good, now the other hand.

Now touch your index finger to mine and then touch your nose.  Good, now the index finger of your other hand.

The description of a new field sobriety test? 

Back to those 20 boxes you need to store, and the consideration of only two resources we need to manage at the moment, space and money.

We get a break – all 20 boxes are the same size and shape – a trucker’s dream.  This should be cinch.

In deciding to go horizontal, using lots of floor space, or to go vertical, using less, you, the manager have to make a decision that entails some considerations other than box size and shape.   You don’t get all the breaks.

Welcome to my effort to discover how my thoughts on management and leadership may have changed over the years.  I intend to write as a method of discovering new ideas as I resurrect the old.  I’m thinking it may be an interesting exercise, and it is all because a young man whom I recently met and worked with for a week has sparked the flame.  One just never knows where inspiration will come from. 

So, what’s this about management and leadership anyway?  There are surely enough books out the on the subject.  Too many, in my opinion.  Lots of rehash going on out there as writers and publishers rake it in. 

As a regular, almost continuous, volunteer at a local entity that conducts a number of large sporting events, I spent the last week as a volunteer at a PGA golf tournament.  I saw little golf, but couldn’t care less about that because I really don’t like golf, instead working my tailfeathers off for 9.5 hours a day in the Florida heat and humidity in a support area.  I heard lots of “How do you people stand it down here?” comments from apparently “northern” visitors, though two I remember specifically were very obviously visitors from Japan.  Funny, I’ve always thought of golf folk as “sunshine people.” 

In the way of surprises, I got one today, and it relates to one of my pet peeves. Actually, it is probably my number one peeve by along shot. When I think of it I can’t even remember what number two is.

Well, today, the reverse of it happened, and it shocked me so much, I backed up and made it happen again.

What was this momentous occasion?

Simple, really.

I called a doctor’s office this afternoon and got the usual machine on the either end, but THIS machine began with, “Please press one for Spanish…” !!!!

I never liked those test questions that included the phrases “What is the best…” or “What is the most important…”       

Now that I’m of age pretty much beyond testing (my tests are real life — I now avoid paper ones whenever possible), I see that same spirit pop up in various forum threads.