Corporate Lessons from An Engineer

So, we will be going through change
Here’s three lessons from large corporations to help you survive change….

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day.

A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?”
The crow answered: “Sure, why not.”

So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested.

All of a sudden, a fox appeared,

Jumped on the rabbit… and ate it.

Moral of the story is….
To be sitting and doing nothing
you must be sitting very, very high up.

A turkey was chatting with a bull.
“I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, “but I haven’t got the energy.”

“Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings?” replied the bull. They’re packed with nutrients.”

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree.
The next day, after eating more dung, he reached the second branch.
Finally after a fortnight, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree

Soon he was spotted by a farmer
Who promptly shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story:
Bullshit might get you to the top,
but it won’t keep you there.

A little bird was flying south for the winter.

It was so cold, the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field.

While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it.
As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realise how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out!

He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.

A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.
Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him!

The morals of this story are:
1) Not everyone who drops shit on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you’re in deep shit, keep your mouth shut

E-Trade Show

A virtual reality trade show

Yesterday I got an email from my officemate about this tradeshow, and he had showed me how this thing works. At first I thought E-tradeshow is not a possibility. I wonder how the system will handle the interactions; between the visitor and booth exhibitor; view exhibitor’s products, and watch slide presentation, but they just did. One nice thing about this E-tradeshow is the feature of instant messeger which you can also make a voice chat. I strongly suggest you guys to try this one.

Free Seminar: OIL FILLED TRANSFORMER MANAGEMENT

As we do often, providing free technical seminars, we will be having another free seminar this coming week and this is about OIL FILLED TRANSFORMER MANAGEMENT. The venue is at ISO Conference Room, Day Star Industrial Park, Sta. Rosa City (Infront of Toyota Motors’ Main Gate. Just on the opposite road) on April 28, 200; 1 pm.

This seminar covers the following topics:

Module 1. Guide in Reliability Testing of solid insulations
Module 2. Maintenance, Diagnosing and Reliability testing of transformer
Module 3. Video Showing “Over Hauling of 10MVA, 34.5kV on load tap changer

And also, please be informed that his is first come, first serve basis. We can only accommodate just enough members to fill the conference room. So guys, check you schedule now, and if you are free, register now by sending reservation on the email addresses listed below:

Jozane: jozane.jalbuena@toyota.com.ph
Cel no:0918 907 6632

March: march.matienzo@fluor.com
Cel no: 0920 922 4303

vicinity map (click the image to download)

 

This seminar is sponsored by: (————-)

 

 

 

What does it take to become a Professional Electrical Engineer (PEE)?

“Good day sir, all REE in the long run will indeed make their way becoming a PEE’s. As an REE, I would like to ask samples of the Thesis/Technical Paper “titles” that were submitted and approved by the BEE so that we the REE’s can start and create our titles of ever we have proposal to the PRC/BEE. May your support for the REE to become PEE if deserving be favorable. Your Response would jumpstart a long way.”

NLC Celebrates 2nd Anniversary

“I was right. I was really right endorcing Northern Laguna as a Chapter.” This what was said by Engr. Jupiter Gonzales, former IIEE Region IV governor when he deliver his speech on NLC’s second year anniversary.

Leadership secrets from Attila the Hun

For so long, I’ve been fascinated by life story of Attila the Hun not because of his military genius but because of the many leadership thoughts accounted to him. This slide is about Attilaisms or leadership traits of Attila based on the book of Wess Roberts and as quoted in Electrical Engineering Magazine in 1996. But of course this article then was meant, as it said on the magazine, to develop traits of a chapter leader; but I realize this could be also adopted by engineers as a leadership model when taking a charge on a project. I’ve been a manufacturing engineer before and attended different seminars on leadership but still, that sort of management theory is my favorite.

HR Officers and Engineers

The First …

Eleven people were dangling below a helicopter on a rope. There were ten HR people and one engineer. Since the rope was not strong enough to hold all the eleven, they decided that one of them had to let go to save all the others.

Engineer vs Management

Once upon a time, a man in a hot air balloon realized that he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted. “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

What else can engineers do?

An engineer dies and reports to the Pearly Gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says: “Ah, you’re an engineer, but you worked for a high-tech startup company and got rich. You’ve had too good of a life, so now you can’t come in here.” So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer is dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements.

Women as Explained by Engineers

 

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