Thank you both for the additions to the Principle! Peter On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
> At 03:10 PM 9/6/2012, Terry Blanton wrote: > >> Gee, Peter, it brought a tear to my eye since it reminded me of how I >> treat my people. That guy was a great man! >> > > He was. Peter, you were lucky to know him, and it looks like he gave you a > gift beyond price. > > My professional career and my life followed and I have applied always, >> stubbornly, in all the cases, the Chief Engineer’s Principle. Sometimes I >> have succeeded sometimes not…and this was it. >> > > In the work I'm involved with, this is called being "cause in the matter." > It is not a "fact." It is a stand, here the stand of the Engineer who > accepts full responsibility for performance. > > "Possible" and "impossible" are just stories, intepretations, they are > neither true nor false. But when we declare that something will happen, > something happens, if we continue the stand and don't just give up at the > first excuse. What may seem impossible turns out to be possible, the > limitations were a limitation in imagination. From getting into action, > more possibilities appear, and some of them may be workable. > > The Engineer excises "Can't" from his or her vocabulary. "I don't know > how" is somewhat reasonable, but even that may be inauthentic. I might know > and don't know that I know, because I don't yet recognize the connection. > > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
