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Hi Bogden. This quote is one that needs some attention and study.
The first time I noticed that there were resorces yet undiscovered
was when I was thrust into an impossible situation. It was
me against the world with no money, no job and my only
investments were two houses I owned or rather the bank owned
and they were taking them back. Just before Christmas in
1982, laid off of my job at Conrail becuase of Ronald Reagan's
government cut back programs.
There was a deep recession
that resulted at the time and many Electrical Engineers in the
area were also being laid off at the same time, so everywherre
I went in Michigan, there were at least 100 other engineers
applying for one available job.
I took my avalable money that was left and enrolled into
an advanced management program in Detroit being taught
by some of the best high level managers in the industry.
There I spent the next 30 days at 12 hours a day learning
how to find a job. I finished the course
and still no job, and no money left.
I got a call from a company in Grand Haven Michigan from
a desparate president of a small company that made
power boat instruments. I had never designed a guage
for a power boat, but as we talked, sitting at a dinner
table at the Holiday Inn, I learned this job had been
held by a man who had a PHD in Electrical Engineering
as opposed to my BSEE. This man was fired for
not producing results. I took the job, completely
jumping off the deep end.
That night I woke up in a cold sweat and got dressed
at 3:00 am, and said to myself "I can't do this !" Then
I changed my mind and decided to go ahead and take
the Job as "Production Line Supervisor", but really I was
expected to fix the product, the product line and the
whole company which would go out of business in about
a month if something was not done.
I redesigned the product, installed a Quality control
department and Fixed the production line, saving
the company over 400,000 dollars in the first few
months. In the next few months, we were bought
by Kysor International, and I was promoted to
Director of Research, Where I went on to build a new
building and hire 20 engineers and 10 drafstman.
So where did these miraculous resorces I found
come from? How could I succeed when a more
qualified man could not? Was it within me or
from some external source? I don't think I
can truthfully take all the credit.
Robert
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