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Consider membership in the AITP

Association of Information Technology Professionals

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Click below to view some of the benefits of the AITP and Technology career:

http://www.cbt.nsuok.edu/majors/is/aitp.swf

Not the Critic Who Counts (Quotes when you have time to think…)

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

~ Teddy Roosevelt

“Achieving competitive success through people involves fundamentally altering how we think about the work force and the employment relationship. It means achieving success by working with people, not by replacing them or limiting the scope of their activities. It entails seeing the work force as a course of strategic advantage, not just as a cost to be minimized or avoided. Firms that take this different perspective are often able to successfully outmaneuver and outperform their rivals.”

~ Jeffrey Pfeffer in Competitive Advantage Through People

"The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these free States, nearly all are educated--quite too nearly all, to leave the labor of the uneducated, in any wise adequate to the support of the whole. It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor. Otherwise, education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil. No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive."
~Abraham Lincoln (from the September 30, 1859 address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society)

“The only way to grow is to treat customers so well they come back for more, and tell their friends about us. That’s how we’d all like to be treated as customers…Golden Rule behavior is the basis for loyalty. And loyalty is the key to profitable growth.”

~Andy Taylor CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car

"Fix Reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than of blindfolded fear. ... Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it end in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others which it will procure for you"

~Thomas Jefferson (to his nephew Peter Carr -- Jefferson's Works, Vol. ii., p. 217)

“Finally the single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer, … inside an enterprise their only cost centers. Results exist only on the outside.”

~Peter Drucker “Management and the World’s Work” 1988

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world”

~ C.S. Lewis

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life, which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

~Henry David Thoreau from Walden

“There is a new technology here that is going to transform every kind of enterprise and every kind of interaction. But please understand that this technology—like any other technology—is a tool. It is not a secret weapon or a panacea. It has not suspended the basics of marketplace economics or consumer behavior. And the winners will be found among the institutions that skip the shortcuts and understand that e-business is just business. It is about real, disciplined, serious work. And for those willing to do the unglamorous labor of transforming a process, unifying a supply chain, or building a knowledge-based corporate culture, it will deliver tangible and sustainable benefits.”

~Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. from Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance: Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround

“It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.”
~Gerald R. Ford

“Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’”

“The more inventory a company has, the less likely they will have what they need.”

“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”

“The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around” (not exact phrase)

“Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.”

~ Taiichi Ohno (1912 - 1990)

(Considered to the be the Father of the Toyota Production System and early perfector of lean production systems)

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."

~Alvin Toffler

“Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival.”

~W. Edwards Deming

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