Category: Fettig, Art
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Make a Circle
One of my favorite illustrations for a speech was asking the audience to make a circle with their thumb and their index finger. Hold it right up there.
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Old Stuff
The other day I was looking for a couple of audio tapes I made several years ago where I talked about a couple of my inspirational books. In my search I discovered two big boxes filled with old stuff. There was a copy of my Award Winning Railroad Crossing Safety film strip with an audio…
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History Lesson – by Art Fettig
The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way the first railways were built in England, and the first US railroads were built by English expatriates.
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Catch Them Doing Something Right – By Art Fettig
In 1988 I had the honor of being the Early Morning Speaker at the National Safety Congress at McCormick Place in Chicago. One of the points I tried to make was that the best way to get people working safely is to catch them working safely and compliment them on it. Throughout the twentieth century…
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Edison the Salesperson – by Art Fettig
Did you know that Thomas Edison began his business career selling newspapers, candy and fruit as a newsbutcher on the Grand Trunk Western Railroad? He learned to walk up and down the aisles practicing his selling skills and it was that talent of selling that he had developed that made him so successful.