Wagner's MBA Law of Seeing the Big Picture

Wagner's MBA Law of Seeing the Big Picture: Look for the big picture, because, well, it is larger and has more utility. A larger context of an event or your actions always exists, and people are the wiser for setting those actions in a larger context, and the juxtaposition with the smaller picture is often instructive.

Wagner's MBA Law of Finishing

Wagner's MBA Law of Finishing: In normal space and time, finishing comes after starting; if you are not finished, perhaps you have not started? Recently, I had a discussion with someone who had expended moderate effort toward blocking the start of a project and then wondered when the project would be finished. I suggested that we focus our wonderment around the project start. Start, then finish...!

Wagner's MBA Law of Teaching

Wagner's MBA Law of Teaching: I teach; therefore I am, but I am what I learn... teaching starts with learning.

Wagner's MBA Law of Printing and Faxing Electronic Documents

Wagner's MBA Law of Printing and Faxing Electronic Documents: This is ridiculous! I'm not kidding this time. wink emoticon Please never ask me to print and then Fax a page to you. I don't know anyone who still owns a working printer or Fax machine. Why don't you just ask me to churn butter? 1 quart cream, 2 lbs. ice, and a butter churn. Wait. Let's find a museum. I saw Grandma send a Fax and churn butter. Perhaps I can remember? LOL.

Wagner's MBA Law of Littering

Wagner's MBA Law of Littering: Litter begats litter. Once people see litter, they tend to litter more than they would otherwise litter. Pick up litter as soon as you see it. Visible litter creates a social context that presumes acceptability of littering. A randomly selected individual's attitude toward littering is unfavorable in the absence of visible litter, but grows as the littered area grows, ceteris paribus.

Wagner's MBA Laws of Denver Broncos Football

Wagner's MBA Laws of Denver Broncos Football: 1. A season in motion tends to remain in motion unless acted upon by a random loss, and season at rest tends to remain at rest unless acted upon by a random win; 2. Positive season momentum is produced when the most recent win is judged bigger than the sum of the total season losses; 3. For every first down there is an equal and opposite penalty; 4. When they must win, they can't win, when they don't need to win, they often win, and when they can't lose, they somehow manage to lose.

Wagner's MBA Law of Swatting Flies

Wagner's MBA Law of Swatting Flies: Swat the fly from the front to back, nose to tail, as they always take flight in the direction the nose is pointing. They will fly into the fly swatter. You (usually) can't miss. Trust me. In one of life's random experiences, I once had the opportunity to swat hundreds of flies in a 24-hour time period, and made one of my observations, as I often do. Science, Baby! LOL

Wagner's MBA Law of Ebola Virus Panics

Wagner's MBA Law of Ebola Virus Panics: As I presume that I won't win the lottery tomorrow, I presume also that I won't contract the Ebola Virus; both events are highly improbable but not impossible. Instead, everyone should be thinking about shopping for my birthday tomorrow, wink emoticon and, yes, I turn ZERO years old, as I try to live each day as a new human being, savoring each day that God has granted me for helping someone and for learning new things... Xin chao qui vi!

Wagner's MBA Law of Thinking and Behaving

Wagner's MBA Law of Thinking and Behaving: You are what you think, or you will behave and become like that soon; so think big, positive, and kindly toward your fellow humankind.

Wagner's MBA Law of Apocalyptic Prophecies

Wagner's MBA Law of Apocalyptic Prophecies: Doomsday Prophecies present daily, finite, and manageable concerns up to the day I die and not extending beyond that day, at least for me, personally. Likewise, group concern for the apocalypse could be estimated as daily concern times the number of individuals in the group times the remaining days of life expectancy. In sum, don't worry and each day help one another.