Wagner's MBA Law of the Sabbath (7th Day) Rest

Wagner's MBA Law of the Sabbath (7th Day) Rest: If you rest every 7th day, as Jews and Christians learn about, you will be less likely to experience powerful chemical and process addictions, such as alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, gambling, work, pornography, sex, Internet, video games, sports, fishing, hunting, and shopping, etc. Keeping the 7th day holy and for resting helps prevent addiction. Saying NO for one day means you control your life, and that your life doesn't control you.

Wagner's MBA Law of Expecting Narcissists to Behave Ethically

Wagner's MBA Law of Expecting Narcissists to Behave Ethically: Narcissists just don't understand the subject called "Ethics" and they won't apologize for all the damage they cause while society suffers their cold, self-centered behavior, as they learn "Ethics", which is a subject that seems to come almost naturally to everybody else.

Wagner's MBA Law of Correcting Group Errors

Wagner's MBA Law of Correcting Group Errors: Getting a group of people to accept the (even obvious) truth behind their own wrong thinking... is difficult! Each person in the group uses the group and others in the group to reinforce "the same" and reject "the different". Beware ye of groups!

Wagner's MBA Law of Hiring Friends

Wagner's MBA Law of Hiring Friends: Friends whom you hire are only a known quantity and maintain strict boundaries; hire a friend when the friendship provides a level of assurance that the predetermined position and performance requirements will be met or exceeded, and don't hire a friend if the job position is substantially changed or performance expectations lowered due to the friendship.

Wagner's MBA Law of Good Hiring versus Good Supervising

Wagner's MBA Law of Good Hiring versus Good Supervising: You can train a chimpanzee to hire people by matching the symbols of the job position with the resumes, but it takes the high order skills of a thoughtful and diligent leader to motivate and develop those employees.

Wagner's MBA Law of Updating Facebook During Church Services

Wagner's MBA Law of Updating Facebook During Church Services: Avoid posting or liking on Facebook during church unless you are actually at church; else your friends at church will see the time of your post or be cruising the FB Newsfeed themselves and start looking for you at church. Better yet, turn your phone off during church.

Wagner's MBA Laws of Dairy Farming (and management)

Wagner's MBA Laws of Dairy Farming (and management): 1. Feed, milk, and monitor the cows, and shovel concomitant manure; 2. If you are short on milk, you will be long on manure; 3. If you are long on milk, you will be even longer on manure; 4. Let "bulls" spread "ideas" through the opened gates; 5. Expect milk and inspect milk; 6. A dairy farm that doesn't produce milk is just a manure factory; 7. Don't blame the cows!