Teamwork

Teamwork

By Roger Cox President, ACTS Now, Inc. This question has been asked by many locators and excavators, in many places and with different levels of frustration in their voices. “Why does this project have to be so aggravating?” The answer to the question always includes...
Damage Prevention Champion: Louis Holifield

Damage Prevention Champion: Louis Holifield

By Michael Downes 811 Magazines Tornados wreaked havoc across the southeastern United States on Easter Sunday and Monday, April 12-13, 2020, the strongest of which was rated a high-end EF4 and occurred in Mississippi. The tornado outbreak included a total of 140...
Jacobi Perspective – Teamwork

Jacobi Perspective – Teamwork

By John Jacobi Let’s start with a couple of definitions: A team is more than one person. Teamwork is a team (more than one person) working to achieve a goal. Everyone is a member of many, many Teams unless they are stranded alone on a desert island with no...
What Tough Times Teach Us About Ourselves

What Tough Times Teach Us About Ourselves

By Dr. Larry Cole Let’s begin this psychological journey with discussing our internal chatter, e.g., it has been said that we have 50,000 independent thoughts a day. Our brain continues to talk to us spontaneously throughout our waking hours. You’re not going to shut...
The timing couldn’t have been better.

The timing couldn’t have been better.

The timing couldn’t have been better. It had been a long first semester. The third grade was a lot harder than Billy Conn Stokes had told me. Now both of my regular readers know my friend Billy Conn was one grade ahead of me in school and he kept me informed about...