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VERDUGO VOICE
November 3 , 2000 Looking Down on Los Angeles
Vol.V Issue 4
WRITE ON!!!
Are you on board with the VHHS writing program? All the evidence shows the best way to improve a school is with a school wide writing program. Its important that as many teachers as possible reinforce our English teachers by using the VHHS writing program in their classes. Remember, the essays can be written as homework so they don't take up your class time.
See Peter Holbrook or Trent Hall if you want more information on the VHHS writing program.
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50 LISTS: CREDO
CUBICLE SLAVES...
HACK OFF YOUR TIES...
FLIP OFF YOUR HEELS...
THE WORK CAN BE COOL!
THE WORK CAN BE BEAUTIFUL!
THE WORK CAN BE FUN!
THE WORK CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Y-O-U CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
BASH YOUR CUBICLE WALLS!
RIP UP YOUR DILBERT CARTOONS!
THE WHITE COLLAR REVOLUTION IS ON!
TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE!
SUBVERT THE HIERARCHY!
MAKE EVERY PROJECT A WOW!
BE DISTINCT... OR EXTINCT!
IT'S A NEW MILLENNIUM: IF NOT NOW... W-H-E-N?
BY: TOM PETERS, THE PROJECT 50
CONVERSIONS
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecend
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
10 cards: 1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
8 nickels: 2 paradigms
100 Senators: Not 1 decision
Courtesy of Mr. Clements
LIFE
"Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.
But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us."
A.J. Cronin
"Reward excellent failures."
"Punish mediocre successes."
Tom Peters
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
Change Happens
Anticipate Change
Monitor Change
Adapt to Change Quickly
Change
Enjoy Change!
Be Ready to Quickly
Change Again and Again
From: Who Moved My Cheese?
By: Spencer Johnson, M.D.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the un-reasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
ATTRIBUTES OF THOSE WHO MADE THE 10TH GRADE HISTORY BOOK
History books are not flawless. Or free of controversy. Nonetheless, they represent a sort of "societal consensus" about what/who is important. So... who makes it into the Big Hall of Fame? Into your daughter's tenth grade history text? Roosevelt. King. Kennedy(s). Galileo. Einstein. Etc. And traits they share--more or less--in common?
Try these:
* Committed.
* Determined to Make a Difference.
* Focused.
* Passionate!
* Risk Seekers.
* Irrational about the righteousness of their life's project.
* Ahead of their time./Paradigm Busters!
* Impatient. (But, paradoxically, prepared to stay the course.)
* Action-Obsessed! (Mantra: Ready. Fire! Aim.)
* Made l-o-t-s of people mad!
* Creative./Quirky./Peculiar.
* Rebels. (Scientists and artists, as well as social- political types.)
* In The Establishment's face./Flouted the chain of command.
* Irreverent./Disrespectful.
* Masters of Improvisation/Thrive on Chaos./E-x-p-l-o-i-t Chaos!
* Ask Forgiveness > Seek Permission.
* Bone Honest!
* Flawed. (Big pluses, big minuses.)
* "Tuned into" followers' needs and aspirations.
* Absurdly good at what they do!
By: Tom Peters
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