Herbert C. Jordan
Retired Poultry
Professor Penn State
Errors made on farms can
potentially cost thousands of
dollars a year. Here are a few:
• Hysteria in humans is
rarely diagnosed or talked
about, but hysterical acts are
often fatal. If pent-up emotion
in a human is released all at
once to try to escape frustration
in a high speed car ride, death
follows all too frequently.
• Employing or associating
with high-risk people can dam
age a farm operation severely.
Beware of people’s behavior that
have a history of doing dumb
things.
• Research or invention on a
farm appears dumb or wasteful
as new ideas fail time after time
until the right idea or goal of
testing is reached.
• Some people make errors
while working because their
mind is elsewhere concentrating
on worries or unresolved con
flicts in their life.
• Some people error when
they are full of hate, anger, or
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fear because they view the pre
sent situation selfishly, not by
counting their blessings.
• Sometimes things appear
dumb only because the person
doing the dumb act is encour
aged or lead into it by a mischie
vous person in a powerful posi
tion. The Dumb Act Person can
be taken advantage of financial
ly or through intimidation.
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NOT BECOME ONE!
• Dumb acts may occur when
all things are not considered.
MAKE A LIST TO CHECK
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• Simple people may do dumb
things if not encouraged to suc
ceed.
• Rushing, speed, and hurry
ing may cause some people to
err or cause financial loss
• Dumb acts occur when peo
ple may believe anything
because they trust people or are
naive.
• Being too young, inexperi
enced, or negligent may cause
dumb things to be done, so the
farm loses money, time, and
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substances or persecution may
cause the addicted person to
perform dumb acts.
• People who fail to stop,
look, listen, abstain from self
damage, or fail to reason may
perform dumb acts
•
Sometimes a well
thoughtout act can look dumb
when done the first time.
• Ask the person: do you have
an excuse or a reason for doing a
dumb act? Reasons are OK.
Excuses are questionable.
• While brainstorming a new
idea, listen to all ideas. The
many unusable ideas will sound
dumb but it is a cost of doing
business.
• A dumb act or dumb idea
may be 100 years ahead of its
time, so it appears dumb.
• A dumb act may be done to
mislead others, get even with
someone, or to take erroneous
vengeance on
Employees who fight cause con
flict instead of working produc
tively. They can cost the farm
too much.
* Tempt a person to do a
dumb thing and they may do it,
then everyone may lose.
• A person may do a dumb
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new limits, like tearing a muscle
off a bone in weight lifting.
•Inventors do dumb things or
they appear dumb because of
trial and error.
• Inventors do dumb things
or they appear dumb because of
trial and error.
• Auto mechanics who only
use trial and error do dumb acts
and lose time and money.
To do fewer dumb acts:
• Become better self-disci
plined: check and be sure.
• Consider all the facts in the
case. Don’t be narrow-minded.
• Do not make fun or mock
others.
• Humble yourself and say: I
do not know, then leam.
• Beware of subtle people or
become a subtle reader of acts of
others.
• Seek true wisdom support
ed by useful knowledge.
• Spend time training new or
young people or new employees.
• Till the land in all your
spare time and grow poultry
feed using manure.
• Instruct employees daily.
Do not just leave notes for them.
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• Make a daily list of things I
must do today, then check off
items done.
• Leave a simple, clear, writ
ten note for people when you
will be absent. Have employees
communicate with each other.
• Do not ASSUME. Check
and make sure.
• Have employees prioritize
goals 1 through 10. Spend
resources in sequence to not
waste time on low priority
items.
• Hold training sessions to
* keep employees qualified.
• Stop telling people what
they think. Ask them, listen,
then persuade them to change if
they are wrong.
• Have a weekly repent ses
sion for 30 minutes with all
employees. Here, no one is
scolded or reprimanded as each
employee admits what they
erred at or did wrong this week.
Have each employee remember
NOT TO ERR. Employees are
seeing each others errors to
avoid making the same errors
over and over.
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