I wrote a blog a little while back that was a crossover between my one of my personal hobbies, guitar building, and my profession, business consulting around people. When I initially wrote the blog, I had quite a few pictures and it didn't translate into the blog format very well. With this version, I have all the pictures and a fraction of the words. Let me know which you prefer. The blog can be found here: http://www.media1.us/harrison-withers/measure-twice-cut-once/

1. Measure Twice, Cut Once
by
Harrison Cates Withers III

2. One of my hobbies outside of work
is building musical instruments.
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3. I don’t know much about
woodworking, so my
instruments are
generally pretty primitive.
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4. I started building
instruments out of
cigar boxes.
If you don’t have anything
good to work from, then use
what you have and
improvise.
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5. Being creative and improvisational helps
me solve problems at work.
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6. But dealing with real people
is not the same as
repurposing a found object.
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7. Businesses make serious
investments in people
and they have real value
to the business.
(did I mention that they are people?)
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8. Measure twice, cut once
is an over-used cliché
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9. It’s one thing when you are
talking about a $1.99 2x4
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10. another thing entirely
when you are using
expensive exotic wood
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11. It’s more than the cost of the
wood.
That wood determines how the
instrument sounds and plays
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12. If you screw it up,
that instrument
might not be as good
as it could be
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13. It’s worth measuring twice,
to really know
what the value is.
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14. Once you cut,
what is done, is done
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15. Measure Twice,
Cut Once
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