Arm-wrestling
Arm-Wrestling
The simple things in life can teach us the best lessons.
After exhausting the usual topics out at the pub yesterday, the talk ended up to the theories of arm-wrestling.
Strength vs. Length – which is better? 
Being tall, and a fan of good leverage, I opted for the length side of the argument. Some of my shorter colleagues with the larger arms [ and girth, I might add ] argued for strength as the key advantage.
Just as one beer leads to another, so does idle chatter lead to actual experimentation – among engineers anyway! To conduct our tests, the group pitted me against one of the finest from sales to test the theories.
I won’t share any conclusions now, but let’s just say that our experimentation dictated that we do some more organized testing. A more formal arm-wrestling competition has been set for 3pm on December 9th!
After the initial experimentation, I still favor the length advantage, while most of the sales team is still on the side of strength. Our IT analyst/bookie puts the odds strongly in favor of length. I hope he’s right.
So why blog about arm-wrestling? Because success is all about leverage.
A small-but-focused company like PAS can and will make a difference in the industry. Our people and technologies are our “length” to bring that leverage. Other companies may have more people, better marketing, more revenue or other measures of more “girth”, but do not achieve the same result.
Customers validate my view.
In the last 2 weeks, we’ve had more customers compliment our products and vision for technology application in their plants than I’ve ever seen in any 2-week span in my career. And I’ve seen plenty…
The specifics of our plans will become obvious over time, but to customers I say, call us or email me. To others, I say “watch this space”.
Vroom! Vroom!
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