Sudoku

Sudoku is one of the most popular puzzle games of all time. The goal of Sudoku is to fill a 9×9 grid with numbers so that each row, column and 3×3 section contain all of the digits between 1 and 9. As a logic puzzle, Sudoku is also an excellent brain game.

Dave Says -By Dave Ramsey

Dear Dave,

I am the managing partner of a family business. We would like to add to our team, but I’m worried we can’t try to hold millennials and Gen Zers to the same standards as other generations without losing them. How do you feel about this?

-Sarah

Sarah, Listen, I’ve got a building full of Gen Zers and millennials — and I love them. If you hire the rights ones, you’re getting people who love calluses on their hands and on their brains. They make the interview process easy too, because there are just two types from these generations: the ones who are unbelievably awesome and the ones who aren’t. But the great ones are not afraid of hard work. They’re passionate, intelligent and mission driven. I mean, they’ll charge the gates of hell with water pistols for something they believe in.

But that means you have to provide meaning in the work they do. They want to see that their work connects to something that matters. They want to be treated with dignity, not like units of production. And they have inquiring minds. Most of them want to know why you do things the way you do them. All that is perfectly okay with me and always has been.

Now, they’re the worst two generations to work for someone who’s just a boss. That’s because bosses push while leaders pull. If you’re going to pull, you have to inform, communicate and share a vision that draws people into your mission. Bosses, for the most part, have a “do it this way because I said so” attitude. That’s not going to last long with Gen Zers and millennials.

I get where you’re coming from though, Sarah. I’ve still got friends and business associates who tell me we’re going to lose everyone from these generations if we don’t cave in and give them things like “the flexibility to work from home” — which really means, “I don’t want to work much” or “I want to work all the time.” Listen, I understand not everyone who works from home falls into one of those two categories, but some of them do. There are folks who put in 80 hours a week because they can’t put their screens down and live a life. Or they work three hours a day and call it “working from home.” That’s not working from home — that’s working part-time hours for full-time pay. And that’s called stealing.

But millennials and Gen Zers? I’m a huge fan of these generations. I truly, personally like them. They are, for the most part, genuine, real people and hard workers. If you give them what you should as a leader, they’ll blow you away with their smarts and what they’re capable of achieving!

-Dave

* Dave Ramsey is a seven-time #1 national best-selling author, personal finance expert, and host of The Ramsey Show, heard by more than 18 million listeners each week. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Today Show, Fox News, CNN, Fox Business, and many more. Since 1992, Dave has helped people regain control of their money, build wealth and enhance their lives. He also serves as CEO for Ramsey Solutions.

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Dear Motor Medics, I've been having issues with my 2008 GMC Acadia. The Service Engine Soon light comes on and the Trac-Off and ABS lights come on and when they do the message center displays reduced power and I can't drive because I have no throttle response. When I take this thing in to my shop it works for them because it only happens about once a week.

-Mike in Daytona, Florida

Dear Mike, That's a ton of stuff going on there, but I suspect they might all be connected. Over the past year we have seen no less than 20 vehicles exhibit this set of symptoms and they all turned out to be the same, a failed throttle body. The throttle body is electric and is the part that regulates how much air enters the engine. There is no cable connecting the throttle pedal to the engine as in the past. This system, as you can imagine must be calibrated exactly and have sensors to make sure that the vehicle does not have unintended acceleration or throttle loss. When the engine computer senses a failure in any of the internal circuits the system goes into reduced engine power mode. It will need to be diagnosed to know for sure and if replaced make sure you keep a receipt for the work in case GM decides to recall it for safety reasons which could possibly make you eligible for a monetary reimbursement on repairs.

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It has been doing this for over a year and my wife is getting nervous about it, so I want to get it fixed.

-Tom in Ventura, California Dear Tom,

We have seen this message a few times and although engine codes and messages should be something simple to diagnose, they don't always get diagnosed as easily as you could hope for. The system needs to be diagnosed to know for sure what's up but some of the things to check that can trip the codes are the lack of ability to read engine temperature due to a failed sensor or connection to it or an actual failure of the engine to reach proper operating temperature in a preset amount of time as determined by the engine computer software. Now the message reads Engine Hot, but that's where it gets tricky because when the engine can't reach proper temperature it's often a failed thermostat and that makes the engine run cold, not hot. A strange situation for sure but it's just one of the fun things we mechanics get to deal with everyday on our shops.

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