Douglas A. Bowers: His Philosophy About Life

Dr. Patricia Adelekan, DTM Founder’s District Journalist

Recently, I had the honor to meet and interview Founder’s District Treasurer, Douglas A. Bowers, ACS, CL, who seems to truly know himself and to share his wisdom, knowledge, talents and experiences with others he meets.

The first thing Doug said was, “The key thing about me is that I am an idea person. I love ideas about almost anything. I can get lost in them. They are my friends. I can relate one idea to another and find value in each of them. The skill comes in knowing how to put seemingly unrelated ideas together.”

Such a description reveals his philosophy about life, which in turn highlights some of his major gifts and talents: 

• observing
• listening
• seeing relationships
• creatively solving problems
• caring enough about others to offer solutions and
• taking deliberate action to solve problems.

All these reveal vital components to his approach by which he aims to benefit organizations, individuals and even his own life.

Ideas trigger Doug’s imagination and his unique ability to see relationships and trends. It is these ideas and experiences that assist him in creating various solutions, approaches and methodologies to solve problems or to arrive at certain predetermined outcomes. They are the “stuff” that he meditated upon and played with to come up with his DogOlogic method. Through DogOlogic, he seeks to empower leaders, managers, teachers and others to adopt a method to arrive at well-rounded approaches and solutions to both their concerns and their opportunities.

His premise? Every organization or group requires a variety of different personality-types and skill-sets to function at their best. This philosophy emerged, in part, due to Doug’s super keen sense of observation, discernment and experience working with people --whether individually, or in various organizations and groups. He feels that to have a balanced and effective organization, each emotional-type, of the 7 personality-types described in DogOlogic, is needed. The leaders of these organizations should be aware of and incorporate the different types for “best performance.”

“If each individual would know his/her dominant emotional-type, and their related strengths and weaknesses, it would enable them to avoid conflicts, misunderstandings and attract the kind of people to their organizations that bring about complimentary results more naturally.” The wisdom of his approach lies in its simplicity. And I, the writer, feel exactly the same.

Doug says, “My philosophy on life hinges on several key thoughts and perhaps many smaller ones woven together by experience and observation.” He states, “I feel that my highest and best use is to help build organizations and people. I joined Toastmasters to become a professional speaker while promoting my business and personal theories using the DogOlogic method and approach. I strongly feel that in this way, I can truly help impact people’s lives and organizations for the better.”

Have you ever heard him explain and execute his DogOlogic method? If not, it is something you would certainly want to witness. For seminars and more information, please contact him at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit the DogOlogic website at www.DogOlogic.com.

Doug lives in Arcadia, and is a member of the A.C.T.S. Club #416.