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Category Archives: Expectations and Rewards
Navigating The New Standards of Beauty; Lessons From Victoria’s Secret
The highest-earning salespeople are often the most attractive. It’s a difficult metric to quantify but study after study confirms the relationship between appearance and income. Are attractive people drawn to positions where good looks earn them more money? Perhaps these … Continue reading
Will The UAW Strike Change The Auto Industry?
After a month, it looks like the United Auto Worker’s Union (UAW) strike of 2019 will soon be over. It has been a strange strike. There was a time when even the rumor of an auto strike caused the US … Continue reading
Posted in Backup Plans, cars, Common Sense Contracting, Employment, Expectations and Rewards
Tagged auto, Automobile, autonomy, cars, detroit, Electric Vehicles, selfdriving
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The Not So Little Truck That Could!
2020 is expected to be the year of the electric vehicle, a turning point where EVs become a mainstream option for consumers. Every car company has announced an electric or electric hybrid option for 2020. With a simpler engine, far … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Employment, Environment, Expectations and Rewards, Unique Ideas
Tagged cars, coal, Electric Vehicles, EV, logistics, transportation, trucks
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Capitalism & Social Good: The World’s Greatest Super Team
Charities and Foundations do good, across the globe. Schools, hospitals, museums, environmental groups, senior homes, and animal rights… not-for-profits get the job done! Not-for-profits have a special place in society because they do so much for society. But not-for-profits are … Continue reading
Mr. Trump, Can We Examine Your Email Server?
(Previously posted on AndMagazine, 12/10/2016) Whether you love or hate his policies, you have to admit that Trump IS a definitely, “high energy”! It’s still weeks before he is sworn in as President, and he has already closed deals with … Continue reading
Posted in Expectations and Rewards, Improvement, Continuous or Not, Unique Ideas
Tagged cyberwar, email, Security, technology, Trump
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The General Electric Turnaround: Why We Can’t All Be Jack Welch!
Jack Welch is perhaps the world’s best known improvement guru. His transformation of GE not only took genius, it took guts and determination to convince a company that was doing pretty darn well that it had to do better. Not … Continue reading
Genius PMO: Five Steps to An Honest Project Team!
Every profession has unspoken agreements and dark little secrets. In the world of project management and PMO’s our objective is to make projects more “transparent” and measurable, so that projects can be more successful. You might say that one of … Continue reading
Have You Mined-Out Your Project Portfolio?
More than ever before, corporations are focused on project management and performance improvement techniques to fix long-standing inefficiencies in operations. The problem is that as these methodologies expand throughout major corporations, executives are finding that Project Management Offices (PMOs) and … Continue reading
Gramdma Has Left The Kitchen!
I remember a commercial from a few years back, I think it was for spaghetti sauce. It showed an Italian family’s kitchen as the Sunday meal was being made. In the kitchen, there were several grandmothers working away over a … Continue reading
4th Sigma: Project Charters, Part 3 – Building Consensus
A Project Charter is a document that describes a project, names the people who will perform the project, what their roles will be and the name of the project sponsor (the individual that requested the project). Any book on Six … Continue reading
Niccolls AND Dimes 