Leadership always matters, especially in the Military
Posted by Thom in Business, Work Experiences on 2009/06/03
In the Navy I worked for a variety of commanding officers. All of them career officers and all of them wanted to have successful commands. But what was striking were the differences of leadership in how they sought to achieve that success.
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Thoughts on the American Automakers
“Wow, GM is going into Bankruptcy!” “Can you believe it?” Of course I can believe it.
What is surprising to me is the apparent surprise everyone is claiming to have about it. “Who could have known?” I’ll tell you who could have known – the millions of buyers of cars made by Toyota, Honda, VW, BMW, et al.
The Insult that is Minimum Wage
Posted by Thom in Business, Work Experiences on 2009/05/26
As the old joke goes “Minimum Wage means that if they could pay you less, they would”. Ba-Da-Bing!
By definition minimum wage is the lowest possible wage
Individual Recognition For Team Efforts
It’s graduation season once again. Almost everyone has either sat in a graduation audience or has earned the privilege to be a graduate of some institution somewhere be it high school or college, frequently both. Every ceremony has the requisite program that everyone picks up, so they have something to read while waiting, containing the names of those who will receive honorary degrees, what students will be giving speeches and which students have earned honors.
Typing, an underappreciated skill
Posted by Thom in Business, Technology, Work Experiences on 2009/05/19
For high school kids in honors classes typing isn’t usually on the syllabus, but my mom insisted I know how to type. This is why I found myself in a room with 25 manual typewriters, 21 girls, 3 other guys and one very cranky teacher whom I’ll call Mrs X.
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