The unemployment rates in America are at a record high. With so many looking for work, competition for jobs is fierce. And businesses need to retain – or increase – their productivity with a smaller amount of employees. Have you given thought to what your life would be like if you could accomplish all of [...]
What we are most expert at is what we typically take for granted. But in evaluating you for a job, those are probably the things that are most important. As employers are increasingly recognizing, skills can be taught while personality is a reflection of who you are. Of course, in evaluating a potential relationship partner, [...]
It was Al Shugart who began his career at IBM in San Jose, California and rose to become the company’s direct access storage product manager, responsible for its disk storage products. Direct access and disk storage were IBM’s most profitable businesses at that time. Shugart went on to found the self-named Shugart Associates in 1973, [...]
Though he was often ridiculed, Thomas Edison made over ten thousand attempts before finally demonstrating the world’s first working light bulb 1879. Asked by a reporter, “How did it feel to fail 10,000 times?” Edison simply replied, “I didn’t fail 10,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 10,000 steps.” Thomas Edison invented the [...]
A recent Gallup poll found that an astonishing amount of negativity directed at the US Government. A staggering 82% of Americans expressed their disapproval with politics. More than half of those polled went on to express a lack of confidence and trust in political candidates. What has lead to America’s discontent with politics? It’s the [...]
Research shows that more than 80 percent of people who lose weight regain all of it – if not more – within two years. The weight loss/gain diet cycle is a vicious and familiar cycle. My eBook, Cybernetic Transposition, is a proven and simple technique in setting and achieving your goals; be it permanent weight [...]
More than being anti-semitic, the Nazi warlord and the American inventor of the assembly line had a number of characteristics, tactics and goals in common. Both Henry Ford and Adolf Hitler needed absolute control in their ventures. And to that point, they got rid of anyone who suggested alternatives to their visions by employing muscle [...]
Let’s assume that you cannot wish for more wishes… Tell me what you would wish for on my Facebook page. I’d love to know your hopes and dreams. Perhaps it doesn’t have to be just a wish!
While Henry Ford may have innovated the automobile industry with assembly lines, fair wages and affordable cars, it was Gaston Chevrolet who developed the first inexpensive closed car. Ford – who had fired anyone who even suggested developing a successor to the Model T – couldn’t compete because the frame of the Model T was [...]
In 1965, Yale University undergraduate Fred Smith wrote a term paper about the passenger route systems used by most airfreight shippers, which he viewed as economically inadequate. Smith wrote of the need for shippers to have a system designed specifically for airfreight that could accommodate time-sensitive shipments such as medicines, computer parts and electronics. The [...]
