“Man down! Heat casualty! Candidate, get his temperature! Now! Get a measurement! “Roger that, sir. He’s hot, 104.” “Corpsman! Quickly, we have a possible heat stroke here!” This emergency unfolded during a field exercise more than 20 years ago at Officer CandidateSchool at the United States Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia. We were training in full combat gear on a muggy, 95 degree day…
When does a company become too big to fail and by what standards? How can the casual passer-by – not to mention the learn’d industry or government analyst – tell when a company poses too great a risk?Can a government or global / regional economy become too big to fail?If so, then what? In the United…
At the end of the day, we are all sales people in one form or another. Whether it’s a child pleading their case for just a little more time to stay up watching TV in return for their best behavior, or a grown man/woman shopping at their local farmer’s market attempting to negotiate the best deal…
What do these three letters mean to you? A quick poll of the people in the room proved the meaning to be quite elusive. A nine year-old responded, “See are em? I don’t get it, you’re so weird.” A five year-old pondered the question for all of two seconds and said, “huh…can I play Wii?” OK, I didn’t…
News reports over the last several months continue to paint a gloomy picture for today’s economy. Rising material and labor costs, weak consumer spending, and the collapsing housing market are hammering businesses nationwide. Many are looking for ways to re-engineer themselves in order to compensate for flattening growth. To survive, one must do more with the resources they…
