While word of mouth attracted new users, it was not until it won Best Family Web site in last year’s WebAward competition that things took off for the Family Cookbook Project. With its Web site, Family Cookbook Project, the small business helps families and groups create and print personalized cookbooks to share and treasure. The […]
Category Archives: Management
Successful hiring, in any company, is one of the most difficult tasks in which to achieve repeatable success. From unexpected outbursts to terminal tardiness to woeful incompetence, every company has a hiring horror story regarding employees who interviewed strong but performed poorly. Perhaps a subtle, but more dangerous occurrence is the all-too-common hire who performs […]
Statistics are at the heart of Six Sigma’s powerful methodology for quality improvement. It pays to get to know some of the most important of the Six Sigma statistical tools. Control Charts The control chart is the fundamental tool of statistical process control; a proven technique for improving productivity. It monitors the variation of key […]
Toby Miller is your picture of an all round good guy. He doesn’t even consider himself to be much of a star but he does enjoy going to work and he enjoys mixing with his co-workers, making sure that they all smile at least once a day. Of course he does what’s necessary to get […]
The following is based on an essay by Denny Howe at the University of Pennsylvania. Our core values give us personal focus, strength, resilience, and meaning when the outside world doesn’t always give us what we think we need or want. One of the challenges in maintaining behavior consistent with our core values is the […]
Some years ago, purchasing articles from the United States of America and other western countries without being present there was like a dream for people, as people were not daring enough to indulge them in the trauma attached with cross-border parcel services. The shipping costs were high and there was no guarantee of package delivery. […]