May 2019 Monthly Musing Whether high school or college, students around the world are graduating. Some will go on to further their education, some will enter the job market – many for the first time. More likely than not, the job the get will not be their ideal job or their last job, but the…
April 2019 Monthly Musing It’s that time of year again – golf season. I play golf, I don’t work golf. There is nothing more satisfying than hitting the ball well. I know, because it happens so infrequently for me that each is memorable. In fact, I call my clubs “weapons of grass reduction.” The Germans…
March 2019 Monthly Musing Why do we assume more words, and a more complex vocabulary is better? Why should we write a 500-word essay when 150-words (or fewer) will get the same information across? Many problems could be avoided if we just learned to communicate in a plain manner so as to be easily…
February 2019 Monthly Musing February is the nastiest month of the year. The warmth of the holidays and joyous gatherings with friends and family are gone – all that is left as evidence that they happened at all are the bills and a few photographs. It is biting cold. The kind of cold that makes…
January 2019 Monthly Musing By now, most of us have made and broken our “New Year’s Resolutions”. But I recently came across the idea of a “dream-map” which might prove to be more useful. It’s similar to an A4 exercise found in Lean. But instead of being forensic and detailed,…
A Year in Review December 2018 Message from the Founder As we complete another circuit around the sun, we find ourselves reflective of the year’s hard-fought battles won and lost, of loves arrived and departed, and of our professional successes and disappointments. With rebuilding spirit and energy, we look with great anticipation to…