January, 2020 Monthly Musing “Press on! For in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! While yet you may.“ Nathaniel Parker Willis Founder’s Corner Leaving a Positive and Indelible Mark As we get older, it’s interesting what we recall from our youth and the impact it had upon…
December 2019 Monthly Musing “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T. S. Eliot Founder’s Corner Holiday Greetings As we complete another circuit around the…
November 2019 Monthly Musing Someone asked, “What is your ‘Superpower’?” I told them that I am able to take a complex situation and distill it down to its major elements, prioritize the efforts necessary, and devise and deploy decisive responses – all in a fraction of the time it would take others. This is not…
October 2019 Monthly Musing This is a generalization, but the real reason why most engineers rarely make good business people is because they are fixated on the perfect. They are terrified of what they do not know or understand – and even more terrified to release to those who do. Their idea of too much…
September 2019 Monthly Musing I have recently come across several missives that place various management methodologies on an unassailable pedestal – elevated to near religious standing complete with dogma that is seemingly beyond question or challenge. This is a mistake – with the risks being the loss of credibility to those who hold such strong…
August 2019 Monthly Musing We are in the “Dog Days of Summer”, the period between early July and early September. The origin of the phrase is from the heliacal rising of Sirius, also known as the Dog Star in the constellation Canis Major (Large Dog). It’s the hottest period of the year (at least in…
