[starbox] The final quarter of my performance review system measures the creativity a person brings to their job. Some might argue that many jobs ...

[starbox] I don’t know many people who enjoy working with crabby co-workers. Attitude is a key element in team chemistry, so my evaluation system ...

[starbox] The second step in my performance evaluation procedure looks at the effort a team member puts into his or her job. From our first day ...

[starbox] If the work isn’t getting done, every job on the team is at risk. This is why my evaluation system starts by looking at productivity v...

[starbox] I seldom dreaded report card day while in school, but found the annual review process in the workplace to be uncomfortable but necessa...

[starbox] Yesterday marked a day 13 years ago on which the world changed for all of us. Time forever more to be marked as “before” those terribl...

[starbox] As mentioned before in this space, the bi-annual International Machine Tool Show (IMTS) is back in Chicago (September 8 – 3th). I’ll b...

[starbox] September has traditionally been a time of new beginnings. We were programmed for this from our first days in school and, like salmon im...

[starbox] Coming off the Labor Day weekend, I had time to reflect on what the holiday means beyond marking the end of summer, retiring (for the ...

So there is little chance that they need the same software to assist with their work. Gone are the days when companies wrote their own code and process engineers thumbed the same tattered reference book.