A number of people have contacted me recently, seeking ideas for new markets. If I knew where the work was hiding, I would go g...

Recently I visited an old workplace and learned that a much admired former co-worker had died several months previously. This is a small industry a...

What better time to talk about schedule slip than at the end of the month. Every place that I have ever worked or worked with has a “month end cris...

It may be difficult for younger readers to imagine, but we once got our instructions verbally from our supervisors. Yes, in a time before e-mail an...

After posting about the difficulty in keeping my “inner engineer” under control outside the workplace, several readers admitted to the same troub...

Aphorisms, pithy statements of fact, are a favorite of mine. They appeal because when you need to remember things you cannot always count on ...

  I do not recall this being brought up during my years at Marquette University’s (MU) engineering school, but the night school crowd was p...

There have been a few times in my life when I wished I could turn off my internal engineer and just be a regular guy. If you ask my wife she could ...

  We have all seen the Internet meme of politicians wearing corporate logos so the public will know who their backers are. I would like to ...

"Wall Street predicted nine of the last FIVE recessions," Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize winner in economics, 1966. We get a lot more economic news...