[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 ...

[starbox] The sports world was abuzz recently over a girl pitching her Little League team into the World Championship Tournament. For some this ...

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After living in the Chicago area for 10 years I have made peace with the congestion, high prices, long commute tim...

[starbox] “What will this cost?” is often the most important question in whether a project can move forward. And it is a question every custom man...

[starbox] I blogged earlier about best-selling business books trumpeting rapid growth schemes rather than sustainable performance. Building a succ...