I’m sitting in the waiting room of a major oil change shop. That’s not special, but the reason WHY I‘m in this one is. I normally go to a different oil change shop but today when I arrived there shortly after 8:00 am, there was no one there. Now […]
We’ve written about sexual harassment before – there’s no secret there. But I would like to examine the economic benefits and costs associated with harassment today. This examination is prompted by Bill O’Reilly’s firing by Fox after it was revealed that five women had been paid $13.5 million to […]
I’ve spent a lot of time in waiting rooms – especially since my wife had her stroke. And while waiting rooms, particularly doctors’ waiting rooms, are not the most fun atmosphere, I find waiting rooms very useful because I’m always prepared.
How do you prepare for a waiting room?
I prepare […]
We’ve all used them – lists of things to do, things to buy, places to go, people to call, tasks to execute – the list is endless. It’s the simplest of management tools and one of the most damaging. We even compile lists of lists. Compiling a list is […]
Because I’ve spent a lot of time in the Washington, DC area working in and for the federal government, I’ve been asked frequently about recent news reports coming from the national capital. Most of the questions are of the type, “Can the President/FBI/CIA/NSA/etc. really do ___________________ and keep it […]
I enjoy collecting stories that have a moral. This is an ancient method of teaching exemplified by Aesop’s Fables, a collection of short stories that always illustrated a lesson about life. We remember stories when we don’t remember facts or statements. As humans, we’re wired that way.
The stories always […]
Every organization has a culture established at its beginning and changed only with considerable effort and pain. Leadership and management will operate on the basis of one of three theories of people – Theories X, Y and Z.
In a Theory X organization, people are considered lazy and therefore management […]
It’s the end of the year and it’s a common feeling to feel that the year wasn’t a good one – we didn’t accomplish much – we’re no better off than we were at the beginning of the year. It isn’t true but the little devil sitting on our […]
Emergency Preparedness demands that one consider mitigation of risk – it’s not prevention but the identification of means to reduce the occurrence or impact of the results of an emergency.
It seems like a simple idea but it’s the execution of mitigation that is the real problem. Because it’s easy […]
I’m writing this as I sit in the conference room at Northern Quest Resort and Casino waiting for the Republican County Convention to start. We’re starting 45 minutes late. Registration was a mess – The area was crowded and any signs were no more than 8” wide and situated […]
In the Lensmen series by E. E. “Doc” Smith, Kimball Kinnison teases his friend and fellow lensman Worsel by accusing him of contemplating the “whichness of the why” – implying that his friend was spending time on a useless endeavor. But, like many questions which seem ridiculous, it’s actually […]
Once again we have a scandal – people dying or being injured, companies denying they did anything wrong, it’s all a mistake – only to find out that the company did know and the problem was ignored or hidden at the direction of management.
The latest company is Takata, the […]
At Me2 Solutions we believe in Quality – but that doesn’t mean we don’t see the problems within the community. Meredith spoke on the cultural bias in the Quality management community and you can hear her now!
In Season 4 of the Oh, Crap! podcast Meredith was interviewed about cultural […]
A while ago, one of my start-up clients messaged me. It began: “You’re probably going to hate me for this…!”
That’s always a good sign, right? Sigh.
She continued: “I just committed to an amazing opportunity for us to triple our advertising exposure,” she went on. “A sponsor dropped out of […]
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced a week before Christmas that as many as 3,200 prisoners since 2002 had been released early from state prisons because of a computer glitch which granted them more time off for good behavior than they should have received. The median number of days […]
You may have noticed that I haven’t been writing on the blog much this year. That’s because for the last ten months, Emily, Frank, and I have been working on a passion project.
Last year, we started researching the history of business plans… and we came up terribly short on information. […]
The news today is that VW is in bigger trouble – their software evading of pollution testing appears to be not limited to their 6-cylinder diesels but also extends to the their 4-cylinder diesels. The company denies this but I suspect it’s true. Why?
First a little background. I have […]
I love to study history – it invites me to consider how I would have behaved, the decisions I would have made, if I were in the place of famous people.
I particularly like to study the 20th century – the First and Second World War have many powerful lessons […]
The Beer Game does not involve drinking beer – sorry if you’re disappointed. The Beer Game is a business simulation developed by professors at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in the early 1960s to demonstrate a number of key principles of supply chain management. It’s used by Peter Senge […]
I’ve worked with a lot of women over the years – some were my bosses; others co-workers and some worked for me. Generally, I had good working relationships – to the point that I would often be the recipient of discourses on many topics that left me wanting to […]
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