What I learned from my undergraduate engineering schooling was that with reasonable tools and assumptions about operating conditions, you could break things down into their component parts, illustrate your solution, state your assumptions, and show ... [Continue Reading]
Just a spoonful of sugar
Calories from sugar have increased, contributing to obesity and diabetes A spoonful of sugar may help for medicine, but does it really take eight to ten teaspoons of sugar to help drink a cola? That is how much sugar (as corn syrup) is in most ... [Continue Reading]
A grain of salt
Salt (sodium chloride) is an inexpensive way to enhance taste and preserve food Salt is addictive to many food companies. It is a cheap way to preserve food and make it taste better. Cheap if you don't count the health care costs of high blood ... [Continue Reading]
Oil and water don’t mix… or do they?
When poured in a jar with water or spilled in the ocean, oil rises to the top. Business works the same way, raising the commercial value of oil far above the value of water. An extreme example of this is the tar sands projects (oil sands) in ... [Continue Reading]
Businesses behaving badly
We are suffering some significant shocks to our economy, from oil prices and environmental anxiety, to a variety of contaminated consumer products, and now a major financial crisis. Corporate greed, stupidity, regulations, and corruption are blamed ... [Continue Reading]
Who is controlling your career?
Our working motto is: "Helping you to take control of your career." It's got a nice buzz to it, and certainly it's true that most people want to feel that they are in control of their own career. It does beg the larger question, however -- how much ... [Continue Reading]
What CCI means to me…
People will tell you that for a business to be meaningful, it must connect up with something that is important to the customer... and so of course in promoting the business in public, we tend to lead with a customer-centric statement -- more often ... [Continue Reading]
Welcome to the Detox Project
This blog is going to explore various aspects of a research and advocacy initiative that I have taken to calling "The Business Detox Project". I've been cobbling together my ideas on this for ... [Continue Reading]
Resolving the job search “jigsaw puzzle”
Do you like doing jigsaw puzzles? For me, while I find that the early stages can be a bit frustrating, it is always a great pleasure when the picture has started to take shape and every new piece inserted adds a bit more clarity to the puzzle. Now, ... [Continue Reading]
Don’t just search under the street light..!
In an earlier post “The Frustrating Lottery…” I compared the traditional job search of focusing on posted jobs to an opaque, poorly designed lottery that offered a very small chance of success for the job seeker. I suggested that the alternative to ... [Continue Reading]
