(originally written Jan 25)
I’m in training pretty much the whole week — which fact one of my horoscopes must’ve predicted. I mean, there are so many of them floating out there, that one of them must’ve been right!
The past couple days covered FMEA, an engineering topic so obscure I’ll give the unabbreviated name (Failure Modes […]
A long-time proponent of the “A3″ reporting format (which aims to summarize a problem and its solution in a roughly 11″ x17″ sheet of paper) it was a delight to cover Understanding A3 Thinking in the book club.
Having authored some epic reports and PowerPoint slide decks in my time, the prospect of condensing findings into […]
Separate reports this week in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuericher Zeitung (NZZ) are highlighting the difficult choices Switzerland, and by extension other nations, are facing in the continued onslaught of effective currency devaluation by US and Eurozone officials. The Greenback and the Euro have fallen significantly against the Franc and
Continue readingHmm… life’s busy-ness sure didn’t return to normal, there…
Anyways, here’s the 27th book we covered in the work business book club: Financial Intelligence. It was chosen because of the feeling that a little financial literacy could probably go a long way for engineers and other technical types. The fact that the question “what’s EBITDA?” recurs in […]
Hmm… missed out a few weeks there. Life’s busy-ness has only now returned to normalcy.
Getting to Yes was chosen as the book club’s 26th volume because it deals with negotiations, which, like it or not, play a pivotal role in business. It was expected that book club members’ careers would benefit from knowing a bit […]
Stephen Taylor recognizes that the Conservative Party campaigns like they’re capitalists, but governs like they’re communists.
There’s hope yet for thoughtful fiscal conservatism in Canada.
Continue readingSo, the free market-loving, small government-lusting Conservative government has taken a decidedly protectionist stance with regards to Potash Corporation in the name of political expediency.
It’ll be fun when we start saying that Stephen Harper camp…
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