Your good friend Michelle is at a family get together and her Aunt Ethel sides up to her and says, “Hey Michelle, you are a cute girl but your good looks aren’t going to last forever, you really should be thinking about marriage, are you seeing anybody? The longer you wait, the less fish there
Besides being a statistician and an educator, W. Edwards Deming was known as one of the most pre-eminent management gurus in modern history. In his famous book, The New Economics, Deming tells an interesting story which occurred during the height of his fame.
What’s old is new again! One of the most popular and best-selling management books of all time is The One Minute Manager written in 1982 by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (author of Who Moved My Cheese?).
Back in 1969, the then mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, proudly announced that the 1976 Summer Olympics would feature a state-of-the-art stadium which would be enclosed by the world’s first ever retractable roof!
One of the most inspiring speeches I have ever seen took place back in February of 2016 and I almost didn’t see it. I was invited to a technology conference on Miami Beach but was so busy at the time that I debated whether or not it would be a good use of my time.