It’s another Monday and I’m sure everyone is feverishly assaulting the work week already. I’m with you – it’s going to be busy today and the rest of the week. But maybe I did something you didn’t recently and that may make a difference in how we fare the rest of the week. Not a bad management lesson as well. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Employment
How It’s Made
One of my favorite Canadian imports – besides hockey and Neil Young – is a quirky show called “How It’s Made.” You can see it on The Science Channel. Basically it shows you how lots of things both common and uncommon are created. Because today is Foodie Friday, and the Fourth of July, I’m embedding the clip on how hot dogs are made:
Yummy! You can find lots of clips on the show’s site.
But I’ll also ask you to think about a business question – do you have any sense of how the things your business produces are made? I mean, how well do you really understand the people and processes that are responsible for your economic health? I always felt like I should know enough about each person’s job so that I could provide guidance by asking good questions. That doesn’t mean I could, or wanted to, do their jobs. But I could do mine, which was to help them do theirs.
But enough business – on to a great holiday weekend!
Filed under Consulting, food, Helpful Hints
Fine Wine
Wine is food, right? So today’s Foodie Friday post is on a wine theme. I don’t profess to know much about really good wine but I do know enough to recognize when a wine is too young to drink. You can taste the tannins, the stuff from the stems and seeds of the grapes, which are bitter but which mellow over time. In fact, I’ve always thought that if a wine has the characteristics of being really good (nose, body, etc.) that noticeable tannins are a good thing – it means the wine is only going to get better. That’s a wine you want to hang on to as it gets older. Why do I bring that up? Continue reading
Filed under food, Reality checks
Consult Keith 