Recent Articles

  • Jumping into the shark tank: My Porsche 928 purchase experience

    Harvey Ferris

    ​I'm not exactly sure when it started, but for a while now I've been entranced with the look of the Porsche 928. Oh, I guess it started a few years back when I picked up a 944 for track usage and naturally got to looking at the 944's big brother. It certainly wasn't because I got excited about them when they were new.

  • The scramble for East Africa

    Stefanie Heerwig

    Go East might be the new motto for oil and gas investors buzzing around in the search of profitable routes to new markets, low cost and little risk. Over the past few years, the hype about East Africa has grown after oil was found in Uganda and Madagascar and gas in Tanzania and Mozambique. And now also Kenya is becoming a hot spot — probably even the first East African oil exporter before Uganda.

  • Efforts to reduce waste in healthcare lead to job loss for many

    Pamela Lewis Dolan

    ​Job reports indicate hospitals and health systems are laying people off in quantities not seen since 2009. But the news should not be viewed as a cut in services. Rather, an effort to improve efficiencies and reduce waste, industry insiders say.

  • 5 best practices for a company car

    Sladen West

    In small and medium-sized businesses, many things are left unstructured as the business owner relies on his relationship with his or her employees to keep things under control. In the case of a company car, it can be easy to skip creating a set policy and just deal with issues as they arise, but this leaves the company vulnerable to liability.

  • Goals: Why aren’t you meeting yours?

    Jeff White

    ​We all know it is important to not only set goals, but also to talk about why some reach their goals and why others don't. From what I've seen, people set goals but often don't realize the amount of work it'll take to reach those goals. Many times, the goal you want to reach will force many changes in your life, and many of those changes will be big changes.

  • Physician burnout: No one cares — but you should

    Dr. Jonathan Kaplan

    ​Have you read the articles over the last several months about physician burnout and fatigue? I’ll admit that as someone in the physician fishbowl, I’m on the inside and hear a lot about physician burnout that most of the public may not see. But doctors are upset and having significant emotional distress because of their chosen field.

  • An open letter to tour company suppliers

    Shebby Lee

    ​I am a writer. Not surprisingly, I like to have my work read. Mostly I write tour descriptions, ad copy, newsletters or blogs encouraging prospective customers to book tours. But there are other uses for my golden prose, and it always surprises me that more travel professionals don’t take advantage of these opportunities to get to know their current and prospective clients better.

  • At the cutting edge of environmentally advanced cooling

    Andrew Gaved

    ​Our recent Cooling Industry Awards once again provided refrigeration and air conditioning suppliers the opportunity to demonstrate their environmentally advanced innovations.

  • Fostering STEM vocabulary development in ESL students

    Beth Crumpler

    With the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, content-area literacy is a huge focus right now. The Common Core State Standards emphasize the literacy of math, science and technical subjects in English language arts. Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) content areas difficult for ESL students.

  • 1 Web trend churches should do well

    Mark MacDonald

    Website design paradigms are constantly changing. Thanks in part to coding abilities and analytics (the ability to know what a person is looking for online). Since we realize what people are looking for, Web designers and content developers (that's you!) are trying to create "user-centric" design.