Recent Articles
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Housing squeeze keeps remodelers busy
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesAs home values increase, current homeowners are choosing to redecorate and renovate rather than buy up to a newer home. With a shortage of desirable, affordable homes on the market, first-time buyers are opting to purchase a less expensive home and remodel when the home they prefer is not available.
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How do you handle founder’s syndrome?
William D. Pawlucy and Robert C. Harris Association ManagementImagine how uncomfortable the board was. The founder of the organization had just asserted that, although the bylaws prescribed term limits, he was not ready to step aside. "I founded the organization, and I'm not sure my passion and principles will be sustained," he explained. It was a delicate situation.
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Work begins on Boeing’s first overseas production plant
Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & AutomotiveA strategic plan by Boeing to streamline output of its most popular airplane has taken a step closer to reality this week as work commenced on a new completion and delivery plant in China. The facility is located at Zhoushan Airport in eastern China, some 175 miles by road from Shanghai on an island in the East China Sea.
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3 summer church communication preparations
Mark MacDonald Religious CommunityHow can it be already? It's right around the corner. Summer. Depending on who you talk to, summer may have already started for families with college-aged kids. However, for most school systems, we're starting summer vacation within only a few short weeks.
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10 tips for dealing with jobsite conflict
Sue Dyer Construction & Building MaterialsA project team was separated only by the locked doors to the two trailers that sat side-by-side on their wastewater treatment project site. Every day for six months the owner's team and the contractor's team filled their days with writing letters. Back and forth, they literally emailed more than 1,200 letters. The purpose of each letter was clear — to prove the other side was to blame.
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Have doctors gotten a bad rap in the fight against opioids?
Cait Harrison Medical & Allied HealthcareOpioid addiction has become a sickening problem in America. The powerful pain relievers, available legally by prescription — such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, fentanyl and many others — are easy to become addicted to and even more difficult to break away from.
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Is Michelle Obama’s girls education program coming to an end?
Bambi Majumdar EducationThere have been conflicting reports about the ending of Michelle Obama's girls education program. The start of this month saw a Trump administration memo announcing the end of the "Let Girls Learn" program. The backlash was swift and fierce. Within a week, the government announced that it is not going to stop or make any changes to the program.
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WannaCry might make healthcare leaders do just that
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationOne of the world's largest-ever cyberattacks is making people "WannaCry" — which is also the given name of this most impressive bad actor. This new ransomware attack — also dubbed WannaCrypt, WanaCrypt0r 2.0 and Wanna Decryptor — has so far affected more than 250,000 computer systems in more than 150 countries across the globe, hampering public services, government, commercial businesses and health systems.
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Stop doing that: How to take job duties away from an employee
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhich is more difficult: taking work away from an employee or giving her additional work? For any manager who has tried to reallocate responsibilities among staff, it is clear that taking away work can be just as difficult as adding it. Here are three reasons employees may want to keep their responsibilities and when and how to take them away.
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3 Porsches among 700 vehicles at rare car auction
Dave G. Houser Transportation Technology & AutomotiveMost of us are natural-born pack rats. At some point in our lives we've collected things such as coins, comics, bottles or baseball cards. It seems that the habit of collecting is an essential human trait. That clearly is the case for Ron Hackenberger, an 80-year-old retired real estate agent from Norwalk, Ohio. He has spent half his life assembling a collection of more than 700 wheeled vehicles — cars (including three Porsches), trucks, motorcycles, tractors, buses, wagons and buggies.