Recent Articles

• Nurse leaders must engage the left and right sides of the brain

  Keith Carlson Healthcare Administration

  ​There are many types of nurse leaders within the nursing ecosystem, and leadership styles can vary widely. For nurse leaders seeking to offer a balanced style of leadership that meets a wide variety of demands, considering both the left- and right-brain aspects of leadership is one good place to focus.

• Blue Bell returns to stores, but can it make a full comeback?

  Bambi Majumdar Retail

  Kroger's warm message for Blue Bell ice cream said it all: "Welcome back Blue Bell, you are not just an ice cream, you are family!" Fans and stores across North Texas waited with bated breath for the Blue Bell comeback on Monday, Nov. 2. A trip to the grocery store early that morning showed buyers already lining up and getting multiple tubs of their favorite ice cream, which had been taken off the shelves for months following a listeria scare.

• Increase cash flow through mechanics liens and bond claims

  Nate Budde Construction & Building Materials

  Construction industry payment challenges can limit a company's available cash and result in too much past-due A/R. Because of this, construction companies fail at a higher rate than nearly any other industry. However, even when the problems are mere annoyances and frustrations and don't rise to a level critical for the solvency of the business, the associated headaches and the time consumed just trying to get paid can be severely burdensome.

• The keys to preventing lead exposure

  Piyush Bakshi Waste Management & Environmental

  ​​Lead is among the six common air pollutants that impact air quality in America, according to the EPA. The others are particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone and sulfur dioxide. Once upon a time, unleaded gasoline used in vehicles was the biggest source of lead in the air. However, over a period of two decades from 1980 to 1999, the EPA managed to bring down lead pollution from the transportation sector by 95 percent. Today, the most common sources of lead emissions include lead smelters, metal processing units, waste processing units and lead-acid battery manufacturers.

• Clean cold marches on in Europe

  Andrew Gaved Manufacturing

  The technology of cryogenic cooling is continuing to live up to its billing of being one of the most disruptive technologies the industry, following a high-profile launch event in London earlier this month. The Birmingham Energy Institute Policy Commission — the organization backing the technology — is proving equally disruptive in the often-low-key world of refrigeration by gaining support among academics, politicians and commercial interest alike for its aim to take a systems approach to low-emission cooling.

• Don’t phone it in: 10 tips to work from home like a pro

  Brie Ragland Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  It's a common misconception for people to think telecommuters are slackers. When you tell someone, "Yeah, I work from home three days a week," the typical response is, "Wow, must be nice to not have to really work a full week." Of course, working from home must mean slacking off and duping "the man" to get paid, right? Wrong! As a matter of fact, a Stanford University study showed that people working full-time from home are 13 percent more efficient.

• Teaching behavior safety is just ‘common sense’

  Michael S. Haro, Ph.D. Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Behavior safety is "common sense." To understand why, let's start by comparing computer hardware and software — another common-sense issue. For a computer, hardware makes it an object. Sitting there, it gives an appearance of significance. It even scares some people by its appearance, and what we've been told it can do. Yet it has little value if it only occupies space on a desk. Without software, it's worthless.

• Smile for the camera: Cockpit recorders are here to stay

  Mark Huber Transportation Technology & Automotive

  ​Surveillance cameras are everywhere today — where we shop, live, work and drive. In our post-9/11 world, it seems like they are in every shopping mall and on every street corner. Some are placarded with signs, some are hidden, but they are there, and there is no escaping it.

• Interoperability still lacking, but patients want more

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  ​​According to a new report by SoftwareAdvice, patient consumers are acutely aware of health information exchange and interoperability, and of whether their physicians are connected and able to share data freely across the healthcare spectrum to provide the best in care.

• When your website says no, but you say go

  Mark MacDonald Religious Community

  ​I was driving down a city street in a school zone, and a police officer was directing traffic. He had eight lanes of traffic to work with, and his arms were swinging with various gestures in various directions. I thought he was telling the lane next to me to stop and for me to go. I was wrong. Fortunately, the police officer "allowed" me to proceed, and no one was hurt.

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