Watch whom you ask for help
For years, I have preached the importance of hard work, determination, persistence and practice – make that perfect practice – as key ingredients of...
Editorial Cartoon: A failure of words
A group of people sit sitting around a table at a meeting all look shocked as their manager – shown seated next to a...
Evidence-based medicine offers path to efficiency
In our current economy finding a solution to rising health care costs is more critical than ever. Important questions must be addressed about increasing...
How is your company cutting costs?
Has your company been forced to trim costs due to the economic slowdown?
• Yes – 90%
• No –...
Editorial Cartoon: Christmas wish
A child sitting on Santa’s lap tells Mr. Claus: “What do I want? How about cheap gas, a balanced budget and a growing...
Editorial Cartoon: Going Down
On the wall of a conference room hangs a huge chart with a jagged red line that dives downward and through the floor. In...
Real change in R.I. must start at the top
Oh, Rhody! I could go on for hours about your beautiful beaches, your green topography, your many community-involving events. And don’t even get me...
International business
Does your company conduct international business?
• Yes – 38.5%
• No – 61.5%
Do you plan on conducting...
Opportunity still exists in long decline ahead
The slowdown that many design and environmental firms are already facing and the likely recession and recovery that the industry will experience in 2009...
Editorial Cartoon: A Little Thanksgiving
Two men sit at a dining table on which a large platter bearing a tiny turkey. “Things ARE a bit different this year!,”...
