Sanford named new R.I. chair of Employer Support of the Guard...
CHRISTOPHER SANFORD, principal for Warwick-based PuroClean Disaster Restoration Services, was recently named the new Rhode Island chair for the Employer Support of the Guard...
Bad manners are bad business
The virtuoso musician Franz Liszt once found himself at odds with a very important member of his audience. The czar of Russia, Nicholas I,...
Follow these tips to keep top talent
The market for great talent has become very tight. Companies in a hiring mode are solidly in the hunt. They need more talent to...
Obamacare has survived. Can it thrive?
November is here, and in most U.S. states that means the start of open enrollment, the sign-up period for obtaining insurance via the Affordable...
Directors MIA on employee well-being
CEOs come and go, but boards of directors remain. Boards set strategic objectives and hold CEOs accountable for achieving them. They are the glue...
Diossa receives Brighter Futures award
JAMES A. DIOSSA, mayor of Central Falls, recently received the Brighter Futures Award from Family Service of Rhode Island during the nonprofit’s annual award...
Realize your maximum potential
A famous art professor died and went to heaven. At the pearly gates, the professor asked St. Peter, “Sir, I spent most of my...
How to get prospects to find you
“I am looking to further my prospecting techniques,” the salesperson wrote in his email. “It seems I need to increase my ratios by the...
Why housing is tanking in Northeast
Sales of new single-family houses were down 13.2 percent in September from a year earlier, the Census Bureau reported recently. That’s a lot –...
Ferguson receives environmental merit award
WENLEY FERGUSON, director of habitat restoration for Save The Bay, recently received the Environmental Protection Agency’s New England Environmental Merit Award at a ceremony...
