This seems to be good-advice day. I am reading Exceeding Customer Expectations, about Enterprise Rent-a-Car’s highly successful business practices. As expected, it is full of good advice. Key seems to be: assure that your customers are completely satisfied. And then, reading a completely unrelated magazine article, I ran across this adage: Learn from the mistakes […]
Chanukah — Day 1 — Freedom of Worship
Chanukah starts tonight, our annual “festival of lights.” It gets tangled up with Christmas because, well, because kids (big and little) like to get presents. Who can complain? Our holiday is completely different than Christmas, though. Several themes comprise Chanukah and, over the next eight days, I will be writing about the ones that seem […]
Gratitude
This seems to be the year for in-my-face opportunities for thankfulness. My family is having its problems; life isn’t perfect. But it ain’t nothin’ compared to lots of other people that I know. At least three of the women in my life are battling breast cancer and one man has another kind of cancer. One […]
Machine Gun Sentry Robot
NewLaunches.com brings news that Samsung develops machine gun sentry robot. Samsung has partnered with Korea university and developed the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry. Do you remember the scientists who worked on the atomic bombs and later regreted their decisions to do so? I am afraid that we are about to see history repeat itself. One […]
Live Transparently
Joseph poses a good idea in his posting on Changes in Lobbying Practices Lobbyists would be required to hire a Congressional stenographer to record the entire interaction, every single time they interact with someone in Congress. The transcript would then go on the Internet. Better yet, the whole thing also would be videotaped, and the […]