Upon graduating from college I took a temp job with a local business doing basic accounts receivable reconciliations and research.  The job w as rather mundane and uneventful but it did leave a scar on me.  My assignment manager was a super nice lady th at was very experienced and likely overworked.  Her office was deplorable! The first time I walked in I was stopped about two feet in the door by stacks, upon stacks of paper printouts from the GL.  She instructed me to have a seat and I politely moved a stack from the chair and placed it at her direction upon another stack.  Gingerly stepped over...

I have always found the concept of RSS very compelling but not entirely useful.  As a tool RSS or Really Simple Syndication makes a lot of sense and is an easy way to share text and information.  This blog has an RSS feed you can subscribe to.  That is the crux of my issue with RSS.  I find a site that is useful and interesting and they offer an RSS feed but what do I do with it.  All of my daily programs provide the ability to add an RSS feed – Outlook, Safari, Apple Mail, Chrome.  I can put RSS on my dashboard, widgets on my desktop, the possibilities are endless but none have been...

“How productive are you?” it is a simple question right? It is a question that many managers struggle to answer despite the platitudes given in board rooms and staff meetings about efficiency and being productive.   Most economist will agree that productivity can be defined as the measurement of output per unit of input.   More simply stated productivity is output divided by input.  An organization can easily calculate this equation and easily to determine the level of productivity in the organization.  It is done in most organizations quite frequently and without the explicit statement of a...