Category: Business

American Telephone & Telegraph, the original name of the company founded by Alexander Graham Bell, held a monopoly on telecommunication in the US for many years.  Based on direction from the US Department of Justice, AT&T was divided into seven Regional Bell Operating

I just spent a few days at a business conference in New Orleans.   This was a summit on “Design for Six Sigma” and I co-presented the interim results from one of our projects.  While it was not a large meeting,

There are many folks that pretend to be professional consultants… the poster below sums up my viewpoint of those imposters:  

No, the Cincy Reds baseball team still sucks… and the Bengals can’t keep their players off of the police blotter page (or win a game when it really matters).  The new record for Cincinnati in 2006 is the quantity of

I don’t know if many of you subscribe to Sirius or XM, the two commercial satellite radio services, but I’ve not been overly impressed.  My current automobile came with a Sirius tuner built into my car’s stereo system, and they

Since we just visited Puerto Rico and traveled around almost half of the island, I thought it would be instructive to understand a little of its history and its relationship with the United States.  As I noted in my previous

I’ve been buying Dell computers for well over 15 years (note: I’m typing this posting on my Dell Latitude D620)… I started buying Dell during the days when there were at least 10 other alternatives such as Compaq, Acer, Systemax,

Take a look at the latest Mercedes concept car… the photo at the left shows a shiny new sports car.  However, the photo at the right indicates what’s coming down the pike — There is no steering wheel and no