Number of words – 136 Alan realized that employees work better and more effectively when they are allowed to go home after their jobs are done for the day. He therefore decided to put his sanitation haulers on a task basis, where they are assigned certain tasks to accomplish each day. So when other city … Read more
Number of words – 139 Few sales people take the time to thoroughly research their prospects, their unique needs and operating environment. Jeremy knows that taking time and initiative to learn a bit about his potential clients before he meets with them will go a very long way in helping to make a sale, and … Read more
Number of words – 97 In an effort to help employees work better and more effectively, many organisations give them personality assessment tests. Depending on how any employee answers a variety of questions, he or she is categorised into a specific personality type. After seeing how useful personality assessment can be at the workplace, Gap … Read more
Number of words – 201 An employee of a controls manufacturers, found that he was constantly shuttling to the purchasing department to ask for more parts. Not only that, sometimes the parts that he needed weren’t there even in the company stockroom. On his own initiative, he began collecting information about the parts used. How … Read more
Number of words – 1,958 There’s increasing evidence to show that trees are able to communicate with each other. More than that, trees can learn. If that’s true — and my experience as a forester convinces me it is — then they must be able to store and transmit information. And scientists are beginning to … Read more
Number of words – 943 Wednesday’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida seems bound to evoke some sort of national conversation about gun control. Which means there will likely be some sort of debate about whether it would even be possible for the US to limit its millions of privately held … Read more
Number of words – 612 Mark Cuban grew up working class in Pittsburgh. His father installed upholstery in cars and his mom worked a myriad of odd jobs. Today, Cuban is worth more than $3 billion, owns the Dallas Mavericks and is a star on ABC’s hit reality television show, “Shark Tank.” He chased any … Read more
Number of words – 655 The argument about whether or not the universe had a beginning, persisted into the 19th and 20th centuries. It was conducted mainly on the basis of theology and philosophy, with little consideration of observational evidence. The cosmologist, Sir Arthur Eddington, once said, ‘Don’t worry if your theory doesn’t agree with … Read more
Number of words – 3,988 In this lecture, I would like to discuss whether time itself has a beginning, and whether it will have an end. All the evidence seems to indicate, that the universe has not existed forever, but that it had a beginning, about 15 billion years ago. This is probably the most … Read more
Number of words – 407 Over millions of years, evolution can do some wild things. In New Zealand, where almost no mammals live natively, birds took on every role in the food chain, from herbivores who waddled on the ground to fruit eaters who lived in the trees, to a giant terrifying eagle with a … Read more
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