Over the past year, Purifoy LLC of Livonia, Michigan, has combined a number of positions in an effort to improve the bottom line. The most recent, on September 1, was the appointment of Tom Talbert to Chief Financial Electrician. Hired as an electrician in 2012, he’ll now also be...

After meeting regularly since February of 2021 and spending $4.33 million on research, the ad hoc logo committee at Parker-Glossman announced a stunning change to the company’s long-standing logo. It is now parker:glossman. “Yesterday we were hyphenated and old-fashioned,” CEO Sylvia Nordman wrote to the firm’s 3000 employees. “Today we are...

When employee stress levels increased to 142 facto points* in December - up from 103 last March - Milwaukee sampling conglomerate Chanting-Pierce was quick to take action.   “We have mandated that all employees must achieve a level of 85 facto-points by March 1,” says Human Resources VP Veronica Hallinger....

Chicago’s Feldman Group reports that, on January 3, an outside caller somehow managed to get through to an actual employee.  The incident occurred at 10:47 AM, the first time it had happened in over 23 years.  Here is a leaked transcript of the conversation between the caller and the employee. (The...

 A Cleveland advertising executive is behind bars this week, after allegedly throwing an account pitch to a potential big client. Vice President Joe Pillster was leading the presentation for his long-time employer, the Plowman Group, which was vying to represent parsley-based soft drink maker Meemo. The account is worth $18...

Watch this Cubicle F Tutorial to learn the difference between the ball you get rolling, the ball you don't drop, the balls you keep in the air, and all related and ancillary balls.

Chicago home goods maker Peers & Webb has achieved the goal that has eluded businesses for over a century: A product package that is absolutely impossible to open. On September 15, the American Packaging Institute certified the hard plastic cover on P & W’s Aunt Annie’s Twin Flashlights as Guaranteed...

We take a look at a few stories that may or may not happen this year - from the Michigan Central Station to the D.I.A. Quicken Loans Chairman Dan Gilbert purchases his 100th building in Detroit – Stanley Freeman’s Barber Shop on Oakland Ave. Mr. Freeman stays on as...

In today’s cautious environment, it is rare that anything is actually brought to completion. The average decision today involves 42 people and takes 12 days and 17 hours – up an average of 52,000% since 1990. On the average, meetings and deadlines are postponed 77 percent of the time -...

Being an effective micro-manager is an ongoing challenge. Continually fine-tuning one's skills is essential in order to keep up with the six million US managers who advance to micro-management every year. From the US Association of Micro-Management, here are six tips for keeping skills sharp: The micro-managing standard of asking...

Q) I run a large car company. My technology people keep coming up with new ways to keep track of everything drivers do in their cars. Now the cars are even communicating directly with their drivers, just like people! For a while this was good for sales, but buyers...

When it opened three years ago - at a time when many were still concerned about Covid-19 - the new Montie's in Midtown Detroit needed an edge: Its ingredients-free menu seems to be doing the trick. "Our first three months in business we averaged 12 customers a night," says eatery...