Earlier this year, a story in The Huffington Post listed 13 of the many words invented by William Shakespeare – including “gloomy,” "majestic,” and “zany.” What many don't know, however, is that he is also responsible for inventing numerous standard business terms. We see just a few of them in...

A popular employee at Milwaukee’s Lamernoy Genistics is taking its CEO to court over the right to keep using a friendly greeting he says he invented and has been using for over 20 years.   Says analyst Max Torrey:  “I go up to people, put one hand on their left...

Norman Williston, a file clerk at Palmeri Marketing in Columbus Ohio, asks the same question every time he passes someone in the hallway: “Working hard…or hardly working?” He’s been asking it ever since he was hired in 2021 – numerous times every day to dozens of the company’s 350...

A health care system already strained by Covid-19 has also been dealing with another challenge – injuries caused by increased pivoting in the workplace. Since March 2020, over 15 million US businesspeople have been treated for pivoting-related muscle and tissue trauma. “Before the Covid pandemic most people went through their...

To help not-so-young employees adjust to all the young people descending on Detroit, a mandatory training program reviews language, celebrities, behaviors, and other trendy topics.

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...

The Nevergo consortium of St. Louis notified its 1300 employees this week that it is no longer sufficient to give 110 percent. New requirements – which increase expectations to as much as 113.2 percent depending on how long the employee has worked at the company – were introduced. “With other...

A downtown Columbus, Ohio, bar is being sued for $10 million by an auditor who says she was asked to leave it on January 9, 2023. The reason? She was sad during happy hour. “I’d messed up the transactionals report, gotten a reprimand, and needed a drink,” says Mary Jo...

After spending two years and 82,000 meeting hours trying to develop a new formulation platform, Cleveland techno-aggregator Quality 1.1 found itself hopelessly mired between two strategies:  Advancing pre-productive platforms or reassembling multi-factored transitions. So, as often happens with companies in such situations, top executives recommended going back to the drawing...

Warwick-Hills Financial informed all employees this week that they are now required to utilize the expression "at the end of the day" when finalizing statements or summarizing points. Up until now, staffers had the option of using a number of other options, including "when all is said and done," and...

Having read 787 business advice books, Sarah Watney, an ultra-analyst at Chicago’s Millington Group, believed she had memorized every "do" and "don't" necessary to advance her career.  Last March 16, as she stood at the complimentary espresso machine chatting with colleagues, CEO Mike Harderman walked past and nodded at...

On the heels of “Potscrubbers” and “Cincinnati Sprinkles,” the just-launched “Drucker” looks like another success for streaming service Nimble.  The show stars Carson Clemmons, acclaimed for his role as the umpire with a secret in “Psychopathish.”  Set in 1972, the new show is based on the character Sam Drucker, proprietor...