Jenna Savitch, 29, of the Palliston Group in Royal Oak has become the first Certified Public Accountant in the USA to begin a sentence with the word "So....." On the average, Americans under 30 begin 29 percent of their sentences with the word: "So I got up this morning and...

Q) Is “stepping up to the plate” the same thing as “getting on board?” I’ve asked around. Some of my colleagues say yes and some say no, and since my boss says them both to me a lot I feel I need to know if there's a difference. A)...

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...

As if the past couple years haven’t already presented their share of challenges, last week the town of Massington, Illinois experienced the worst flooding it has seen in over 150 years.  On February 1, the LaPelle River rose to 40 feet over flood stage - apparently the result of...

When Sheila Landress, a parameters assistant at Miami's Heinz Limited, said in a recent task force meeting that a proposal on transformation was wrong “on so many levels,” she didn’t anticipate being asked to identify each of the many levels on which she believed the proposal was wrong. With all...

A Fraser woman is suing propeller-maker Norco, claiming she was wrongly dismissed because a company-assigned joke made a co-worker seriously ill. To boost morale, Norco holds a monthly “Fun Friday” in which ten employees are assigned to employ novelty items on their colleagues –dribble glasses, joy buzzers, etc. ...

Alice McMahon dreamed about working for Sims Walters. After all, this was the ad agency known for its creative genius – the people behind Curt the Carpet Cleaning Cat and the First City Bank “We Took Your Money” campaign. So she was thrilled when, fresh out of Wayne State University,...

Whether you leave a job on your own or against your will, it’s likely that a potential new employer will contact your former company to get some information about you.   “Too many people think a company can say what it wants,” says Dr. Ramona Collins of the Kansinton Institute. ...

Brainstorm This! - a movie based on a legendary 982-hour task force meeting at Cleveland's Minsick Bolts - will begin filming in that city next summer. The longest task force meeting ever recorded, it ran from July 7 to August 14, 2015. “The group was organized to discuss ways to...

It’s essential to any career to consistently present a poised, confident persona – even in the lavatory.  Here are ten steps to ensure success.

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...

Just some of the businesses along one mile of a Detroit Street that's not in Downtown, Midtown or Corktown.