Smack Down

Learning can be very challenging. VERY CHALLENGING. Sometimes you find yourself in the mud, the thick, and it sucks. You make repeated mistakes, same issues, and it's confounding, really...troubleshooting, reviewing your process, trying to understand why the errors are happening. It can feel like a smack down. A SMACK DOWN. It’s abrupt; it gives one …

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First-World, Any-World: Trials and Joy

Often things don’t go as planned; and certainly, they don’t always go as we’d like. That’s a common theme in life. A few First-World samples below that teach Any-World lessons. 1/ Adapt and overcome obstacles at work (and anywhere); don’t get frazzled. Pause, take a deep breath, take the next step. 2/ If your path …

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My Office Today & a Little Lemonade from Lemons

Saw it coming if I was paying attention. Very runny nose, increasingly frequent cough, growing crankiness (for him and me), and BOOM, my son got sick. Aren’t they always sick this time of year, little kids? Never mind. He’s gotta stay home sick, and today ok for me to work from home (Thankful!), so here …

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SOX Wants: An Audit Sample

Funny what an audit inspires... “It begins, it begins, with a friendly request; let's see a sample of your documentation for your orders of work. Everybody does it, gotta do it too. Let's see the work order document itself. Let's see the Goods Issue documents. Let's see the Goods Receipt documents. In the system, it …

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