• Companies Behaving Badly – Happy 2014

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!   Welcome to 2014 and I wish each and everyone of you, a happy, healthy and prosperous new year.  Ah yes, inhale, love that fresh new year smell!  Ready to hit the ground running full of promise as we begin a new start and ready to nail those… Listen ⇢

  • 2013 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,300 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that… Listen ⇢

  • Don’t Negotiate with Terrorists

    You’re met them, you work with them and now Cranston Holden tells you how to deal with them. An important read for all manager this time of year. Listen ⇢

  • Companies Behaving Badly – December Lights

    Hey there, hi there, ho there.  Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas to all.  Growing up in New York City, I have some great memories associated  with this time of year.  The cold nip in the air that turned my cheeks red while strolling down 5th Avenue checking out all… Listen ⇢

  • Aunt Ida’s Recipes For Disaster – Noxious Spicy Soup

      Welcome to the first edition of Aunt Ida’s Recipes for Disaster.  As you may know I was recently cleaning and organizing the garage when a vaguely familiar looking, old wooden box covered in cobwebs and dust caught my attention.  It contained sheets of looseleaf paper and 3×5 index cards… Listen ⇢

  • The Group Ambush

    It seems to me that simple, common sense views and solutions to issues are so easily over looked in today’s world. If it doesn’t have a snappy name like Kaizen or Sigma or bells and whistles people seem to ignore it, but alas a rose by any other name… Cranston… Listen ⇢

  • Companies Behaving Badly – December

    Wow!  Where did the year go people?  Time sure does fly when you’re having fun and busy as many of you have been and are now.  Busy making lists of gifts to buy, busy planning menus making sure you have dishes for vegans, gluten free and the traditional meat and… Listen ⇢

  • Companies Behaving Badly – Thanksgivukkah

    By the time the middle of November hits, you know the year is winding down and the festive times are about to begin. The tree has been selected and trucked down to Rockefeller Center in Manhattan and is being prepared for it’s debut. People are beginning to stress over seating… Listen ⇢

  • Recipes For Disaster!

    So I’ve been busy with a new client implementing a 5S program when… o.k., I was really cleaning and organizing the garage for my longest and dearest client, my wife.   I was put into service when she asked me to practice what I get paid to preach.  My attention… Listen ⇢

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