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Communicating Effectively
My friend, author-speaker Nido Qubein, in his Executive Briefing newsletter, gives some advice on communicating with people from other cultures. "We must remember that people from different backgrounds send and receive messages through cultural filters. Words, expressions and gestures that mean one thing in one culture may mean something entirely different in another culture.

Work-Life Balance Tips for Busy People - your starting point
This article offers compelling reasons why work-life balance is crucial for busy people and the dangers faced if this issue is ignored. The article will serve as a starting point and contains a real life story (perhaps similar to yours), statistics from the USA to Australia and finishes with a relevant and personal question.

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Kyaizen An Old New Quality Concept
The Japanese word 'Kaizen' means gradual, unending improvement; doing little things better; setting - and achieving - ever-higher standards. Masaaki Imai, the author of a book with the same title in the late eighties, says that it is Kaizen that is the simple truth behind Japan's economic miracle and the real reason the Japanese have become the masters of "flexible manufacturing" technology - the ability to adapt manufacturing processes to changing customer and market requirements, and do it fast.
Michigan Workers’ Compensation Costs Have Risen Drastically Due To Explosive Growth In Health Care Costs
The number of claims filed are not primarily responsible for rising workers’ comp costs because many workers remain uninformed about their rights to benefits for workplace injury or occupational diseases. The fact is that almost all employers know far more about workers’ comp law than does the average employee. Although many employers are honest and well-intended, there are far, far too many unethical employers who will cheat their workers out of entitled benefits.

A Process For Quality
A formal quality assurance process can improve nearly any type of business, as American quality assurance guru W. Edwards Deming proved with the Japanese car industry. Perhaps it's time we took the quality process as seriously as the Japanese. Here's an overview of Deming's approach.
How to be An Effective Leader in a Virtual Team
One of the major problems companies are facing is how to manage their workers. Most of them have this wrong belief that remote workers and workers at home are not as productive as an in house staffer.

Training the Trainer
Education training is a billion dollar business, as many companies find themselves spending lots of their capital on furthering the educational value of their workers. Because of the lucrative nature of this business, many companies are now training workers from within to become trainers. Training the trainer has become an exciting field for workers who wish to boost their profile and their wages.
The Amazing Karaoke Decades Game
Living in Japan, one ends up in a karaoke box every now and then. I find that singing karaoke is a great way to relieve stress and bond with friends, new and old. Karaoke is also a great place to practice your Japanese if you are a Japanese language student or someone that is on a quest of improving his/her proficiency.
Total Productive Maintanance Techniques
TPM is an innovative Japanese concept. The origin of TPM can be traced back to 1951 when preventive maintenance was introduced in Japan. However the concept of preventive maintenance was taken from USA. Thus all employees took part in implementing Productive maintenance. Based on these developments Nippondenso was awarded the distinguished plant prize for developing and implementing TPM, by the Japanese Institute of Plant Engineers (JIPE).
Sailors, Maritime Workers Protected By Special Laws For On-the-Job Injuries
Sailors and maritime workers who are injured on the job do have remedies to seek to get recovery for damages and expenses incurred. But there’s a totally different set of laws to protect maritime workers than for workers injured on the land.

Addressing the Needs of Seasonal Employees
Tis the season…for more workers! In many places, especially retail locations, the fall season signifies a flurry of seasonal, temporary workers to help make the holiday rush activity function smoothly. How can workers become quickly acclimated to the organization’s culture, in order to yield the desired levels of productivity and efficiency? Furthermore, the season itself carries stress. How can an organization and all its employees survive the pressure? In this issue of Astronology, we take a look at these challenges.
Hard Work and Frugality
One of the keys to success in a small business is the stamina and drive to work long hours day in and day out.In a family business this can be a source of family bonding and pride. An elderly shop owner shares his secrets for a happy life and laments the lack of ambition and hard work in the young workers of today.There does appear to be a generational gap in the attitudes toward work. The entepreneureal spirit is alive and well but lacks a realistic understanding of the effort it takes to succeed.This Japanese business owner is a good example of the determination that is required to run a thriving business.
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