In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
- Redheaded men are the most likely to go bald.
- There are no photographs of Abe Lincoln smiling.
- Nearly one-fourth of the world’s population lives on less than $200 a year.
- Only 16% (16 out of 100) Americans can name the President on the $20 bill. (Jackson)
- The average NBA basketball lasts for about 10,000 bounces.
- The highest speed ever recorded on a bicycle was 140.5 miles per hour, at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, in 1973.
- The sound you hear when you put a shell to your ear is not the sea but blood flowing through your head.
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I must admit that I’m growing weary of the news. Radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, books and the Internet seem to be fighting for the right to tell me how miserable my life is at the moment. They also seem to enjoy telling me that it’s going to get much worse before it gets even a little better. I don’t need that.
Eleven-year-old Mikela Mercier is an athletic young lady living on the Big Island of Hawaii. She was recently shopping with her mother at the Salvation Army Family store in Kona when she paused to look at a Richard Simmons VHS exercise videotape.
A few weeks ago I shared a list of creative company names and signs in an article titled 
JAMAICAN ME HUNGRY (Caribbean cuisine)
Based on your location, you may very well not have one of these unique stores in your area. However, due to its continued success and growth, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard about The Container Store.
To achieve the company’s primary goal of providing extraordinary service, each store has a full-time trainer, and all employees receive more than 241 hours of training for employees in their first year—an astonishing feat for a retailer in an industry that usually provides workers with an average of seven hours of training per year. After their first year at The Container Store, full-time employees receive an average of 160 hours of training annually.
The Container Store employees enjoy tremendous benefits which most certainly account for their loyalty and low turnover. Those benefits include:
It seems as though we’re being bombarded by media stories that make you want to scream: “What were they thinking?” It doesn’t matter if they’re talking about politics, sports, business, entertainment, or any other aspect of daily news. Some of these stories are simply hard to believe.
I’m confident all the other airlines will each sit down immediately and write a thank-you note to United for creating such a wonderful policy. It obviously makes all other airlines look much more intelligent, concerned and customer-friendly.
This is our second installment of our focus on change. We’re going to continue to review the many past changes we’ve experienced, identify current changes we may be dealing with at the moment, and contemplate upcoming modifications and how they might affect you, your family and organization.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 1950, more than half of the milk sold was delivered to the home in glass quart bottles; by 1963, it was about a third and by 2001, it represented only 0.4%. The milkman also carried juice drinks, cottage cheese, and a variety of other dairy products. Sit down for this one. The majority of homes had a small insulated metal milk box on their porch. No lock. We actually left money in this box for the milkman and, after removing the money, he placed our order in this box, which protected the products from animals and the weather. Can you picture this happening today?
dialing 911 in case of emergencies
This type of robot isn’t exactly a new concept but, for the first time, they are both safe enough and now inexpensive enough to add tremendous value in the everyday home environment.
In today’s whirlwind business environment, we have far too many things to focus on … current national debt, mortgage crisis, healthcare crisis, jobs, food prices, oil prices, education, immigration, the environment, and social security to name a few. The media, in a variety of formats, hammers us on these issues almost hourly.
U.S. businesses face a shortage of millions of workers in the next 10 years. The Boston College Center on Aging and Work conducted a major survey of organizations across industries and discovered that only 33% of employers said that their business had analyzed workplace demographics and made projections about the retirement rates of their workers.
This critical issue is being treated like a bad weather report—we hear the news that the storm is coming, but we ignore the warnings until it is too late.
The bulk of its processing and sorting operations is performed at some 400 large, special-purpose mail processing plants … separate and distinct from its network of local, retail post offices.
