It’s never too soon when you’re starting a new business to take a break, catch your breath, look around, and make sure you’re heading in the right direction, doing the right things in the right way, ...

Here's a quick thought on measurement to contemplate as you head into the weekend. Scientists constantly wrestle with the problem of how their very presence in a research setting can change the ...

The post Employee Asks Supervisor If Their Store Sells Measuring Tapes, But The Supervisor Thinks Customers Should Look ...

Reading a tape measure can be mind-bogglingly difficult if you're unfamiliar. There are an abundance of small lines and marks, each one smaller than the last. Between inches, feet, and fractions of ...

Measurement is one of the most important math skills — not only in math class, but in daily life. People compare and measure things all the time in natural and spontaneous ways. Whenever objects or ...

We've another of those attempts to tell us that we should be measuring something other than Gross Domestic Product as an indicator of how well we're doing as a society. Like most such attempts there's ...

Believe it or not, adding a pinch of this, a handful of that, and a dash of “the good stuff” all counts as “measuring” your food; even if the unit of measurement is unique to you. There’s nothing ...

In my last post, I wrote about why it’s important for nonprofits to measure outcomes rather than activities. I was excited to see that the post sparked a discussion, but I also noticed that folks were ...

The old days of “measure everything that moves” ended with the advent of customer relationship management nearly a decade ago. Today's top contact centers realize that, to be successful, they must be ...

Get a better measuring tool. At MIT, there's a School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII) which is, of course, run out of the economics department. But they just released a study of ...

"I know it when I see it.” How do we define or quantify what we recognize instantly and viscerally, yet struggle to name or ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...