Don’t Give Retailers Your Zip Code

When a retailer asks for your zip code, phone number or email address, they could really be using this data to put you on a mailing list that you didn’t sign up for.  Unless you want to be on their mailing list, just say no.  For more info see:

Just say no, when a retailer asks for your zip code.

 

#21 – RISK VERSUS PROCESS BASED AUDITS – UMBERTO TUNESI

Umberto Tunesi pixJames Lamprecht’s preliminary ISO 9001:2015 comments published on # 20 CERM Risk Insights Magazine catalyzes thinking, last but not least on requirement 9.2, internal audit.

Certainly this ISO 9001 supporting process is going to be more challenging; but it will become more subjectively-controlled, too, therefore open to endless – and useless – comparisons based on the very human principle “I’m better than you”.   Continue reading

#21 – WHAT’S HOT AND WHAT’S NOT IN THE JOB HUNT – ELIZABETH LIONS

Elizabeth Lions PixSummer is heating up and so is the job search for many in the U.S. Yesterday a report ran that we are now at the same unemployment level as it was in 2008. People are ready to make a change.

Clients constantly ask me if what is hot in the job search. Here are 6 hiring trends in 2013. Continue reading

#19 – FUTURE OF CERTIFICATION – UMBERTO TUNESI

Umberto Tunesi pixI am just looking at a local supermarket paper receipt: on its backside, together with the paper manufacturer’s logo, there is also a three-letters logo, meaning that – somehow – the forests from which the wood to make that paper is identified. 

Please raise your hand if you know what forest stewardship stands for, and what forests, and trees, produce the oxygen we need to breathe. Continue reading