An Employee’s Playbook

by Richard Harshaw Every successful team in professional sports has a playbook—a binder of plays they learn during the pre-season and then strive to execute flawlessly during the season as they seek the championship. Those with good playbooks—and coaches that know how...

It’s On My Heart: A Tough Trip

by Jim Hinshaw So just wondering how your day is going? I had a really frustrating day this week, and I am a normally positive guy. The glass is not half empty or half full, I am an engineer, it is the wrong size glass. Had a trip to Anaheim scheduled, in and out same...

It’s On My Heart: We Need Margin

by Jim Hinshaw Just finished a book, Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, by Richard Swenson. Our pastor quoted form this book a couple of weeks ago, he used it to challenge us to look at our lives in detail. The...

Title: Management by the Book

by Richard Harshaw In the next few issues of this publication, I want to talk about business management principles and ethics as laid down by one of the oldest books of wisdom and human enterprise ever written: the Bible. Now before you roll your eyes and groan, “Oh...

THE DUCT-FREE ZONE

by Gerry Wagner WHY NO HIGH-SIDE SERVICE PORT ON A MINI SPLIT? This is what I call the great mystery of the inverter mini split and one that the industry, and myself for that matter, hasn’t done a great job solving. I’m going to attempt to change all that right now…...