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A brief piece about nothing in particular to celebrate the weekend and to help you negotiate your next salary increase. If anyone ever repeats this article to me, I shall vehemently deny that I wrote it. The reason: it deals more with magic than with engineering or the relationship between value and salary. Read the rest of this entry »
More good reasons to go to the SME Annual Meeting & Exhibit in Denver next week: basically to meet with the people who constitute “the mining industry,” and remind oneself that the “industry” is not the faceless ogre that detractors try to paint, but rather that mines are groups of nice people striving in earnest to do good. First, I hope to connect with these folk with whom I have e-interacted but not met in person:
- Kay Sever, who now has three papers on TechnoMine, is the most recent. She deals with continuous improvement in mine workplace quality and performance.
- Richard Phelps is an ex-mining magazine editor who just started a new consulting company, Global Mining RiSC.
