We all know what they say when you assume something. It’s rarely the best course of action, and more likely than not, you end up with an inaccurate result. Business decisions are no different than run ...

Over the past year, it seemed plausible that we had turned the corner, and I optimistically assumed that the pandemic was making its final curtain call. Then came the COVID Omicron BA.1 variant, ...

Assumptions are just a part of life. To understand what the people around you are doing, you have to assume things about them. For example, if you understand a person’s goals, you can comprehend their ...

You know what they say about making assumptions! Whether because of where you live, where you work or where you come from, it’s so often that people make assumptions about you and me that, on many ...

The word “assume” means “to take for granted; suppose.” Most estimating departments are fast-paced environments, which requires the estimator to read many specifications in a short period of time. You ...

You’ve probably heard the saying about what happens when you assume. (You make an ass out of u and me.) That likely doesn’t stop you from doing it, though. Our brains love certainty, and when faced ...

I’ve been told on many a training day that to assume is to make an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me’. While it’s a cliché, it’s often true. Assumptions help you go from A to C without the middle bit. They ...

I bring this article to you after weeks of procrastination, because every time I forced myself to sit in front of my laptop, I wrote, rewrote and then deleted each sentence. I was gripped with the ...

Just because something seems unethical, immoral, unnecessary, wasteful or just plain wrong, doesn’t mean it is illegal or against the rules. Further, just because a person disagrees with something — ...