George Crum's father was an African-American, and his mother was a Native American. Crum was a well-respected chef at the Cary Moon Lodge in Saratoga Springs, NY. One day a persnickety customer declared that the potatoes he ordered were not sliced thin enough and sent them back to the k...
I’m not going to go into too much depth because believe it or not, the story of the potato is actually really important and it was responsible for much of the growth of Europe and I’m going to dedicate a whole episode to it. The potato wasn’t accepted at first. Many people thoug...
While it's certainly valid to fear that a newly trained employee might go to the competition, it's equally logical to wonder why a newly trained employee would leave... Maybe this was not the right hire in the first place... Maybe the very culture or a non-existent culture of the com...
While Congress funded Collins, Cornelius Vanderbilt started his own steamship company. Vanderbilt cut the costs of travel, filled his ships with eager passengers, and built a fabulously successful business, soon leaving Collins in his wake. Collins failed because he didn’t feel a need to improve,...