Lauren Camacci

There is a difference between success as achievement and achieving success. If you've ever played a game like Monopoly, you know that humans like to win and like to do …

A Japanese proverb states 人生に失敗がないと人生を 失敗する (jinsei ni shippai ga nai to jinsei wo shippai suru), or “A life without failure is a failure.” Whether in our personal lives or …

Communicating across any type of language barrier presents challenges to the business and yourself. Finding a natural balance, Chōwa, makes this barrier rewarding, rather than challenging. I interviewed two of …

The concept of the "company man" or "guy in the gray flannel suit" is old-timey phrase to describe the employee who is hired, does the same thing for 25+ years, …

We've all done the glassy-eyed speed-scroll to the end of a license agreement and clicked "I accept" without even reading it. It's hard not to! Written in legalese and tedious …

A significant contributor to Toyota's massive manufacturing success was the Andon cord. Pulling the cord at your station stopped production, which ultimately improved both product and process. Inside the correct company …

"Promotion" has many different meanings. To non-engineers, "promotion" might mean gaining a higher position at one's company. But even among engineers, promotion means different things in different technological contexts. In …

Having to seek help from an organization's "support" can feel like a trip to "Helpdesk Hell." These interactions too often end in frustration and wasted time. (And even those staffing the helpdesk …

WordPress is a an open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. Easy to use, reliable, secure, and highly customizable, it's no wonder it's the most popular CMS on the market! …

One of the hardest concepts in DevOps for me to understand (as a Marketing person) is the difference between load balancing and high availability. Both are about spreading traffic out over multiple …