Global competition had forced America to completely rethink the way it did business in addition, advances in computer technology had reached critical mass. The resulting profound change for organizations, the workplace, and individual workers created a host of euphemisms for the word lay off reengineer, downsize, and rightsize among them. Just as the early 1980s [...]
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Jan 30
The Architectural And Design Communities
The end of World War II The end of World War II brought a period of prosperity to the United States that lasted almost 20 years. America had definitively won the war. By putting its own interests aside and contributing its physical and material resources to the war effort, corporate America was in large part [...]
Jan 20
Professional Interior Designers
When interior design actually became recognized as a profession is a subject for debate. Some scholars believe that interior design was not acknowledged as an independent profession in America until 1897,when Edith Wharton and
Ogden Codman, Jr., published The Decoration of Houses. The authors are considered the first to define the profession as it is viewed [...]
