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 ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on aligning sales and marketing for fun and profit. “My biggest learning throughout my career is to never assume,” said ...

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, ...

Have you ever asked yourself if you guess too much? According to the Oxford dictionary, “guessing is the supposition that something is true without sufficient information.” It starts at a young age ...

Sydney Sweeney is defending her family after pictures from her mother's milestone birthday party were interpreted as political statements. On Saturday, the star of the HBO series "Euphoria" posted a ...

Retirement is a big question mark for most people. Even with planning, there will be some gray areas and opportunities for making assumptions about what to expect or how far your money will go. One of ...

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 — ...

As I was writing about professionalism last week, there were some interesting thoughts circulating about our industry's love of numbers and some questions about the accuracy of such numbers. Coming ...