Wes Phillips

John Humphreys spills the beans.

<I>Meet the new boss:</I> Tannoy has announced the promotion of sales and marketing director Andrzej Sosna to managing director of the Scotland-based loudspeaker manufacturer. The company's former managing director, Anders Fauerskov, will now assume the title of CEO of Tannoy's parent, TC Group, which bought the TGI group of companies, including Tannoy, in 2002. Sosna, in his role of product development director, has been called "the driving force behind Tannoy’s recent product successes."

<A HREF="http://www.vacuumtube.com"><I>Vacuum Tube Valley</I></A>, "The Classic Tube Electronics Journal & Tube Audio Electronics Resource," is hosting the VTV Audio and Music Expo at the Piscataway Embassy Suites May 6&ndash;7, 2006. (Embassy Suites, 121 Centennial Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854. Tel: (732) 980-0500.)

Maybe Bill Swanson was the first CEO to use the "How You Treat Your Waitron" metric, but I learned it from a date about 20 years ago in Oregon. It <I>is</I> a good rule of thumb, however. Also, note Swanson's other "Unwritten" rules on the left&mdash;it's a good list.

Searchable lyric base of RT's recordings. Hours of mindless fun.

Bagheera gets rude.

Huckleberry is appalled.