by admin | Apr 2, 2015 | Diversity in Workforce, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development
It all started with a dollar a day. I am the youngest of eight children and when I was in the second grade, my mother began working full-time. There were four of us still living at home and someone needed to get dinner on the table. I worked out an arrangement with my...
by admin | Mar 26, 2015 | Leadership Development
Life lessons can be pretty straightforward. For example, you go jogging in the dead of winter and end up flying through the air on black ice. Most likely by the time you land, you’ve learned to look for ice before setting off for a February morning run. The lessons I...
by admin | Feb 19, 2015 | Leadership Development, Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
Hiring the right person is a work of art. So is firing someone. There are many articles written about hiring and retaining the ideal candidate for your organization. Hiring the right people is so important that some companies are even moving into big data to...
by admin | Jan 22, 2015 | Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Management Tips
I left the Ivy League to go to culinary school. Although I didn’t know it at the time, my culinary experiences impacted my leadership and management philosophy in some profound ways. I wrote a series of articles about those lessons and became inspired to re-read Danny...
by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Executive Coaching, Leadership Development
I’ve wanted to surf my whole life, which is ironic considering I was raised in upstate New York, could hardly swim and was terrified of putting my face in water. Yet I had dreams of riding a wave and enjoying every minute of it. I’m a runner and a biker;...
by admin | Dec 18, 2014 | Diversity in Workforce, Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Future of Work, Leadership Development, Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
Looking back on 2014, it’s clear that the US workforce is drastically changing. The freelance workforce is at 53 million strong and rising, women are increasingly leaving the corporate world to start their own businesses (which are growing 50% faster than new...
