Hitchhiker in the Corner Office

Misys is a global software company that provides services to the financial services and healthcare sectors.  Its main headquarters are in London, but it has it Healthcare Sector based here in the Research Triangle Park (Raleigh, NC) area.  I was impressed to find out from several employees that Misys understands how to do the small [...]

Why A Longer Tenure is a Good Investment There’s a great line in “The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers that says, “You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em; know when to walk away and know when to run.” What was intended for card sharks still rings true for today’s savvy [...]

2010: A Candidate Crisis. Sounds like some scary science fiction movie, doesn’t it? Don’t we wish! Unfortunately, it’s the sound of our future – and it’s right around the corner! According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2010 there will be a “… shortage of roughly 10 million workers.” Are you already feeling the [...]

Many probably think that job hoppers are only at the mid and entry level ranks.  Well that is just not true any more.  You can see those hitchhikers at just about any level and the executive suite certainly is  not immune to that. Case in point is what just happened at Mexican Restuarants Inc (MRI) [...]

It has taken me a lot of time to digest all of the Don Imus controversy and how this really relates back to the bigger picture of race in America.  My father came to this country in the 1950′s among all of the tension with Brown vs Board of Elections and as an Asian he [...]

    Too often we equate excellence with our picture-perfect image of who meets our own criteria for distinction. Excellence is a feeling as much as anything else; we know it when we see it because when we see it we feel it. Too often, however, what we see in the mirror becomes our comfort zone.    [...]

A recent study from the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation this week reported that the gap of pay between the sexes seems to be getting worse and the outlook for the future does not seem to be getting any better.  In the study, women make only 80 percent of the salaries their male [...]

The first of the Republican debates were held this week in California.  Candidate Tommy Thompson made a clear remark about the rights of employers to fire gays in the work place.  View Video.  Thompson said that it was okay for employers to fire gays if the employer found it to be immoral.  Thompson was asked [...]