Hitchhiker in the Corner Office

I spoke with a couple of people in my network yesterday who expressed difficulty in finding the right person for entry and mid-level positions at their organization.  They were getting a first hand does or reality with the loss of talent in the marketplace.  One person said, “I can find director and VP level people [...]

Last week Appalachian State University pulled off a “Hoosiers” like win over the University of Michigan football team at “The Big House” last weekend and fans all across the country are still talking about it. If you are not familiar with ASU, they are a Division I-AA team from Boone, NC, a relatively unknown university [...]

I just got back from a whirlwind tour of San Francisco and attended the Multi-Cultural Foodservice and Hospitality Alliance National Conference.  If you are not familiar with MFHA, it is an organizaiton founded by Gerry Fenandez and brings to the forefront diversity issues in the restaurant and foodservice industry. As the job market tightens over [...]

Too often we equate excellence with our picture-perfect image of who meets our own criteria for excellence. 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. Don’t [...]