Hitchhiker in the Corner Office

Joshua Packwood knows what it’s like to be a minority. This weekend he’ll be the first white valedictorian to graduate from the historically black, all male Morehouse College in the school’s 141-year history. In 1948, Martin Luther King Jr graduated and I wonder what he would think about the 2008 valedictorian. He probably would think [...]

Experts see telltale markings of personality in penmanship samples from the presidential candidates. At our search firm we have been using handwriting analysis for years. I was surprised when I saw my own analysis. It was as if I told the person about myself. There is a lot of truth in these handwriting tests.read more [...]

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 be [...]

To a prospective employer, a resume is like a road map; it tells them where you’ve been, how you got there and where you’re headed. In the best case scenario, your journey should look like a straight line, not one of those zigzags from a Family Circus cartoon. But what should you do when your [...]

Business managers routinely make important decisions about investment, performance evaluations and resource allocation, especially around budgeting season. But how to account for human capital? That question was addressed recently during an HCI webcast featuring Jeanne DiFrancesco, principal consultant with management services provider ProOrbis. DiFrancesco examined the treatment of human capital as an intangible asset that [...]

Hiring a merely mediocre employee can be costly. Hiring the first available employee instead of the best available can be even more so. How costly? The Wall Street Journal reports the total cost of executive employee turnover ranges from a low of 50% to 60% (The Hay Group) to 100% to 150% (Hewitt Associates) of [...]