There’s a school of thought that you can’t begin to address a problem until it is acknowledged.   The following statement may not shock anyone, and if it does, you have not been paying attention:   White collar crime still pays.     Let that sink in for a minute.   To be abundantly clear,…

For the grammar aficionados, there was a recent case where a single missing comma, the Oxford comma, resulted in a dairy ending up on the wrong side of a $10.0 million lawsuit regarding overtime pay.   This is just another reminder, that in many instances, details really do matter.   There are many different parts…

I spent most of the last week bike riding at an organized event in central Texas.  Spending over 28 hours sitting on a bike allows for plenty of time for the mind to wander.  I couldn’t help but notice a ton of parallels with my riding experiences and 3 of my clients who are early-stage…

  Last week, we listed the challenges of being on vacation and not being interrupted by work.  Even if your employer is supportive of not disturbing its employees while they are out of the office, it does not mean that taking a vacation does not have strings attached.  What happens to many people is that…

  Vacation – It’s that thing where employees theoretically get time away from work and where supervisors freak out about what could possibly be missed.   If reading that seems semi-accurate, it’s a sad reflection on how work-life balance has evolved.   While companies have been producing employee handbooks for decades, the focus has been…