The other week, I listed some cases of white collar crime that I knew about in substantial detail.  Compared to some of the larger headline cases of fraud, the ones I sited were chump change.  So let’s look at some of the headline cases that get much more publicity.   First though, I want to…

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…

  “Ready, Fire, Aim”  You should never hear that sequence, unless someone is reading a script from a war movie with a major typo.   Getting things in the right order is important, in fact, it is often crucial to the success in a business.  That being said, sometimes there is flexibility, it might not…

  Most everyone has to deal with prioritizing on a pretty regular basis. For some, it can be a few times a month, for others, it might be multiple times per day. The end result of prioritizing is to assess what is most important to get done, and what else is going to be pushed…

  OK I’m going to give away a little bit of a trade secret for success. Don’t get too excited, most of the trick is not so much the knowing as it is the execution. Everyone knows that to be a successful quarterback, you need to be able to put the ball in the hands…

In many instances in my career, when people talk about getting the right people on the team, it seems that they are referring to their current company and indicating shortfalls with their personnel. It’s almost as if these individuals are defective. In many instances, I feel that it is not so much the person that…