Every once in a while, I’ve needed to listen to who I call the “big loud guy”. Most of the time it really is a big loud guy, bigger than I am in most cases (and I’m not small) and louder than me. That’s going a long way because I’ve been told that I can […]
It’s been just over a week when Google fired one of their engineers, who decided to write a 10-page manifesto and sent it out to employees of the company. In the manifesto, he stated some of his opinions on the diversity initiatives the company was trying to put through, decided to add that women were […]
Last week I read a news story where a college student said she’s been given an F in her course by a teacher because she was Muslim. When you read the story and see that she was scoring A’s on the tests, it’s hard to justify the teacher failing her. She stated that during the […]
I’ve written a lot about negative behavior I’m seeing on social media and in news stories. I’m often amazed when I read some of these stories because the person causing problems turns out to be someone in a leadership position. Geoff George via Compfight Years ago I read a story about a mother who hired […]
I believe an organization’s culture starts at the top. As we’ve seen from companies like Uber, trouble starts when the top leaders are a bit smarmy. Luckily, I tend not to believe that’s the norm across the board. What I do believe is that many C-suite leaders start off with good intentions, yet somewhere along […]