For various reasons, I find myself flying much more frequently now than I ever have. Being a frequent flyer, I’m occasionally upgraded to first class where I get to sit with…other frequent flyers. These fellow FF’ers are often fellow businesspeople, too. Although I mostly like to keep quiet and read some airport fiction, I sometimes…

If you have ever had to manage employees, you’ve probably had to deal with performance reviews. A performance review gives you an opportunity to discuss an employee’s effectiveness at reaching previously established goals and gives you an opportunity to establish new goals for the next review period. It is my experience that reviews, although painful to…

Back when I first left college and got a job, I worked for Hewlett-Packard. HP was a great place to learn engineering, to become a good manager. HP was a large, slow moving company however, so for many people, the next step was to go and apply those skills elsewhere. In my case, the faster…