Have you ever been in an office rivalry?

How did you deal with it, and what was the outcome?

While a rivalry in the office can be challenging, if you understand how to communicate and show mutual respect, you can bridge the divide and turn the relationship around for the better.

Here are steps you need to take […]

If you had to do it all over again, would you still chose the job you are now doing?

It is a simple question with far reaching consequences. Especially since the lions share of your waking hours are spent at the office.

I am not talking about the occasional off day, when one wistfully contemplates their what […]

Do you like change?

The new LinkedIn appearance and comments relating to it have me thinking about this question. Many of the comments are opposed to the update. But does this mean that the change was wrong or unnecessary, or is the resistance based more on the fact that it’s something new?

Let’s face it, the more […]

I just read an article in which it was reported that if they had it to do over again, 50 percent of all procurement professionals would choose a different career path. That’s right, 50 PERCENT!

Of course when it comes to having seconds thoughts about your career, procurement professionals are not alone.

The author who provided the above […]

By now, we’ve all heard about what happened at the Oscars. There is no doubt that announcing the wrong winner for best picture was a major fail. However, I believe that in the resulting frenzy surrounding the “error,” we likely missed an important lesson. What I am talking about, is the class of the La […]

Over the weekend I saw the movie HIDDEN FIGURES.  It is the incredible, untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan – three brilliant African-American women working at NASA in 1961, who worked behind the scenes in one of the greatest achievements in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn.

What makes their […]