All too often, I watch professional relationships evolve into personal relationships between colleagues. By personal relationships, I’m referring to coworkers who hang out after work, go to each other’s houses, and/or become romantically involved. While it does provide fascinating office gossip, romantic entanglements with a coworker are avenues many people know to avoid. However, many [...]

There were high hopes for my future when I attended college. I was expected to matriculate from the university with an MBA and secure a “spectacular” job in the business field with a starting salary of $40,000-$50,000 (or higher). My future was laid out for me, and I was expected to follow a path towards [...]

Race and culture in the workplace is a sensitive topic that many companies don’t like to address; however, racial/cultural sensitivity is an important topic that should be discussed. To put things bluntly, business in America is an area that has been defined by Caucasian/European culture since the colonies were founded. This is true for many [...]

Some companies fail to understand that “doing it right” and “getting it done” does not necessarily coincide when developing a product and/or service. I subscribe to doing both yet place an emphasis on doing it right. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees with my outlook.
There are companies whose primary focus is on getting it done and pushing [...]