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I think the world is broken into two types of people: 1. People who do things the hard way. 2. People who let other people do things the hard way. I'm

Answer: When your employees are pseudo union workers with individually bargained contracts! Say hello to the NFL and "retired" quarterback, Carson Palmer, of the Cincinnati Bengals. Here's the back

I've been thinking a lot lately about my own mortality.  I've also been thinking a lot about why succession sucks.  Like duh.   It's not that we lack

Like a lot of us here at FOT, I'm a big time basketball fan. Living in Boston the last few years with the new Big Three has been

Recently my wife and I were looking over some potential mutual fund investments and while most of it was incredibly boring to me I was fascinated by one

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about rewarding bad behavior as it related to BP's departing CEO, Tony Hayward.  Recently, HP announced CEO Mark Hurd was leaving

Most of the work we do in our executive search practice is for small cap, privately held, venture backed and a few large cap publicly traded companies. Having worked in

I've always been a bit skeptical about cross training - not that I don't think it's not important to have back-ups (because I do believe that's important) but

You know why people spend so much time and money on tests like the Myers-Briggs and the DISC profile?  Because what makes you successful today won't necessarily make