About a decade ago, we hired someone (let’s call him “Jack”) after a long search for a tough-to-fill position. We quickly realized that Jack “wasn’t horrible,” but he wasn’t up …

When I was a kid of about ten, Mr. Joseph once stole our Wiffle Ball after it landed on his lawn. All the Mr. Josephs of the world have now …

So often, interviews turn out to be question-and-answer sessions, with the interviewer doing all of the questioning until the very end, when she finally says, “so, do you have any …

I recently read an article about the CEO of Schwab and some of his interviewing techniques. He often asks candidates to meet for breakfast. He gets to the restaurant early …

When I was CEO for United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic, I had a fairly high-level performance management issue with which I needed to deal. I went to the office in …

I have two friends who are charter members of the Grammar Police. They can easily tell you the issues around dangling participles as well as those surrounding split infinitives. I …

On a beautiful Spring day in 2008, 40 or so high school boys ran onto the brand-new field at Nationals’ Park to play a high school baseball game. A parent …