by Mike McCormack | Apr 21, 2011 | Business, Individuals
We all have heard the story about the frog who jumps into a pot of water. When he (she?) jumps in, the water is room temperature, so it decides to hang out there for a while. Then someone turns on the burner under the pot, and gradually the water starts getting...
by Mike McCormack | Dec 7, 2010 | Business, Individuals
Do you know a student who wants to attend a college where there is ‘Big-time’ football program? Now that the BCS rankings are out and the Bowl game match-ups are decided, it is easy to find schools that match this criteria. Admission Statistics, College Costs,...
by Mike McCormack | Nov 29, 2010 | Business
My wife and I went to see the movie ‘Secretariat‘ last night and we were thoroughly entertained. Although I was a teenager when this horse ran for the Triple Crown in 1973, I could still remember some of the details of the story – like the margin of victory in...
by Mike McCormack | Nov 8, 2010 | Business
A recruiting site that I monitor published a good article today by John Sullivan that lists 8 talent management lessons businesses could learn from the World Series: 1. Identify critical success factors and prioritize around them 2. Continuous talent...
by Mike McCormack | Nov 3, 2010 | Business
I just read a post that quoted Shawn Achor stating that happy workers produce more, and I wonder how many people (i.e., employers) are surprised by this. I like to follow Shawn’s stuff. He’s a Texas guy who ended up going to Harvard and has...
by Mike McCormack | Nov 1, 2010 | Business, Individuals
I often look up the most recent articles on college statistics, and it seems that most of them – especially the articles about costs and graduation rates – still show that we are going in the wrong direction. When I look at how the college decision process works...
