There are times when Nancy Lopez misses competitive golf. Times when the 61-year-old with the new knee and another on the way wishes she was 21 again and taking the sports world by storm. “I definitely miss hitting great shots ...
Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak
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When we think of employee wellness, we likely think of health. Talk of rising health care costs and health care reform have become part of the national discourse, and study after study shows that happy, healthy employees have a positive ...
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Election Day will be here before you know it, and who you choose to represent you in both the state and federal government will have a huge impact on our health care system. Health care is one of the most ...
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Like many sportswriters and fans, I easily get sucked into Mount Rushmore debates. If you could choose only four people to carve into your favorite team’s version of the mountainous presidents’ statue in the Black Hills of South Dakota, who ...
Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak
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Shortly after arriving at Adecco as their new vice president of business ethics & compliance, I was asked to talk about business ethics at an Adecco North American conference in Dallas, where the top 180 leaders from the region were ...
Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz
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“Two of my team members have been having an affair for a while now and one of them is married. They have been goofing off to a certain extent, taking long lunches, calling in sick on the same day, sitting ...
Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work
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Climate change is a big problem. Not just “big” in that it may cause a lot of important problems in the future, but also “big” in the sense that fighting it requires participation from the entire world, lots of new ...
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A friend of mine needed surgery to remove a benign tumor in his pituitary gland. Like any surgery involving the brain, that’s an operation requiring great precision. The involved parts are small and delicate. Not long after his successful operation, ...
Tagged with: John Engels leadership
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The prognosis was beyond gloomy. It sounded more like a death sentence. Ricky Palermo was told that not only would he never walk again after being paralyzed in an automobile accident in 1981, but also he could count on living ...
Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak
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After 20 years of compiling the annual list of 100 Best Companies to Work For, Great Place to Work® has updated the metrics it uses to evaluate and rank companies. Until now, it has measured trust, pride and camaraderie, because ...
Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon
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The roots of his distinguished broadcasting career can be traced to the dashboard radio of a parked car in a Commack, N.Y. driveway, just off the Long Island Expressway. It was there, in the family jalopy, that 10-year-old Bob Costas ...
Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak
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The Supreme Court has upended one of the most basic principles of sales tax law, allowing states to impose sales tax collection duties on out of state companies. The 5-4 ruling in Wayfair v. South Dakota, authored by retiring Justice ...
Tagged with: Josh Gewolb Taxing Matters
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In the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) v. W. J. Howey, the U.S. Supreme Court established a test for determining whether an instrument is an investment contract that is treated as a security and subject to securities laws. William Hinman, ...
Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law
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Every investor needs to grapple with a few bedrock decisions to approach investing with success, but there is one decision that rules them all: choosing an investment philosophy. Every investor must decide upon an asset allocation strategy. Which asset classes ...
Tagged with: David Peartree The Informed Investor
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Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce has enjoyed a very strong, teamwork-driven relationship with Greater Rochester Enterprise and Empire State Development over the past year. I applaud GRE CEO Matt Hurlbutt, ESD Finger Lakes Regional Director Vinnie Esposito and their teams ...
Tagged with: On Business Robert Duffy
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