Who can forget the graphic video of Dr. David Dao being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago because he was chosen to be “bumped” from the flight after taking his seat to make room for United’s own crew members. He suffered a concussion, broken nose, and other serious injuries. Or, Professor Anila Daulatzai of Baltimore who was taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct, failure to obey a reasonable and lawful order, disturbing the peace, obst

So... you are sitting there in another training class and all you hear is, "blah, blah, blah, and more blah." It's the same old song! We have all been there, believe me. The instructor states the objectives of the course and why your organization chose to provide the training. It seems to be generic and something you have heard over and over again. In the back of your mind you are thinking your organization is just covering their rear end in the event someone does something w

I know the title of this blog post is provocative. It was meant to be. A lot of times businesses tend to only focus on the dollars and cents of the decisions they make or, in many cases, fail to make. But, I want to focus on something else that can create an even bigger problem for your company; the loss of talent that inevitably walks out the door when an employee is treated unfairly! And, it is not just the individual person at the center of the unfair treament that quits;

Originally Posted on Linkedin Recently, I was counseling a young lady who was preparing for a promotional interview to a management position within her current company. She was extremely excited with the nervous energy of someone who really cares for the work she does and wanted to receive the promotion for all the right reasons. As I was thinking about what advice I could give her, I thought about myself and what type of supervisor/manager I was vs. what type of supervisor/m

The 8 Largest Sexual Harassment Verdicts In History ERIN FUCHS, SEP. 3, 2012, 7:49 AM ​ News emerged last week of the horrifying conditions that employees of New York state lawmaker Vito Lopez allegedly had to work under, not long after a shocking suit was filed against the Department of Homeland Security. During sexual harassment suits, unsavory allegations come to light, and in many cases companies will quickly settle to avoid bad publicity. But in some instances, these cas

In January 1995, an apartment in Manila, Philippines, caught fire when bombmaking ingredients being mixed by wanted terrorism suspect Abdel Basit (aka Ramzi Yousef) reacted too quickly. Because of the fire, authorities were able to arrest two of Basit's co-conspirators and unravel several bombing plots. Basit himself fled to Pakistan, where he was apprehended a short time later. In a 1999 case, so called "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam and an accomplice set up a crude bombma