Leadership

Together We Stand

While I pondered what this title meant to me, there were a variety of angles that came to mind. However, I wanted to discuss it in the context of restoring our humanity. When I was a child we lived in an apartment complex in SE Washington, DC, where we were one of the first Black …

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The Company You Keep

When we were children, our parents always told us to be careful who we hung around. Little did they know how right they were. While their intentions were to keep us from spending time with those who could potentially get us into trouble, their warnings had a much greater meaning on a psychological level. The …

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In search of top-quality employees (Are you sure you don’t already have them?)

As recently as this morning, I’ve had conversations with colleagues lamenting the difficulty in finding employees at all, never mind top-quality employees. After he finished, I reminded him of the story of the current Creative Director of GUCCI, Alessandro Michele. Mr. Michele had been working for Gucci since 2002 and served under the previous Creative …

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