Commentary

Finance is not comedy, and when it becomes that, the last laugh is on you. When Comedy Central starts sounding more authoritative than CNBC in its sobering observations about how the market got messed up, it's time to change out some of the "talent" and...

In a WTN news item earlier this month, John Rondy was kind enough to credit me with defining "geekonomics" as the discipline of managing innovation as if users actually matter; a willingness to recognize that "better" technology can still fail, utterly, if it's not what...

The Federal Trade Commission recently reported that identity theft complaints increased 20% in 2008 compared to 2007. Reports from Wisconsin residents soared almost 30%. The number one identity theft prevention tip is to protect your Social Security Number.” The FTC, FBI, State of Wisconsin Offices...

As the weak economy rages on and the talent pool becomes considerably larger, many talented job seekers from one industry (especially the financial sector) will most likely broaden their searches to include new fields, writes James E. Challenger of Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Job seekers...

On March 12th in an OpEd piece for the Wall Street Journal titled “Obama's $80 Billion Exaggeration”, respected physicians and authors Jerome Groopman, MD and Pamela Hartzband, MD questioned President Obama's claim that electronic medical records would save $80 billion annually in healthcare costs while...

More often than not, when discussing employment opportunities in today's troubled economic times, the focus is primarily on the rising unemployment rates - forecast to hit 8 percent in Wisconsin later this year - and declines in job openings across the board. For IT, however,...

While on a R&R trip I had the opportunity to attend Saturday's third round of CA Championship and watch as Tiger Woods played an awesome round after falling behind after a less usual Wood's performance in rounds one and two. Woods has just resumed golfing...