Monthly Archives: August 2006

No Seven-Year Itch

Seven years ago today, I in-processed as a new employee. As this entry becomes public, I’m in a conference room about 30 yards from where I started on that fine August day, but instead of first-day work jitters, I have first-pitch-as-proposal-manager jitters. This has been my life this week, but it has been [...]

Signposts

There come times in most everyone’s career—well, at least for those of us who have careers where we stay in one field, anyway—where things change, for the good and the bad. [Insert hokey observation about the kanji for "crisis" being a superimposition of "danger" and "opportunity" here.] Often times, you don’t recognize these [...]