The Cost of Leadership

We live in a day of self-gratification, ease, and leisure.   We want the prize, but we don’t want to have to pay the price. This is no better exemplified than in the lottery craze where one hopes a $2 ticket will provide a $200 million return– we want it...

Being Bigger by Being Smaller

 ‘I am the greatest! I am the greatest thing that ever lived.’                                                                                                       –Muhammad Ali We are in a culture that is becoming increasingly bold in its self-promotion. Through...

The Bottom Line: Friend or Foe?

March 21, 2016 – John D. Beckett Gunter was reeling. The unexpected turn of events had caught him totally off-guard. After all, the board of Mastech had brought him in as CEO to move the company forward. He knew he had been selected not only because of his proven...