by Walt Hampton | Sep 18, 2026 | Success
Ernst & Young is putting $100 million behind something that says a lot about where work is headed. The firm is creating new incentives for employees who demonstrate what it calls more “human” skills, including adaptability, innovation and judgment. KPMG has been...
by Walt Hampton | Jul 31, 2026 | Success
We go to the grocery store every Saturday morning at 7:00. Over the years, we’ve gotten to know the people who work there. Rob, the produce manager. Henry at the service desk. Debbie in dairy. Last week, we met Danny, the Coca-Cola vendor who comes in to restock the...
by Walt Hampton | Jun 5, 2026 | Success
AI has arrived with the same old promise. More efficiency. More productivity. More speed. More time. We’ve heard this before. Email was going to save us time. Smartphones were going to save us time. Zoom was going to save us time. The cloud was going to save us time....
by Walt Hampton | May 22, 2026 | Success
For a long time, many of us thought our value was in what we knew. That made sense. We worked hard to learn our craft. We studied, practiced, trained, read, wrote, built businesses, served clients, made mistakes, and slowly became good at what we do. Then the internet...
by Walt Hampton | Apr 30, 2026 | Success
There’s an old movie about law school called The Paper Chase. And when I came out of law school, that was exactly how the profession felt. If I needed to revise a document, I didn’t just open a file and make a few edits. I handed it to my secretary. She’d sit at an...
