I have a hard time giving my employees unconditional trust from the start. My years of job experience has taught me that trust has to be earned and not given immediately from the start. The upside is the employees have to work harder to impress and to gain employers trust. The downside of it...

“So take a minute just to breathe and think of everything you wanted.” – David Cook. I reviewed David Cook’s Analog Heart, a 2006 effort, a few days ago, after Cook became the first American Idol from the rock genre. I was delighted, because I rate David Cook, a much...

[ad] He’s been my favorite American Idol ever since he did Chris Cornell’s version of Billie Jean. Although it was not original as the judges believed, it was arguably better than Cornell’s version. I predicted the top 3 to be David Cook, Michael Johns and David Archuleta. I...