Recollections of 9/11
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was in Pitney Bowes Stamford Main Plant building, having a difficult meeting with a group of factory employees, explaining why we needed to outsource much
Mike Critelli
The Human Factor In So-Called “Natural” Disasters
Our family was fortunate this past weekend in not experiencing any property damage or loss of power from Hurricane Irene. 700,000 other residents of Connecticut were not so lucky. However, as I
Dossia: Four Years And Counting
Within the past week, I was asked to take on a more active executive role in Dossia, the combination of the for-profit service corporation and the not-for-profit foundation which has a mission of
The Pretenders
In the early 1980’s, shortly after George Harvey became the Chairman and CEO of Pitney Bowes, I asked a more senior colleague why he thought George was the best candidate among those
Helping Unemployed People Get Employed
Catherine Rampell of the New York Times wrote an article that, unfortunately, reports on an all-too-common problem, the increase in the long-term unemployed population, on December 2, in a story entitled “Dwindling Prospects.
Steve Jobs – A Transformational Leader
Steven Jobs resignation from the CEO position at Apple has given all of us a moment to reflect on how profoundly, as reporter Walt Mossberg observed in the Thursday, August 25, 2011, issue