Corrinne R. Viola
April 13, 2026
If your business employs W-2 workers, chances are you’ve dealt with a wage garnishment. They’re common and can be confusing, especially when something doesn’t seem right and your employee is asking why the deductions haven’t stopped. This article explains what a wage garnishment is, why employers usually can’t stop one on their own, and what to do if a cr...
Neal H. Bookspan
April 13, 2026
The energy of a workplace is not an accident. It is a direct reflection of the people in it, and more specifically, the attitudes those people choose to bring through the door every single morning. Science has long confirmed what most of us already know, intuitively, emotions spread. When one person on a team leads with enthusiasm, optimism, and genuine warmth, tho...
Neal H. Bookspan
April 6, 2026
Arthur Brooks draws a distinction that should make every professional stop and think. There are two fundamentally different categories of problems in the world, and confusing one for the other is one of the most common mistakes professionals make. A complicated problem is hard, but it is ultimately knowable. It can be mapped, modeled, and solved with enough technic...
Annalyse Harris
April 3, 2026
A recent Ninth Circuit decision, Roman v. Commissioner (Mar. 18, 2026), reinforces how narrow the tax-free treatment of settlement proceeds is. In most cases, settlement payments are taxable unless they clearly compensate for physical injury or sickness. Missing that distinction can be costly.
The Core Rule: Physical Injury Required
Under IRC § 104(a)(2), settle...
Neal H. Bookspan
March 30, 2026
It is March, which means both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments are in full swing. What makes March Madness so compelling, beyond the upsets and buzzer-beaters, is that it is a masterclass in team dynamics played out on a national stage. Every year, highly recruited rosters full of individual talent get sent home early by teams that simply play ...
Neal H. Bookspan
March 23, 2026
Mentoring is one of the most powerful things you can do in your career, and most people aren’t doing it. Not really. They’ll grab coffee with a younger colleague once a quarter, offer a vague word of encouragement, and call it mentoring. That’s not mentoring; that’s being polite. Real mentoring is intentional, consistent, and honest. It requires you to inve...
Neal H. Bookspan
March 16, 2026
Let’s get something straight: the people who refuse to adopt new technologies damage their businesses and fall behind. In this moment that technology is artificial intelligence and those not integrating it are already losing. AI may or may not be coming for your job but someone who knows how to use it just might be. Whether you’re a law firm, running a small bu...
Neal H. Bookspan
March 9, 2026
Understand that the idea beats the execution. Every time. We live in a culture obsessed with hustle, with grind, with the relentless optimization of how you do things. But none of that matters if what you’re doing isn’t worth doing in the first place.
The spark, that original, electric moment of genuine inspiration, is the most valuable asset anyone can posses...
Neal H. Bookspan
March 2, 2026
Something that separates successful professionals from those who plateau is that the most effective people aren’t always the ones who are technically right. But many times, the people who are right walk away empty-handed because they confused being correct with being persuasive, being accurate with being influential, and being smart with being strategic.
Every w...
Neal H. Bookspan
February 23, 2026
In the current Winter Olympics, Lindsey Vonn was a feel-good story about 41-year-old ski racer making a remarkable comeback from partial knee replacement surgery and retirement from the sport in 2019. She even won two downhill events during the 2025-26 ski season prior to the Olympics. But she crashed just 13 seconds into her Olympic downhill run.
Vonn was airlift...