Dear Mr. John Edwardson:  I’m writing this open letter to you in response to an email I received from Qualtrics, a third party webresearch company that CDW has hired to find out how to better serve your sales force in the future. While this company may serve as a way to assist CDW, I feel as an ex-employee of CDW,  if volunteered to answer these questions in this manner, my voice and concerns that I would like to express would fall into a stack of feedback statistics within the company’s Co-Worker Services department. I prefer a more personal and open approach which is why I decided to address my concerns to you in this format. In a corporation as large as CDW, the little problems that a new account executive encounters goes unnoticed to a C.E.O. In time, these little … Read entire article »

 Risks, Rewards, and The Personal Pursuit of a Higher Education Life itself is a creative process. Each day, we each are given the same amount of time. Twenty-four hours. And we are given an enormous amount of things to choose from in which we can fill-up those twenty-four hours. The choices we make will always involve a certain amount of risk. I’ll use my recently life exploration as an example. I’m forty-four years old. I had been taking classes for the last two years in the evening at Harold Washington College while working a full-time job during the day time. My job consumed eight hours of the allotted 24 hours that is given to all of us. This doesn’t include the two hours it took to commute to and from home each … Read entire article »