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Compassion Wins

We, as humans, like to categorize. It makes the world easier to digest. We fit the people around us into labels: users, coworkers, competitors. Then …

The Post No-Life Era

The Economist has this fascinating article about the “Death of The Office”, wondering if maybe, just maybe, in the post-Coronavirus world, the idea of the …

The Ambiguous Crisis – Dr. Keith Merron

“Coronavirus is not a crisis. It is an ambiguous crisis”. F.O.G*, Dr. Keith Merron has a great article on the current situation, “Coronavirus is not a crisis. …

How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley

The word ‘innovation’ is invoked with alarming frequency by companies trying to sound up to date but with little or no systematic idea about …

This Kind of Transformation: Dragged Kicking and Screaming

For the last decade or so, the consultant-thinkfluencer-futurist-guru crowd has been harping on a lot about “Digital Transformation”. Of course, this meant that …

Systems of Trust by Jeremy Epstein

Systems of Trust surround us. We rely on them thousands of times a day to help us establish trust with people we don’t know. …

Fair Winds Do Not A Great Capitan Make

Joan Miró is one of the most important artists of the Twentieth Century; his pieces adorn all the major museums. As it turns out, his greatest …

You WILL be disrupted

Intel wasn’t worried. They made the best, most powerful chips (i.e. microprocessors) in the world. Besides that, they had more money, more employees, and were …

Together, but not really

So this is the new mantra, the new reality. What managers have to do, in times of Coronavirus- keep teams working closely, yet far …

Don’t Just Hope Things Improve

The one thing that keeps us moving. We all know what it is. Without it we are nothing. With it, we can do anything. …

Relevance Isn’t That Complicated.

People in the media are always talking about “The Culture War”, as relations between the different factions- Democrat and Republican, left and right, conservative and …