by Mark O'Brien | Mar 17, 2015
According to this article in Inc., “9 Things You Should Never Ask Employees To Do”, two things are absolute no-nos: Ask employees to evaluate themselves. Ask employees to evaluate their peers. When you’re as bureaucracy-averse as I am, advice like...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 16, 2015
I frequently receive unsolicited spam. But I repeat myself. Among the most frequent spammers is something calling itself the Reverse Logistics Association (RLA). Until I went on its website to find out what it was and what it did, my only recourse was to guess at what...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 13, 2015
Banking on the veracity of the old wives’ tale that cats hate water, Salem thought he was pretty slick hiding in the shower. Turns out he was all wet.
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 13, 2015
COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lankan police arrested an astrologer after he predicted a planetary change this month will be inauspicious for parliament and the government may not be able to arrest rising living costs – a prediction already made by private economists … Sri...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 12, 2015
Empiricism is a dying art. We’ve lost faith in our senses, in the evidence — any evidence — before us. We’ve lost the conviction that what looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck must be a duck. We’ve jettisoned the...
