by Mark O'Brien | Sep 9, 2015
I’m really worried about the future. More specifically, I’m really worried about the future of marketing. A vague sense of uneasiness morphed into full-blown agita when I read something called, “The New Marketing Leader”. I don’t know who...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 8, 2015
Since we just celebrated Labor Day in these here United States, I offer these thoughts: As manufacturing supplanted agriculture as the driving economic force in the late 19th Century, the leadership of groups like the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 4, 2015
Another wonderful word has bitten the generational dust, kids: imagination. “Yeah,” I hear you thinking. “This arbitrary substitution of terminology happens all the time. It’s the way of a world committed to creating the illusion of thoughtful,...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 3, 2015
Given the accelerating pace of change, especially technological change, we should have expected this. Even if we’d noticed nothing but the changes in contact-lens technology, we’d have had to recognize that anything was possible; that the limitations...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 2, 2015
It’s official, kids: Big Data is around the bend, out of control, and off the charts. To prove the point, Harvard Business Review published an article called, “Data-Driven Management Can Also Be Compassionate”. Featuring a photograph of...
