by Mark O'Brien | May 4, 2020
Last Thursday morning, I had to don the obligatory N95 mask and nitrile gloves and head out to a local diagnostic lab for some routine bloodwork. Considering the fact that the list of tests to be performed on said blood was longer than I am tall, I have to imagine the...
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 27, 2020
I don’t know if there’s yet a definition of or a clinical diagnosis for the derangement caused by coronavirus and its associated emotional and psychological manifestations. And I don’t know if any such diagnosis yet appears in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 20, 2020
What a difference a pandemic makes. It’s that time of year in which companies in all industries would be gearing up for trade show season. But this year’s festivities have been rudely interrupted by COVID-19, which means many shows are being cancelled or postponed....
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 13, 2020
Does anything lend itself to satire any better than Harvard Business Review (HBR)? I don’t think so, either. It’s almost as if the editors are trying to let us know HBR has become a parody of itself without coming out and telling us HBR has become a parody...
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 6, 2020
It’s the end of the world as we know it. No. I don’t mean the coronavirus. More of us will survive that than not. No. I don’t mean the economic nightmare caused by the coronavirus. While it will take time to recover, recover we will, along with many...
