by Mark O'Brien | Oct 28, 2019
While surfing LinkedIn the other day, I noticed an article about organizational transformation. (Good luck with that.) The profile of the author indicated he was responsible for innovation. The first thing that crossed my mind was that being responsible for innovation...
by Mark O'Brien | Oct 21, 2019
It finally happened: In a recent Discovery Session with a new client, the client said, “We need you to create new presentation materials for us. But we don’t want you to use PowerPoint.” I don’t know what unnerved the client more — the fact that I wept openly or that,...
by Mark O'Brien | Oct 14, 2019
If you have any doubts at all that insurtech is The New Thing, The Next Big Thing, The Already Big Thing, and The Ultimate Bomb-Diggity, look no further than this post from Finextra, pubished just this past May: “Report questions value of insurtech despite...
by Mark O'Brien | Oct 7, 2019
If you don’t believe in God — or if you harbor any doubts whatsoever that he loves us — doubt no more: “The Saddest Leafy Green: America never really liked kale”: Since about 2011, when Gwyneth Paltrow taught the world how to make kale chips on the...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 30, 2019
In the town in which we live — South Windsor, Connecticut — mosquitoes tested positive last week for Eastern Equine Encephalitis, otherwise know as Triple E or EEE. This is timely but not accidental, of course, coming as it does after Connecticut’s deleriously...
