by Mark O'Brien | Oct 15, 2018
One of the hazards of living in Southern New England is having to contend with the annual onslaught of northbound leaf-peepers. Depending on the weather — I’m sorry, climate change — somewhere between Columbus Day — I’m sorry, Indigenous People’s Day...
by Mark O'Brien | Oct 8, 2018
In the upper right-hand corner of my LinkedIn page last week, I saw a headline that said, “Hip coffee has become big business”. This headline, I was to understand, constituted Perspectives curated by LinkedIn Editors. Be that as it may, I immediately...
by Mark O'Brien | Oct 1, 2018
I’ll preface my thoughts with this notion from Kenneth Burke, which I’ve shared in several of my previous posts: An “ideology” is like a spirit taking up its abode in a body: it makes that body hop around in certain ways: and that same body...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 24, 2018
David Sturt and Todd Nordstrom are selling a book. To promote it, they sold a piece to Forbes called, “10 Shocking Workplace Stats You Need to Know”. Their 10-point laundry list is considerably more obvious, trite, and superficial than shocking. But I...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 17, 2018
Parenthood … It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last. (Peter Krause) There’s Nothing New The ground rules: There’s no blaming here. We’re all making our way through the human condition. We all get the challenges and...
