by Mark O'Brien | Aug 13, 2018
When I was in school, I was so good at math I became an English major. In college, the only two courses I dropped were Economics, which required the calculation and distribution of scarce resources (math) and Chemistry, which required the calculation and disposition...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 6, 2018
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. (variously attributed) You could have seen this coming a mile away. It would have required neither crystal ball nor Ouija Board, neither soothsayer nor shaman. All you would have had to do is hang around...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 30, 2018
I can’t decide if we’ve lost the will to take care of ourselves or the ability. I can’t decide which would be worse. And I can’t decide who should be more ashamed: the ostensible adult who posted the following message on LinkedIn — or the...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 23, 2018
I read an article in Fast Company the other day called, “What if We Killed the Job Interview?” On first reading, it ripped the common sense out of my skull, stomped it to a gelatinous dollop, and left it writhing and sparking in a series of random, errant...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 16, 2018
I used to think the coolest job in the world was playing rhythm guitar on Lyle Lovett’s ”She’s No Lady”. I changed my mind. Presuming it’s a paying gig, I now think the coolest job in the world is editing Harvard Business Review (HBR)....
