by Mark O'Brien | Jul 9, 2018
I read another of Harvard Business Review’s inimitably intellectual and brilliantly informative articles the other day. It was called, “How to Get Out of a Meeting You Know Will Waste Your Time”. Its thesis was this: You can often predict which...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 2, 2018
Despite my disdain for bureaucracies, I’m a firm believer in leadership. So, I could only shake my head when I read a piece of utopian nonsense called, “Imagine a company with no leaders – I mean NO leaders!” I don’t doubt the author is a...
by Mark O'Brien | Jun 25, 2018
In the first post on this topic, as indications of our growing dependency on being told what to do — and as evidence of the rampant proliferation of public nuisances who are only too happy to tell us what to do — I cited Exhibits A through C. As a public service, I...
by Mark O'Brien | Jun 18, 2018
Because we work with a number of companies that sell software and services to the insurance industry, we hear all kinds of things. Some of them are understandable enough. They’re fair, balanced, and reasonable. Some of the other things we hear? Not so much. They...
by Mark O'Brien | Jun 11, 2018
If you weren’t paying attention during the last days of April, you missed much, most of which was a dizzying blur of inconsequential nonsense. This is just a random sampling of the gratuitous junk that made it into the headlines: North and South Korea met for...
