by Mark O'Brien | Mar 5, 2018
Wednesday of this week will mark the passing of a man, 11 years ago, about and from whom you likely know and have heard little. His name was Bill Chinnock. A product of the music scenes of Asbury Park, New Jersey; Nashville, Tennessee; and Portland, Maine, Bill took...
by Mark O'Brien | Feb 26, 2018
Green With Acronyms I don’t lean toward tree-hugging. But I support and respect the architectural precepts of green building and sustainable reuse. Because I’m a human being with senses of observation and humor, I also love the preternaturally human...
by Mark O'Brien | Feb 19, 2018
Last October, an article ran in Scientific American called, “Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things?” It questioned the meanings of smart and intelligent, and it suggested we might be taken aback to learn something we likely already know: You may be...
by Mark O'Brien | Feb 12, 2018
Epidemic Surrogacy I grew up, quite happily, with one Mom, one Dad, and the naïve conviction that I was all set. Apparently, not so much. In fact, there seems to be a sociopolitical trend toward what retired Northwestern University professor, Joseph Epstein, labeled...
by Mark O'Brien | Feb 5, 2018
TOM, DICK, and HARRY Starting in the 1950s — the decade in which the discipline of strategic management was created as an alternative to happenstance, random occurrence, chaos, favoritism, nepotism, and blind luck — strategic management begat the operating model which...
