by Mark O'Brien | Nov 27, 2017
Full Circle That clicking sound you just heard was the latch on the loop closing because we’ve finally come full circle. The closing of that loop has become so obvious that Adweek ran an article noting its closure during the summer entitled, “Why Brands...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 20, 2017
Everything is True … Until It’s Not I can’t tell you how many times a day people walk up to me and ask, “OB, what the hell’s wrong with the news?” My stock response is this: “There are two things wrong: (1) In the slanted,...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 13, 2017
How Many Innovators Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? If you go to Wikipedia and look up the age-old question — how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? — this is part of what you’ll find: In modern usage, it … has been used as a metaphor for wasting...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 6, 2017
Live and Active Cultures For as many things as pass through my active but feeble imagination on any given day, it never occurred to me to correlate yogurt with working environments. But then two things happened almost simultaneously: I read the label on a container of...
by Mark O'Brien | Oct 30, 2017
My wife, Anne, and I went to a local diner for breakfast this past Saturday morning. (The establishment shall remain unnamed lest it become the target of harassment or forced closure by The American Heart Association, The American College of Cardiology, The American...
