by Mark O'Brien | Sep 11, 2017
I Want My Turn I saw another one of those really annoying informercials on LinkedIn the other day. This one — “How to Escape the VP of Sales Hamster Wheel” — was particularly irksome because of its pernicious pastiche of presumptuousness and pedantry. Get...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 5, 2017
The Best Advice I’ve Ever Received A friend and professional colleague, Rob Berg, recently brought a LinkedIn post to my attention. He liked it. Because Rob and I are connected on LinkedIn, I saw it. And because the day after the celebration of Labor Day in the...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 28, 2017
Driven to Drink If I should meet my demise suddenly or unexpectedly, please be assured that I will have died a happy man. I’ve now — officially, unequivocally, indelibly, and horrifyingly — seen it all. The Hidrate Spark has arrived. (Insert primal scream here.)...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 21, 2017
I became aware of an article in the Wall Street Journal the other day that grabbed me by the attention and shook me into contemplation. It was called, “Investors Bet on Unicorn for Spinning Classes”. Since I was unable to read the complete article from the...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 14, 2017
We finally seem to be waking up to the fact that our writing skills are going the way of empiricism, common sense, and critical thinking. As a result, there seems to be a spate of how-to missives purporting to impart some magic formula or other, guaranteed to make our...
