Clear as Mud

Clear as Mud

teamwork (noun)1. cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause2. work done with a team And, So, It Begins From September of 1987 to June of 1995, I worked for an organization that...
Keep the (Climate) Change

Keep the (Climate) Change

I recently read an article in Risk Management Monitor about remarks made by Bruce Carnegie-Brown, Chairman of Lloyd’s, at the recent RIMS ERM Conference in New York City, on the role of risk management in fighting climate change. I almost stopped reading after I saw...
Say What?

Say What?

Our friends at CNBC have joined our friends at Harvard Business Review (HBR) and our other friends in the nation’s capital to collaborate on The Great Infantilization. While our friends at CNBC and HBR are supposed to be educating us, or at least sharing...
The Rule of Sevens

The Rule of Sevens

You can tell something’s in really deep trouble when you start to see articles about it. Given the diligence with which we’ve gone about removing meaning from language, conflating it with oppression, and weaponizing it in service to whatever our particular...
When Everybody’s Out to Get You …

When Everybody’s Out to Get You …

In celebration of Back to School Week, Harvard Business Review (HBR) published another article for children. This one particularly targets children who work from home, who experience periodic feelings that the world may not exist to make them happy, who have rather...