by Mark O'Brien | Mar 14, 2017
I saw a LinkedIn post the other day that had 18,400 likes, 619 comments, and 7,791 shares. Those are big numbers. The post is called, “14 Simple Expectations Great Employees Have of Their Boss”. I’d have been a little less surprised at the numbers if...
by Mark O'Brien | Dec 12, 2016
This just in, kids. According to Harvard Business Review, networking events are a waste of time. That’s right. The author, who’s the founder and CEO of an un-networking community, has this to say: Regardless of how you define networking, your success will...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 28, 2016
Oh, boy. Here’s another guy who wants to tell us what to do. It’s no coincidence, by the way, that he also wants to sell us something (dig a little more deeply under the free free Web training*): Interested in more? This article is an adaptation of a...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 4, 2016
Some syntactical constructions are a little harder to penetrate than others. The following snippet requires a hammer drill with a diamond bit to permeate, after which it could still stand some explication. The snippet comes from an article entitled, “Why The...
by Mark O'Brien | Jan 20, 2016
When will they ever learn/When will they ever learn? As a naïve adolescent in the ’60s, I bought into all the equally naïve, adolescent claptrap about peace, love, harmony, and understanding. As I got older and more observant, I realized all the naïveté, all the...
by Mark O'Brien | Nov 24, 2015
Naïveté comes in all shapes and sizes. So does academic detachment. And so it is that we have a match-up of lightweights, who’ve now squared off three times in what’s come to be dubbed, The Rhetorical Rumble. For each bout, they enter the ring with...
