by Mark O'Brien | Jul 15, 2019
Oh, no. Here we go again. If there’s a bandwagon anywhere in the vicinity, you can be sure Homer Business Review (HBR) will be jumping on it. And if that bandwagon has anything to with the plugging, promoting, or propagating of bureaucracy, you know HBR will be among... 
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 8, 2019
This article — “The Case For The Chief (Employee) Experience Officer” — was written by a young man. You can tell it was written by a young man because he believes the way to remedy the stultifying, aliening effects of bureaucracy is to create more bureaucracy:As... 
by JoAnna Bennett | Jul 3, 2019
STORIES & INDEPENDENCE What’s More Important: The Story or the Facts? JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 3 July 2019 Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, otherwise known as Independence Day. It’s the day on which our forefathers declared our... 
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 1, 2019
After our last mailbag, the deluge of correspondence we received filled all 314 floors of our building, from the the cheap linoleum tiles underfoot to the cheap acoustic tiles overhead. Our ability to respond to all those letters was hindered by the Fire Marshall, who... 
by JoAnna Bennett | Jun 27, 2019
GRADUATION & NEW LIFE Commencement JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 27 June 2019 This past Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of attending a high school commencement ceremony. More than 500 young adults were beginning a distinctly new chapter... 
by Mark O'Brien | Jun 24, 2019
As many people know (especially my wife), I hate it when I’m right. Case in point:In 2015, I wrote a post called, “Highways of Algorithmic Morality”. It was about an ostensible study conducted by three sociopathic nitwits from the Toulouse School of Economics in... 