by Mark O'Brien | Aug 11, 2015
Sound the alarm! Call out the hysterics! Summon the Special Interest Police! Mobilize the Social Equalizers! Put out an APB (absolutely peremptory blame)! Money just published the results of an incriminating study — “Getting Mad at Work Can Cost Women $15,000 in...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 5, 2015
Disruption is back. Actually, it never really went anywhere — not, at least, since it became a buzzword. It reappeared last month in a post called, “Think outside the box: Adaptation (not disruption) is the game”. The post states concisely in 485 words...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 4, 2015
Since I don’t believe in accidents, I wasn’t surprised when a recent spate of vendor acquisitions in the insurance industry coincided with my finding a related, 10-year-old article while rummaging through the bowels of The Chautauqua Center for Synchronous...
by Mark O'Brien | Aug 3, 2015
Wow. This stuff is starting to come fast and furious now. Soon after I cited Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) in this post about the pitfalls (if not shortfalls) of data-driven content marketing (aka inbound marketing and marketing automation, two contradictions in...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 31, 2015
I don’t know whence our inclination to treat symptoms, rather than diseases, derives. I suspect it’s a combination of fear, laziness, political correctness, and a kind of willful ignorance born of the relative luxury in which we’ve become accustomed...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 28, 2015
In the course of our research for a book we once created as a specialty publishing project — Origin/Destination: 75 Years of the New England Water Environment Association — we learned that it took the residents of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 50 years to figure out the...
