by Mark O'Brien | Mar 17, 2015
According to this article in Inc., “9 Things You Should Never Ask Employees To Do”, two things are absolute no-nos: Ask employees to evaluate themselves. Ask employees to evaluate their peers. When you’re as bureaucracy-averse as I am, advice like...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 16, 2015
I frequently receive unsolicited spam. But I repeat myself. Among the most frequent spammers is something calling itself the Reverse Logistics Association (RLA). Until I went on its website to find out what it was and what it did, my only recourse was to guess at what...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 12, 2015
Empiricism is a dying art. We’ve lost faith in our senses, in the evidence — any evidence — before us. We’ve lost the conviction that what looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck must be a duck. We’ve jettisoned the...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 6, 2015
As he got older, Grandpa O’Brien was increasingly bemused by things he couldn’t understand. Whether those things were familial, commercial, cultural, or political, they’d elicit the same reaction: a wry smile, a shake of the head both mystified and...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 5, 2015
Floyd and Boyd are not real people. But they play them on TV. They recently engaged in this discussion during an episode of Unreal People on UPC (the Unreal People Channel). Floyd: Why don’t companies market to vendors? Boyd: What? Floyd: If companies need the...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 3, 2015
The following program contains graphic situations and dramatizations. It may not be suitable for children, especially those who are extremely impressionable and may be profoundly disillusioned at the realization that the behavior of ostensible adults can range from...
