by Mark O'Brien | Apr 3, 2017
I have an idea for a new product. It’s called Egregiously Chuckleheaded Opinion Liability Insurance (ECOLI). It would indemnify publications that print bad advice — along with the the addlepated know-it-alls who author that advice with no regard for the...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 27, 2017
I like Forbes. I do. But one of two things must be true: (1) Children are its new target readership. (2) It’s sucking wind for content. Case in point: Forbes published this article from a dude with a Ph.D. in clinical and industrial-organizational...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 20, 2017
The intellectually avant-garde Harvard Business Review (HBR) has published another one of its groundbreaking and staggeringly insightful posts. This one, entitled, “Want to Be More Productive? Sit Next to Someone Who Is”, contains this...
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 | Mar 7, 2017
As I’ve suggested with some regularity, the only way we’re going to achieve innovation is to stop talking about and aspiring to it. Because it will never be consistently defined, it will never be implemented in any coherent, constructive fashion. The same...
by Mark O'Brien | Feb 27, 2017
As soon as someone decided marketing could be inbound and automated, you had to know there was trouble brewing. Sure enough. The fictionalization of everything has now been extended to People Services (formerly Human Resources or HR). Here’s how I know...
