by Mark O'Brien | Jan 31, 2017
A gentleman named Venky Ramachandran (“I design context for the Future of Work”) wrote a LinkedIn post recently that made it easy enough to imagine he’ll soon be designing the context for his the Future of his own Work, since he had the courage (or...
by Mark O'Brien | Dec 5, 2016
Seth Godin published a recent post that said this, in part: There are plenty of people who will pander, race to the bottom, and figure out how to, “give the public what it wants.” But that doesn’t have to be you. Professionals have standards....
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 19, 2016
Apparently presuming we’ve never been gainfully employed before now, the ink may not yet have dried on our birth certificates, or we still might be a tad disoriented from our tumble off the turnip truck, Recruitment Grapevine saw fit to contribute to the...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 6, 2016
One of two things must be true: It’s easy to be hoodwinked by people who don’t do anything. We’ve lost our ability to recognize people who don’t do anything. I’m not sure which of those is true. But I know one of them must be because Inc....
by Mark O'Brien | Jun 13, 2016
The dense streak that necessitated the publishing of “Ten More Signs Your Manager Wants You Out” to let employees know when they’d already hit the skids continues. Only now it extends to the manager who wants you out. That’s right. Apparently,...
by Mark O'Brien | May 31, 2016
Some 20-plus years ago, I was asked by the company for which I worked to fly from Connecticut to Virginia for a meeting on a Friday afternoon. It turned out to be the most amateurish, unprofessional, and bureaucratically typical exercise in passive-aggressive...
