The Usual CRACKPOTS

The Usual CRACKPOTS

The story you are about to read is true. Names, links, and actual terminology have been withheld to protect the innocent and the unwitting from skulduggery and knavery — and to shield the duplicitous and the unscrupulous from the slings and arrows of righteous...
No More Bitter Pills

No More Bitter Pills

I’ve never been one to butter people up. I don’t know why. I seem to somehow lack the knack for telling the truth without ticking someone off.

Trust Everybody, But Cut the Cards*

Trust Everybody, But Cut the Cards*

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...
5 More Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

5 More Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

With no fanfare of any sort, the venerable Harvard Business Review (HBR) has published the first in a series of brain teasers, word puzzles designed to look like articles, containing syntactical dead ends, grammatical errors, and logical non sequiturs. The purpose of...