by Mark O'Brien | Sep 11, 2015
In his book, The Life of Reason, the American philosopher, poet, novelist, and critic George Santayana (1863-1952) wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it.” Fourteen years after September 11, 2001, the matter is not whether...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 10, 2015
Sometimes LinkedIn posts are as valuable for what they don’t say as they are for what they do say. Case in point: Jeffrey Strickland, Ph.D., CMSP (which stands for County Medical Services Program, California Motorcyclist Safety Program, Custom Medical Stock...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 9, 2015
I’m really worried about the future. More specifically, I’m really worried about the future of marketing. A vague sense of uneasiness morphed into full-blown agita when I read something called, “The New Marketing Leader”. I don’t know who...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 8, 2015
Since we just celebrated Labor Day in these here United States, I offer these thoughts: As manufacturing supplanted agriculture as the driving economic force in the late 19th Century, the leadership of groups like the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 4, 2015
Another wonderful word has bitten the generational dust, kids: imagination. “Yeah,” I hear you thinking. “This arbitrary substitution of terminology happens all the time. It’s the way of a world committed to creating the illusion of thoughtful,...
