by Mark O'Brien | Aug 7, 2015
I saw an announcement on LinkedIn the other day that, on clicking through, brought me to the announcement that Prophet and Altimeter Group are joining forces. (I don’t know anything about either company, nor am I affiliated with either company in any way. Both...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 29, 2015
Dear Deep, I read your recent LinkedIn post, “How to Get a Clear Mind”, with keen interest. Given the morbid fear of marionettes I developed after an unfortunate childhood incident with Howdy Doody (thank God Buffalo Bob was there), this passage,...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 20, 2015
On the day I searched Amazon for books on work/life balance, there were 1,702 results returned. I’ll bet if I’d conducted the same search the next day, there would have been more. That made me wonder: If all of the employees who read these books practice...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 17, 2015
The other day, as I was giving my cat, Sammy, his usual evening repast, which consists of a half-can of wet food (he snacks on dry food all day), he said, “Just give me the whole shebang.” The next day, as I was repeating the process, he said, “Just...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 16, 2015
In an effort to keep my horizons as broad as possible, I’ve been taking correspondence courses in Women’s Fashion from the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM). To say it’s been fascinating would be understatement bordering on the obscene. Among other...