by Mark O'Brien | Jul 6, 2015
This is going to disappoint a lot of people. I’m sorry. It can’t be helped. Sometimes I feel like a professional bearer of bad news. And this news is less popular than most: Marketing people aren’t clairvoyant. There. I’ve said (typed) it. Now...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 2, 2015
The results of a five-year study on suicide trends were published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology a few years ago, indicating people are more likely to commit suicide on Wednesdays than any other day of the week. As a public service, we offer a...
by Mark O'Brien | Jul 1, 2015
This Fast Company article — “The Best Time of Day to Do Everything at Work” — is a wonderfully theoretical thing. But as Albert Einstein famously said: In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re different. In theory, then, the...
by Mark O'Brien | Jun 29, 2015
With the publication of my new book for adults all but imminent — For Adults Only: How to Act Like an Adult Around Adults (it’s for adults) — I’ve decided to offer a few excerpts here to gin up interest and, ideally, multi-million-dollar sales. WARNING:...
by Mark O'Brien | Jun 26, 2015
Among many other rewarding things, my working life has enabled me to acquire quite the compendium of handy axioms, many of which have become words to live (and work) by. As a public service, I share three of my favorites here: #1. Never believe anything until...
