by Mark O'Brien | Jan 16, 2017
Recently, for the first time in nearly 30 years, I heard the song, “Don’t Dream It’s Over”, by the Australian band, Crowded House. (The band comprised Paul Hester, Nick Seymour, and the Finn brothers — Neil, Tim, and Dorsal.) Along with a...
by Mark O'Brien | Jan 3, 2017
I was in a chi-chi shop during the Holidays that had a display of handbags fashioned from something called vegan leather. My first thought was that vegan leather must come from cows fed only on corn-fed grass that had been humanely slaughtered by filing down the teeth...
by Mark O'Brien | Dec 12, 2016
This just in, kids. According to Harvard Business Review, networking events are a waste of time. That’s right. The author, who’s the founder and CEO of an un-networking community, has this to say: Regardless of how you define networking, your success will...
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 | Nov 29, 2016
We’re not losing our ability to connect dots, kids. We’re giving it away. That reality was driven home by three things that came to my attention recently. Two of them were articles. The third was a website. Here they are, in order: 6 Cognitive Biases That...
