by Mark O'Brien | Feb 6, 2017
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.
by Mark O'Brien | Jan 31, 2017
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...
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 19, 2016
Already reeling and darn near senseless, language is still taking body shots, kids. This post showed up in my LinkedIn feed after attracting some recent comments. It contains this nugget: Frustration and even anger are common, understandable reactions to new ways of...
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...