We lose a little of ourselves when we outsource our memory to Google. But not in the obvious way that we think of. What we lose in the privacy (some would say inaccuracy) of memory is the ability to forget. And to be forgotten. The privacy of memory and the Read more…
A friend once pointed out that he doesn’t watch films that portray either a dystopic future (i.e. Children of Men or Blade Runner) or a utopian ideal (i.e. Avatar or Gattaca) because they tend to be less than realistic. There is a lot of talk (and writing) going around about Read more…
The courage to make the decision to act in the first place is the thing that is lacking the most. The courage to raise our hands, take responsibility, and to engage with accountability (rather than assigning blame or taking credit) is the work that your children will eventually be paid Read more…
Most people don’t see it. Confusing the primacy of what we can see, touch, taste, and feel, closes our human perceptions to the potential financial and monetary value of what we cannot measure and codify with our five senses. This is evident in the primacy of the use of relationship Read more…
It’s hard to know what the best advice is. After all, it’s been a long 2016, and its shaping up to be an even longer 2017. Here is a list of some ideas to keep you going in the year to come. Or too look back on and wonder what Read more…
MBA’s have a responsibility to save the world. But they can only do that if the door is opened to them to believe that they can save the world. For that door to open, someone must show them the way. And then, when the way is shown, the door opens Read more…
Pursuing the chimera of “Big Data,” means little in the face of human irrationality and unpredictability when the impact of emotions is removed from the analysis. Emotions are everywhere, and all around us, driving our reactions to events, our desires to record and document those events, and our drives to Read more…
The leap from here to there has never been closer. Sure, leaping is naturally hard. That’s why people caution other people, before they embark on a path they can’t see, into a future they can’t understand, with outcomes that are unimaginable, to “look before you leap.” It’s been written before that, Read more…
The standing rule is that people tend to most easily believe in conspiracy theories that they create; and tend to reject the conspiratorial thinking of others. The trouble with our concerns about fake news, is that they come from a place where critical thinking has been reduced in favor of Read more…
There is a lot of mental infrastructure from the Industrial Revolution still laying around. And most of that infrastructure can be seen on display in organizations: Employees who are at the bottom of an organizational chart, believing that they are the foundation on which the organization rests, yet feeling as Read more…