The value add of emotional labor has never been fully quantified in the open market. Think about it. How often does American culture put a price tag on a mother’s hug? It can be argued that when a mother nurtures a child, rather than rejecting it, in aggregate, those positive Read more…
Live streaming video apps such as Periscope, Meerkat, Blab.im and many others are hot right now. As part of the long unwinding of television as a content delivery mechanism, they are a way for audiences to feel primacy at a live event as well as to feel as though they Read more…
Do books, and book writing, still matter? In a world of free written content, indexed by Google and accessed by billions of people with Internet or mobile access, and a few keystrokes, what significance could writing a book possibly retain? Let’s relate two stories that partially answer both questions: I Read more…
The drumbeat always starts after August vacation in the month of September, at the beginning of the fourth fiscal quarter of the year. “If you had worked harder, you wouldn’t be here.” “If you had planned better, this wouldn’t be so bad.” “If you had been better with ‘this’ client Read more…