This is a question that I recently felt compelled to flat-out ask a COO of a publicly traded Fortune 500 company in response to a series of comments he made to me during an engagement interview. His shocked response was, “Of course not…!” There was obviously a disconnect someplace. To be sure, we are living…
I was in Barnes & Noble over the weekend and beheld a seemingly endless collection of business books. Whilst thumbing through them, I noticed a mantra that almost all of the ones I looked at had in common – it’s not necessary to be completely right all of the time. Later that evening, I was…
Every once in a while, a sense of unease comes over me as if I have become untethered and feeling adrift from what I know. Not to be confused with the near euphoria I feel when I embark on an adventure into some unknown, this feeling of being detached is somewhat cold and comes with…
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass “When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the chards and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them… When I was sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause…
