Category: Observations & Ideas

What time does your organization live?

I’ve been working on this post for some time.   I’m not sure it’s going to come together the way I want, but I need to get it out there, even if it’s just to get […]

Will we shut off the lights?

  If you are a trekkie, especially one of a specific age then you have probably seen star trek 3.   There is a very unique scene in that movie where the recently reincarnated Spock […]

Professional Freedom

The conflict over professional freedom affects the employer and the employee.

Creative Destruction & Acceleration

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing

Quietly Please

Sometimes you should just keep quiet, even if it makes no sense.

Honey, Sweetie, Baby

It was a recent Friday afternoon and I was making my way up to the front of the line at the Murphy USA station with my bag of low cal chips and my 100 calorie […]

Identifying the Seasons of the PIC

My wife likes to use the term seasons, meaning a ‘season of life’ or a easily defined period in your life.    There is the season of child rearing, the season of youth, the season of […]

Student Loan Chargebacks

One of the most questionable practices by a company I had ever seen was the aggressive implementation of chargebacks.  Although this practice caused severe hardship to several small business people. I’m thinking there may be […]

Close to the Hype

The hype cycle is a very interesting phenomenon.  It’s generally used for technical purposes. It helps define the level adoption of a new technology or service, but it can just as easily translate into other […]