Welcome to The Issue — Hi everyone. How are you? Me? Fingers crossed. Ssshhh, don’t tell anyone… Here’s a sneak peek. Welcome to The Issue. (Here’s a discount code for old friends, by the way.) It’s diferent. Better, I think. There’s tons there for you to read already. It goes deep. We’ll talk more about…

Hi. How’s everyone? Don’t worry. Contrary to popular belief, I’m not dead. An apology, an update, and a big Capital Letters Thank You, in that order. Sorry I haven’t been around. Here’s why. I’ve been working around the clock setting up something new. A publication. Not here, sadly, but new…

Hi. I haven’t been around that much lately. Sorry about that. I’ve missed you guys. There’s a reason. I’ve been working on a new…publication. Website? Idea? Place to be and share my thoughts? Whatever you want to call it. It’s…different. Better, or at least I think it is. I think…

Why This Is an Age of Stagnation and Collapse — Right about now, our organizations are working…in all the wrong ways. They’re solving yesterday’s problems, mostly, still. But those problems have already been solved. Yet today’s and tomorrow’s haven’t. They’re just getting bigger, spinning out of control, and so the future’s unravelling — or what’s left of it. What do…

How to Do the Work of the 21st Century — What do you see when look around the world today? Are you instantly a little exhausted just scanning the headlines? I am. Here’s what I see. I see a planet scarred and broken. Whose lungs are black and whose bones are melting. Ravaged and raped by centuries of exploitation, treated…

Does Democracy Fail Every Time Human Beings Try It? And Is it Failing Again Today? — Here’s a tiny question. Is the age of democracy drawing to a close? Now, before you accuse me of exaggerating, or baiting you, let me assure you — it’s a question I mean to ask, and I think we should all be asking. We tend to think of democracy as…

How Relationships Between People and Organizations Are Changing — And Why It Matters — No, your eyes aren’t lying to you. That’s The Bee Gees…advertising…tape cassettes. That was then. Think about now with me. If I say brand…today…can you even define it anymore? In a way that makes sense, for this age, this century, right now? Try. I bet you’ll find it harder —…

Tiny Steps Towards a New Purpose — First there was Brexit. Then there was Trump. Then there was the rise of the far right across the globe, from America to India to China to Russia to even Italy, Sweden, Finland. And now we’re watching the world burn and doing, well, far too little to stop it. The…

America Was a Perfect Petri Dish for Fascism. Can it Be Uniquely Swift, Strong, and Smart Enough to Beat It, Anyways? — These strange, unmoored days, the economist in me says something that the human in me — laughing at him like he’s a simpleton — challenges. I’ve come to call it the test of American exceptionalism. It’s a little hypothesis, if you like, or just a series of thoughts, which goes…