Over the past twenty years, I’ve produced numerous events. Some were conferences, others roundtables, technology briefings, and executive…

Imagine wrapping up your workweek on a Thursday afternoon — no endless Friday meetings, no Sunday stress. Just a full three-day weekend to…

Obsolescence is defined as the process of becoming outdated or no longer useful. When we think of something as being obsolete, what we…

On Christmas Day of 2015, twenty-four-year-old Matsuri Takahashi threw herself from the top floor of Dentsu, Japan’s largest advertising…

The first thing I remember my mother telling me was that I was going to college.

A friend of mine had been out of work for several months, and despite sending out resumes every day, he had nothing to show for his…

“They say I’m old-fashioned and live in the past, but sometimes  I think progress progresses too fast!” Dr. Seuss

Ask someone this question, and the most common answer is: because they have to. Without work, we wouldn’t be able to put food on the table…

A few years ago, I decided to change jobs, primarily because the position I had at that time required a two-hour commute, both in the…

As the story goes, Bill Gates first met Warren Buffett at a dinner hosted by Gate’s mother. During the meal, she asked everyone around the…

The Past is No Longer Prologue

It was my first Triathlon. I’d trained every day for the past six months and I was ready. The whistle blew and seconds later, I was in the…

As corporations continue to hollow out in response to the demands of globalization, non-traditional forms of work are rapidly replacing the…

In his 1953 essay The Hedgehog & the Fox, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin observed that …

What will you do if it really happens?