Are You Trapped in a Wake? What is Prevalence Inflation? Issue 170, July 25, 2024 Imagine this hypothetical situation. You are sucked into the slipstream of a fast-moving vehicle, controlled within a narrow bandwidth by its velocity. This may sound…
Is America Ready for a Reset: Unity? Issue 169: July 18, 2024 We feel compelled to weigh in on recent developments. As a nation, we appear to be at a crossroads this week. The political discourse has taken another sharp…
Why Do Great Ideas Get Ignored? Issue 168, July 11, 2024 How great are you at getting your ideas understood and accepted? You’ve been mulling over how to solve a problem for a couple of weeks now. You’ve reviewed the…
2040’s Independence Day Reads: Become an Independent Thinker Issue 167, July 4, 2024 We’ve all got summer reading lists. Ours is understandably eclectic. In celebration of Independence Day, we thought it timely to share a selection of our most popular…
Are You a Renaissance Leader? Issue 166, June 27, 2024 Just when you thought leaders have been disintermediated by demanding younger employees who want a seat at their bosses’ tables, these leaders are more important than ever. So much has…
Mindful Management: The Power of Gratitude and Building Trust Issue 165, June 20, 2024 “Do you see me? Can you hear me? I mean really see me.” This is a refrain of so many younger employees. Having been sheltered from…
Whistleblowers and Trust: Revealing Courageous Leadership Issue 164, June 13, 2024 Who do we trust in the public forum? It’s hard to judge with cascades of misinformation and intentional disinformation swirling around on the internet, in the courts and at…
Bursting Bubbles: Frugality, No-Buy, and Societal Trends Issue 163, June 6, 2024 We recently wrote about a few socioeconomic bubbles we suggested were about to burst. As fate would have it, one of our predictions about customer backlash against price…
Looking Ahead: 2024 Runway Issue 162, May 30, 2024 We know that the second half of 2024 starts in a month, but we want to get a jump on what to pay attention to for the rest of this tumultuous…
It’s Really the Journey that Matters Issue 161, May 23, 2024 In our never-ending quest to understand human behavior in the context of organizational culture, we study a lot of nontraditional, surprising, and often seemingly unrelated, strange material. There is…