Diversity Separates the Good from the Great
I have talked about diversity several times in this blog. Those of you who know me well are probably not surprised that I keep returning to this subject. I was motivated to write this piece by commentators who refer to the aerospace-related efforts of Bezos, Branson and Musk (BBM) as billionaire vanity projects. One could […]
Patents Tell a Story
This post is not about protecting intellectual property; it is about business intelligence. I probably would not be writing this post but for an article in IEEE Spectrum (Feb 2021): The Careful Engineering of Facebook’s Filter Bubble. It provides a great example of how you can use a company’s patent portfolio to develop a surprisingly […]
Running a Business by the Numbers– NOT
I was reading the Wall Street Journal earlier today and came across an article titled: UPS Boss Preaches the Power of No— https://www.wsj.com/articles/ups-boss-preaches-the-power-of-no-11614335402?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1. It elicited a visceral response from me. While I understand and appreciate the need to manage the numbers, the message is wrong. Running a business strictly by the numbers does not account […]
Skills that Matter
To paraphrase Gilbert and Sullivan: you want (you, your child or your protégé?) to be the “very model of a modern Major-General”. That song, no kidding, outlines some of the knowledge and skills it takes to thrive in our modern world. Listen to the song sometime; it holds up quite well. I will never be […]
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