What Is Money, and Why Are We All So Agreeable?
May 17, 2022 | Managing | 0 Comments
These questions may seem completely unrelated, but they are not. Together, they address two of the most important processes that are shaping our world today. Money is essential to civilized life. But it is a concept, not a real thing. And, despite so much apparent disagreement around lately, the underlying agreement is far greater than you might imagine. How so?
Understanding and Strengthening Your Points of Vulnerability
May 10, 2022 | Managing, Risk Management | 0 Comments
Major impact events coming? Certain. Nature, magnitude, and timing? Mostly unforeseeable. These just happen, whether by fate, predestination, or a random dice-thrower. All you know for sure is that some big things are coming along. The best you can do in this case is to identify your points of greatest vulnerability and to figure out how to minimize the impact effects.
The Way Forward: A New Life for Me. Maybe for All of Us.
Apr 30, 2022 | Future, Managing | 0 Comments
My dear wife of nearly 60 years died last week. A great blessing is that she suffered for only a short time and died in her sleep. So many tell me that this is indeed a happy ending, especially for a life well-lived. I am just beginning to learn that being a survivor is a really tough job. While starting a new life isn’t mandatory, a new life for me seems like an opportunity not to be missed.
The Great Resignation Isn’t So Great After All
Apr 19, 2022 | Managing | 0 Comments
The Great Resignation seems to be largely one of quitting a job that sucks and finding a new job that sucks at least somewhat less. Relatively few quits seem to be going into self-employment or gig life. Too much uncertainty. Income variations major. Hustling for work 24/7 not happy for many folks. Where is this all heading?
The New World (Dis)Order Has Arrived: Is Ordo Ab Chao Next?
Apr 12, 2022 | Future, Managing | 0 Comments
Just when I thought that the world couldn’t get any crazier, it seems to have hit a craziness game-changing home run. Chaos is appearing nearly everywhere. Will this end, and if so, how? What might come next? Will it take World War III to reach a conclusion? Kind of important questions, but few if any credible answers. My take on this, as an involuntary participant.
Is Russia Killing the WEF’s Great Reset Globalization Plans?
Apr 5, 2022 | Future | 0 Comments
Well, this is very inconvenient. Just when it appeared that the long-planned WEF Great Reset globalization initiative was finally on a roll, some serious Eurasian events seem to be mucking things up. Quite badly in fact. Is this a big deal, or not? Does it really matter much in the grand scheme of Great Reset things? Some thoughts from the growing swamp of confusion.
Welcome to the Rental Economy. Maybe.
Mar 29, 2022 | Future, Managing | 0 Comments
I’ve been reading a lot lately about the joys of the “rental economy”, which is apparently already upon us. Did you know this? If so, do you have any idea what it actually means? Is it much more than good old car, apartment, and hotel (etc.) rentals? Maybe even part of the Great Reset? If so, not so joyful.
Hoping for the Best, Planning for the Worst: But How?
Mar 22, 2022 | Future, Managing | 0 Comments
Nobody knows what is coming next – especially in these turbulent times. But we cannot avoid planning despite such uncertainty. You can’t plan for the “best” and you can’t plan for the “worst” because you don’t know what either extreme might be. You must plan, but how? Especially when the prospect of a nuclear World War III is facing us.
Can We survive a Nuclear World War III? Of Course!
Mar 15, 2022 | Future, Managing | 0 Comments
The Russia-Ukraine-NATO conflict has virtually chased COVID from the news. Fears of a Russia-U.S. nuclear World War III are going off the charts. End-of-the-world stuff. But do these media-stoked fears have any real basis in fact? If so, what do we actually have to do to be among the majority who will certainly survive?
Business Unit Size Is So Important. Do You Know Why?
Mar 8, 2022 | Managing | 0 Comments
Does your growing organization or business (unit) have between 50 and 150 FTE employees? If yes, is it often a mess – tough to manage? If no, you may be either very smart or very lucky. This is the growing organization size equivalent of the Terrible Teen years of human adolescence. What can go wrong, will. Why is this particular size range and development stage so important?
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What Is Money, and Why Are We All So Agreeable?
May 17, 2022
The Way Forward: A New Life for Me. Maybe for All of Us.
April 30, 2022
The Great Resignation Isn’t So Great After All
April 19, 2022
The New World (Dis)Order Has Arrived: Is Ordo Ab Chao Next?
April 12, 2022
Welcome to the Rental Economy. Maybe.
March 29, 2022
Hoping for the Best, Planning for the Worst: But How?
March 22, 2022
Can We survive a Nuclear World War III? Of Course!
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Business Unit Size Is So Important. Do You Know Why?
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Can Resilience Prevent Business Failure?
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How Are The Great Resetters Doing? Are We Reset Yet?
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Can You Avoid Mass Formation Psychosis?
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Job-Work Quality and the Great Resignation
January 25, 2022
Herd Behaviour and the Madness of Crowds
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Can Whatever-Is-Wrong-Today Be Fixed? Like Population?
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Inflation Is Unavoidable, Necessary — and Very Dangerous
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The Great Resignation Tsunami Is Upon Us
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Shortages of “Everything”: Why, and What To Do? Part 1.
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Complex Problems Have No Simple Answers
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Freelancing to Survive and Thrive in Times of COVID
August 31, 2021
If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage (Improve) It
August 24, 2021
How To Avoid Finding Out Your Business Resilience The Hard Way
August 17, 2021
Reinventing Work and the Workplace — Thanks to COVID
August 10, 2021
Business Coaching — Myth vs. Reality
August 3, 2021
Predicting the Unpredictable
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When Facts Aren’t Real: Managing in an Unreal Reality
June 29, 2021
What’s with the Shortages Explosion?
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Are You Ready for Emergence? It’s the Next Big Thing
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Complexity: A Hidden Black Swan?
May 18, 2021
Always Darkest Before the Dawn
May 11, 2021
Problems? No, Just Challenges
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Managing in a World of Fear
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Leadership: What To Do When You Don’t Know the Answer
April 20, 2021
An Agile Business Model for Turbulent Times (Maybe Forever)
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Planning for the Unforeseeable and Improbable
April 6, 2021
The Great Reset: A Survival Guide for Businesses
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Myth of the Four-Day Work Week
March 23, 2021
Groupthink: Creativity and Innovation Killer?
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Is “Stability” the “New Normal”?
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Forecasting in the New Normal
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The Growing Chasm Between Understanding and Action
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