Elon Musk and Tesla: A Business Parable for Our Times
Everybody is Fallible, Lessons Can be Learned
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Best Practices
A collection of 13 issues
AI Voice Fraud: We’re Advised to Take Precautions
Like It or Not, It's Coming
Is it All for Nothing, and Nothing for All?
It's time to step up
When CEO and Company Are Synonymous, Risks Can Overshadow Rewards
Like an auteur of the 1960s and 1970s, I feel compelled to revisit certain themes, not so much to repeat them as to explore them further.
An early composition on this forum dealt with the evolving behavior of ultra-rich industrialists. In the age of the Robber Barons, the obscenely wealthy
Dignity in the Time of the Toads
In what follows, I’m going to use parable to make my point because I want to focus on principle rather than individual personalities. Okay, with that brief preface out of the way, let’s begin.
What is obsequiousness good for? It doesn’t seem to have much utility. In
Why AI Scenarios Are More Important than Predictions
Answering Zuckerberg’s Call for Masculine Energy
Mark Zuckerberg says we need more “masculine energy” in today’s corporate culture, which presumably includes the tech industry to which he belongs. I’m now retired, but even so, I question whether I’m doing my part for the cause of corporate machismo. I sense that I am at
In Praise of Uncertainty: A Resolution for the Year Ahead
We learn, if we’re fortunate and observant, from the past, even though we can never know precisely what happened in the past. We live, of necessity, in the present. We look forward to the future, often in hope more than fear. We can’t know the future, though. We
Intel’s Board Deserves Its Share of Blame for the Company’s Long Decline
Many Jobs are Boring, and That’s Okay
First of all, I hope the Americans among my modest readership have recuperated from the turkey-induced torpor of yesterday’s orgiastic feasts. In my part of the world, Thanksgiving was not celebrated, but even if it was, I would have forgone the turkey. I mean no offense to those who