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Best Practices

A collection of 9 issues

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

Personal Reflections on Tariffs and the Law of Unintended Consequences

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood. Nobody in our area had much money, except for a few people who might have been connected to organized crime, and I assume they did what they could to hide evidence of prosperity and to obscure the provenance of any alleged ill-gotten gains.

A Personal Note

About a year ago, a little more than a year into my retirement, I had a conversation about how to go about retiring with a former colleague, who was still employed at the time. We arranged the call on LinkedIn and I took it while I was on one of

Lessons in Chairing Panels

FT Edit published a commentary recently decrying the state of panels and roundtable discussions at conferences and trade shows. It’s a good piece, and I recommend that you read it if you have access to the article and if you have an abiding interest in what can go right