Why people get stuck half-way to great, and the new science of breaking barriers Familiarity breeds contempt. It also breeds invisibility, which is a much bigger problem. If you think it’s crazy to do the same thing every day expect different results, I’m here to tell you that would [Keep reading]
“I think we’re alone now/There doesn’t seem to be anyone around.” You probably already have the tune in your head. It’s a 60s song that sounds like a 50s song that became an 80s hit because…the idea behind it is timeless. When young lovers finally get to steal a moment [Keep reading]
After the Great Recession, there is the Great Stuckness. Sure, the unemployment rate seems under control, it’s been a while since a major bank or brokerage went belly up, the Dow is soaring, and even the housing market is showing signs of life. But you probably don’t feel like things [Keep reading]
There’s been a lot of yelling about equal pay in the news lately. It’s a discussion I’d rather not wade deeply into, because boiling national labor data down to a single data point is the place where logic goes to die. Everyone knows there’s a long history of pay discrimination [Keep reading]
Corporations behave in miserable ways these days. A nasty combination of Quarter-by-quarter thinking, executive-worker pay gap, and the distance between owner and consumer are largely to blame. (When the local butcher screwed you, you could ruin his reputation. When a multi-national corporation screws you, who cares?) But as I often [Keep reading]
Something has gone horribly wrong with AOL email, and here’s what you need to know. 1) If you get an email from an AOL.com email address, treat it as toxic – even if it appears to comes from a friend. 2) If you have, or had, and AOL email account, [Keep reading]
I received an unexpected email from a friend today with a Google doc attachment. It was a friendly note, so friendly that I did consider clicking on it — even with about 20 years experience watching all manner of hacker tricks. Fortunately, I stopped and asked a simple question, which [Keep reading]
In case you missed it during the holiday weekend, a set of consumers’ rights were killed off and then rose from the dead, all in the span of about three days. While consumer advocates are declaring victory over the Cheerios fine print incident, there’s a bigger story you are probably [Keep reading]
General Mills on Saturday reversed changes it recently made to terms and conditions that would have limited consumers’ ability to file lawsuits against the firm. The move comes after a week of pounding in the public marketplace, which served a slice of humble pie to the firm and served as [Keep reading]
General Mills did the predictable thing today and, after refusing to answer questions from The New York Times, wrote a blog post criticizing the paper for getting the Cheerios story wrong yesterday. Feel free to believe the firm — and every other corporation — which tries to say that forcing [Keep reading]
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