The Terrorist Bentley
So the "terrorist threat" at the bridge in Canada was really about two wealthy pillars of the community in a $300,000 Bentley rushing to a Kiss concert that they didn't know had been cancelled. Maybe we need to stop defaulting
Who’s Casting the First Stone?
"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong."—HL Mencken "No one is as corrupt as the morally certain." —Anonymous I enjoy
“Tax the Rich” Often Hurts Everyone But
We hear the simplistic mantra "tax the rich" from every protest group that surfaces. And there ARE income disparities that ought to be addressed, and the tax laws should be applied to all and enforced. However, it's not as simple as
Education Often Defies Evolution
When I’d urge my son in grammar school to overcome his perceived obstacles, he's say, “Dad, I realize in ‘days of yore’ you walked to school barefoot, through the snow, and wrote with pieces of coal on a wall.” I’d
Another Landmark Position for HR
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., the president and CEO of the Society for Human Resources Management, has placed on social media a tepid, moderate response to the recent horrendous Hamas savagery which beheaded babies and machine-gunned entire families. A thousand people
Anticipating Disruption
In my view, these are some strategic areas of instability for organizations to examine today: technology and AI, demographics, social unrest, financial planning, and regionalization. Even long-time, successful practices have to be adjusted as these are evaluated in terms of
Let’s Do Something, Whether It Works or Not
Sometimes it seems to me that we're like the person looking for lost car keys down the street, not because that's where they were lost, but because the light is better there. We spend a fortune on cancer treatment, but not
It’s About the Population of Germany
In the 2020 US presidential election, about 80 million people (one-third of all eligible voters) did not vote. That's a larger population number than all of but 18 countries in the world. I think this might be worse in 2024. People
Bleak House
In the US (and much of the industrialized world) morbidity is higher than fertility. We are not replacing ourselves. I won't delve into the sociological details here, but rather the pragmatic ones. Historically, those countries with large numbers of available
Striking
According to statistics I've read on the web, about 40% of strikes are failures, 50% effective in improving wages, and 10% "neutral." Strike funds from the union can compensate for about 40% of lost pay, but that still leaves quite