Articles
January 17, 2025
Hiring for the Long Run: What to Look for Beyond the Resume
The resume tells you what someone has done, not what they will do next. Here is how to hire for the next five years, not the last job.
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January 3, 2025
The One-Page Memo: How Clear Writing Fixes Fuzzy Thinking
Writing is not reporting, it is thinking. The one-page memo is the fastest way to find the holes in your own idea before the meeting does.
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December 26, 2024
The Soft Landing: How 2024 Beat the Recession
There is an outcome that almost no one predicted, and the outcome is the soft landing: the economy that cooled without crashing.
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December 13, 2024
Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Deepfakes and the New Trust
There is a video that looks real and is not, and the video is the 2024 test. The year of the deepfake is the year that seeing stopped being believing, and the trust problem is the subject of this article.
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November 13, 2024
Managing the Machine: Leadership When AI Joins the Team
There is a new member in the team, and the new member is not a person. The shift is the 2024 leadership story, and the story is the new management question: how do you lead the team that includes the machine?
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November 6, 2024
The Robotaxi Revolution: When the Driver Left the Car
There is a ride that is arriving without the driver, and the ride is the robotaxi: the autonomous taxi that is becoming the daily transportation for the thousands.
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October 30, 2024
When the Blue Screen Went Global: The CrowdStrike Lesson
There is a moment that the IT world will not forget, and the moment was the summer's Friday: the software update that brought the world's computers down.
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October 15, 2024
Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear's Second Act
There is a technology that has been the future for twenty years, and in 2024 the future started arriving: the small modular reactor. The 2024 moment is the turning: the technology companies signing the deals, the regulators approving the designs.
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September 13, 2024
The Four-Day Week: From Experiment to Mainstream
There is an experiment that started as the curiosity and became the movement, and the movement is the four-day week. In 2024 the idea is the mainstream: the trials that reported the results, the companies that made the switch permanent.
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September 4, 2024
The Logistics of the Games: What the Olympics Teach About Operations
There is an event that just wrapped up in Paris, and the event was the ultimate operations challenge: the Olympic Games that brought the world to the City of Light.
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