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Toothbrush Mustaches and the Violent Exchange of Ideas
The moderates have set a big tent - something about “a place for the great debate.” Look at them in there with their toothbrush mustaches and their violent exchange of ideas. Who are they to think for themselves? This is unsafe. Where are their...
Robots Giving Rise to Artisan’s Golden Age
What if technology is the change agent to make humanity more human? If the pinnacle of performance in so many jobs is machine-like optimization, I say fashion the machines to do the mechanistic. Let the inhumane do the inhuman jobs of packaging widgets,...
Why the Numbers Matter: Beyond Scoreboards and Speeding Tickets
We do an annual employee satisfaction survey and elicit feedback from our team about the strengths and weaknesses of our culture. We get a lot of great feedback that we take very seriously and much of it informs our people-strategy. There was one bit of written...
Leading from the Middle in 2025
ReflectionWe launched the Real Leadership podcast about a year and a half ago. Our primary objective was to highlight Real Leaders in the real economy who were not getting the air-time we felt they deserved. The upside on this project for me...