CMOs and technology mastery I was reading the most recent CMO research data from The CMO Study published by Deloitte US and Duke University [the study can be found here]. The findings are very interesting, but they would benefit from a closer cropping by desired …
What Scenario Planners Can Learn from Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Resurrection and Consequences Like the character Buffy, the show proved resilient in the face of change. Following cancelation, Team Buffy announced that Buffy the Vampire Slayer would return to the air for at …
Emerald City ComicCon: 4 Tools to Help Keep It Close All Year Emerald City ComicCon is a wrap. The Main Stage is quiet. The autograph hall is empty. The vendors have packed their wares away, heading off to Chicago or San Diego or Atlanta for …
Top Five Things Not to Miss at Emerald City ComicCon 2018 Thursday. For the first time, ECCC organizer ReedPop has extended the Con to four days, so now Thursday is a thing. Not only is Thursday a thing, but it will be the day that …
Glorificus and Black Swans Season Five introduced a major existential threat to Sunnyvale in the form of the goddess Glorificus, better known as Glory. Glory might be better categorized a Black Swan than a predictable uncertainty. Although the team had encountered gods before, such as …
I have been on two conference calls recently that included a Cisco Webex meeting and an audio call. Webex supports audio through their platform, but both of these calls chose not to use it. The social protocol violation: not stating in the invitation explicitly that …
12 Study Tips for Learning Business English Faster Learning a language is not an isolated activity. After spending a year immersed in the language learning market, a key takeaway was just how collaborative learning a language needs to be. Organizations and individuals who invest need …
The Myth of Lock-in James Ogilvy, writing in Strategy + Business states that, “The old production economy was predictable because it operated in the realm of necessity; it produced goods and services people needed, and those were relatively stable. The new economy plays in the …
Star Trek: Discovery and Keeping Big Lies Straight When people tell big lies that run over long periods, they rationalize. They may try to find a break point that allows them to come clean, but they miss it and go on to pile myth atop …
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Uncertainty: An Introduction In March of 1603, King James I (James VI of Scotland) ascended the English throne. After many years of rule by Queen Elizabeth I, England faced many, as Shakespeare calls them in Sonnet CVII “incertainties.” The uncertainties …