Entertaining Entropy

Why do I as a business leader need to know about a strange scientific concept called entropy? I suppose it is reasonable for me to know why entropy is viewed by some people as important. I might see its significance if I understood how entropy affects me and my...

Keeping Clients

Some salespeople are good at securing new clients but often weak in holding onto those newly won customers.  This creates a costly sales program of having to replace lost prospects who should have been retained in the first place.  Ideally, the salesperson wants to...

Pioneers Get Arrows in their Backs

While engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs leap enthusiastically into paths of new discovery and exploration, those paths are littered with the bodies of wise, capable, innovative, and ambitious individuals.  That is, it is well established that blazing a path...

The Birds and the Bees

Among CCCC’s educational endeavors, the ‘Birds and Bees’ presentation attempts to explain why we humans behave the strange way we do, which to a great extent, seems not understandable.  Why do nations so furiously wage together?  Why do men continue to abuse women? ...

History Repeats Itself

The current economic collapse due to covid-19 shows many parallels with the economic collapse in 2008 called the Great Recession.  Namely, (1) the signs were there but the experts ignored them; (2) people questioned the government’s wisdom in supporting the fat cats...