Hidden Success

Books, universities and consultants, ad nauseum, tell us what to do to run our businesses. Most executives know a lot about business, quite a lot. So, no one needs an ivory-towered intellectual to re-state what we already have a good handle on. But there are essential...

What you don’t Know can Hurt you – a lot!

Let us begin by asking something you probably do not know – but feel you should know.  Which is the third largest city in Russia and where is it located?  The answer my friends is blowing up the 8 km-wide Ob River that runs besides this city, which carries nearby,...

The Response to Covid-19 An Interim Report

Seven different approaches to developing a vaccine against covid-19 are being undertaken among 80 or more agencies, worldwide. The work that shows promise for our future, follows certain established paths. Its developments create reasons to believe that an answer will...

Power Struggles

Since time immemorial, world populations have engaged in power struggles of one group against another. While history lessons have shown us the entanglement of one nation against another, the world’s power struggles ebb and flow as societies evolve into many different...

Coping with Irrationality

In 2011, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman wrote a best-seller1 on how people are pre-disposed to be irrational, a human state that is far more frequent than we think.  The book describes how irrationality overtakes us without our knowing it during which we are quite...