Exploratory

Walmart, a very shareholder driven company, or maybe it’s driven for one family only, is rolling out robots across its stores. This first article popped up in my LinkedIn. Noticing that the article is written by an unknown contributor (never heard of Jack Kelly), I decided to find out if there were more articles related…

Here is something exciting or something to be hopeful. Here is an article from Thomas Friedman showing how one rural town in Minnesota is working to increase acceptance of diversity. He says there are three things necessary in order to be a rising town versus a declining town: a need to fill jobs, ready to…

Well, maybe they are not avant-garde… A couple of months ago, I did a post on avant-garde Excels. This one is about avant-garde emails, although they are really not avant-garde per se, but they are unusual company emails in that people don’t usually do these visual types of emails. Why am I doing this? One,…

I think we kind of have some aspects of socialism already: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and possibly our education system for elementary, junior high and high school, our police force, our firemen, our road system. Our taxes pay towards these greater goods for society. Now I have to admit that I do conflate communism and…

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here and according to IBM’s CEO, 100% of jobs will change over the next 10 years. She doesn’t say jobs will be eliminated; she says they will change. So we gotta get cracking on reskilling. The source of the change will be analytics and artificial intelligence – not a surprise…

A few months ago, probably last year, I did a post on the fact our company did a rebranding exercise that refreshed their logo but at the time I didn’t think the company was ready to announce to the work its new look. The website wasn’t even set up yet. But in the last few…