My Summer 2020 Bookshelf
Spoiler alert: My summer book list is not exactly beach reading. After all, Chicago beaches are closed because of the…
Browsing: My Gray Rhino
This Tornado Siren Is Not a Test
I was on a Zoom call about Chicago’s economic recovery at 3:43 pm yesterday afternoon when my cell phone buzzed…
Don’t Let Cognitive Biases Topple Your Strategic Plan
Did you know that the typical five-year strategic planning forecasts perform about as well as dart-throwing chimpanzees? Cognitive science and…
THE GRAY RHINO Kindle edition $2.99 until end-July
Through the end of July 2020 only, the Kindle/ebook edition of THE GRAY RHINO is on sale for $2.99 across…
How to Make Your Zoom Meetings More Inclusive
I wrote some ways back about the launch of Inclusion Meeting Cards, a project from the Chicago based software development company Table XI. The…
How to Combat COVID19 Denial
Why are people so prone to denying instead of dealing with the obvious problems in front of us, whether coronavirus…
The Five Stages of the Coronavirus Gray Rhino
We’ve been seeing a lot of analysis of where the coronavirus could take us, along with some analysis of what…
The Upside to Risk
I admit it, I am risk averse, at least with my finances. Those who know me would say the opposite…
In Celebration of Early Alarms and Prevention Habits
China and the world are mourning Dr. Li Wenliang, one of the doctors who attempted to spread an early warning of…
The Risk Bearer: Embracing the Right Kind of Uncertainty
Whether in business or in personal life, people only partner up when each has something that the other wants. You…