Demographics, Education, Socioeconomics and Hispanic Diversity
Different College Majors and Alternative Approaches to Careers Synopsis The implications of on-going dramatic demographic change are relevant to the leader of any organization. They impact everything from the hiring level to the executive suite, from the customer prospect to the supplier interface. Diversity becomes a practical and economic necessity, probably even more of a […]
THE BIG TRADE
How it really went down Roman, aide to Vladimir Putin, called Susan, aide to President Biden Susan to Biden: President Biden, President Biden! Vladimir Putin is on the line. Biden to Susan: Why are you bothering me, you know it’s my nap time. Susan to Biden: It’s Putin. Biden to Susan: Oh, why didn’t you […]
The Road Less Traveled
I am definitely not a techie. However, after clicking a few times, I found that I could instruct Andrea, the calm voice of Google Maps, to take me on a route in a rural area of upstate New York that would avoid highways and toll roads. Magic: a whole new world unfolded! In no […]
Memorial Day
Written 2022: ROBB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Formula for world leadership in the number of children slaughtered at schools or supermarkets or sitting in cars or attending a party or simply walking down the street: ready, legal access to an array of guns not contemplated when a bunch of white guys wrote the constitutional amendment about the […]
Data Plus
*The United States leads the world’s list of “advanced economies” when it comes to the percentage of people who think major reforms are needed in politics (85%) and healthcare (76%). (Pew) *People are afraid to speak their minds; over 80% regard this as either a “serious” or “very serious” issue. Compared with ten years ago, […]
Initials
A new game that is destined to go viral … or not. Step One: Identify an acronym known to at least a dozen people. Step Two: Create an alternative set of words using the same initials as the popular acronym. This new combination of words must be reasonably close in meaning to that […]
See Below
The following piece of writing is satire. It is fiction. Any resemblance to living or dead people or a particular Hollywood movie or a political philosophy or anything that is streaming is completely intentional. Contemporary Creative Cinematography: Take One Two nicely dressed women in their upper twenties are sitting at a nicely dressed table in […]
Restaurant Protocol
RESTAURANT PROTOCOL We have this unusual environment. Lots of indications that the economy is moving ahead nicely, regardless of the empty storefronts which dot the landscape. Most germane to this modest tutorial is that restaurants seemingly have ceased training their servers, apparently out of gratitude that the latter have graced the establishment with their sheer […]
Welcome to New York City
AN INCREDIBLY SHORT PRIMER You must be conversational about professional sports. Here are some succinct descriptors: The Jets are perpetual losers The Giants are always better than their record The Yankees must win the World Series or the season is a failure The Mets suck The Knicks are better than the […]
Totally Random Observations
*As has been widely reported, Russian computer geeks under the control of dictator Putin are playing games with all kinds of (mis)information to screw with peoples’ minds and perceptions of the world. According to a deeply troubling analysis of QAnon (“Pastels and Pedophiles,” by Mia Bloom and Sopia Moskalenko) Americans are nine times more likely […]