The Young and the Restless
During our engineering conference this past week, I described advertising as repeated messages that make you buy things you didn’t know you needed. I don’t know what you call buying things you don’t need, and if I were to make a joke about it involving Yankees baseball management George Steinbrenner would fire me from my [...]
Ending A Streak
Much of what we do is physical, directed by the mental. When we’re on a streak, it seems the physical is dominated by the mental; we aren’t winning because we can’t win, or we are winning because, quite simply, we’re too {good, strong, smart, cool} to lose. This is true for business, for sports, for [...]
The Future of Bureaucracy is….not
In addition to retracing the paths of my salad days I also had a speaking part at the Princeton University Career Options for Engineers panel. Most of the evening was spent fielding questions from undergrads. My favorite question was directed to Connie Cromwell, who is the Chief Engineer of the New York City Subway system: [...]
Not So Mirror Worlds
Life has a way of presenting itself in patterns, often with beautiful but not quite perfect symmetry. Tonight I found myself back on the Princeton University campus to speak on a panel entitled Career Options For Engineers. The organizers and I have different first interpretations of “options” but I promised to (mostly) behave and tell [...]