Independent Thinking Blog
Independent Thinking Blog
What’s Your Favorite Airport?
As a child, I loved Paris-Charles de Gaulle for its space age bubble with the escalators going in all directions. It was avant garde with a touch of Star Trek before I knew about Star Trek. And it belonged to an era where there was still an illusion that air travel...
Whatever Happened to Business Ethics?
I was wrong. Utterly and completely. I argued with my mom in early August that former HP CEO Mark Hurd would only be unemployed for a year or so. (She thought his career was over.) That he’d do a requisite stint in the wilderness and then get some cushy consulting...
Are You Happy at Work?
Are you happy at work? The Pew Research Center released a study the other day that finds that 26 percent of all employed workers in the United States have been out of work at some point since the economic downturn began. While it's good that some people have found new...
Labor Day 2010
It's Labor Day in America. A day when, ironically, most of us get a rare day off from work. To celebrate Labor Day, here's a brief excerpt from "Every Blessed Day." It's an amazing poem from Philip Levine's award-winning What Work Is: Waiting at the corner he feels...
Roger Clemens Has Nothing on This Guy
So I go out of town for a few days and miss the big sports story. No, not that story. This one. What's interesting about the Jay Mariotti story isn't the facts. Or even the arrest. It's the glee with which just about everyone has greeted the news. Apparently this guy...