By Eli Amdur Sometimes, all you have to see is one small event, example, or case, and the big picture comes into compelling focus. A report by Kashmir Hill and Tiffany Hsu (New York Times, 6/9/24) is convincingly about one of those times. According to the account by Hill and Hsu, “a fly-by-night journalism outlet…
By Eli Amdur Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead’s singularly iconic and beloved bassist, died last week at age 84. He was a beautiful musician, a wonderful man, a sweet soul. He also – through his identifiably unique approach to his instrument and how it becomes so integral to the band’s creative development – exemplified more…
By Eli Amdur This is the greatest job market we’ve ever had. While we’re at it, let’s add a few adjectives: strongest, most consistent, most robust, most resilient, most inclusive, and so on. And you don’t have to worry about engaging in hyperbole. This job market is – and has been for the past four…
By Eli Amdur Today, Oct 7, is the date in 1885 when Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Business Leadership Lessons From Non-Business Sources I have always found great inspiration in my business leadership positions from people outside of business, especially those for whom profit was not a motive. One of them was Neils…
By Eli Amdur There’s much to do and little time to do it. Longshoremen’s big concerns The port workers’ strike that shut down our Eastern seaboard and Gulf coast ports has been temporarily suspended. The new do-or-die date is January 15, a fleetingly short 101 days away. “Don’t let robots take my job.” Aside from…
Leadership exists on three levels: personal, organizational, and global – and we achieve them in that order. We cannot lead others unless we first lead our own lives with some sense of order, perspective, connectedness, and purpose. That axiom underpinned all my teaching (two graduate leadership courses, 15 years) and leadership advisory (corporate across 25…
“Do I really need a résumé anymore?” With AI powering more and more applicant tracking systems (ATSs), with LinkedIn approaching one billion users, and with public records becoming increasingly ubiquitous and accessible, that question of résumé relevance is rolling off the lips of an alarming number of job seekers on a rapidly increasing basis. Says…
Why We Aren’t Getting The AI Governance Thing Right (Yet) By Eli Amdur Now that we’re up to our necks in alligators – namely, the conflict between innovation and governance in AI – we’re starting to see why we haven’t gotten it right – or even appear to be sufficiently down that path. The answer…
B y Eli Amdur Leadership exists on three levels: personal, organizational, and global – and we achieve them in that order. We cannot lead others unless we first lead our own lives with some sense of order, perspective, connectedness, and purpose. That axiom underpinned all my teaching (two graduate leadership courses, 15 years) and leadership…
By Eli Amdur A thousand years from now, historians, cultural anthropologists and linguists will look back on the beginning of this millennium and wonder about a curiously strange phenomenon. What, they will ask, happened to adjectives? Well, at least what happened to all but two adjectives? It appears that – with a large portion of…