By Eli Amdur A Tale of Broken, Changed, or Discarded Rules Earlier this year, Merriam-Webster issued an edict – on Instagram, of all literary ironies – that it’s now OK to end a sentence with a preposition. I don’t know if your earth shattered, but mine did. Until, that is, I read (and reread) Columbia…
Global Business Leaders: Top 3 Challenges By Eli Amdur What keeps global business leaders up at night? What has them jumping out of bed in the morning? As a leader, they say, if you have more than three things on your to-do list, then you’re not delegating well enough. OK then, I asked a sampling…
The Long Life Of Leadership: JFK And This Week’s Moon Landing By Eli Amdur President John F. Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961 – just four months into his presidency – and said, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of…
Global Alliances Are More Important Than Ever By Eli Amdur You have a decision to make. You’re a major trader of goods over established trade routes or you’re a land baron controlling resources – timber, furs, grains, textiles, chalk – that proliferate across your expansive lands and numerous ports in central and northern Europe. You…
How To Become An AI All Star, A Guide For Non-Techies By Eli Amdur This is Part II of a two-part series on getting up to speed in AI. This part will address the career and job needs of the non-technical worker: the AI user. Part one addressed the technical worker: the AI developer. I…
How To Become An AI All Star, A Guide For Techies By Eli Amdur This is Part I of a two-part series on getting up to speed in AI. This part will address the career and job needs of the technical worker: the AI developer. Part two will address the non-technical worker: the AI user….
Sure enough. No sooner does innovation come upon us than two questions arise, in this order. (1) Will it take my job? (2) Will it create jobs? Note: fear of change precedes acceptance of change. It was that way when the cotton gin and the reaper changed agriculture in the 1790s, when fossil oil replaced…
By Eli Amdur (Also published in The Record) Suppose you and I are standing high atop a gorge – say, 250 feet above the white-water rapids raging below – and there’s a new bridge spanning the gorge, made of wooden slats and thick rope. The bridge, wet and slick from a tropical storm, sways in…
Add the American job market of 2021-2022, which has not only put on a show of force never previously seen; it’s sustained that performance for the 20th consecutive month, as of the August jobs report released September 2 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It’s the stuff on which American legend (historic is built:…
Given the events since mid-June alone – absolutely shocking revelations from the January 6 Committee, the Dow’s bumpy ride, Putin blowing up shopping malls, monkeypox – let alone this already-cuckoo mid-term election year, consider this column (following my previous two) to be that same directive. Metaphorically, this is your captain speaking, and I’m saying…