Over the past couple of years, it has seemed difficult to find business headlines that do not reference terms like “agentic AI,” “AI-driven workflow automation,” and “multi-hundred-billion-dollar hardware deal announced.” As the torrent of new information regarding AI model capabilities…

I emigrated from the UK to the US in 1996. Since then, my country of birth has changed, as have I. My visits to my old country usually make me feel like the old cliché: “a stranger in my own…

I recently spent a weekend with a friend in Mountain City, Tennessee, a small Appalachian town at 2,400 feet, surrounded by stunning mountain ridges and good people. It is a town that has been losing its economic footing for decades.…

My daughter competed in a USA Gymnastics state meet this weekend. The girls were judged on many elements. It caused me to ponder a possible analogy to the way people manage their money. A lot of folks approach money with…

Another college graduation period is almost upon us. I was recently asked by a client to talk to their soon-to-graduate son about how to get a job in an increasingly difficult labor market. I agreed. The client asked me what…