Leadership is Breaking Out All Over

I know you prefer my written blog posts, but I’m recording the audiobook for Win Bigly all this week and only have time for some Periscope fun. This one is about leadership breaking out all over. If you want some optimism with your coffee, here it is. My periscope on Leadership…

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The Magical Thinking Opposition

My hypothesis is that the political side that is out of power is the one that hallucinates the most — and needs to — in order to keep their worldview intact. For example, when President Obama was in office, I saw all kinds of hallucinations on the right about his…

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Checking My Six Month Prediction – Did it Age Well?

Six months ago this week, I tweeted this message: As you might expect, anti-Trumper are saying the tweet didn’t age well. They are saying this on the same week that their side protested a free speech rally by throwing urine on cops. Okay, okay, I know what you are going…

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Do We Really Need “Moral Leadership” from the White House?

After the horrors of Charlottesville, and President Trump’s morally ambiguous initial statement, pundits, politicians and citizens complained that we weren’t getting the moral leadership we need. I have one question: Why do we need moral leadership? Moral leadership probably made sense in pre-Internet days. But today we get rapid moral clarity…

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How To Know You’re In a Mass Hysteria Bubble

History is full of examples of Mass Hysterias. They happen fairly often. The cool thing about mass hysterias is that you don’t know when you are in one. But sometimes the people who are not experiencing the mass hysteria can recognize when others are experiencing one, if they know what to look for….

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The People’s Plan to Fix Health Care

We the People of the United States elected a populist president to go to Washington DC and make the changes the people want. Sounds good on paper. Unless the people don’t know what they want. That’s the situation with health care. The public doesn’t have any majority opinion on what a…

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