Leadership gurus: a culture of narcissism Tom Peters, Marshall Goldsmith, Stephen Covey, Tony Robbins. Leadership gurus: a culture of celebrity An offshoot from the culture of narcissism, leadership training became the last refuge of washed out celebrities and sports people. All of this leadership lark is quite recent. MORE >>

For most of our nation’s history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world - for whites, anyway.”  You might say the country has bifurcated into different social tribes, with a tenuous common culture linking them.”  MORE >>

Spence and Hlatshwayo examined the evolving structure of the American economy from 1990 to 2008 by looking at its tradable and nontradable components using data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.  I was invited to participate and contributed an essay, “ What’s Next in the Knowledge Economy? MORE >>

In Part I, Inside Knowledge, October 2008 , Jon Husband put the history of Taylorism in the Industrial Age in perspective with the absence of an accepted standard for management in the Knowledge Age. A primary tool in designing work and structure is job evaluation (and derivatives like accountability mapping and redundancy analysis).  MORE >>

Economics is another discipline that has had to make the transition from a world of relatively simple mathematical models to one governed by the sophisticated analysis of real world information.  Complex Systems Economic Issues Education and Talent Innovation Management and Leadership Society and Culture Technology and Strategy MORE >>