I recently read Serhii Plokhy’s Atoms & Ashes (Norton, 2022), a chronicle of six nuclear disasters over several decades in America, England, Japan, and Russia, three in the military and three in electric utilities. In all six cases, the consequences of the disaster were much worse than expected and governments did their best to cover […]
There are times when organizations are performing excellently but, despite their confidence, their futures are not bright. Kodak and Polaroid dominated the film and instant photography industries, respectively. My mother inherited a quantity of Kodak stock in the 1930s. It provided generous returns for several decades. People would always seek “Kodak moments” and needed a […]
I moved to Washington, DC a bit over four months ago. I have long liked the city, traveling here at least once a month for business over almost four decades. During this transition, I started watching TV shows associated with the White House. I have been binge watching The West Wing – just into the […]
There is a wealth of self-proclaimed pundits providing pronouncements on sports, politics, the economy, and so on. There seem to be unlimited numbers of Democrat and Republican strategists. Some are wizened pros that have been through many campaigns, some successful and some less so. Many are quite young. Despite having seemingly no credentials, they are […]
