George O’Hanlon wrote an article for Natural Pigments titled Fat Over Lean: Essential Guide to Oil Painting Techniques for Artists (11 August 2024).
Continue reading “Fat Over Lean Rule in Oil Painting”Complexity Debt
John Pavlus wrote an article for Kellogg Insight titled The Hidden Cost of Successful Experiments about the research of Yudi Huang, Sebastien Martin, and Zhiwei (Tony) Qin.
Continue reading “Complexity Debt”Frank Ryan’s Flesh Tone Color Palette in Oil Painting
Frank Ryan wrote an article for Natural Pigments titled Verona Green Earth for Vibrant Flesh Tones Paints (2 May 2023).
Continue reading “Frank Ryan’s Flesh Tone Color Palette in Oil Painting”Hiring Leaders: Am I looking forward or backward?
Josh Bersin and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done (27 August 2019).
Continue reading “Hiring Leaders: Am I looking forward or backward?”Businesses need to be comfortable with ambiguity as ambiguous definitions are often those which most accurately capture broader patterns
Doug Garnett wrote a bog post titled Complexity vs Precise Language in Business (31 March 2025).
Continue reading “Businesses need to be comfortable with ambiguity as ambiguous definitions are often those which most accurately capture broader patterns”Liminal Thinking
Dave Gray wrote a blog post titled Liminal Thinking (9 November 2014).
Continue reading “Liminal Thinking”George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
George Orwell, author of Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), wrote an article titled Politics and the English Language for the April 1946 edition of Horizon.
« Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers. »
Continue reading “George Orwell: Politics and the English Language”Culture Fit vs. Culture Add
David Burkus wrote an article titled Does Hiring For Culture Fit Actually Work? (17 March 2025).
Continue reading “Culture Fit vs. Culture Add”Two cost drivers of U.S. health care: price opacity and doctor shortage
James Nguyen wrote an opinion piece for The Hill titled Don’t blame insurers for what doctor and hospital cartels did to US health care (28 December 2024).
Continue reading “Two cost drivers of U.S. health care: price opacity and doctor shortage”The Unintended Consequences of Open Offices
Ethan Bernstein and Ben Waber wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The Truth About Open Offices: There are reasons why they don’t produce the desired interactions (November-December 2019).
It is worth noting that the article was published prior to ubiquity of Zoom meetings, but the general insights on human behavior likely stand the test of time.
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