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Latest — Oct 14, 2025

Stop Talking About Your Values. Start Measuring Them.

Corporate leaders love, Love, LOVE to talk about values, even while many of these values are laughable – anodyne verging on meaningless: honesty, integrity, excellence – I mean, seriously? And beyond their generic character, many companies don’t walk the talk; their values are simply talking points for PowerPoints rather than tactics

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The Courage of Youth

Lighthiser v. Trump With today’s constant stream of Big and Beautiful caca de toro from Washington D.C. capturing headlines and mind share, you may have missed this news out of Montana: A group of young people is taking President Trump to court. At the heart of Lighthiser v.

I'll Take "Things That Matter" for $1,000: A Jeopardy-Style Roundup

Back when I used to watch the game show Jeopardy! with my grandma, there was a category called “Potpourri.” Probably still is – haven’t watched it in decades and a quick Google search tells me it’s still a thing, which means I definitely know what my grandma is doing

How an Ice Cream Meltdown Sparked a Corporate Revolution

To understand the birth of benefit corporations, you must go back to the year 2000 and the acquisition of Ben & Jerry’s by Unilever. When Unilever made an offer in 2000 to acquire Ben & Jerry’s for $326 million, the Ben & Jerry’s board found itself in

Ecosia: The Little Search Engine Who Could

If you’re a follower of tech and anti-trust law, you’re aware that Google was found guilty of anti-competitive practices a year ago. Since then, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta has been considering behavioral remedies to correct Google’s naughty behavior. But what you may have

How a Shoe Launch Led Me to Mohawk Ironworkers and Missing Women

Well, we’re going down the rabbit hole this week, led there not by the white rabbit of Alice’s Wonderland, but by a trickster rabbit of Native American lore. Tricksters play an important role in Native mythology, culture, and society. The rabbit trickster represents the triumph of the underdog

Rise of the American Jellyfish

Lickspittle. Now there’s a world. While I’ve long known of the word and its definition, I became reacquainted with it recently. Simply saying it is fun. Go ahead and try: Lick Spittle. Honoring its onomatopoetic roots makes it easy to visualize the attendant sounds: a lick, and then

AI Breaks It, AI Buys It

Four Ways to Make Technology Pay for Job Displacement In my last post (From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement) I raised the specter of AI creating massive job loss. So, how do we pay for job retraining or even the hallelujah state promised by AI CEOs of finding our bliss

From Dust Bowl to Digital Displacement: Will We Need Another New Deal?

Reader and Godspeed supporter Emma Mattson engaged me recently in a conversation about purpose at work, pointing me to an old episode of The Ezra Klein Show. (The Case Against Loving Your Job, aired in 2021, worth the listen, and deeply influencing Emma’s view on the subject.) I listened,