Gaining an Advantage from Elite Conceit

The first of two starting points for this post is David Evans’s An ‘Unacceptable’ Degree? in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Evans is discussing hiring practices and the rejection of potential candidates who lack a “trophy degree.” One of the commentators mentions several reasons that a candidate would be rejected that, even if shared, wouldn’t […]

Musing on Leadership, Localized Authority, and Time Constants

In the serendipity of looking through various RSS feeds, I came across Don Vandergriff’s recent post, The Best Leadership Article I have Seen, which reprints and links to William Deresiewicz’s lecture Solitude and Leadership posted on The American Scholar. I agree with Vandergriff that it is a very timely and thought provoking piece of writing. […]

A Dressing Technology

To date, the internet and technology have had some major impacts on the where and when of shopping for clothes but have not fundamentally changed the process. What existed before as catalog shopping pretty much transferred to web-based catalogs of clothes and shopping online. The process became more convenient, the ability to search and compare […]