Governments are ignominiously incompetent at framing problems before they propose solutions.  Put many governments, each with a different objective, together in a single conference with the implied pressure to agree on a world solution to an ill-defined problem, and you have a formula for doing more harm than good.  Thus describes the situation at the [...]

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Recent articles in the “New York Times” by Shayla McKnight, in the “Harvard Business Blogs” by Cheryl Dolan and Faith Oliver, and in “Stumble Upon” have focused on the harm done by workplace “gossip girls,” “mean girls” and on the difficulty in stopping these bullies.  However, some academics have even made a case for the [...]

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Ever since whatever happened with Kobe and whatshername in Eagle, Colorado, I loved to make jokes about it.  Then the United States Olympic basketball team was losing in the gold medal game to Spain and I made a deal with the cosmos that if Kobe led the team back and won them a gold medal, [...]

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It has been four years since Katrina did her best to destroy New Orleans and the surrounding area. I was not there at the time, in fact Louisiana was one of the very places in North America that I had not spent time in. My wife however was born in the area, and grew up [...]

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Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert In a recent article in Computer World, Tom Patterson CSO of Magtek, with his Glamor Shot photo, provides “5 counter-fraud tips you’ve never been told”. Anything a consumer can do to reduce their risk for account takeover, they should exercise. While in most cases the consumer isn’t responsible for the [...]

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