October 7, 2026 My Dad worked for 30+ years for a company that grew from an entrepreneur selling products out of the trunk of his used car to a multinational, with offices in Japan, Canada, and Holland, with sub-assembly vendors all over the world. Salesmen criss-crossed the country both by car and their own private…
September 7, 2026 Long tenure in IT leadership means you accumulate stories. Some are victory laps; most are technological horror stories. The ones that stick with you aren’t the dramatic zero-day ransomware attacks—they’re the quiet, grinding tragedies of institutional amnesia. Some years ago, I walked into an IT environment that had been stewarded by a…
May 5, 2026 Last week I had an observation related to music and organizational leadership. I love it when my diverse interests come together! As I’m fond of pointing out how creative solutions come from diverse thinking, I was recently listening to Billy Corgan’s podcast “The Magnificent Others,” where his guest was guitarist Jeff “Skunk”…
The Persistence of Memory September 4, 2023 Do you ever read something, maybe while searching for something else, and you find it sticks with you? You may not fully remember it, or where you read it, but you find it resonates with you and keeps coming back? Here’s what I read and recalled: “The Mayor…
One of my roles as a “management consultant who happens to do tech” is to go into organizations and look for ways in which things can be streamlined and make information more accessible. Organizations of all stripes struggle with this, and periodically it’s good to look at things with fresh eyes. Mapping the flow of…
July 25, 2022 Our family vacations always do multiple duties. For example, over the years with summer camps and activities, it never fails that in spite of our intentions we’re always either en route to vacation on my birthday or heavily into it. Vacations check multiple boxes, and the days of simply luxuriating at a…
April 21, 2022 “Scott Zarrow had a library.” So began Rabbi Marc Fitzerman’s eulogy of Scott Zarrow, a former client and philanthropist who became a friend, whom I think about often. Scott called me up one day after he finished an add-on to his house that was equal to or bigger than the original footprint…
January 31, 2022 One of the traditions we honor from our daughter’s Chinese heritage is Lunar New Year, which starts today. It’s the Year of the Tiger, which happens to be the astrological birth year of my wife and me. Depending on what you read, it could be a good year or a bad year…
This last weekend marked my Meyer Lemon’s annual trip into the house for Winter. Since lemons require a long growing season, I always bring it in just before Thanksgiving laden with lemons while silently praying that none fall off while being GENTLY coaxed through the door, where it will stay until February. Then it’ll go…