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It was more drivel about Millennials, surely the most confusedly-defined generation of all. But this posting did nothing to extend that respect. Before getting into the details of why this posting was so disappointing, it’s worth sampling the wide variations in how Millennials are defined. On the first page of a Google… I just finished reading a posting on the corporate blog of a research firm that I really respect.

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That’s kind of what happens in stock markes from time to time. It must be a law of nature. Too much of anything triggers correction in due course. No one would attribute… Everyone knows that overpopulation turns lemmings toward the sea to correct the problem. When irrational exuberance lifts stocks to unsustainable levels, investors destroy value by dumping stocks so fast that supply far outpaces demand and prices precipitously plummet.

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We’ve seen some strange ideas about the sources of human behavior coming out in the mainstream press over the past few years. More and more it seems, our hallowed concepts of volition and self-awareness are appearing to be as much an illusion as the apparent flatness of Mother Earth. Gary Klein’s provocative Sources of Power destroyed the Defense Department’s illusion that people under fire in the battlefield reason through their…

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Damn mad! For several years I have been touting Dove’s Real Beauty campaign as a high-minded example of authenticity in consumer marketing. I am stunned. Imagine my dismay, then, when I discovered in the May 12 issue of The New Yorker that the real beauties in Dove’s Real Beauty campaign are not real. I feel cheated. I am mad. The success of the Real Beauty campaign still validates my original…

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First, it was written by a member of the Silent Generation who had bought into the idea that it was every bit as… Reader Anita Landis of the GlynnDevins ad agency in Overland Park, Kansas sent me the URL to an article on the Silent Generation that ran in the June 29, 1970 issue of Time. I found the article by Time Associate Editor Gerald Clarke fascinating from several perspectives.

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I especially get upset when it shows up in a widely esteemed newspaper like the New York Times. Because many people in important positions will take on faith claims made in the great gray lady of U.S. journalism irrespective of their accuracy or lack thereof. Last Sunday’s editorial section carried such piece. It was titled, “When the Time Make the Man." In it,… Why? Sloppy scholarship sometimes makes me mad.

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Surely the boomer generation, if not the greatest generation, is the most mythologized generation in history. Interestingly the boomer generation was not named until former People magazine editor Landon Jones did so in his 1981book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation. By then, the oldest boomer was 35-years-old – well past his or her hell-raising years of youthhood. The term “boomer” has been a buzzword bigtime in marketing…

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But is that always the case? World-changing idea #3: The Ebbing Value of Expertise (Part 2a) Objectivity is supposedly the superior cognitive stance to take in searching for truth. The ubiquity of communications in our lives – including news and talk shows 24/7 – contributes to shaping an uncertain picture… How often do we hear experts battling it out in courtrooms over two contradictory propositions based on alleged objective analysis?

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