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Framing Disruptions
Simple approaches can focus the mind. When thinking through the means and mechanisms by which disruptions could ...
Developing and Hiring Managers: Values Come First
A new manager, whether promoted from within or hired from abroad, must learn to communicate and model the values ...
Brooks Writes Stories: How Did It Go in 2023?
In mid-2017, I started submitting and tracking my fiction writing, and have since posted updates ...
Data, Technology, and Judgment
We homo sapiens seem overwhelmed by information, technology, and choices. We sadly struggle to manage the daily ...
Brooks on Books: More on Tennis
In September, I was in Corpus Christi, Texas watching a tennis match and taking notes, when a smiling, clear-eyed ...
Keep It Simple: Another Lesson from the MIT Baseball Team
My Dad taught me and my brother, “There is no premium for complexity.” He emphasized the value of ...
Cybersecurity Simplified: Best Practices to Reduce Risk
After delivering the keynote at AgWest Farm Credit’s “2023 Forest Products Summit” in Portland, I parked myself in ...
Brooks on Books: Interested in Tennis?
Books are magical and the most powerful of technologies. The fact that lines of ink on flattened pulp can transmit ...
Four Qualities of Effective Coaches
A friend of mine, a former professional baseball player, recently asked, “who is the best coach you ever had?” I ...
How to Conduct Analysis and Think for Yourself
Recently, I wrote a two-part series at Forisk on “Forest Products and the Economics of Timber Markets.” It focused ...
Ode to Weighted Averages
Several years ago, in the essay Average is the Enemy, I wrote about the “false shortcuts offered by averages” for ...
Learn from Others and Tie Your Camel
After watching then New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady at practice, former Indiana basketball coach Tom ...