Essays on creative leadership,
culture, and the human side of work.
Published weekly, with an original illustration. Two series: Becoming and Advisory Notes.
Cars. An endless stream of them. All doing 40 or more, on a street marked 25. A street built for two lanes, now filled with four lanes of bumper-to-bumper cars. Most drivers already wearing their masks. Men and women desperate to get to their jobs on time, so they could maintain the life depicted in…
This is the last episode of the Overture serial fantasy… The path to the future is unclear. Back in Seattle, I shook out my umbrella and dropped it in the stand. It’s been raining more in the last few years. More rain. Bigger drops. More intense wind. All a part of the change, they’ve told…
“250 million died.” Jessica turned and asked Sara what she was talking about. “Sorry. The last outbreak of COVID. I got a call from Rosa, our Circle City LA director, early this morning. They had three deaths last night. Testing this morning showed it was a new form of COVID.” Jessica, Tommy and Sara were…
The campaign was on… Corporate coffers to be filled An election to be won And Sleepy Joe without a clue. The White House told us so. -Anonymous It was over now. It seemed running was the only choice. Just then, the clouds let go. They were getting wet fast. The Overture group started walking. Brie…
This serial is a fantasy about the Overture Creative Cooperative, set in the near future. However, Overture is a real organization that provides creative services. You can learn more about the real Overture at Overture.coop. Looked through the paper Makes you want to cry Nobody cares if the people Live or die -Leonard Cohen “You’ve…
“We’re out of masks.” “We’re out of hand sanitizer.” “We’re almost out of aspirin.” “Generic and brand?” “Yep.” Tommy remembered it well. The conversation happened just as he was walking into the Tell’s executive conference room. He was about to present the plan assembled by the Overture team to the Tell’s board and senior executives.…
Billionaires. Got the money, wanna keep it. Tommy left his seat and began walking up the aisle as the train slowed. Living in a police state. Amazing how quickly things changed. Stock market continuously going up. Unemployment shrinking to almost nothing. And yet, 40% of us living below the poverty line, real wages shrinking, thousands…