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My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 11 – Lessons Learned Part 3
“The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.” Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words “Secrecy...
Bill Holmes
Dec 27, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 10 – Lessons Learned Part 2
“Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and...
Bill Holmes
Dec 23, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 9 - Lessons Learned Part 1
“The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.” Orrin Woodward “When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not...
Bill Holmes
Dec 8, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 8 – How I got canceled: The Final Result
“Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and...
Bill Holmes
Dec 2, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 7 – How I got canceled: They use your decency against you
“A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your...
Bill Holmes
Nov 28, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 6 – How I got canceled: He owned the system
“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.” Henry Kissinger “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”...
Bill Holmes
Nov 25, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 5 – How I got canceled: Abuse the process!
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who...
Bill Holmes
Nov 12, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 3 – How I got canceled: He faked being a victim
“This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so...
Bill Holmes
Oct 24, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 2 – How I got canceled: He aligned his resources
“There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.” Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston “Now the only sure basis of an...
Bill Holmes
Oct 19, 20203 min read


My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 1 – Background
"Cancel culture is not actually about justice. It is about control. People use cancellation to force conformity to ideals.” Teal Swan...
Bill Holmes
Oct 14, 20203 min read


Tip 3 for the Remote Manager – Follow the rules!
“People. They're not all bad, but do you really want to risk it? Perhaps that was the unofficial motto of the Soviet Union...” Dmitry...
Bill Holmes
Sep 29, 20203 min read


Tip 2 for the Remote Manager – Provide structure
“I thrive in structure. I drown in chaos.” Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody “Structure significantly influences behavior, thereby...
Bill Holmes
Sep 18, 20202 min read


Tip 1 for the Remote Manager – People First
"Remote work is the future of work." Alexis Ohanian, Reddit "You can never over-communicate enough as a leader at a company, but at a...
Bill Holmes
Sep 3, 20203 min read


The pandemic got you down? Look to Maslow!
“Overthinking is not a disease; it is due to the underuse of your creative power.” Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations “Your...
Bill Holmes
Aug 16, 20203 min read


Chaos isn’t a pit, it’s a ladder
“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is the ladder, and the climb is all there is.” Petyr Baelish, Game of Thrones “In the midst of chaos, there is...
Bill Holmes
Jul 31, 20202 min read


Using simple phrases to convey complex ideas
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “Without education, we are in a...
Bill Holmes
Jul 21, 20203 min read


Persuasion through unusual words
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” George Orwell, 1984 “Don't use words too big for the subject....
Bill Holmes
Jul 8, 20203 min read


Coring Pineapples and Other Management Follies
“Listen to those under your supervision. Really listen. Don’t act as if you’re listening and let it go in one ear and out the other....
Bill Holmes
Jun 17, 20204 min read


Mankind’s Greatest Invention!
“Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.” W. Edwards Deming “Management by results - like driving a car by...
Bill Holmes
May 20, 20203 min read


Final Thoughts on COVID-19 – Risk Management Principles are the Key!
“Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.” Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful...
Bill Holmes
May 9, 20203 min read
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