As were our ancient ancestors, we are born hardwired to instinctively pursue the common good. That is how as a frail, prey species our race in tribal bands became a dominant predator. However, these instincts don’t stop there. On the dark side of the common good, we instinctively band together to disassemble self-serving institutions.  Ridding […]

The management pyramids found in just about every corner of the planet make an assumption. They assume that employees have the authority needed to meet their responsibilities, as the picture above shows with the blue ball for authority and the red ball for responsibility in a precarious balance. That way bosses supposedly don’t interfere and

In high school, I spent three summers as part of a rowing crew on Lake Maxinkuckee in Indiana. In the last year, we won the championship for which I received a varsity letter. I still remember that race like it was yesterday. As hard as we trained and as exhausting as the race was, there

The retelling of myth is a lost art. In the retelling, gifted story tellers would embellish and update living myths based on existing conditions. But once the myths got written down with the advent of writing, the life went out of them. But don’t despair. The literature on the quantum condition is loaded with living

I really enjoy hoping on the Amtrak Acela from Philadelphia or the New Jersey Northeast Corridor Express from Trenton to New York. I take my seat and off we go, soon to arrive in the Big Apple. But what if everyone on the train was entangled with everyone else and in all the seats at

Perhaps you’ve heard Johnny Lee sing, “Looking for love in all the wrong places.” Aside from a couple being an excellent example of the quantum entanglement between two people (what one does evokes a polar response in the other, no matter how far apart) there’s places in the research into the organizational quantum condition that