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My experience with “Cancel Culture”, Part 4 – How I got canceled: Lies, lies and more lies!
“I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Lies are like cockroaches, for...
Bill Holmes
Oct 31, 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


My experience with online proctoring – Part 2
“There is no substitute for hard work.” Thomas Edison “If you are going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill I just completed the...
Bill Holmes
Jun 30, 20204 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


My experience with PMI® online proctoring – Part 1
“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.” Erma...
Bill Holmes
Jun 12, 20202 min read


What is the “Point of Total Assumption”? And why do I care?
“Never test the depth of river with both feet.” Warren Buffet “Winners are simply willing to do what losers won't.” Prachi Patel The...
Bill Holmes
Jun 3, 20203 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


COVID–19 My Predictions Part 6–Rejection of Science
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.” Bertrand Russell “Science is the...
Bill Holmes
May 2, 20203 min read


COVID-19 My Predictions Part 5 – Skepticism about “Experts”
“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.” Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love...
Bill Holmes
Apr 24, 20203 min read


COVID – 19 My Predictions Part 4 – The Fall of the Globalist
“We're exploring the possibility of building a wall to stem the exodus." "Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.”...
Bill Holmes
Apr 16, 20202 min read
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