Mark Mullaly

Specializes in getting difficult and uncertain things done well.

Finds drama undergrad and PhD in strategy remarkably useful when integrated.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

You Can Buy Hemingway’s Typewriter. But Would You Use It? https://t.co/fVAICE6PQD A lovely and fascinating story about an astonishing collection. Writers are inextricable from their tools and process. That was perhaps never truer than when their primary tool was a typewriter.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

Christopher Nolan on the Promise and Peril of Technology https://t.co/xG9PJUuaer A really interesting interview with the director of Oppenheimer on technology, its uses and misuses and how to tell meaningful stories that have a global impact. A really worthwhile read.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

Silicon Valley’s $445 million robot pizza revolution that wasn’t https://t.co/XPtAqZsVIU There was a time when Zume was acclaimed for its acumen, laserlike focus and incredible strategic alignment. A peak behind the scenes suggests that was as much a fabrication as their cartons.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

Taylor Swift Is TIME's 2023 Person of the Year https://t.co/nVR5fQAm1t Regardless of your personal views of her music, Taylor Swift had an outsized impact on 2023, shifting economies and making the earth move. A really fascinating exploration about managing self and identity.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound https://t.co/PZiq04m2D3 There is a singular irony to the fact that someone who profits incredibly from the personal information of you and I insists on absolute secrecy in his own life. This is both fascinating and over the top.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

The Most Consequential Act of Sabotage in Modern Times https://t.co/qSb7JmGzj5 This is a fascinating exploration of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline. How it likely happened, exploration of motives and speculation about who actually perpetrated the act.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

Reporting on Long Covid Taught Me to Be a Better Journalist https://t.co/3KCeJSvmOi Ed Yong did some of the most powerful and significant reporting on the pandemic—and the consequences of long Covid. That came at a cost. It was also a profound learning journey. Worth the read.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

The Making of a Corporate Athlete https://t.co/WQTc95mRYF This is an incredibly valuable & useful article. The idea of executives as athletes is a useful perspective. It is also one that gets comparatively little focus in business writing. I am taking a number of ideas from this.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

ChatGPT is Everywhere. Here’s Where It Came From https://t.co/rAUUtSIrIR ChatGPT feels like it showed up overnight and took the world by storm. It has been a long time in the making, and still has a long road ahead of it. A fascinating timeline.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker https://t.co/BWa5q9da3v
Motivational speakers are not like you and I. What motivates them is not the same, either. A fascinating take on one speaker's attempt to be different. You be the judge of how different he actually is.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

@AlainHew Thanks, Alain! So glad that you found it valuable and relevant!

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

Well, they're still advertising it!

AND it's next week.

My next webinar for https://t.co/9bOmLn5Kwx... Career Planning for the New Project Manager (with some good advice for those who have already been around the block once or twice, as well).

https://t.co/IqFBg9zvw9

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

@ezio_rocca @PMInstitute Great to hear, Ezio! Thanks so much for letting me know.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

Ummmm... going a bit out on a limb here, but they should have been doing this all along.

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

To prepare students for the workforce today, colleges should teach students emotional intelligence, resilience, empathy, integrity, learnability, and leadership skills. https://t.co/uQSxB44xuw

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

@brentoliver Yeah. Same.

I know that Paramore exists... (does that count?) Could not pick them out of a lineup.

(only reason I know that is because an awesome drummer covers both Rush—which I DO know—and Paramore—which, well, no clue).

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

One of the defining memories of my childhood.

And just sheer brilliance..

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

What is going on with the other 43%, dare I ask?!?

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Brexit was wrong, say 57% of British voters
https://t.co/XF7AdsoGjS

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

This feels relevant and appropriate.

[Nick Vitanza @VitanzaNick]

I’ve never been under anesthesia and I’m still relatively new at running a lab, but I assume this message to my team is the standard approach?

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

@brentoliver Wait. What? You actually expect people to do the work?

Blasphemy.

[Mark Mullaly @markmullaly]

Committing to that path is where the good work comes from.

Don't avoid it. Don't panic and shut it down. Lean in to it, and see where it goes. I promise it will be to somewhere interesting.

[Susan David, Ph.D. @SusanDavid_PhD]

My team and I often talk about the “messy middle”—that moment when you can’t quite see where you’re going, when the project has become more complicated, not less, and you’re not sure which path to choose.

Remind yourself: sometimes the path becomes clear even as we walk it.