Everybody's placing their faith in "data." They even have a name; Datarists. Commentators are singing the praises of data and data-centric approaches to anything and everything. From the CEO to the CXO to Joe Schmo (thanks, Phil Regnault!) it's all about what the data's telling us. But it's been wrong before. So, exercise caution in this headlong rush to data. Beware the classic human behavior as we lurch from no data to all data – find the middle ground and realize that data

These days people work hard at being serious. We think that being serious is the only way to be taken seriously. Being serious is a serious business. Other experts suggest some of us are wired that way. You know those sober types with no sense of humor might be victims of heredity. If true, they are either incapable of or at least severely challenged with, humor. Or people might just be miserable finding humor in short supply. According to research, humor and seriousness are