It’s a funny thing, when you read John Milton’s Paradise Lost, how the main character, Satan, is so completely miserable. The other thing is, he’s completely …

A new academic study is out; apparently happy workers are 13% more productive than unhappy workers. Surprised? Apparently, not only do happy employees work longer …

  Trust.  Without it, nothing holds together.  As Socrates noted, even thieves have to trust one another in order to pull off a heist. Once you break a trusted relationship, you can …

Before John Coltrane, before Charlie Parker, even before Ben Webster or Lester Young, there was Coleman Hawkins, the great music titan, the man who first brought tenor saxophone …

One of our observations, going back to 2004 has been, “The future of advertising is internal”. What we meant by that was, rather than just seeking …

  How much does it cost Blue Apron to land a new customer? About $500. How much is an average customer worth? About $400 in …

  The naturalistic fallacy, as outlined by Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, is the leap from is to ought. The tendency to believe that what is, is …

  Everyone reading this is pretty much a member of ‘The Busy People Club.’ We’re in the fast lane. We work long hours, we live in …

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  When was the last time you saw a business disaster? Cutting-edge research shows that such problems usually result from poor strategic decisions when we go with …

What is the best way to guarantee success? I’d say the best way is to not fail in the first place. It’s hard to be …

Forty. Per. Cent. That is huge. Then again, this won’t surprise anyone in a truly creative field. Thanks to Victorian scientific ideas about work (aka “Taylorism”), …