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Ideas That Don’t Die

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered what is largely revered as the most famous speech in US History, The Gettysburg Address. “Four score and seven years …

When Small Becomes Tall

If we ask a random person in the street, what’s the point of language, we may expect to hear something like, “it allows us to …

The Psychology of Sugar Water

In 1971, Coca-Cola launched the most famous commercial in advertising history. Older folks will still remember it fondly. Younger folks might remember it being used …

What If Work Loved Us Back?

We all know at least one person. The Superfan. They aren’t just a Star Trek nerd, everybody attending their wedding came dressed as Klingons. Not …

Try not to have a good time… this is supposed to be educational

Many people born after the Millennium won’t remember much about the newspaper comic strip, “Peanuts,” featuring Good Ol’ Charlie Brown. But from its debut in 1950 …

Better to Burn out Than Fade Away

It’s that Burning Man time of the year again, when with a predictability you can set your watch to, the internet becomes flooded with the …

Simplicity is Complexity Resolved

We’re born into chaos, spend our lives seeking order, and die realizing we never had control. This is the human condition. And it’s not hard …

All leaders are politicians. Not all politicians are leaders

In June 1940, during the darkest period of WWII for the British, Winston Churchill gave his famously defiant “We shall fight them on the beaches” …

The Croesus Trap

According to the very first story in Herodotus’ Histories (c. 440 BC, the oldest nonfiction book in the Western Canon), King Croesus was the richest …

What Signal Are You Sending?

Little things matter. A lot. (Or they don’t, until they do). A year-long study of 450,000 employees across 40 million Zoom meetings revealed a not-so-shocking …

Environment is Leadership

When talking about architecture, in 1948 Winston Churchill may have said it best: “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” Ain’t that the truth? …