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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? …

Meaning: the Ultimate Olympic Sport

Admit it. Until this summer, very few of us knew what a Phryge was. Most of us probably still don’t. “Les Phryges” are a pair …

Mastery as Marketing

In a 2001 episode of “Sex and The City,” hilarity ensues when one of the main characters, Samantha, tries using her celebrity connections to jump …

Unexpected Lessons from the 50-yard Line

In “On The Waterfront,” the classic 1954 Elia Kazan film about a former professional boxer turned low-status New Jersey longshoreman, the protagonist, Terry Malloy, is played …

The Domino Effect of ‘Just this Once’

Isn’t it strange how, once upon a time, our Presidential debates literally sounded like this: “I have no disagreement with the Vice President’s position on …