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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 …

Singapore: An Exercise in Creating Culture

According to former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, the founding father of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, made three big decisions in 1959 that had a …

The Social Objectification of Kamala

As most of the world knows by now, Joe Biden dropped out of the Presidential race, and within 24 hours Kamala Harris has jumped in …

Eno or Beethoven?

Walking along Harrow Road in London in the mid-1970s, the art-rock pop star and former Roxy Music band member, Brian Eno, suddenly tripped, fell off …