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Work Hard, Play Harder
They say one does their best work when they’re actually not working, but in a state of play, or as the clever folk like to …
What Samurai Teach Us About Service
Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is known as one of the greatest movies of all time. It’s usually found in most serious film critics’ top-ten lists. …
If It Sounds Too Good To Be True
The big business news of late is that Sam Bankman-Fried (SBM) was convicted in Federal Court on all seven counts of fraud and faces up …
You Don’t Need More Money
Crafting the earliest planes and nurturing remarkable cultures have more in common than you might think. In the “air-race,” the Wright Brothers had a lot …
Engineers Beef with Advertising
There’s an old saying on how “Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.” The idea being, if you make a product good enough, you …
Go Ahead, Embrace Vulnerability
Netflix has been in the news lately with its new plans to open two Netflix retail stores, where people can “interact with their favorite shows” …
Why Be Hardcore?
A recent article from the New York Times highlights a growing trend in corporate team building: extreme activities. Some companies spend up to $100K on …
Symbols: Your Secret Leverage
Archimedes of Syracuse, an Ancient Greek mathematician, engineer, and inventor, was obsessed with the idea of leverage. “If you give me a lever and a …
What Mad Men Teaches Us On Creativity
In the critically acclaimed TV series, Mad Men, the main character, a troubled advertising Creative Director named Donald Draper, gets into an argument with his …
The Person or the Culture?
How is history made? How does change happen? There are two main schools of thought. First is the “Great Man” theory, which was popularized in …
How to Create an Unstoppable Movement
With her record-breaking “Eras” Tour, Taylor Swift was recently re-released onto the cultural landscape the way humidity is unleashed on Atlanta every August. All-encompassing, unescapable. …
I Would Rather Give You a Kidney
Back in 2016, we wrote about Margaret Heffernan’s famous line about office culture: “Conflict is frequent when candor is safe.” In other words, a team …
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