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What the 19th Century Socialite & Modern Day Host Teach Us About Leadership

In the opening chapter of War And Peace, Pavlovna sets the stage at an 1805 social gathering in St Petersburg. The top elite of Russian …

Go Your Own Way

My favorite movie star wears Chanel. I, too, will wear Chanel. All the cool kids live in Brooklyn. I, too, just moved to Brooklyn. Everyone …

How to MacGyver It

You just dropped your house key down a street drain. Most people call a locksmith. Angus MacGyver grabbed a wire coil and a car battery, …

Scripts Not Required

Shortly after the Second World War ended, the United States set up a strict non-fraternization policy. American G.I.’s in occupied Germany were not to make …

The Market for Something to Believe In

Back in 1999, the Danish advertising bigwig, Jesper Kunde wrote a book called “Corporate Religion.” His argument was simple. Companies with a genuine personality, a …

Omoiyari

There’s a Japanese word with no English equivalent: Omoiyari. It means something like a deep, reflexive consideration for others that permeates at all levels of …

Context is King

Remember when your CEO walked into the office on Pirate Day dressed like Long John Silver, bellowed “Avast, ye scurvies,” and everyone had a good …

Sanctuary

During the 1983 Lebanese Civil War, Lieutenant Robert Goodman of the U.S. Navy was acting as Bombardier-Navigator on an A-6E Intruder when his plane was …

The Case for Heresy

You may have already heard about how “Slop” was chosen as the 2025 “Word Of The Year” by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. That’s hardly surprising. It …

Dancing with Your Default Mode

The advertising titan, David Ogilvy always said the best way to come up with a new idea for a client is to first go out …

Fox or Hedgehog?

We’ve all seen the movie before. An organization that seems to have everything going for it suddenly goes pear-shaped. It implodes and all falls apart. …