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Missing Out?

The fear of missing out (a.k.a FOMO) rules the world. In Influence, Robert Cialdini called it the scarcity principle. A millennia ago, FOMO was a …

Regrets, I’ve Had a Few

In his latest book, “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backwards Moves Us Forward,” Daniel Pink opens with the following story about the great French singer, …

The Next Picasso?

There are a lot of stories in the news lately about how AI is “borrowing” the work of living artists to use as source code …

No Emotion, No Justice

Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) was a breath away from not saying “I Have a Dream.” What is arguably the greatest speech in the history …

Machines vs. Humans

McDonald’s just opened its first fully automated restaurant. Goodbye people, hello, robots! For this one location in Texas, customers can order and pick up their food …

When Life Gives you Lemons, Make… Beer?

One place is unlikely to be doing dry January this year. Argentina. At the end of the year, large beer shipments were received across the country following …

Odds Are You Won’t Be on Top for Long

It takes A LOT of energy to get to the top, and even more energy to stay there. Damocles, a courtier in the court of …

Where’s the Love Gone?

It’s Murphy’s Law that the one time of the year that you really don’t want your travel plans going wrong (e.g. the Holiday Season and …

Is No Plan the Best Plan?

Oblique: “having a sloping direction, angle, or position. e.g. Through the window came the last few oblique rays of evening sunshine. He gave her an …

Should We Bring Back the Jester?

Kristel from Belgium wrote to us recently, questioning the merit of bringing back the role of the court jester in the business environment. “I’m Belgium …

A Christmas Truce

In Chapter Three of his bestselling book, “The Culture Code,” Daniel Coyle wrote about the famous WWI “Christmas Truce” of 1914. On Christmas Day, both …