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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 …
Conversations that Matter
Back in the Soviet Union (1917-1991), a lot of books were banned, especially Western ones. So if you wanted important but forbidden voices to be …
Optimistic Nihilism: Tastes Like Chicken
A big part of being a leader is helping people find more meaning in their jobs. “Making meaning” is a fundamental credo in the culture-building …
Why is the World Cup Such a Big Deal?
Congratulations to Argentina for their tremendous World Cup victory! Once again, the tournament has demonstrated the amazing ability of sport to bring the world together …
Trying not to Try
The philosopher and sinologist, Edward Slingerland was on the Infinite Loops podcast recently, where he discussed among other things his 2014 book, “Trying Not To …
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