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How To Build A Lasting Legacy
There are two ways to make a classical sculpture: call them “Addition” and “Subtraction”. “Addition” is like Rodin: You start with a lump of clay, …
Want to be a better human?
Ah, the good ol’ days! We recently participated in a session for the UK National Health System (NHS), on a subject that isn’t discussed enough: civility. Yes, …
Rethink Your Core Values Now
It was with great surprise and delight that we saw Tom Peters had quoted our Chief Creative, Hugh MacLeod in his new book, “Extreme Humanism”, so of course, we turned …
The Fifty-Year Window
The thing about major innovation is, it comes in waves. These waves historically have lasted about fifty years, thereabouts. Along came the railway in …
Fixing a Cultural Lemon
Out of Context, or Just Too Much Context to Ignore? Lately, we’ve been calling out some of the worst offenders in the corporate and academic worlds …
What We Learned From Chairman Mao About Company Culture
Complex and dynamic, that is the challenge of designing culture. There are no obvious levers to pull, what often looks like a good idea, …
The Future Is Extraterrestrial
A few weeks ago, we wrote a post about the futility of trying to get human bodies to live in outer space, and “space tourism for …
Great Strategies Are Simple
CAVEAT: Generally, we shy away from using Apple as a case study because 1. They are such outliers and 2. They are overused by everybody and their dog…but the following …
How to stand out in virtual meetings + Free Download
That’s the weird thing about the time we live in. The more we try to get robots to do the work of humans, the more …
How culture revived post WWII Scotland
It was 1947. The big war had ended, the UK was a mess. Soldiers and refugees were still limping home, there was still rationing, …
Why Do We Need Stories?
Let’s talk about narratives. Big stories that were told and believed by many people. Religious stories like Islam or Christianity, or Political Stories like …
Why your hires look like you
There’s a famous line in The Blues Brothers movie when they ask the bartender at the Texas honky-tonk what kind of music they play: …
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