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The Wages of Charisma

According to these guys, extroverts are more likely to be promoted to CEO than introverts, though introverts will probably do a better job at being …

Love It or Lose It

If you ever hang around a major Hollywood film set, one thing that really stands out is how nice and polite the director is. …

Love Is The Mission

Let’s reevaluate love today. Love is the thing that pushes us to succeed. Love is a thing that we have to feel for ourselves, …

The Real Deal On Inclusion: It’s Not What You Think

So it turns out, WeWork wasn’t the biggest business story of last year. That was just silly people with silly money doing silly things. …

Is Everyone Working 100 Hour Weeks?

We keep forgetting that outliers aren’t normal. Just as there are people who weigh over 400 pounds, there are executives who work 100-hour weeks and …

Amazing Times

If you’re lucky, eventually you get to the point when you realize that, while you were here you had an amazing time of things. What …

Never Confuse Your Ego With Reality

Think of mistakes in business. Think of the great business disasters say, the 1990s AOL-TimeWarner merger, or Coca Cola changing their secret formula in the …

Pure Creativity vs Applied Creativity, by Dave Trott

Around 1800, Charles Barbier was an artillery officer in Napoleon’s army. One of the problems he noticed was the soldiers kept getting shot at …

A story without emotion…isn’t.

When you work in a big, old school New York advertising agency, you learn a few things. One. People don’t care about you. They especially …

“More and better Pepeha, please” by Mark Earls

I’ve always been curious about other people’s culture – yes, food and feasting and so on but also the little etiquettes and rituals that …

Good ideas don’t care where they came from

Our old friend Nilofer Merchant has a compelling idea: “Your Employees Have All the Creativity You Need. Let Them Prove It.” Every company boss is sitting …