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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 …
Beware SuperSexy
The big story last week is in The Verge, on how a super sexy ($1.4 Billion market cap worth of super sexy) New York startup luggage …
Are you brushing your teeth, or going to Mars?
What can we learn from Elon Musk? Probably the main lesson is that there are few better ways to brand a business than by having …
I Quit The Fame Game To Build Something by Tucker Max
In 2009, I was at (or near) the top of the “fame game.” I had the #1 book in the country, a Hollywood movie …
Chances are you have one of these mindsets
Here you have it: “Four Leadership Mindsets Driving the New Economy.” Producers. Investors. Connectors. Explorers. Make of it what you will. In Roman times, before you …
‘Tis more blessed to give than to receive
It’s a funny thing, when you read John Milton’s Paradise Lost, how the main character, Satan, is so completely miserable. The other thing is, he’s completely …
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