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Thank you for being amazing!
Here’s a question: when should you *feel* successful? When do you start thinking of yourself *as* successful? When you make a million dollars? When you …
Accountability is not always about measurement
“Accountability” is one of those ideas that everyone in the business world supposedly lives and dies by, yet it often falls short in reality. Not …
A Cognitive Bias that Might Rule Your Life
A major focus for us in executing end-to-end culture design projects is studying how beliefs are formed and how they spread through populations, like your …
Management by placebo
“Sham surgery”: believing you had surgery when in fact you did not is an incredible construct. It’s simply amazing that placebo surgeries work, as demonstrated …
Genius Is Random
YES, follow your passion! Any scorn heaped on this simple directive is misleading and unfair. YOU have a passion. Invite it into every part of …
Don’t Let The Past Get In The Way of The Future
When you study critical junctures in the market, it’s amazing how many market leaders fail to take advantage. We’ve heard this all before. Kodak didn’t …
Do you have the freedom to speak up?
“The worst bad habits are learned early on.” Reid Hoffman once said: that a company’s culture is forged in the first 150 employees. Which also …
Look Up, life is happening and you’re missing it!
Hey, do you remember when our lives weren’t completely taken over by devices? Neither do I. Seriously. Which is why I think this story about Jack …
What are the stories you have to tell?
Take the world’s great religions: What do they have in common? That they’re trying to get you to think about the great truths and mysteries… by …
When has pushing the envelope gone too far?
For all the tsunami of progressive platitudes coming out of every HR department on the planet, most businesses are pretty conservative, most businesses like to …
How The Frozen Middle Separates Management from Innovation
We live in a time of digital Darwinism. As technology evolves so do markets. And as they evolve, behaviors, values and norms also adapt. …
Kindness Is Contagious
When trying to understand human behavior (something all business people want and need to do more of), the temptation is to reduce everything down to …
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