culture

What Business Leaders Can Learn from 100-Year-Olds in Okinawa

The Japanese island of Okinawa boasts the highest life expectancy, and the greatest concentration of centenarians (people who live to ...

Why a Culture of Innovation is the Only Path to Sustainable Growth and Success

You’ve fine-tuned your processes, extracted every drop of cost from the system, and are meeting basic customer needs. In the ...

The Two Big Things United Got Wrong That You Can Get Right

The news of a 69-year-old physician being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight has shocked the world and captured ...

Where The Honesty Happens Matters

A sealed bottle of water will break even the strongest containers when placed in a freezer and allowed to expand. ...

Getting Better All The Time

In the 1967 Beatles classic, McCartney and Lennon sang a persistent mantra: “It’s getting better all the time.” They contrasted ...

The Zen of Heavy Traffic

Here in Detroit, the arctic weather has delivered one giant mess on the roads. Colleagues of mine have reported downtown ...

Taming Your Nemesis

There’s a good chance you have at least one person in your life that does more harm than good.  Perhaps it’s ...

Training For Your Own Super Bowl

In less than a month, the two best football teams in the nation will square off for the biggest sporting ...

You Are Who You’re With

In high school chemistry, we learned that adding several new chemicals to an existing one could create a dramatic effect.  ...

Thread The Needle

In business (and life), you are constantly faced with challenges that seem insurmountable. Your inner voice says "it can't be ...