David Novak, the former CEO of Yum! Brands, was asked in an interview, “What’s the secret to great leadership?” “I’ll tell you the secret to great leadership,” Novak said. “It’s to never have a certain type of person working for…
The thought once occurred to me that if one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, one at which the most fearsome murderer would tremble, shrinking from it in advance,…
Michelangelo is often quoted as having said that inside every block of stone or marble dwells a beautiful statue; one need only remove the excess material to reveal the work of art within. Imagine if we were to apply this…
In Japan, 10% of male deaths are job-related. They even have a special word for it, karōshi, death by overwork. Yep, death by overwork. Karōshi was invented in 1978 to refer to an increasing number of people suffering from fatal…
Last week I emailed a remarkable [in my view anyway] piece of strategic work to a client in the UK. Unfortunately there was a typo on page 5 – the sort of typo spell check doesn’t pick up. Two days…
When you’re competing in the world’s most-watched sporting event, you don’t take any chances with your stamina and bodily performance. So while experts do disagree about whether having sex before a game can affect a player’s performance, many teams at this…
