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December 20, 2022 I’ve had goals since I was in third grade and wanted to run faster than Dee Maxon at recess. But I had no clue how to do it....

December 6, 2022 How does a company swing from scrapping together toys from actual scraps in the Great Depression to becoming a household name to...

November 22, 2022 Have you ever noticed how creative kids are? Young people see a cardboard box and it becomes a pirate ship. A stump in the...

November 8, 2022 What do Netflix, Dollar Shave Club, Apple, and Cirque du Soleil all have in common? According to William Kilmer, author of...

October 25, 2022 I can still remember my first big travel adventure as a kid. It was the summer between first and second grade. My dad took a...

October 11, 2022 I remember the first day I walked into my engineering classes as a college freshman. Within a nano-second it was clear there was...

September 27, 2022 When was the last time someone at work asked you how you felt about a major change in the business? Has anyone ever asked you...

August 30, 2022 An idea needs six components to stick in people’s minds. Chip and Dan Heath’s research, published in their 2007 book Made to...

August 9, 2022 “Fail fast.” “Fail forward.” “There’s no innovation and creativity without failure.” “Failure’s not an option.” A lot of language...

July 12, 2022 Six weeks ago I started lifting weights back at the gym.Yesterday morning my daughter Abby came with me. I asked...

June 28, 2022 I had a boss early in my career that almost made me lose my ever-loving mind. Just when we needed to get down to business, he'd...

June 14, 2022 Did you know that 5.4 million companies opened last year? And, out of all these companies, there are thousands of...