Bad guys, broken hearts, wounded souls and scrambled minds

Launching a new brand is one of the most exhilarating business projects to work on. But it can also be one of the most challenging. Christensen, the professor and the creator of the term, the innovator’s dilemma, reports that each year, more than thirty thousand new consumer products are launched, and eighty percent of them fail. Will you be one of the twenty percent left? It largely depends on your assumptions. Like the key issues of timing and context. For...

Nobel, the chemist, engineer and industrialist, was the holder of hundreds of patents. Most notably, the invention of dynamite. Interesting piece of trivia about him, he had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary years before he died. The newspaper headline read the following:The merchant of death is dead. The man who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday. How would you like to read that about yourself while you were...

Here's core emotion that so many of us are afraid to express. Resentment at other people’s inability to take care of themselves. Because often times, we become the casualty of their suffering as well. The collateral damage is just waiting to happen. Everything will seem to be going fine in our lives, but then out of the blue, somebody else’s whole world goes to shit, and we have to deal with the fallout. As my therapist friend likes to say,...

Studies show that males under the age of nineteen are most likely to exhibit road rage. The question is, how can we we reach this population in a unique way? Because we’ve tried mindfulness during school, and we’ve tried medical marijuana after school, but neither of those solutions seem to be helping. Perhaps we need a solution that’s less obvious and more gamified. After all, we live in the most adversarial country in the history of the world. Resistance to...

Airport security personnel have one of the worst jobs in the country. Morale is low, pay is even lower, the uniforms are stiff and ugly, and they spend their days invading people’s personal space and property. To make matters worse, their department is the butt of jokes and the scorn of travelers everywhere. How would you like to do that for ten hours a day? Do you think those workplace conditions might negatively affect your attitude too? Point being, of...