Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

Employees love to criticize their leaders for viewing and treating them as a means to an end. There are thousands of online reviews of companies whose former team members file complaints like, this company is just using its people to make profits! Meanwhile, the executive team is thinking to themselves, well, yeah, welcome to capitalism. Because the whole idea of labor has instrumental value, not intrinsic value. Work is…

It’s easy to be productive when it’s just you Or when it’s just a few of you. But as a company grows, hires more staff, takes on bigger projects and earns more revenue, that means it’ll have to start dealing with bigger, more complex operational issues. As a result, employees will likely make the following problem. There’s no time to get actual work done. Have you ever said that…

Have you ever heard of revenge consuming? It’s this thing we do when something has happened that annoys, inconveniences or angers us, and so, we eat, drink, shop, gamble, fuck, whatever, as a way of getting back at the person who wronged us. We’ve all done it before. Think back to when you were a kid and your mom made some comment like, honey, you shouldn’t be eating cookies,…

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…

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….