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Every day, this blog is automatically echoed on my Linkedin channel. Over the last few years, the traffic to those posts on Linkedin is down more than 90%. Understandable. Platforms evolve, people ...

Gall's Law is appropriately simple: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and c ...

Of course, a book with a title like this gives us pause-when we think of marketers, we don't ordinarily think about Jerry, Phil, Bobby and the rest of the crew. But that's one rea ...

The most useful definition of quality: It meets spec. The hard part isn't putting in enormous effort to somehow beat the spec. The hard part is setting the spec properly. If you're not ...

The worst sort of powerlessness happens when we're seduced into doing it to ourselves. Waiting to get picked Repeating and rehearsing negative self-talk Only choosing from the available optio ...

It's almost never exclusively based on logic. We navigate the world with stories, beliefs and assumptions. And the people you're trying to persuade have a different set of all three tha ...

The other day, Tom Cruise gave a long acceptance speech. But unlike every other speech of its kind, there were no notes. No rambling. No false starts. He did what he always does-he outworked ...

Most cultures are built around the idea of private property. Grain is harvested once a year and stored for months. If someone steals the grain (which is difficult to securely lock up), it threatens ...

Which is worth more, Kind of Blue from Miles Davis, or the third Boston album? It depends on your taste. I hope we can agree, though, that the fact that Miles spent four days on his album and Tom s ...

Marshall Sahlins and others showed that early hunter gatherer societies generally didn't work very hard. Two or three hours a day were spent gathering food, and the rest of the time was for s ...