What if leaders subtracted other people? A practical look at how curating feedback, quieting imagined critics, and reframing ...

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It took an earthquake to convince one city to do away with a double-decker highway. City planners in San Francisco had tried for years to get approval for removing the Embarcadero Freeway that blocked ...

Picture a bridge made of Legos. One side has three support pieces, the other two. How would you stabilize the bridge? Most people would add a piece so that there are three supports on each side, a new ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hi, I'm Miss James and I'm so happy to be your teacher today. For this lesson, you will need 10 objects ...

We live in a more overwhelming world than ever. Businesses are more complex, work is more demanding, and our data is constantly tracked. Too often, we just accept that as a given. According to author ...

Innovation calls for adding features to products. After all, more is better, right? Not always. One of the five techniques used in an innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) is ...

Imagining ways to introduce change is an essential skill no matter one’s occupation, role, or rank. To distinguish an app, a designer envisions a unique new feature. To enhance workplace culture, a ...