I have a dark, ugly secret to reveal: I still play Angry Birds. Yes, it’s more than half a decade old, which is like 3,007,903 years in technology terms. And yes, it has been supplanted by so much more, even in just the last few months. But while everyone else is hunting Pokemon, I am […]

A couple days ago we mentioned the new Apple headquarters and how it can support collaboration. We thought it’s worth diving a little deeper into that. It may look like a spaceship, but it’s designed to help bring employees together here on Earth. Apparently, the folks at Apple outgrew their space years ago and have […]

OK, actually, there are two of them. But the reality is that your creative employees will usually be stronger together than they will be individually. Creativity often tends to be a very individualized characteristic. Your Creatives have their own talents that are not mass produced, they each have their own view of the world, they […]

A few years ago I had a chance to visit the offices and studios of National Public Radio in Washington DC. In addition to catching a glimpse of some of the announcers whose voices I knew but whose faces I had never seen, I saw something I didn’t expect: the NPR laboratory. Now, this is […]

(Yes, we first published this post a year ago. So what? We think it’s a story that should be repeated every year on this day!) 47 years ago today, the first men walked on the moon (though according to Michael Bay, the Transformers were there earlier). The US manned space program took nearly a decade […]