What Magicians Know About Recovering From Mistakes — with Michael Chaleff
Michael Chaleff spent a year working restaurants and bars as a magician before law school, in rooms where he knew things…
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Why the Cheapest Supplier Is Rarely the Cheapest — with Carl Pradelli
Carl Pradelli spent 18 months building a co-branded skincare launch with the Home Shopping Network, then watched it…
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Twenty Years Inside Healthcare Didn’t Protect Her Husband: Tiffany Auvil on Caregiving and System Failure
Tiffany Auvil spent more than twenty years inside the U.S. healthcare system, starting as a volunteer firefighter and…
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Why ESPN’s Founder Was Pushed Out of the Network He Built — with Historian Mike Soltys
ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen burned through his own money, his credit cards, and his family's money to get a 24-hour…
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Why Fighter Pilots Never Use the Word “Mistake” — with Boo Boucousis
Fighter pilots fly missions where a moment of ego or self-protection can get people killed — so their debriefs are built…
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The Sign Says “Don’t Use the Outlet.” Is That Really the Problem?
Another example of asking people to work around the design instead of improving it I recently spent time in a hospital…
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Why Succession Planning Should Be a Journey, Not an Event — with Andrea Carpenter and Elizabeth Ledoux
Andrea Carpenter and Elizabeth Ledoux, co-founders of The Transition Strategists, were mid-negotiation on a business…
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A Touch of the Madness: Betting Your Career on Platoon, T2, and Mortal Kombat — with Larry Kasanoff
At 25, Larry Kasanoff risked his dream job to greenlight a movie nobody at his studio wanted to make — and Platoon…
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