Inspiring

In 2011, Scott Guthrie was tasked with leading Microsoft’s fast-growing cloud computing service, called Azure. He went out into the field to get customer’s feedback, and one thing...

In 1990, Jerry Sternin was sent by Save the Children to fight severe malnutrition in rural communities of Vietnam. The Vietnamese foreign minister, having seen many...

When a troll called comedian Sarah Silverman the C-word on Twitter, she responded with level-headed kindness, finding out he was in a lot of pain and...

Juan Manuel Fangio, an Argentinean race car driver, dominated Formula One racing in the first decade of the sport, in the 1940’s and 50’s. In the...

Bob Chapman, CEO of the manufacturing company Barry-Wehmiller, faced both of those terrible words daily in 2009 as the financial crisis was beginning to wreak havoc...

Sometimes heroes don’t wear capes. In the case of José Andrés, they wear heavy-duty face masks while helping to feed stranded passengers and crew on the...

Ever wonder how IKEA came up with unique Swedish names for all of its furniture? It was from its founder, Ingvar Kamprad, who is dyslexic. Kamprad’s original furniture business...

“Insecure managers create complexity. Real leaders don’t clutter,” Welch wrote in his autobiography. In Welch’s bestselling book, Jack: Straight from the Gut, he wrote that clutter and jargon...

In January 2010, Japan Airlines (JAL) filed for bankruptcy protection under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law with the largest debt of any company since the end of...

Mario was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, a titan of the video game industry. He joined Nintendo just when it was shifting focus from creating playing cards...