Motivation

When African-American athlete Jesse Owens arrived at the 1936 Olympic Games, he was under immense pressure. At 22, Owens had broken world records even before making...

Diego Maradona was a child of the potreros. He described himself as a “cabecita negra” – a little blackhead, the term used by Eva Perón for those of mixed...

Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop was born in 1942 and raised in he southeast of England, near Brighton. Her Italian immigrant mother and American...

61-year-old Cliff Young showed up to the 1983 Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultra Marathon in his first-ever pair of running shoes and windbreaker pants with hand-cut holes for...

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...

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...

“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...

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was 25 years old and interviewing for a job, he failed to show his interviewer the trait he now says has...

Even after Kobe quit basketball, his hard work did not end. He won the academy award at The Oscars earlier this year for his animated short...

The fate of British Cycling changed one day in 2003. The organization, which was the governing body for professional cycling in Great Britain, had recently hired Dave...