Stories

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...

During World War II the Germans sought to overtake London. The British military, panicked by their conclusion that there was nothing they could do to stop...

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...

Every big data study LEGO commissioned drew the exact same conclusions: future generations would lose interest in LEGO. LEGOs would go the way of jackstraws, stickball,...

Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s former chief body-guard was captured and put in a Yemini prison post 9/11. All attempts to get Abu Jandal to reveal...

One Saturday, some unsuspecting moviegoers showed up at a suburban theater in Chicago to catch Mel Gibson’s action flick Payback. They were handed a soft drink...

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...

The use of vivid details is one way to create internal credibility–to weave sources of credibility into the idea itself.  Another way is to use statistics. ...

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...