Rare Breeds at Work: Creating a Culture of Innovation & BelongingAt the beginning of 2020, Dominic Cummings, chief advisor for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wrote a blog post in which he called…Feb 3, 2021Feb 3, 2021
Make Weird Your Selling Point: Why the Best Business Ideas Are Always StrangeBut when you think about this, it really makes sense. After all, most great ideas — really disruptive, terrifying ideas that met with a tonSep 30, 2020Sep 30, 2020
Walking the Fine Line Between Audacity and HubrisAudacity gave us the Panama Canal, the four-minute mile, and the recent epic shattering of the two-hour barrier in the marathon by…Sep 29, 2020Sep 29, 2020
Three Times It’s Smart to Let Your Hot-Blooded Employees Show Their TemperThere are two huge problems with anger, rage, hot-tempered behavior, volatility — whatever you want to call it — in a corporate setting.Sep 28, 2020Sep 28, 2020
What to Do When Your Confidence, Passion, and Bold Ideas Get You Labeled “Difficult”It’s a lot more acceptable for a man to be a Rare Breed than a woman.Sep 26, 2020Sep 26, 2020
Will Your Workplace Ever Accept the Real You?Can you get your boss to see and respect the real you, or are you better off leaving?Sep 25, 2020Sep 25, 2020
There’s No Such Thing as “Too Emotional.”We’re calling bullshit. Emotions are nothing to fear. Scientific research says that emotions are actually sensations in theSep 24, 20202Sep 24, 20202
The Victorious RBG: Justice Ginsburg Showed That Rare Breeds Are a Spirit, Not a TypeNot for her fierce feminism, her unstinting defense of civil rights, or her incredible grace and good humor upon becoming a cuSep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020
Is It Okay to Manipulate Your Employees and Customers?There’s a name for that effect: manipulation. We don’t have to tell you that’s a word freighted with a container ship’s worth of negative…Sep 18, 2020Sep 18, 2020
Being a Rebel Doesn’t Always Mean ShoutingThere are a lot of ways to rebel, and all of them are about the end result, not how you look getting to that result. If you think the…Sep 17, 2020Sep 17, 2020