Lessons on Fear and Success From The First Person to Circumnavigate The Earth Alone
The first person to sail solo around the world has some valuable lessons for business, while teaching ordinary people about the ocean. Somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, two months into a grueling attempt to circumnavigate the globe, and all alone, Robin Knox-Johnston felt like giving up. The year was 1968 and a […]
Drug-inspired Fashion: It’s to die for
Terrorists move over. There’s a far worse terror in town that is targeting kids and adults, killing well over ten times more Americans this year than all terrorist attacks of the last 16 years combined. That’s correct. While politicians have spent several trillion dollars on foreign wars, they’ve distracted us from the very real threat […]
How Have the U.N.’s Global Goals Fared One Year On?
World leaders one year ago agreed on an ambitious set of global goals designed to tackle the world’s most troubling problems such as extreme poverty and inequality by 2030 at the United Nations. Described as a blueprint for the future, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets address such daunting challenges as climate […]
Scottish Entrepreneur Inspired by Indian Garbage Dump
Squinting through the smoke and haze of a Mumbai, India, garbage dump a few years ago, Toby McCartney could never have imagined that one day he’d be shaking hands with Sir Richard Branson, and Tyra Banks would be congratulating him for developing a system that could one day revolutionize our roads. McCartney had just flown […]
What Job Was I Made For? Let’s Google it
Grown adults dangle from hanging chairs bolted to the ceiling. Young executives in T-shirts and jeans are barely visible inside giant, brightly-colored beanbags scattered on the floor, and a woman on a skateboard weaves through the desks while speaking on her mobile phone. The CEO arrives downstairs for a meeting by sliding out of a […]
Hollywood Rolls Out the Green Carpet
The next time you see a celebrity pulling up at an event in a hybrid car, there’s a good chance Debbie Levin is behind it. The CEO of the Environmental Media Association is continuing a novel social marketing strategy, begun in the late 1980s. By weaving environmental messages into films and using celebrities for positive […]
The Ability Activist Driven By Negativity
At around 14,000 ft. above sea level, on a bleak, rocky path on Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa, Chaeli Mycroft’s climbing partner turned to her and said, “Can you see those yellow people over there?” Mycroft’s party had just passed a dozen other climbers, many of them Asian. Horrified, she replied, “Adam, you can’t […]
Capitalism Gets Reinvented – For a Mere $27
Muhammad Yunus solves a social problem by giving micro-loans to the poor – turning them into entrepreneurs. The effects of his first loan, a total of $27 to 42 people, make him realize that people are not poor from being lazy, but because financial institutions do not help them. He forms Grameen Bank, providing […]
The Luxury Watch Made From AK47s
Peter Thum, the man behind watch brand Fonderie 47 has a talent for supporting social causes he feels are important and a skill for applying his business acumen to them. His unique take on business has resulted in the creation of a watch made from recycled parts of universal symbol of conflict, the AK47 assault […]
Round-the-World Solar Plane Lands Among the Pyramids
On its journey around the world, Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) – the solar airplane of Swiss pioneers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg – landed in Egypt after a flight of two days and two nights without fuel. This flight, which crossed the Mediterranean Sea from west to east and covered a distance of 3’745 km (2’327 miles) powered only by […]
