About 100,825,272,791 people have died over the course of human history. This is how data editor Mona Chalabi decided to answer a reader’s question of what the demographics of heaven would be ”assuming that all who expire are promoted to a peaceful afterlife.” Chalabi didn’t include a breakdown along current…

The concept of faultlines is typically associated with geography. A faultline occurs when there is a fracture or break in the ground that causes great shifts, often resulting in earthquakes, which of course, have the potential to cause great destruction. The same can be applied to teams. …

Stephen Sondheim the great Broadway musical songwriter and composer died this past Friday. Sondheim was 91. While Sondheim is best known for his Broadway hits (by the way click the following link to listen to 20 of his classics https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/theater/stephen-sondheim-songs.html) he is most remembered in creativity and team research circles…

In the most dire of human circumstances, what keeps us alive? Jewish psychiatrist Viktor Frankl argues that our ability to find meaning in each moment is the key. Frankl was taken prisoner in Nazi concentration camps and he survived to share his story. Throughout his experience, Frankl noticed what helped…

Unlock Your Teams’ Problem Solving Potential In 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours and 40 minutes after impact. 705 people survived because they had a spot in one of the 16 lifeboats. Tragically, there weren’t enough lifeboats to save all 2,200 people aboard the Titanic. However, could people have been saved with…

Every moment is a chance to make a new decision. Your last decision does not dictate your next decision. Each moment is a fresh opportunity. Although this is true, it isn’t always easy to implement. Old decision-making patterns, perhaps to criticize without suggesting a helpful fix, can be difficult to…

Rosa Parks wasn’t a physically tired, old Black seamstress who wouldn’t give up her bus seat to a white man. Rosa Parks was 42 years old and a pillar of Montgomery, Alabama society at the time of her arrest in 1955. When she broke the bus segregation laws, her contacts…

The Plus Principle, or plussing, is a style of giving feedback that is an essential practice of high performing teams. It operates in two parts. First the critique and second the suggestion of how to improve. The second part is akin to what improv comedians refer to as “Yes, and…”…

Sully is one of Monstropolis’ top scarers. His tall, blue, horned and furry appearance elicits blood-curdling screams from children. Those screams then feed into the Monstropolis power grid and keep the city humming. In our world, what is more terrifying is that each one of Sully’s three million hairs had…