1: Gramercy Tavern. New York City.

The lunch crowd has lined up on the sidewalk, waiting to get in.

“Whitney Macdonald was minutes away from a moment she had long anticipated,” Daniel Coyle writes in his book The Culture Code.

“It would be first-ever shift as a front waiter. and she was excited and a bit nervous.” 

Gramercy Tavern is a legendary New York restaurant “whose staff ranks as … continue reading

1: Pixar is the animation studio behind some of the most beloved movies of recent times, including Toy Story, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, and Monsters Inc., to name but a few.

One of the secrets behind the studio’s unprecedented string of successes is something called the BrainTrust.

According to Pixar co-founder and former president Ed Catmull, “The BrainTrust is the most important thing we do by far,” … continue reading