When you are asked to draw up a map of your neighborhood, it’s likely that the first thing you’ll illustrate are its roads, buildings, and key establishments. But to artist Denis Wood, mapping his neighborhood isn’t limited to geography. In 1975, Denis began creating an atlas of his neighborhood – Boylan Heights in Raleigh, Nort...

Can the richest man in America also be one of the least wasteful? Everyone knows John D. Rockefeller as the oil tycoon and philanthropist. But what most people don’t know is that he attributes a huge part of his success to his aversion to wastefulness. Image Credit This was a virtue that his mother drilled...

If you lost an umbrella, what would you do? Perhaps it’s now in a garbage bin or in the hands of a lucky stranger. Whatever the truth, many people assume that they would never get that umbrella back. Unless, of course, you lost it in Tokyo. Image Credit: In this busy city is the Tokyo...

How do you decide if it’s time to move on and take a risk? After 14 years of drawing his daily autobiographical comic strip, cartoonist James Kochalka decided to stop. This comic strip, “American Elf”, chronicled daily snippets of James’ life. He drew them diligently each day for 14 years, skipping only one day around...

It’s hard enough to make drastic decisions for yourself, but it’s even harder when you have to make choices on behalf of a collective. That’s the struggle of entrepreneurs each day, especially when their business is just starting out. What if you had to change your marketing strategy? What if you had to suddenly cut...