Entries by Daniel Barre

Where Does Creativity Come From?

Eric Kandel: Leonardo, for one, spent a fair amount of time dissecting human cadavers because he wanted to know how the various bones related to one each other and how the muscles related to the bones. So he wanted to have a realistic understanding o

How Racism Threatens Public Health

What’s the Latest Development? This week, hearings will begin in New York City over whether its “stop and frisk” policy, which gives police the right to stop innocent individuals on the street, constitutes racial profiling. According to a report rele

Leadership and the Art of Change

Life is a long process of getting used to things you started out to change. – Frank A. Clark As the story goes, it was on June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, that a smoky bonfire on a raised platfor

Dropbox Acquires Mailbox

The mail-management app will stay as its own standalone app. Dropbox, the popular file shortage startup, is buying the email app Mailbox. Under the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported, the 13 employees of Mailbox’s owner Orchestra Inc. will join D

Profitable Growth Strategies

For many years I’ve been looking for comprehensive, high quality, affordable training to help small business owners to grow their businesses profitably. At one stage, I tried to develop my own training system and spent a huge amount of time working o