How to be an effective player-coach. Balancing execution and management

Being an effective player-coach can be difficult. Establishing and adhering to a set of rules is the best way to stay ahead.

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5 Don’ts for your startup brand design

5 Don’ts for your startup brand design

Building a successful startup with a middle of the road brand starts you on the back foot immediately. If your startup brand design doesn't stand out from your competitor pool, if your differentiator(s) are obscure or non-existent, if your creative strategy is...

Creating A Battle Royale Video Game

Creating A Battle Royale Video Game

Battle Royale games are the new zombie games. For a time, every third game had you facing off against a ravenous horde of braindead bullet fodder. Today, however, battle royale games reign supreme. In these games, in case you are not away, you drop into an arena and...

5 simple ideas to reboot Toys R Us

5 simple ideas to reboot Toys R Us

Update: Looks like Toys R Us is planning a come back to North America. Via IGN, the brand management company WHP Global aims to open new Toys R Us locations ahead of the 2021 holiday season. Maybe they will take some cues from this article. Original: As my wife and I...

The Dora Milaje & The Women of Wakanda

The Dora Milaje & The Women of Wakanda

Wakanda is the most technologically advanced nation in the Marvel Universe. Yet its citizens suffer constant oppression at the hands of foreign invaders such as Namor, the Atlantean king. T’Challa, the Black Panther, splits his time between ruling Wakanda and being...

Creating Shirt Shirt, The T-Shirt Brand

Creating Shirt Shirt, The T-Shirt Brand

Creating a t-shirt brand from scratch is a fun way to explore silly ideas you didn't know you wanted to build. For years I struggled with what simple idea could I turn into a line of clothing. The countless number of shirt design mockup filling old HDDs is staggering....