The 1880 Republican National Convention was coming apart at the seems as a bitter division threatened to split the party in half. The compromise ticket of James Garfield for president and Chester Arthur for vice president kept the party together and profoundly changed the country—and Chester Arthur.

The Green Bay Packers are an iconic football franchise. However, their 1958 season was their worst season ever. The next season they hired the legendary head coach Vince Lombardi who transformed them into champions. How did he achieve such a remarkable turnaround?

Imagine if I told you that, from now on, traffic will no longer flow on the right side of the road, rather it will flow on the left. We would all get disoriented and probably all die in head-on collisions, right? As they say in Sweden, “det är inte så enkelt.”

My dog Tebow is well behaved. Except that he occasionally eats food from off our counters when no one is looking. How do we deal with his bad behavior? With the same approach that a hospital in San Fransisco recently implemented that is now saving lives.

A nightmarish situation unfolds mid-flight on a small twin-engine plane with Doug White’s wife and children in the back of the plane. His response is a lesson in how to build trust.

The Russians were first to launch a satellite into orbit. The first to send an animal into orbit. The first to send man into orbit. Yet, they never got man to the moon. Why not?

Take a moment and visit www.centennialbulb.org There you will find a live video of a dimly lit light bulb. In the background, you’ll probably see a firetruck and a few people walking past while pointing up at the bulb. And if you look carefully, you will also discover the reason why you aren’t achieving your goals.

In the 1890s, Wilhelm Von Osten discovered that his horse was brilliant. A lesson from his horse’s wisdom could have prevented one of the greatest tragedies in Jewish history, and can teach us how to improve our most important relationships.

What do you know about John Adams? You probably know that he was the second president of the United States. But do you recall anything that he did while he was president? Most Americans probably can’t, and that—strangely— was Adams’s great accomplishment.

Want to win the Tour de France? You will need to think big, have big plans, have big goals—right? Sometimes, what we actually need is to think small. One coach’s brilliant small approach to success at Le Tour is a valuable insight that reaches far beyond cycling.