The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you…

Dan Spitz, who played lead guitar for the metal band Anthrax, left the group in the ’90s to pursue an unexpected path: master watchmaking. Now, he’s one of the top watchmakers in the world, but can still shred a guitar like it’s 1983. Does your company have the courage to make fundamental changes?

Chef-owner René Redzepi shuttered his award-winning restaurant to rethink everything. Hours before the first meal at the new Noma, the chef isn’t cooking. He’s on his hands and knees in the main dining room frantically working a vacuum cleaner. Mr. Redzepi, 40, who became a world-famous chef with the success of his first iteration of…