Creatix / January 14, 2025 Boxed breakfast cereals are convenient, shelf-stable, and heavily marketed as a “healthy start.” But when you look past the front-of-box claims, a lot of mainstream cereals, especially the sweetened, flavored, colorful ones—come with tradeoffs that many people would rather avoid. Boxed breakfast cereal became popular in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , at the intersection of industrialization, health reform, and modern advertising. As Americans moved from rural, labor-intensive lives to urban factory work, traditional hot breakfasts became less practical, creating demand for foods that were cheap, shelf-stable, and fast to prepare . Early pioneers such as John Harvey Kellogg and C. W. Post promoted grain-based cereals as digestive aids and moral health foods, originally emphasizing blandness and simplicity. Mass production, nationwide rail distribution, and the rise of print and radio advertising then transformed cereal from a n...
Creatix / January 13, 2026 We're working on a Kindle book on the Kardashians for our Amazon collection of consulting books at consultingbooks.com In this article, we take a quick look at how the Kardashian Empire Was Built and what we can learn from it. Love them or despise them, the Kardashians are impossible to ignore. That is not an accident. Behind the fame, controversy, and relentless public debate sits a carefully constructed system. At the center of that system is Kris Jenner , who accomplished something rare: she turned a family into a coordinated, long lasting business empire. This article is not a fan page or admiration tribute. It is a collection of early notes for areas to research further for an upcoming book. We figure that the article should help study aspects about modern success. Whether you like what the Kardashians represent or reject it entirely, there are lessons worth studying. Attention Matters Attention Matters Attention is the raw material of the mod...