How executives deal with stress. In June in Spain about 30 executives were chosen in a contest by NH Hotels to help demolish Madrid’s NH Alcala hotel; they were let inside with mallets and told to have at it.

In London and Tokyo, another option recently became available, according to the Daily Mail: misery clubs (such as Loss in London). Executives can rent rooms and view weepy movies or attend group crying sessions and “tear therapy” to “indulge their inner gloom,” wrote the newspaper.

Hmmm What happened to laughter being the best medicine?