Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains how tiny variations in genetics impact the way we perceive reality. In the rarest of cases, they can actually cause us to see sound, taste color, […]

The most important asset a company has is its people, says Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS.

Throughout his extraordinary career, Pryce has turned his attention outward rather than inward – onto his fellow actors, the audience, the needs of the story. This, he reflects, is the […]

Ever wondered what you were thinking after making a bad decision? Daniel Kahneman explains.

The hiring and managing of employees is the achilles heel of many an otherwise tightly-run organization. Why? Because human beings come with many more variables than do widgets – we’re […]

One of the easiest places to look for new ideas in venture capital is all the technologies of the past 30 or 40 years that have failed to produce a […]

If Romi Haan, the founder and CEO of South Korea’s Haan Corp could start over again, she (says she) would spend at least two years learning about home appliance sales […]

At the end of the day, you might very well feel like you owe all of your success to your mentor, and the only way you can possibly repay that […]

Music has amazing inspirational powers, says former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins – but only collective action can stop a war or change a government.

The “always-on” work culture, says Leslie Perlow, drains morale and initiative, and scatters employees’ mental resources, making it difficult for them to take ownership of projects and prioritize their efforts. […]

Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar on a few telling examples of government agencies’ ability to learn from their mistakes, and from the successes of outsiders in the public and private sector.

Will the natural gas boom revitalize the U.S. economy and provide us energy for 100 years? Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, weighs in.

80% of hiring happens on the informal job market, says Michael Ellsberg. His advice for job-seekers? Network, network, network.

In many ways, college graduates are now actually in a worse position financially than those who don’t go to college, says Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman. Here, Krugman shares his advice […]

The United States is faced with multi-hundred billion dollar deficits stretching year after year into the future. How did it happen and what should be done about it?

Ed Conard, a retired partner of Bain Capital says that one of the company’s key insights was that “companies are in fierce competition with each other to deliver as much […]

Economist Daniel Altman on gold’s economic stability and why we shouldn’t return to the gold standard.

Baratunde Thurston’s How To Be Black is neither peevish gripe nor venomous attack. Like the best satire, it convinces with wit and compassion, and offers readers a vision of a […]