You're More Biased Than You Think
Even the most open-minded person harbors a lot of unconscious biases. Here's how to start recognizing and eliminating them.
Passion in need of a champion
The best workers will find their own way, but if you want your organization to thrive, supporting them has to be a priority
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the vaccine-autism link.
Sure enough, a large number of psychological studies have shown that people respond to scientific or technical evidence in ways that justify their…
Casual Collisions, Spontaneous Meetings & Serendipity
“There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous…
Engineering Serendipity
I’d like to tell the story of a paradox: How do we bring the right people to the right place at the right time to discover something new, when we…
American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist
To become a chef, a lawyer, a philosopher or an engineer, has always been a matter of learning what these professionals do, how and why they do it,…
A Network to Build a Dream On
But peer networks, Mr. Johnson emphasizes, "are much older than the Internet." The creativity of the Renaissance, he asserts, was catalyzed by the…
Why Our Complex World Needs Connective Leadership
“Diversity trumps ability” as a sufficiently diverse, large group of non-experts often outperforms a small group of experts,” found Future Perfect…
Tom Peters on leading the 21st-century organization
Lou Gerstner has this wonderful passage in his book that says something to the effect of, “When I came to IBM I was a guy who believed in strategy…