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Penn Jillette says that despite Donald Trump’s apparent craziness, the real estate mogul’s move into entertainment is a good role for him in our culture.
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As CEO of Procter & Gamble, A.G. Lafley says he turned the organizational chart upside down, putting himself at the bottom and the customer at the top.
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Former Microsoft executive John Wood explains his strategy for creating and developing his non-profit Room to Read at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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Dr. Eric Kandel describes the “aha phenomenon” and speculates on ways that humans and groups can think more creatively.
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Daniel Altman explores the economic ideas behind Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to limit the sale of large sugary beverages.
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If Yahoo employees are not being as productive as they should be, that is a management issue, not a problem inherent with felxible work schedules.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I’m almost embarrassed for my species that you can be so blind to everything experts have been telling you and you got to wait for people to […]
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The workforce at GM was pretty disheartened when the company hit hard times during the recent recession. And yet, GM employees wanted to prove to everybody that they could design, […]
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Elizabeth Stark describes how Internet activism stopped legislation such as SOPA, which she saw as a threat to online freedom.
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Charles Mrray designed this quiz to have a salutary effect on bringing to people’s attention the degree to which they live in a bubble that seals them off from an […]
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Penn Jillette: I don’t think Daniel Kahneman knew he was writing a magic book. I don’t think he knew he was writing about Celebrity Apprentice. But he might have.
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Creating full citizenship isn’t about getting people from 0 to 60. It’s about everything in between. If 60 is voting and most people are at 10, Rishi Jaitly says it […]
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Cynthia Breazeal showcases “an idea in its formation,” that is, providing children in remote areas with tablets and learning apps that could enable them to teach themselves how to read.
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What are the things that I want to remember and that I want to be able to access later on and focus on remembering how to access them? And then […]
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Don’t just look at the short term numbers, says business turnaround expert Fred Hassan. Success starts at the level of company culture.
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David Gergen, Lisa New and Chris Matthews weigh in on the question of America’s Exceptionalism.
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Sharing might be the defining characteristic of being human. We are also very good at learning from others. The problem, however, is that we lack the proper filters and are […]
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Just as you wouldn’t want to pick a baseball player for your team without an adequate record of past performance, you wouldn’t want to pick a leader by taking a […]
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There are a lot single people who are very happy. Moreover, the scientific literature tells us that if you have not found a partner, there’s a lot of hope for […]
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Meeting big, audacious, ambitious goals requires taking multiple steps in reasoning, not just thinking from point A to point B.