"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director." - John Milius

Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner explains the recipe for financial disaster and the importance of remembering prior crises. Geithner is the author of Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (http://goo.gl/v0R9pg).

Diversity training is already a sensitive issue. Most organizations don’t know how to address it and introduce programs to employees. In the latest installment of Big Think’s Edge, management expert […]

Nebula’s are star-forming regions rich in interstellar clouds of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases. How else do they keep the star factory running? On Tuesday, NASA released this […]

 "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

Are you tired of the email trap? What starts off as an innocent email can quickly escalate into a rapid fire argument. We’ve all been there, hovering a finger over […]

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell

Michael Pollan on the Sacred, Ancient Act of the BBQ

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." - Bill Cosby

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." -  Goethe

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it." - Rene Descartes

If there are aliens out there, they likely passed by our planet, considered it an unsavory galactic truck stop, and kept going, continuing on their hunt for enlightened life. Aliens […]

Chris Kirk, the Chief Executive Officer of GEMS Education Solutions, on how schools can better prepare students for the challenges of tomorrow.

Management expert Daniel Pink on how to influence others by asking the right questions.

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." - Nicholas Murray Butler

Dickson Despommier on how vertical farming can help us meet the challenges of feeding a growing global population.

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt