Brittney Griner spent her years at Baylor University in the capacity of a basketball legend. WNBA basketball player led the university through one victory after another. In an interview with SI...
By Ben Lorica Data scientists were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of crowdsourcing services. Lukas Biewald noted in a recent talk that one of the reasons he started CrowdFlower was...
We just completed a major study of human capital trends around the world (Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends, 2500 organizations in 90 countries) and the message is clear: companies are...
As far as crimes go, it was the ultimate shocker. The violent rape and subsequent murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 changed America forever. What especially shocked the authorities was the bystander...
Ideas are the currency of the 21st century. You can have brilliant ideas—truly revolutionary ideas—but if you cannot persuade others to act, those ideas don’t matter. Today, thanks to the world-...
Ultimately it’s about impact. The very best thinking has no value to anyone else until it is turned into action. That requires someone to take the first step. Be that someone. Or help someone else....
Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz said it best: “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” Decades of business consulting and coaching...
Legions of writers—from Dale Carnegie to Napoleon Hill to Norman Vincent Peale to Anthony Robbins—have touted the value of positive mental attitude. Scores of rah-rah speakers evangelize on the...
Valentine’s Day is coming up, which means that love is in the air. Unfortunately, it’s not in the air, or culture, or anywhere else at too many companies. Which is not only a shame, it’s very...
In one of his first utterances as the newly appointed CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, a 46-year-old engineering executive originally from India, said something you don’t usually hear from a person...