It is customary to salute Nelson Mandela as a great leader and statesman, which of course he was. Against all odds, he led South Africa from an unjust, apartheid past to a new state founded upon equality and democratic rights. We salute Mandela for the incredible...
Teresa Amabile, one of the world’s leading experts on creativity, has spent more than 35 years researching what makes people creative and innovative. And the answers may surprise you. If you are over the age of twenty, you might have been taught a very...
You might think that Sir Richard Branson, the multi-billionaire founder of the Virgin empire of companies, would be a staunch defender of the system of capitalism that has been so kind to him. But he isn’t. He says, without qualification, that we need to...
If you’re like most of us, when you look for a Table of Contents in a book, you’ll expect to find a series of Chapter headings and sub-titles. So it might come as a shock when you see that the Table of Contents in Tim Brown’s 2009 bestseller Change by...
A long line of research shows that deep in the middle of our brains is the part that’s been around since human beings began to have brains. It’s the limbic system, and since it’s so similar to the basic brain of a lizard, it’s sometimes called your ‘lizard...
