The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and …

Transformative growth, the need for innovation, and the relentless pressure to boost profit and value are the drivers of today’s global economy. Executives the world over are on the watch for the opportunities that lie …

Evolution’s Edge explains not only why the collapse of our violent and destructive global system is inevitable, but also why a new type of sustainable civilization has begun to emerge. Because the …

The Obama campaign’s mastery of social media for everything from fundraising to volunteer coordination has been widely reported. Until now, there hasn’t been an in-depth analysis of how they did it. …

It is mind-boggling to consider what it takes to produce the products we depend on — critical drugs like blood thinners, plastic-based products such as syringes, isotopes for medical imaging, and …

What do the recent successes of Amazon.com, Wikipedia, IBM, and Novartis AG have in common with the behavior of insects? What does it take to throw a successful party? How can we make …

As retirement funds shrink and savings disappear, now is a good time to ask a question for which every human civilization has had an answer: why do things cost what they do? Examining …

Is it still possible to “read” markets fast enough to respond to them? A world of discrete parts is now one interconnected web of ceaseless calculation and response. Marketing has become …

The centuries-long history of capitalism is rich and eventful. Approaching capitalism as a culture, as important for its ideas and values as for its inventions and systems, Joyce Appleby gives us a fascinating introduction to …

In bestsellers such as Purple Cow and Tribes, Seth Godin taught readers how to make remarkable products and spread powerful ideas. But this book is different. It’s about you – your choices, your future, and …

We live in a world of innovation overdrive. Companies with talent can generate innumerable ideas for new or improved products every day. Ideas layer upon ideas; success begets success. But every layer of creativity, every …

In Watching YouTube, Dr. Strangelove, the Governor General Literary Award-nominated author that Wired Magazine called a ‘guru of Internet advertsing,’ describes how online digital video is both similar to and different from traditional home-movie-making and …

Effective leadership is more crucial than ever before. In fact, the link between effective leadership and corporate health is backed up by hard data, as best-selling author Judith M. Bardwick explains in her contributed article …

Like many celebrated companies, Harley-Davidson has soared, faltered, nearly died, and come back to life as a robust, iconic institution. And like all enduring companies, it learned that the constant push to improve and innovate …

With extraordinary access, and using the same techniques behind John Naisbitt’s international bestseller Megatrends, the Naisbitts have traveled the country, interviewing journalists, entrepreneurs, academics, politicians, artists, dissidents, and expatriates. With the help of twenty-eight staff …

Until now, management wisdom would have you believe that the single most important thing leaders have to get right is alignment. To accomplish anything, employees must agree about the mission, strategy, and goals of an …

Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more …

Author Al Lewis is offering a $1 million reward for the first idea published on his website, www.thinkOOB.com, to get adopted into national policy, and $500 for any idea used in the next edition of …

Until now, innovation studies have focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation, respected innovation expert Roberto Verganti upends conventional thinking by unveiling a third …

America’s greatest idea factory isn’t Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT’s Media Lab. It’s the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower in response to Sputnik and the Soviet space program, DARPA mixes …

Traditional marketing tactics aren’t bringing in customers like they used to, and even today’s most successful businesses are suffering shrinking returns on their advertising and marketing investment. The Digital Handshake explains this phenomenon and reveals …

In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most …

With a giant “People of Earth…” The Cluetrain Manifesto roared into the Web’s consciousness in 1999. Appearing first as a website, quickly followed by the book, the Manifesto proclaimed an “end of business as usual.” …

The more we understand about how the brain works, the clearer it becomes that often our brain kicks in before we do. For example, the more expert we become, the less we “think.”  Our brain …

The Coaching Connection presents a useful framework for creating a coaching culture throughout your organization whether you’re a coach-at-large, a mentor, an onboarding specialist, a career coach, a manager in an advisory/guidance role, or even …