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Most of us would like to live with wonder, grace and optimism. Perhaps it pays to practice this in advance. When considering any given moment, is there a glimmer of good worth focusing on, even mak ...

If it's important, don't ask the team to try harder. Instead, create the conditions for ordinary effort to produce redundant outputs that reduce crises. If quality is a problem, look at ...

"The odds of winning the lottery are the same whether you buy a ticket or not." This seems nonsensical at first. Obviously, there are lottery winners. Therefore, the odds aren't t ...

Joseph Brandlin is a scofflaw. After months of fighting to get the city council to put a stop sign on the corner of the dangerous intersection near his home, he simply did it himself. A first-rate,

It's often mislabeled. Sometimes the contents can make us ill, especially if we drink too much. Status is easy to sell. But despite how often people buy the promise, it rarely delivers.

You can be fashionable without reading Vogue. You can be informed without watching the nightly news. You can be smart about science without going to MIT. It's possible to be a great chef with ...

That's a great reason to dumb things down. It's also a trap that leads us to stasis and mediocrity. Let's break it down: People: Which people? All people? The majority of voters?

If you tell me your ID number, your phone number or the wiring instructions for your bank account, not only will I forget them, I'll need you to repeat it a few times so I write it down witho ...

How does the ball know? In tennis, golf or just about all ball sports, the follow-through determines the flight of the ball. Great players always have a complete and confident follow-through. But t ...

This is the slogan of so many industrial behemoths and existing bureaucracies. It's in quotation marks for a reason: it's not true. Not in the long run, not even in the medium run. One ...