The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

Positive madness leads to new knowledge.

Society has failed its inhabitants, just as its inhabitants have failed society.

I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.

My body is like in a computer for good for the rest of my life - at age 23. I have my cyber body so if they ever need me young again I can just go, 'It's in the computer.

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families