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President Obama doesn’t get enough credit. As fellow Big Thinker Kris Broughton wrote in a recent post, it’s ridiculous to say that Obama hasn’t accomplished much while in office, whatever […]
How about this for some real corporate mumbo jumbo? BP’s own internal report into the Deepwater Horizon disaster mixes the technical with the pseudo diplomatic. But there is no doubt […]
While philosophers of yore postulated on human nature, today’s thinkers approach tough questions with the tools of cognitive science. A philosophy professor on ‘experimental philosophy’.
“Despite being pilloried by the public lately, a banker’s lot can’t be all that bad. At least, that’s what Wal-Mart executives must be thinking.” Forbes on the retail giant’s new banking ideas.
“The magic income: $75,000 a year. As people earn more money, their day-to-day happiness rises. Until you hit $75,000. After that, it is just more stuff, with no gain in happiness.”
“The pastor who plans to burn Korans is despicable. But the rush to condemn this maniac clouds legitimate free-speech debate.” Tunku Varadarajan on when rights should be abridged.
“Are leaders born or made? Evolution may be throwing us a curve ball when it comes to picking them in the modern world” The New Scientist says leaders must first convince the rest of us.