Chris Rock has become one of the most popular comedians in the world and while there is no doubt he's got enormous talent -- his brilliance also comes from the fact that he's an experimental innovator. The jokes he rolls out on his global tours are actually the output of...

Apple's impressive quarterly earnings report this week, bolstered by iPhone sales, exemplified what has become increasingly clear: Apple has not only designed a highly successful product with its iPhone, the company's use of design principles have allowed it to build an incredible business model and ecosystem that has even Microsoft...

The Wall Street Journal's ideas reporter, Pfred Dvorak, wrote a great article describing Best Buy's experimental forecasting system entitled, "Best Buy Taps 'Prediction Market'" -- an excellent example of how companies are using focused experiments to innovate their internal processes. Anyone interested in innovation should take note.

Essentially, Best...

Like many, I have been astonished by the outpouring of sympathy and sense of loss following Tim Russert's death from Americans from all walks of life. What encapsulates their sentiments best is that they will miss Tim because they trusted him as an honest arbiter of political news. As much...

I grew up in a town of 1,500 people and as a kid I didn't know anybody who was a "somebody" outside our Northern California county except Tim Russert. I met Tim in 1987 when I was eleven years old, before he was on TV or well-known. My mom had...

I am often asked which candidate running for president would be the best leader and why. After meticulously sifting through hundreds of articles and personal accounts as well as biographies, I'll share my conclusion after describing my criteria.

Most presidential scholars and leadership aficionados agree that Abraham Lincoln was...

Ten years ago, few leaders in business or politics talked much about global warming, let alone acted. Yet following the flurry of publicity and debate around the release of An Inconvenient Truth last year, much has changed. An ABC News poll taken in April showed that a third of Americans...