At a time when American citizens crucially need to be better informed and educated about numerous institutional crises, I was only mildly entertained the other night when Donald Trump was being interviewed by Piers Morgan on CNN.

As many know, Piers Morgan got his start toward fame in the...

By now, Bill George is a well-known name to most, the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion during his tenure. Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets,...

With Europe on the precipice economically and politically, and U.S. institutions experiencing a significant crisis of moral leadership in the wake of the debt ceiling debacle, any student of history can predict that the world is approaching an inflection point.

Into this period of enormous uncertainty (and leadership vacuum)...

One thing consistently puzzles me: there's a significant disconnect between policy makers and people who are working on actual problems in the grassroots.

Consider this example: Gerald Chertavian, is the founder and CEO of Year Up. He is widely considered to be one of the...

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 just outside a town of 7,000 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...