Dan Pink is a mas­ter of cre­ative swip­ing, which is MBA-speak for “he steals other peo­ples’ ideas.” Which isn’t to say he’s not a clever chap. And we cer­tainly guys like him, crafty writ­ers who aren’t put off by research, who weave the lat­est ideas into pithy, punchy, com­pelling nar­ra­tives. Cer­tainly, for every artic­u­late Dan […]

Today’s grad­u­ates face a new breed of chal­lenges as they enter the work­force. They will con­front messier, intractable prob­lems such as cli­mate change, global ter­ror­ism, antibi­otic resis­tant dis­eases and per­sis­tent mar­ket weak­ness. The same tech­nolo­gies that empow­ered them as learn­ers at the same time also mul­ti­plied the poten­tial for global havoc. And this has changed the definition […]

When I started my bet­ter liv­ing project it wasn’t really about qual­ity of life at all. It was more about fac­ing the ques­tion: “what kind of life is best for a per­son liv­ing in our times?” It was as much about being respon­si­ble as any­thing else. I was wor­ried espe­cially about intractable prob­lems like global […]

As I kid I loved Snakes and Lad­ders. I don’t even know if you can find that board game any­where any­more, but I enjoyed it. (Okay, I just found it on Ebay for $2). It was pretty sim­ple. Basi­cally you roll the dice to see how many spaces you can move for­ward. The first person […]

Barry Schwartz explains why hav­ing the free­dom to choose can actu­ally decrease your happiness.