In the twenty-first century, knowing all the answers won’t distinguish someone’s intelligence—rather, the ability to ask all the right questions will be the mark of true genius.
In the postbiblical world we understand that from the first day of the world, God trusted man to make choices, when He entrusted Adam to make the right decision about which fruit to eat in the Garden...
In 2014, when the Ebola virus broke out in West Africa, it was the American military that sent in three thousand troops and $3 billion to wipe it out. There was no Russian or Chinese aid mission that...
In 2011, the NASSCOM team introduced me to Aloke Bajpai, who, like others on his young team, cut his teeth working for Western technology companies but returned to India on a bet that he could start s...
I don’t always agree, he said. Great, I responded. It means you always have to check.
Historically, noted James Manyika, one of the authors of the McKinsey report, companies kept their eyes on competitors who looked like them, were in their sector and in their geography. Not anymore. G...
El argumento central de este libro es que estas aceleraciones simultáneas en el Mercado, la Madre Naturaleza y la ley de Moore juntas constituyen la «era de las aceleraciones», en la cual nos encontra...
Disruption’ is what happens when someone does something clever that makes you or your company look obsolete. ‘Dislocation’ is when the whole environment is being altered so quickly that everyone start...
Claire Cain Miller pointed out that for all the jobs that machines can now do—whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food—they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social s...
But a growing number of studies, including my own research, suggest that geographic proximity and cultural diversity—a place’s openness to different cultures, religions, sexual orientations—also play...
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying atte...
As the Lebanese sociologist Samir Khalaf summed it up: Though the average Lebanese derives much … social support and psychological reinforcement from … local and communal allegiances, these forces are...
As the Harvard University strategist Graham Allison summed it up: Historically, there has always been a gap between people’s individual anger and what they could do with their anger. But thanks to mod...
As I watched the 2016 presidential campaign unfold, the words of Marie Curie never rang more true to me or felt more relevant: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the...
Another way Mother Nature builds resilience is by being very federal in how she self-organizes. She nests her communities—which are analogous to states, counties, and towns—within a flexible framework...
A Mexican newspaper recently ran a story about how the Converse shoe company was making tennis shoes in China using Mexican glue. The whole article was about why are we giving them our glue, said Zedi...
Nếu không có kiến thức tổng hợp, không thấy được toàn cảnh - không hiểu được phương tiện kết hợp để hoàn tất hay phá hủy cứu cánh thì làm sao định ra chiến lược. Và nếu không có chiến lược thì chỉ có...
Điều đó giải thích vì sao trong một số nước, sự chống đối toàn cầu hóa mạnh mẽ nhất không đến từ nhóm dân chúng nghèo đói, mà từ những kẻ vốn xưa nay... trong giới trung lưu và trung lưu lớp dưới, nhữ...
Điều khiến Internet nguy hiểm đối với các nhà nước độc tài, đó là các nhà nước này buộc phải cho phép nó tồn tại, vì nếu không họ sẽ bị thua thiệt về kinh tế. Nhưng nếu có Internet, họ sẽ không thể ki...
In October 2014, the United States was inundated with more than fifty thousand unaccompanied children from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. They’re fleeing from threats and violence in their home...