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Join a panel of scientists, scholars and public intellectuals, including primatologist Frans de Waal, international economic advisor and Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs, experimental social psychologist Steven Neuberg, cognitive neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe, physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson and New York Times editorialist Charles Blow , as they discuss the biological and social dimensions of the timely issue of xenophobia, or the unreasonable fear of "others." [More]

You won't convince investors, customers or employees that you can change the world unless you convince yourself first. How on earth do you do that? You must believe in yourself as an entrepreneur before anyone else will take you seriously.

I’m halfway around the world, in Brisbane, Australia, where, yesterday, I finished an intense two-day strategy session for the top 50 managers of a company determined to take over the world. Maybe not your world, but the world of installing large AC systems. During the strategy session, we stepped through a process of "strategic imagination" that I introduce in my next book, Outthink the Competition

The push for efficiency defines many organizations, and Greenleaf Book Group is no exception. I push my staff to eliminate silly wastes of time and money as often as I can. We've adopted best practices from many organizations and have become a training ground for operational efficacy.