What I've been reading

Hanging out with the president—on the basketball court, in the White House residence, and on Air Force One—provides an eye-opening lesson in what it takes to lead the free world, as well as an unparalleled portrait of Barack Obama.

American Express' fourth-quarter earnings rose as the company increased its marketing spend.

A new industry is birthing to serve ride sharing drivers, Airbnb hosts, Freelancers, Taskrabbits, and Makers. A booming market emerges: The Freelancer Economy is predicted to be 40% of the American workforce in just five years, and the startups that power them have been funded over $10B  and a whole new class of organizations have emerged to support, empower, and connect freelancers.…

Designing programs to serve global accounts has been a painful and often unprofitable art. You can turn it into a science that benefits both you and your customer.

You probably do not know that the 3 most interesting things I found will blow your mind.

Male mentors tend to sponsor rather than just mentor—similar to the difference between coaching and selling.

Behavioural economics has given us the concept of choice architecture. What it means is simply that the way a choice is presented influences how it is made.

Jay Forrester's computer models show the nonlinear roots of calamity and reveal the leverage that can help us avoid it.

More than one million vinyl records have been sold in the UK so far this year - the first time the milestone has been achieved since 1996.

Diverse, it turns out, matters more than big.

Nicholas Lemann searches for the real secrets to Google’s success, in a review of “How Google Works” and “Think and Grow Digital.”

Preparing for a leadership interview can be challenging, but this guide on Leadership interview questions and answers is designed to help both freshers and

I’m teaching a course this January on how to read cultural trends (CMS.S62 in the nomenclature of MIT). You might like to join us if you’re in Boston. The course is called “Time Machine: Building a Conceptual Model for Cultural Prediction.” Here’s the kind of problem we will be wrestling with. Nancy Keates wrote an […]

Tough transitions are great leaders’ proving ground.

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Story-driven companies are achieving better financial success than their competitors.

Many of our most beloved and successful movies are adaptations of similarly beloved books. But just because a book reads well doesn’t mean it will film well.

Buzzwords are easy to hide behind.

Studying the neuroscience of compelling communication.

You’ve started a new job—only to find that your co-workers liked working with your predecessor just fine. So how do you navigate these less-than-hospitable (read: hostile) work relationships? Here are a few ways to approach the situation and win everyone over.

We can all agree that Millennials are the worst. But what is a Millennial? A fight between The New York Times and Slate inspired us to try to figure that out.

How does the increased prevalence of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram in our lives affect our social circles?

“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.”

There's a difference between living your brand's story and simply talking about it. Here's how to distinguish the two.

It is a healthy exercise to occasionally step outside your cultural bubble.

David Grann on Forrest Tucker, a career stickup man who robbed a bank at age seventy-eight.