One of the major barriers to creativity and innovation is the fear of looking foolish. “Foolish” means different things to different people: silly, unwise, senseless, irrational, thoughtless, nonsensical, ridiculous, absurd. Ultimately, it’s concern about how others perceive us. Too often we control our actions because we worry about what other people will think about us Read the full article…
One of the lead articles in today’s Wall Street Journal is “Crisis Compels Economists To Reach for New Paradigm”. The story focuses on John Geanakoplos, a Yale economist whose observations of the machinations of the economy in the late 1990’s led him to believe that the market was not as efficient as economic theorists had Read the full article…
The 2009 Nobel Prize winners have just been announced. Most years, winners have all been men. A few years there was one woman, a couple had 2 women, and in 1999, three women were given the honor: one each for the categories of Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. This year, there were 5 women Read the full article…