Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It's easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features - the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on.