Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.