Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade.

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

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

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.