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

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful.