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

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.

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

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.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.