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.

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

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

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.