In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

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

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.

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

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.