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Have you ever wondered how the past can help you move forward? In this interview with one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of finding our purpose, Stanford professor Bill Damon discusses his extraordinary revelation that his long lost father was not in fact lost at all. His most recent book book, A Round of Golf with My…

Have you ever gotten a song caught in your head? Most of us have. Music communicates with us in a unique and powerful way, often impacting our emotions –and emotions impact decision-making. In her new book,  Susan Drumm, CEO of Meritage Leadership, shares tips and techniques to harness music for better leadership based on her book The Leader’s Playlist. As…

How do we build trust with other stakeholders when making decisions? It was a question that an official at the State Department asked me to address last month when she invited me to speak to a group of foreign counter-terrorism experts from around the world. The official came to me after reading about my book Problem Solved. She felt my…

As the stock market has been taking a wild ride these past few weeks, I’ve been finishing up a new book, currently titled Investing In Financial Research: A Decision Making System For Better Results. It is scheduled to be published in the fall. It’s an updated general interest version of the textbook I wrote initially for my Columbia Business School…

What do President Trump and New England Patriot’s quarterback Tom Brady have in common? A knack for rapid decision making. That’s a risky proposition, given that decision making for complex issues deserves time and attention. But that’s also in part why Sunday’s Super Bowl was so exciting and why our President’s recent actions are so problematic. During the Super Bowl…

I was recently honored to speak at the Milken Institute London Summit on the Future Of Europe after Brexit and the overwhelming takeaway that I came home with is this: European politicians and pundits said that they regretted their ‘assumption’ that globalization was going to be the rising tide that lifts all boats. The assumption, they said, was that “better…

In life things are not always as they seem. But in today’s fast paced world we tend to rush to judgement. We let assumptions and biases guide our actions and our perception of the world. War provides a stark example of the false stories that we accept all too quickly and with deadly consequences. For example, The New York Times…