Leadership

Outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg knows more than a thing or two about running huge, complicated organizations and digital media. So when he notes in a farewell interview that, thanks to social media, there's now "an instant referendum on everything; I think it's going to make governing more difficult," private sector managers better get nervous, too. The Arab Spring and other Twitter-credited uprisings get virtually all...

We are drawn to those who echo what it is we already believe. We get a dopamine rush when we are presented with confirming data similar to what we get when we eat chocolate or fall in love. On Facebook we defriend those with different political views to our own. On Twitter we follow people just like us. Yet a vast body of research now points to the...

What do billionaires have in common? What is it that they do better than anyone else? Why do we admire them, or their companies' products and services, so much? I've spent some time trying to identify common traits in the Forbes list of billionaires and other similar lists of the world's wealthiest. I'm particularly interested in finding patterns in the types of people whom I respect. It's less...