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Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges—from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change—are not working.

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Speak your mind effectively!

Poorly designed employee surveys frustrate participants, analysts, and executives and can end up doing more harm than good.

Karen Hough doesn’t want you to be “perfect.” People fear public speaking because they worry about having to conform to all sorts of handed-down rules that tie them up in knots and put their audien

Questions are at the core of how we listen, behave, think, and relate--as individuals and organizations. Virtually everything we think and do is generated by questions.

We all know the proverb about teaching someone to fish, but if there are no fish left, knowing how to catch them won’t do you any good. And that’s the position businesses are in today.

Too many organizations are overlooking, or even suppressing, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation. And it’s right under their noses.

In the United States today we have good reasons to be afraid. Our Bill of Rights is no more.

John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stall

Affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. We tried to warn you!

Are you the type of leader people want to follow? You can be—but first, you’ve got to understand what sets great leaders apart from all the rest.

“Nonviolence is not the recourse of the weak but actually calls for an uncommon kind of strength; it is not a refraining from something but the engaging of a positive force,” renowned peace activis

For more than 20 years, major innovations—the kind that transform industries and even societies—seem to have come almost exclusively from startups, despite massive efforts and millions of dollars s

Community shapes our identity, quenches our thirst for belonging, and bolsters our physical, mental, emotional, and economic health.