If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this ha….

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Bl….

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour..

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply….

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection..

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..

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

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not ou….

If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then….

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

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromi….

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the pas….

I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the c….

Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey….

I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed….

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

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression..

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with..

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, d….

Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovati….

Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful..