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Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist.

The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.

Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families.

The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

January took a breath, realizing it had been a cause from her holding it in, trying to work through the puzzle she faced. If he’s a Ghost, why was she sent on a mission to kill him?

Masters of Time: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology

Lifting my hands from the keyboard, I fold them in my lap and tilt back my desk chair. I think, I could do it. I could turn back time.

Masters of Time: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology

. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the har...

Science and Method

I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.

The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding L ove

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go ...

The Scientist as Rebel

In its timeless capacity to embody the human condition, the vampire is a poignant metaphor describing the psychosocial experience of the pariah - the outsider. The vampire is the Other that used to be human. The diseased, the mentally challenged, the...

The Science of Vampires

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

It is the place of science only to observe… To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not because it does not exist, but because we know too little to find it. It ...

Voyager

The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring more than they reveal.

Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America

Science would not be what it is if there had not been a , a or a , any more than music would be what it is if , and had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses—and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius—and to ...

What Is Science?

MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps All REALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way.

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the prob...

The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution