I have been traveling quite a bit the last couple of weeks (which might explain why my pace of writing has somewhat slowed down). During my most recent trip, I had dinner with one of our fellow Heretics who remarked on my post “On Being Right,” mentioning that it is often hard…

Recently I read the following sentence in Whole Foods Market-Founder John Mackey’s excellent book “Conscious Capitalism.”

“As happiness is best experienced by not aiming for it directly, profits are best achieved by not making them the…

I am sure you have seen the statistics: Only about every third employee in the US and every 9th employee (!) globally are engaged in their work. Moreover, these numbers seem to not moving all that much — despite more and more…

This week the fine folks at First Round published their annual “State of Startups” report. Among the many gems (and the sobering reinforcement of how far the tech industry still has to go when it comes to diversity, equality and not sexually assaulting women) is their Founder…