Business

These talks offer unconventional, and uncommonly useful, advice on leading, working and making the most of each day.

What's the best way to make a good point? Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the "dilution effect," a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases -- and reveals why brevity is the true soul of persuasion.

DEI expert Joan C. Williams identifies five common patterns of bias that cause diversity programs to fail -- and offers a data-driven approach to pinpoint where things go wrong and how to make progress instead.

Bill Gross gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people's, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others -- and surprised even him.