Andy Grove once told me, over a cup of Jamocha Almond Fudge ice cream at Baskin Robbins in Los Altos, “F*@&ing Steve Jobs always gets ...

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. W.E.B. Du Bois Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography o...

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently.  Sara Bla...

  Test your assumption that the meeting is getting derailed. If the team has agreed on the topic to discuss and you still think that someone...

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Be curious. The best inoculation against defensiveness is curiosity. Act like a detective pursuing a mystery called “I wonder why they fe...

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A report from the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs makes the point that school success is not predicted by a child’s fund of fa...

Michael Smithson, a social scientist at Australian National University who co-taught an online course on ignorance this summer, uses this ...

In the mid-1980s, a University of Arizona surgery professor, Marlys H. Witte, proposed teaching a class entitled “Introduction to Medical a...