Ever heard of “scalar stress?” It’s stress and tension that increases as more people are added to a group. Here’s some science behind scalar stress that sheds light on America as she enters 2012. In primitive societies, leaders were “big men” whose power was persuasive,... Read More

Politics as usual – polarized and hyperbolic discourse – comes directly from the Old Brain, and elicits an Old Brain response. Here’s what you can do to reduce the negative impact and think more clearly for your country. The election this week – full of... Read More

If the CEO of a large multi-national organization can trip over it, then probably so can we all. Tony Heyward, the CEO of BP at the time of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, seemed firmly convicted that his organization was socially responsible (see BP:... Read More

How does an outgoing CEO of a huge global corporation make a statement that is blatantly untrue? It happens because he is human, just like the rest of us. BP as an organization has been a front page example of how things can go wrong... Read More

A recent Supreme Court ruling has effectively granted corporations protected political speech. It should be no surprise that we have begun to think of businesses as entities equal to human beings – and speech is indeed at the core of the issue. Our language has... Read More