“Puzzles are not a waste of time. Doing puzzles can make us better thinkers, more creative, more incisive, [and] more persistent,” argues journalist and avid puzzler Jacobs (The Know-It-All) in this ...

We’d all like to be innovative, but few people have creativity switches they can turn on at will. (I definitely don’t.) We’re a lot better at convergent thinking, using knowledge and experience to ...

It will take years to transform business, but the journey begins now. by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani Contracts, transactions, and the records of them are among the defining structures in our ...

Truly breakthrough ideas rarely hatch overnight. Consider, for example, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, which had a protracted evolution of its own. Darwin spent decades reading scientific ...