Editor's note: Bart Craig is a tenured professor of psychology at North Carolina State University.   When I started driving cars at high speeds, on race tracks, I wished... More

Editor's note: Before I met Jacques Letalon I heard his cornet. It was the spring of 2020 in New York City and COVID had just hit the city hard. Everything was closed.... More

My career journey starts with pure serendipity. My father, who worked for IBM his whole career, became aware of the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, which gave... More

The thornier the problem and the more at stake, the greater the premium on staying utterly calm, cool and collected. It's not necessarily easy but there are practices that... More

A big influence on a woman growing up is how her father treats her. I got the full benefit of that. Every Saturday I'd go to the yard where he kept his construction... More

Philip Smith was recruited personally by the bank's CEO, Martin Middletown, to fix its ailing investment bank. Middletown viewed him as his heir apparent and turned a deaf... More

I never planned to be a teacher in the first place. I backed into it.  I went up to Tufts, with the idea of becoming a doctor. So I became pre-med and majored in... More

Power‎ sticks to founders like glue. Without it, they'd never get their initiative off the ground, no less keep it there. Yet all that power can cut back on itself.... More

I came out of nowhere. I'm somewhat of a brash New Yorker, and I was working in the "good manners" South. I'm very instinctive, extraverted, and I tend to think out loud.... More