Author Archives: Greg Satell

Ideas Having - Sex and the City

We all love Carrie Bradshaw. And why not? She’s beautiful, charming, witty and intelligent. She lives glamorously, goes to cool parties, meets fascinating people and provides insightful social commentary. Yet her story is not just about sex. Continue reading

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Evolutionary psychologists understand that we survive not as individuals but as communities, and that makes all the difference.  Starting from simple principles, they’ve been able to unlock many of the counter-intuitive secrets of how cultures emerge, adapt, spread ideas and produce technology. Continue reading

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Great ideas can change the world. Ideas, if we nurture them, can become dreams, transform the mundane into the sublime and poverty into prosperity. Life would be exceedingly boring without ideas. Continue reading

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The Next Really, Really, Really, Big Thing

Everybody should be excited about the next big thing. And why not? It’s very, extremely big. Even bigger than anything that came before. No, really, it’s that freakin’ HUGE. If you don’t want to get left behind, you’ve got to hop on this right away. Continue reading

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Building Creative Collaboration

Creativity is changing. Not so long ago, it seemed like a “man on the mountain” approach could suffice. All you needed was a great idea and then get people to rally around it to make it happen (or so many thought). Continue reading

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What Drives Prosperity?

What is the true path to prosperity? Is it luck, diligence, perseverance, government investment, private philanthropy, the profit motive or something else? The answer is more complicated than you’d think. Continue reading

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