“People wish to be settled:  Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
One thing that can be said of adversity—like the economic challenges of the past thirteen months—is that it “unsettles” us. The old way of doing things stop working and we are forced to find new ways of doing [...]

In my Businessweek column this month, I reflect on last year’s football season.
On Sept. 7, 2008, arguably the best football player in the world crumpled onto the field just over one minute into the NFL season opener. Team doctors delivered the bad news: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had suffered two torn ligaments in [...]