When Steve Jobs took the stage at Stanford, he wasn't a struggling entrepreneur. He was Steve Freaking Jobs—the visionary behind Apple, Pixar, and the Macintosh, standing at the peak of his career.

Known as thought-terminating cliches , expressions like "It is what it is" or "That’s just how we do things here" can stifle ...

Project managers and planners are highly prone to believing that their projects are one of a kind—partly because those that ...