Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Curiosity expert improving engagement, innovation, and productivity. First principles thinking is emerging as a crucial skill for ...

“And we can do it all by starting from first principles–questioning our assumptions and building something new from the ground up.” Let’s focus on two words: First principles. The concept of ...

Made famous by Elon Musk, first principles thinking is a strategy you can employ for breaking down a complex problem and coming up with an original solution. Instead of coming up with a small, ...

Organizations across the entire healthcare ecosystem have been betting big on AI. The excitement is justified. Implementing these technologies can save a lot of time and money to do a lot of wonderful ...

What if the secret to solving the world’s most complex problems wasn’t about thinking bigger, but thinking smaller, breaking things down to their most basic truths? This is the power of first ...

I’ve been thinking lately about why we measure things like, for example, Net Promoter Score (NPS). What are we actually doing? These thoughts are prompted by Reid Hoffman’s great new book, Masters of ...