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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Or at least that is what her first staff-wide memo as Twitter CEO suggests. In it, she showed she was in tune with a key management philosophy of her new boss, Elon Musk. That is his total embrace of ...