Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' Required Thousands of People

After NASA Apollo 11's incredible feat of three men on the moon in June of 1969, astronaut Michael Collins said, "All this is possible only through the ...

Football Coach's Ouster Marks Change in Culture

For decades, the informal consensus surrounding high school football has been that the top qualification for coaching is toughness. The image of a hard-nosed ...

How One Man Made Jury Duty A Delight

John Ortberg shares what he learned about civic duty and enthusiasm from being called to jury duty:

It was 9:00 on a Monday morning and I was one of 150 ...

The Man Who Saved the World by Thinking Small

There are a handful of "hinge" moments in world history. June 6, 1944, or D-Day, was one of those moments. On that day hung the balance of power in World ...

Successful Sports Team Captains Are Rarely Stars

In his book about famous sports team captains titled The Captain Class, Sam Walker examines the hidden forces that create the world's greatest sports ...

Pope Francis Says Power Intoxicates Without Humility and Love

Did you know that the Pope gave a TED Talk? Whatever you think about the Catholic Church or it's current spiritual leader, he offered these biblically ...

Too Busy? Take a 'Shultz Hour.'

New York Times columnist David Leonhardt says we all need to take a regular "Shultz Hour." Leonhardt explains:

When George Shultz was Secretary of State ...

Eiffel's Tower Is a Monument to Teamwork

For the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, more than a hundred artists submitted plans to design the centerpiece, the masterpiece of the Exposition Universelle. ...

Pre-Columbian Chinese Megaships Ruled The Seas, Then They Burned Them

Long before Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, a Chinese admiral named Zheng He launched the greatest armada the world had ever seen: more ...

Courage To Do 'Whatever It Takes'

Several years ago, an enormous financial crisis loomed in Europe. The very survival of the structure of the euro currency, if not the whole of Europe, ...