Have you ever been challenged for “not connecting the dots?” It's shorthand for leaders who fail to grasp a pattern of some looming risk. Not connecting the dots is how we explain human failure that ...

We think we have a plan. But plans, no matter how well, um, planned, are never perfect. Only in hindsight can they appear that way. Ask Steve Jobs. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward,” Jobs ...

Of the more popular kids’ puzzles is ‘connecting the dots’ to draw a picture. As grown-up marketing communication practitioners, we are taught the same. Connect the dots of context, medium, purpose, ...

The iPhone game of the moment, Dots, is so addictive that it's impossible to even talk about how addictive it is to play the color-coded connect-the-dots game without stopping to play another round — ...

It is getting clearer how through these years Congress has played around with the annual General Appropriations Act (GAA) bill. In layman’s terms, the GAA is “the President’s budget” that contains the ...

A version of this article appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of strategy+business. In 1945, a U.S. defense contractor employee was working on the magnetron, a microwave-emitting tube used in radar ...