Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

It was the earliest demonstration of a phenomenon popularized by-and now named for-James Surowiecki's bestseller The Wisdom of Crowds. Aggregating the judgment of many consistently beats the accuracy of the average member of the group, and is often as startlingly accurate as Galton's weight-guessers.

Panic leads to disaster ? Reed Dalton

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Surely if knowledge is valuable it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats ' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.