1: Something surprising was about to happen.

The entrepreneurs had gathered to pitch their business idea to a group of business executives. 

The stakes were high. Each entrepreneur had spent countless hours perfecting what they would say.

Because they knew they would be ranked. Only the very best pitches would earn an invitation to present to a group of angel investors. 

2: There was another observer in the room that … continue reading

1: Sandy Pentland leans closer, raises his bushy eyebrows, and opens his eyes wider. 

“It’s a little disconcerting when I find myself doing it too, almost against my will,” Daniel Coyle writes in The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups.

Sandy is the Director of the MIT Human Dynamics Lab. He leads a group of scientists “obsessed with understanding the inner workings of group chemistry,” Daniel writes.… continue reading