Revisiting Maslow’s hierarchy.

The dynamics of business require leaders to navigate rough and sometimes unfamiliar courses as they steer toward profits and success. How those entrepreneurs and founders make their way can be the subject of books, MBA theses and chatter in the boardrooms of competitors and admirers.

What assumptions can you prove wrong today?

“Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead shares a new approach to creating in the moment: building quickly and improving constantly, without waiting for permission or for proof that you have the right idea. This kind of bottom-up innovation is seen in the most fascinating, futuristic projects emerging today, and it starts, he says, with being open and alert to what’s going on around you right now.