Benefiting from an organized effort

The world would benefit from an organized effort from various disciplines to understand:

How we should identify and train brilliant young people.
How the most effective small groups exchange and share ideas.
Which incentives should exist for participants in innovative ecosystems (scientists, entrepreneurs, managers, and engineers)
How much organizations differ in productivity. One recent study found that teaching better management practices to firms in Italy improved productivity by 49 percent over 15 years compared with peer firms that didn’t receive the training.
How scientists should be selected and funded. A recent paper concluded that long-term grants to high-potential scientists made those scientists 96 percent more likely to produce breakthrough work.

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We Need to Do More Research on Honesty

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Honesty As A Blind Spot

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Since man started observing human behaviour, our focus has been on the studies done on deception, morality, and lying. In the last fifty years, almost no study or research has been carried out on honesty in the philosophical domain.

This is glaring neglect as honesty tops the list of the most important virtues, alongside courage, patience, humility and kindness.

Lying Is Becoming Mainstream

As lies morph into a common, accepted standard, our attention (and obsession) is with guilt, fakeness, deceit and manipulation.

Human beings, according to countless behavioural studies, lie when they know they can get away with it, or when they see other people lie, and even when we are in groups, where we tend to mimic the others(herd mentality).

Dishonesty As a Global Currency

In any social setting, lies keep the world from falling apart, becoming the real global currency:

Organizations and their employees routinely lie to preserve identity, protect the reputation of an individual or group
In relationships, one lies to spare the other from feeling bad, or to avoid an awkward situation.
We lie to ourselves and consistently believe we are smarter or better looking that we really are.
We lie on social media.