In today's complex business environment, leaders need to think like chess masters. But, more often, the rapid-fire pace of change provokes a "Nintendo response," says Anne Golden, incoming president ...

Getting better at chess, it turns out, isn't merely a matter of thinking harder, or using one specific area of the brain---it has more to do with the neural links between brain regions.

At 24, Kaja Snare didn’t imagine she had a future in chess; she barely played the game. But in 2014, when she was a rookie sports reporter for TV2, Norway’s second-largest broadcast network, her ...