Peter Bregman, author of "18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done."

Stephanie Coontz, professor of history at The Evergreen State College and author of "A Strange Stirring."

Umair Haque, director of the Havas Media Labs and author of "Betterness: Economics for Humans."

Dan Pallotta, president of Advertising for Humanity and author of "Uncharitable."

Scott Berinato, HBR senior editor, featuring the ideas of Yale economist Robert Shiller, journalist Gregg Easterbrook, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman.

John Coleman, coauthor of "Passion and Purpose," with contributors Patrick Chun, Umaimah Mendhro, and Rye Barcott.

Cathy Davidson, Duke University professor and author of "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn."

Gary Hamel, director of the Management Innovation eXchange and author of the HBR article "First, Let's Fire All the Managers."

Misiek Piskorski and Anthony J. Bradley, of Harvard Business School and Gartner Research, respectively.

Heidi Grant Halvorson, motivational psychologist and author of "Nine Things Successful People Do Differently."