The parable of the fox and the hedgehog tells us that there are some who are guided by one big idea. That's the story of Don Laub, a surgeon whose single-mindedness led to both triumph and tragedy.

The Greek poet Archilochus wrote that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This week, we'll use the metaphor of the fox and the hedgehog as a way to understand the ...

Everyday ethics: The fox, the hedgehog and lessons for today’s world An ancient myth has a lot to say for people in modern times.

But, no. Apparently, in the business world, the thing to be is a hedgehog. The argument is made, and seems to have been made first by Jim Collins in Harvard Business Review's December 2000-January ...

The 7th Century BCE Greek lyric poet, Archilochus, observed: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”1 Twenty-two centuries later, Erasmus transliterated Archilochus’s dictum ...

The hedgehog and the fox is also a good parable for social life today. The hedgehog social life, which is what I think I grew up with, is one in which you know a lot, and deeply, and intimately ...

The ancient Greek poet Archilochus of Paros wrote, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." According to a 1953 essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin, thinkers and leaders ...

Isaiah Berlin's original 1953 essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox, which revived the ancient Greek parable in the popular imagination. More poems and proverbs by the Greek poet Archilochus.

The fox knows many things while the hedgehog knows one big thing. Photo: Jeremy P. Gray The Greek poet Archilocus noticed this almost 3,000 years ago.