In lieu of the May book review, below is the transcript from my TEDxPadova presentation, "Wired to be Social: Finding the 'We' in an iWorld".

My life has been much about numbers and statistics. I have multiple degrees in mathematics, statistics, econometrics, and economics. I even threw in a law degree just for fun. My father was absolutely convinced I was going to be a professional student. But I surprised him a little and became both a professor and an entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, 

I learned the hard way that people matter far more than numbers. As a mathematician, I was curious as to whether we could use numbers and statistics to better understand people skills -- particularly the skills that allow us to lead and to be led.

So we put together a Team, created a Lab, and started to work with leading anthropologists, biologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Our goal was to see if we could find a better way to measure, assess, and develop those people skills. I am here to share with you what I learned on that incredible journey.

The first thing I learned -- something that most of you already know:

A course on leadership does not make you a leader.

It clearly takes something more. In looking for that something more, we learned that:

A person's barriers to leadership are typically the very same barriers they face in being the person they would truly like to be - amongst friends, in the family, community, and in other social groups.

Let me give you a sense of what I mean:

How many of you believe you are below average in terms of your ability to drive a car?.....

As you can see, there are only a few hands. Studies show that about 97 percent of us believe we are above average. Of course, this contradicts what I learned from statistics...