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8mins
How the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media mogul learned from his struggles, and why he believes accountability is the real secret to happiness.
Unlikely Collaborators
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Honing your skills as a strategic thinker does more than solve problems as they appear; it can be a fast track to the top.
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Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.
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Networking — not zombie-crunching your job applications — gives you a better chance of getting sourced or referred for a role.
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The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."
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Adam Bryant makes a key observation about rising to the challenges of leadership — and your change-resistant former self won’t like it.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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The latest from Peter Leyden's "The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050", an essay series published by Freethink.
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We manipulate constantly — but few of us want to be called “manipulative.” Here, ex-Google executive Jenny Wood redefines an unfairly maligned trait.
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OpenAI has become a household name in artificial intelligence — but back in 2018 things looked very rocky. Here’s what happened.
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Professor of leadership Michael D. Watkins identifies ways high-performing teams can be sabotaged — and offers simple fixes for each.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Tech expert Peter Leyden argues that we have a historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world over the next 25 years.
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The nature of “the mind” is always vast and clear no matter how swamped by information we feel — and leaders can learn to embrace this space.
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Investor Guy Spier joins Big Think for a chat about the “Oracle of Omaha,” generative AI, what confuses him, and more.
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6mins
"You need to run towards the pain and darkness and not away from it. I think the best leaders always run towards the darkness. They always run towards a problem."
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The founder of gourmet fast food juggernauts Pret and Itsu unpacks the meaning of success and what really inspires him.
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Jono Hey — whose sketches have been shared by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Bartlett — draws some of his most valued leadership insights.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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We need more science fiction-inspired thinking in how we approach AI research, argues AI expert Gary Marcus.