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Business
The essential skill to master across life and business
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
Happy? Take “psychological ownership” of your job
We spend over a third of our lives at work, yet the global workplace is often not a happy place. The solution may lie with our feelings of attachment.
Sara Daw
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Smart Skills
Why hardwired “power laws” hold the secret to better work
From hunter-gathers to desk jockeys, we work best when short, intense sessions are followed by lighter fare.
Mithu Storoni
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Business
Why it pays to treat competitors with “genuine camaraderie”
Why Bob Stiller — founder and former CEO of billion-dollar beverage company Green Mountain Coffee Roasters — believes shared learnings are a win-win.
Bob Stiller
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Business
10 life lessons from four decades in the market
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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The Big Think Interview
London Business School professor explains how to improve your critical inquiry skills
“People will claim that something is rigorous because it's by an authority figure or it's written in a book. But anyone can write a book.”
Alex Edmans
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The Learning Curve
“Hopeful skepticism”: The cure for cynicism and how to apply it
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki discusses the dangers of cynicism and how skepticism can invigorate our relationships and communities.
Kevin Dickinson
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Business
Why great leaders know that “control is an illusion”
How to find the right balance between controlling teams and allowing them the agency to make mistakes — and learn from them.
Hans-Werner Kaas
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Business
Athlete vs. grandmaster: The psychology of decision-making
How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
Robbie Mochrie
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The Long Game
Business “immortality” and the art of focus
In a world of distractions, several remarkable companies show why focus is the ultimate strategy for endurance.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
Why “unlearning” is your best slayer of “zombie leadership”
By unlearning old leadership mindsets, cultures, and assumptions we can move from Industrial Age thinking to Intelligence Age thinking.
Terence Mauri
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Business
Leadership essentials: “Inspire, motivate, and cultivate”
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
Mike Hodgkinson
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Business
The “Peter Principle”: Why most companies are filled with people out of their depth
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
Jonny Thomson
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Business
The unconventional philosophy behind “founder mode”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
5 ways to escape “survival mode” and reduce stress at work
These practical strategies can help you conquer burnout and achieve a state of calm and focused productivity.
Karden Rabin
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Neuropsych
Are you a workaholic? How to spot the signs
In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.
Chris Woolston
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Business
The trillion-dollar AI race to create “Digital God”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
How to “day trade” attention: 5 key digital branding strategies
Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, explains how to find branding success by making "boulders" out of "pebbles."
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Business
What JFK learned about leadership from a NASA janitor
Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
Barry Conchie
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The Long Game
The golden strategy of stacked “marginal gains”
For extraordinary long-term success in business we can look to insights from British Olympic cycling, Roger Federer and neuroeconomics.
Eric Markowitz
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