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Discover top ideas and strategies from today’s leading business voices.

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Taking the floor is all about connecting authentically with your audience. Here’s how.
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Former Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh revitalized the brand with a visionary innovation plan.
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Smart CEOs can harness authenticity and humanity on socials — but one slip can spell disaster. Here’s a strategic plan.
Nobody likes the uneasy feeling of being watched — so can there be any workplace benefit to the all-seeing eye?
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DE&I has come under fire — but our leaders should still embed allyship deep within company culture. Here’s a plan.
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When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
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Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
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Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”
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Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
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We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
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Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
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30 years ago Jim VandeHei — co-founder and CEO of Axios — got leadership feedback all wrong. Now, he has the ideal blueprint so you can get it right.
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Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
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Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn't a good thing — it's a denial of opportunity.
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Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
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Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.
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The ability to toggle between abstract and concrete thinking is a key differentiator of high-potential leaders.
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Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem "there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." He had a point.
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A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.
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It’s not enough just to stay current and competitive with AI — you’ll also need to build a long-term strategy.