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Shark Tank investor Barbara Corcoran shares her strategies for hiring managers and salespeople. Her latest book is Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
Adam Bryant, the author of Quick and Nimble and the “Corner Office” columnist at The New York Times, on the critical importance of workplace culture.
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Ken Auletta on how the future of television will be free of commercial interruptions, which benefits writers and viewers alike.
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Former President of Slovenia Danilo Türk discusses the importance of cultivating creativity in the classroom.
Dr. Michio Kaku returns to Big Think studios to discuss his latest book, The Future of the Mind. Here he explains the remarkable advances in brain imaging.
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Former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou discusses participatory citizenship, democracy, and experiments in Wikilaw.
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Dr. Steven Masley explains how healthy diets need to be tasty too.
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Steve Mesler discusses how his mentoring program, Classroom Champions, brings star athletes into classrooms by using technology.
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Economic theorist and author Jeremy Rifkin explains his concept of The Internet of Things. Rifkin’s latest book is The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, […]
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Science can give patients regenerated organs in the next five years or so. Matthew Putman, Founder and CEO of Nanotronics Imaging, on the political will needed to make this a […]
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Dr. Edward Slingerland on “wu wei,” the Confucians and the Daoists’ key to political and spiritual success.
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Douglas Stone, a Managing Partner at Triad Consulting Group and a Lecturer at Harvard Law School, on the importance of feedback in business. Stone is the co-author of “Thanks for […]
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Sheila Heen, a Partner at Triad Consulting Group and a lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, explains the psychology behind feedback and criticism. Heen is co-author of “Thanks for […]
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The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta on the future of online original content.
Michio Kaku on why robots make better astronauts than humans.
How shifts in education can help students meet the challenges of today.
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Dino Varkey, Group Executive Director & Board Member of GEMS Education, on why governments can’t solve the education crisis alone.
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Philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away, on what Plato would think of technology today.
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Efrat Peled, of Arison Investments, on how her company’s sustainability projects are tailored to meet local needs.