Accountability

Accountability

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"I think it's about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages."
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Don’t become one of those organizations that slouches toward positive behavioral change — here’s how to move fast.
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The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.
In post-Soviet nations where ministers have a relatively high BMI, corruption tends to be high, too.
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The psychology of people who cut off all communication—and how that affects their partners.
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Leaders ideally intertwine their own success with that of their teams — if that’s not the case at your workplace, here’s what to do.
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This supremely simple hack can help you establish good habits, break bad ones, and guard against failure.
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If you have any sort of power for any reasonable length of time, you will be changed by it — awareness of the effects is crucial.
A group of five people stands in front of a brown van, channeling their inner Richard Feynman. The background features a wall adorned with lush plants, setting the perfect scene for these everyday heroes.
One of the 20th century's most famous, influential, and successful physicists is lauded the world over. But Feynman is no hero to me.
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In some organizations “founder mode” can become synonymous with over-reliance. Here’s how to avoid the pitfalls of “apparent irreplaceability.”
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If “founder mode” runs its course, CEOs should cultivate a new skillset rooted in the authenticity of self-awareness.
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The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.
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Why do we tip waitstaff and cabdrivers but not flight attendants and retail clerks?
Two men wearing glasses walk side by side outdoors in a sunlit park, with blurred greenery and other people in the background, discussing recent incidents of romance fraud.
Cecilie Fjellhøy, from the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, shares her experience.
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Anne-Marie Rosser — CEO of creative agency VSA Partners — shares her cross-generational vision for a new brand of leadership.
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There's value to be found in the arguments that make you uncomfortable — especially in a culture that has trained us to avoid them.
A man sits at a control panel with knobs and buttons, wearing a headset, looking at a screen displaying abstract, distorted wavy patterns—the antidote for leaders in navigating complex data.
We can address the misalignment between the current leadership reality and traditional leadership practices with a simple formula.
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Famed activist Bayard Rustin constantly faced the dilemma of coordinating collective pursuits among diverse groups of people.
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Have we evolved to understand multiple rejections on Bumble, or survive more than one ghosting from Tinder? Christine Emba explores the sociology of modern dating and how to make them more ethical.
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Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.
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More accurate uncertainty estimates could help users decide about how and when to use machine-learning models in the real world.
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Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
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What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
An open processor is connected by circuit lines to a black chess piece, with binary code in the background, symbolizing the intersection of technology and strategy, where every move could deceive even the sharpest minds.
"If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception."
Einstein with his class of students in 1896
There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.
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A researcher weighs in on who’s accountable, when and why, in the eyes of the law — and whether the measures work as intended.
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Should social media platforms have the right to decide what speech to allow online? Should the government?
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You can’t lead if you can’t listen.
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A reader asks whether we have an ethical responsibility to always debate bad beliefs, especially those that come from our elders.