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Fun in business is no laughing matter — it can create a golden strategic advantage and bring serious success in the long term.
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Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.
Aerial view of a car parking with proximity sensors activated, showing red and green signals indicating object detection around the vehicle.
Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.
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How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
A labeled diagram of a human head's profile showcases areas of the brain related to career, self-esteem, conscientiousness, integrity, ambition, and more personality traits that help individuals work happy.
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.
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Why Bob Stiller — founder and former CEO of billion-dollar beverage company Green Mountain Coffee Roasters — believes shared learnings are a win-win.
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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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How to find the right balance between controlling teams and allowing them the agency to make mistakes — and learn from them.
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In a world of distractions, several remarkable companies show why focus is the ultimate strategy for endurance.
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By unlearning old leadership mindsets, cultures, and assumptions we can move from Industrial Age thinking to Intelligence Age thinking.
Film strip collage of abstract images—including faces with X marks, colorful patterns, and nature elements—evokes the vibrant allure of "Crazy Rich Asians.
"No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before."
A group of vintage uniformed men, some wearing helmets, appear startled or curious while standing in what seems to be an office setting. The man on the left is speaking into a telephone, possibly exemplifying the Peter Principle as he manages the unexpected situation.
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
A collage of clock faces—one depicting cavemen, another showing hands typing on a laptop, and a blank clock—symbolizes the hyperefficient evolution of work over time.
These practical strategies can help you conquer burnout and achieve a state of calm and focused productivity.
A high-rise office building at night with one illuminated corner office visible amidst the darkened windows, a lone workaholic burning the midnight oil.
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.
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Just eight of Etched’s Sohu chips could replace 160 Nvidia GPUs.
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Philosophy cures no disease and invents nothing new. What's even the point?
A hand holds a tablet displaying a fluctuating green stock market graph, capturing the attention of day traders with its dynamic curves and axis lines in the background.
Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, explains how to find branding success by making "boulders" out of "pebbles."
A silhouette of a person using a metal detector merges seamlessly with a large, centered image of JFK's face against a gradient blue background, symbolizing leadership and discovery.
Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
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For extraordinary long-term success in business we can look to insights from British Olympic cycling, Roger Federer and neuroeconomics.
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.
A person in glasses using a computer is repeated four times on the left, showcasing the intensity of the first pro gamer, while two video game screenshots are featured on the right side of the image. Pink neon lines are superimposed over the scenes.
Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.
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Some news is slow, some news is fast — and there are two simple techniques to help you filter both.
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In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
New research from Big Think+ shows that leaders crave more feedback on their leadership and management skills.
A silhouette of an archer centaur stands poised over a background of binary code, symbolizing the rise of more AI jobs.
Evidence shows that “centaurs” — human–AI teaming — produce better performance than either people or software can achieve alone.
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Jeremy Johnson — co-founder of the talent network Andela — reflects on leadership in the age of remote work and AI.
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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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A simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”