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Tiffani Bova emphasizes that fostering employee satisfaction is crucial for enhancing customer experience, advocating for the integration of customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) to achieve predictable growth.
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Marketing professor Jonah Berger emphasizes that understanding linguistics can enhance our communication skills, enabling us to fit in, persuade, engage, and positively influence others, especially with the aid of advanced language analysis tools and his SPEACC Framework.
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Gary Vaynerchuk, known as Gary Vee, challenges the notion that professional success must be a choice between financial gain and positive impact, emphasizing that caring for customers and employees can be central to entrepreneurship and legacy-building.
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Acclaimed actor and director Jesse Eisenberg, who understands job-related anxiety, advocates for channeling these emotions toward desired outcomes, sharing methods from his diverse film industry experience to help manage fear, foster community in leadership, and pursue goals authentically.
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This class, featuring insights from Michael Strahan and Ginni Rometty, emphasizes learning from failure, building resilience through relationships, and fostering a growth mindset, ultimately equipping participants with strategies to thrive amidst uncertainty and embrace personal and professional growth.
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Join Dan Pontefract, TELUS's "Chief Envisioner," in a masterclass on fostering employee engagement and leadership through his Collaborative Leader Action Model, a 6-step process emphasizing human connection and purpose in the workplace.
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Led by experts like Peter Diamandis and Jane McGonigal, this class teaches participants to harness innovation and creativity through clear goal-setting, a challenge mindset, and the effective use of deadlines, fostering a culture of productivity and empowerment.
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This class teaches the vital role of managing professional relationships and networks for career success, emphasizing trust, strategic connections, and effective communication, as highlighted by experts like Linda Hill, Nicholas Christakis, Adam Grant, and General Stanley McChrystal.
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This class teaches participants to actively engineer professional networks for career development, offering strategies from experts like Christakis, Hidary, and Grant to build meaningful connections, leverage social dynamics, and foster mutually beneficial relationships.
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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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Alexis Ohanian didn’t treat his relationships with the media as purely transactional — and his star rose in spectacular fashion.
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Brian Gumbel — President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr — explores the cutting edge of real-time information analysis.
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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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Even when leaders know disruption is a smart ­long-term decision, the pain of transition can produce a titanic shambles. Just ask Kodak.
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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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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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“If you ask a computer, it will say, most of the time you want to either be raising or folding, right? You want to take an aggressive action or quit. I think this is a great metaphor for lots of things in real life, too.”
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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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The latest "Superman" film sets Metropolis in the First State.
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MIT Sloan’s Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer outline their tried-and-tested solution for stubborn workflow blockages.
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Venture capitalist and Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake talks to Big Think about why AI won’t make the internet better, her influences beyond tech, and more.
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Fund manager and writer John Candeto is on a mission to decode the hidden patterns that drive extraordinary outcomes.
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The host of the Founders podcast joins Big Think for a chat about success, obsession, business genius, human nature, and more.
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To navigate a heavyweight corporate quandary, take a leaf out of Intel’s brilliant playbook — walk out, and return as your own successor.
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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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Why talent alone isn’t enough to achieve your goals.
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“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”
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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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The investment advisor and host of the Talking Billions podcast explores childhood curiosity, building networks through kindness, and more.
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The UNILAD founder followed a rocky road to success — and his 2023 ADHD diagnosis proved revelatory.