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Sure, “who you know” matters — but your best contacts will be the ones you don’t know very well.
Storytelling skills are not just for entertainment — practical exercises used by the cream of Hollywood can transform your work-life.
The truly talented are those who got to where they are despite preconceived expectations.
If “founder mode” runs its course, CEOs should cultivate a new skillset rooted in the authenticity of self-awareness.
Airbnb’s CBO, Dave Stephenson, joins Big Think for a chat about elite-team leadership, "founder mode," the Taylor Swift effect, and more.
Want to get ahead? The best leaders are always humble, proactive and — above all — curious, advises Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota.
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.
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
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.
Unraveling the subtle mechanics of luck can help us better steer the wheel of fortune.
The Danish philosopher's simple paradox — living forwards while looking backwards — can be translated into golden business insights.
Chip Conley — founder and CEO of JDV Hospitality and Airbnb’s former Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy — maps out an inclusive path from hindsight to wisdom.
David Novak — the cofounder, and former CEO and chairman, of Yum! Brands — celebrates the benefits of active, lifelong learning.
You will need determination, humility, and courage if you are to master anything.
How to make sure our formative tendencies don't derail us from being the great leaders we are trying to become.
It's good to be a wallflower. But sometimes, you need to show yourself off a bit.
Yushiro Kato — the 32-year-old co-founder and CEO of manufacturing platform CADDi — offers his most valuable leadership learnings.
Redemption is the journey towards becoming a better person. It's the story of human life.
Why Netflix adopted the “No Brilliant Asshole” rule — and how to make sure bullies don’t destroy teams.
The benefits of learning with guidance are clear — but the expert and the novice must have a shared understanding of the goal.
Without authenticity, curiosity, and risk-taking we get stuck in the mud — here’s how to make space for resilient progress.
Big Think interviews Angie Westbrock, CEO of Standard AI, to learn the secrets of adapting to the winds of change.
Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
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.
Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn't a good thing — it's a denial of opportunity.
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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Dr. Temple Grandin shares how we can unlock the hidden gifts of neurodivergent minds.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
Sam Smith — founder and former CEO of finnCap Group — argues that a culture of empathy will help superscale any business.