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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.
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.
How would you feel about working like a Lutheran or a Cistercian?
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
The former Nintendo president has become synonymous with the backlash against layoffs — because, like a great leader, he focused on lifting people.
Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!
At work we're often asked to be decisive — but how can we make an informed choice without complete information?
We were not born to stagnate — the point of life (and work) is to go somewhere.
If the daily grind feels like Sartre's phony act of "bad faith," Heidegger's sense of "being" can help redefine your role.
How will we actually feel when the things we do with care are suddenly dealt with in seconds by AI? Here’s a preliminary plan.
A more diverse workforce will produce better solutions in fast-changing markets.
Want to get ahead at work? It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it — and adaptability is essential.
AI can deliver a more equitable and prosperous future — if accompanied by ethical and responsible stewardship.
When you own your career, work becomes more than a means to an end — it becomes a vehicle for growth and happiness.