Leadership Development

Leadership Development

How to get employees to engage in learning programs.
Most L&D pros assume attention comes with the job title. Marketers wake up every day convinced they have to earn it. That gap explains a lot.
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This is how Darktrace successfully trained 75% of their global managers across 20 cohorts in under 2 years.
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Your real competitive edge isn’t how smart you are — it’s how quickly you can reinvent yourself when the rules change.
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Liz Tran makes the case for a new kind of intelligence that addresses our ability to handle today’s ever-fluctuating challenges: AQ.
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A practical blueprint for developing leaders through systems, not sessions.
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Practical lessons from a year of building leadership frameworks, programs, and partnerships.
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What 158 L&D leaders told us about the future of leadership development.
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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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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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A playbook for L&D leaders who want to drive growth, not just deliver training
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Jono Hey — whose sketches have been shared by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Bartlett — draws some of his most valued leadership insights.
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AI, anxiety, and emotional intelligence are on learners' minds as they prepare to tackle the new year.
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Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.
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Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
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"Amid the chaos, he remembered his life being eerily calm as he knew it wasn’t if, but when they would be hacked to pieces. He just kept kicking."
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It's hard to know what other people know. But it's not impossible.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
New research from Big Think+ shows that leaders crave more feedback on their leadership and management skills.
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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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A simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”
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Half a century ago, idealistic punks shook a fist at the status quo — and their legacy is a blueprint for modern leadership.
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The mindless implementation of AI tools can come at a cost for our teams. Here are some red flags and solutions.
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In a guest essay for Big Think Business, Pedro Franceschi — co-founder and co-CEO of Brex — explains why deftly navigating between vision and details is crucial for successful leaders.
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“Feedback is a gift,” is an easy bumper sticker to apply, but a harder philosophy to put into execution in your real life.
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Every successful leader can mine golden knowledge from the works of the Bard.
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How Stacy Madison — founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips and BeBOLD Foods — discovered that reinvention is not a one-off deal but an ongoing process.
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Many capabilities contribute to effective change leadership, but four stand out as vitally important at a macro level.