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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Psychologist Bob Sutton encourages leaders and teams to identify the different forms of friction — and reclaim time that would be lost to organizational drag.
Nobody likes a micromanager but if you push too hard in the other direction things could get much worse. Here’s how to reset the balance.
What we can all learn about the journey from sporting arena to workplace — and how Aristotle can guide our thinking.
Performance psychology reveals the mental techniques elite athletes use to build and maintain their confidence.
Stockholm has been called a “unicorn factory” for its success with new businesses. A unique connection with sports philosophy helps explain why.
The legendary investor explains the transformative Objectives and Key Results goal-setting framework with an imaginary Super Bowl strategy.
Embedding any leadership philosophy in sports demands a selective and multi-disciplinary approach.
George Raveling — the iconic leader who brought Michael Jordan to Nike — shares with Big Think a lifetime of priceless wisdom learned at the crossroads of sports and business.
Tennis pro Mardy Fish and Spanx founder Sara Blakely both turned failure into their greatest asset.
Webflow CEO Linda Tong tells Big Think how her lifelong love of sports has guided her ascent to the C-Suite.
Rebuilding the NFL franchise in the early 2020s echoed the corporate overhauls that had transformed Boeing and Ford.
How choosing Stoic acceptance — not dour resignation — galvanized great leaders from Thomas Edison to Phil Jackson and Tony Hawk.
Major League Baseball and Ivy League research confirm that tackling well-being is hard work — but well worth the effort.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Restaurateur Will Guidara explains why it’s not just what you do, but how you make people feel that leads to successful ventures.
Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank highlights an AI-powered pathway towards more productive and more creative teams.
An alternative vision of the future of work for senior executives might hold a solution to relentless workplace stress.
Your teams need authentic caregiving, not an insincere plan to merely check all of the well-being boxes.
An authentic career strategy built around sustainability involves embedding these key principles into all jobs, argues Marilyn Waite.
Resilience isn’t just about pain and perseverance — it’s about embracing the journey.
When Star Trek's Captain Picard and The Office's Dwight Schrute channel philosopher Karl Jaspers, we can all benefit.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Temple Grandin's story reveals how embracing neurodiversity can lead to groundbreaking innovations and more successful teams.
Don’t become one of those organizations that slouches toward positive behavioral change — here’s how to move fast.
Playing the long game in Japan is about creating something so enduring that it becomes timeless.
Women bring new and innovative ways of exercising power to the table, argues Gaia van der Esch. All business teams will benefit.
Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the USA in the space race. Then one critical event changed everything.
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“Self-awareness, it's the least visible part of emotional intelligence, but we find in our research that people low in self-awareness are unable to develop strengths very well in other parts of emotional intelligence.”
The Wharton School professor — and author of Co-Intelligence — outlines ways we can tap into the AI advantage safely and effectively.