Leadership

Leadership

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Taking the floor is all about connecting authentically with your audience. Here’s how.
It's a proclivity that sometimes leads to internal conflicts and high turnover.
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Smart CEOs can harness authenticity and humanity on socials — but one slip can spell disaster. Here’s a strategic plan.
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DE&I has come under fire — but our leaders should still embed allyship deep within company culture. Here’s a plan.
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When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
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Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
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Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”
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“Masculinity” has become synonymous with “toxic.” Journalist Christine Emba explains how that happened, and how it can change.
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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.
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Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
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Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn't a good thing — it's a denial of opportunity.
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Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
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Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.
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Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
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The ability to toggle between abstract and concrete thinking is a key differentiator of high-potential leaders.
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Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem "there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." He had a point.
Boardroom veteran David Roche offers key strategies that can lay the groundwork for CEO success.
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When is a rabbit not a rabbit? When it's a thought experiment designed to reveal the tricky tango of language and concepts.
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Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
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The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
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The old certainties of “business as usual” have been crushed by disruption — here's a strategy for resilience.
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According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
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Sam Smith — founder and former CEO of finnCap Group — argues that a culture of empathy will help superscale any business.
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The challenges of setting out in a new direction can be overwhelming — but we can learn to navigate the inflection moments.
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Marketing expert Jonah Berger explains how simple tweaks to your word use can have a huge impact on team communication.
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For human-centered leadership to achieve a “tipping point," people, productivity, and profits must be aligned.
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A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
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Ditch the old brain vs. heart assumptions, and instead think about a heart-led brain.
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Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.