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Cities and organizations alike risk becoming highly efficient — but indistinguishable — unless leaders actively preserve space for imagination and deviation.
This is how Darktrace successfully trained 75% of their global managers across 20 cohorts in under 2 years.
To bring the best out of your teams, don’t flex like Maximus — lean into a “helpful fight” instead.
Time blocking is a remarkable technique for ensuring your daily actions are guided forward by your overarching goals and intentions. Here’s how to supercharge it.
The greatest companies navigate change at speed and make it stick at scale. Here’s how IBM started that journey in 2012.
How to foster a workplace environment where employees want to be present, rather than feel forced to be there.
Aristotle taught that “knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” — all leaders and teams should take note.
Harvard Kennedy School professor and author Arthur C. Brooks guides us through the give-and-take of feedback — even when it is negative.
If you want the best shot at long-term success, it can pay to supplement hot-shots with seasoned industry veterans.
Having a vision isn’t enough to be an effective leader.
Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Ben Horowitz thought that “blowing sunshine” was the right way to handle pressure — here’s how he corrected his mistake.
Want to know how to handle work-life pressure? Big Think asked Warfare co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza.
The cofounder of Hyrox — one of the fastest-growing global brands in fitness — puts his snowballing success through a proper Big Think workout.
Warren Buffett famously noted that Berkshire Hathaway would “never depend on the kindness of strangers to stay in business.” Startups take note.
Steve Jobs once quipped that Apple's professional managers "knew how to manage, but they didn't know how to do anything."
From “job crafting” to questioning our preconceived ideas about work, there are many ways to fight burnout and disengagement.
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.
Rebuilding the NFL franchise in the early 2020s echoed the corporate overhauls that had transformed Boeing and Ford.
Major League Baseball and Ivy League research confirm that tackling well-being is hard work — but well worth the effort.
Restaurateur Will Guidara explains why it’s not just what you do, but how you make people feel that leads to successful ventures.
Your teams need authentic caregiving, not an insincere plan to merely check all of the well-being boxes.
Daniel Goleman: Why emotional intelligence may be the number one indicator of organizational success
Today’s technology presents unique challenges for social awareness and relationship management at work, making emotional intelligence all the more critical.
If you have any sort of power for any reasonable length of time, you will be changed by it — awareness of the effects is crucial.
The truly talented are those who got to where they are despite preconceived expectations.
Cal Newport explains how you and your teams can accomplish more while improving quality and supercharging workplace morale.
Semyon Dukach — founding partner of VC firm One Way Ventures — adds balance to the founder mode debate.
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
After almost a century in print, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" still has lessons to teach us.