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“It is natural to want to avoid failure. But when we avoid failure, we also avoid discovery and accomplishment."
The cofounder and CEO of red-hot billing platform Metronome unpacks his leadership journey.
From “crave” packs to Valentine bookings, the world’s first fast-food hamburger chain values innovation from every level of the organization.
Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Ben Horowitz thought that “blowing sunshine” was the right way to handle pressure — here’s how he corrected his mistake.
In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.
The rapid crash of Nokia was triggered when key information gatekeepers became bottlenecks. Here’s the key lesson.
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.
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
Honing your skills as a strategic thinker does more than solve problems as they appear; it can be a fast track to the top.
Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.
Networking — not zombie-crunching your job applications — gives you a better chance of getting sourced or referred for a role.
Professor of leadership Michael D. Watkins identifies ways high-performing teams can be sabotaged — and offers simple fixes for each.
When plans fall apart, adaptability can build something better.
Groundbreaking invention does not always translate to commercial benefits. The challenges that faced Microsoft Research help explain why.
Neuroscientist and author Anne-Laure Le Cunff discusses the lasting benefits of uncertainty, curiosity, and the experimental mindset.
A brief guide to habits that separate deep understanding from superficial knowledge — and how to cultivate them.
Magicians use “change blindness” to delight audiences — and you can use it to become an excellent colleague.
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.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The legendary investor explains the transformative Objectives and Key Results goal-setting framework with an imaginary Super Bowl strategy.
Whether it’s LeBron's shooting patterns or your corporate AI strategy, actionable insights are the key to turning data into meaningful results.
Tennis pro Mardy Fish and Spanx founder Sara Blakely both turned failure into their greatest asset.
The story of how the world high jump record was smashed in 1968 contains golden lessons for business and innovation.
When Star Trek's Captain Picard and The Office's Dwight Schrute channel philosopher Karl Jaspers, we can all benefit.
Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
Temple Grandin's story reveals how embracing neurodiversity can lead to groundbreaking innovations and more successful teams.
It's simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here's both how it works and how to use it.
Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.
Confronting your "absolute stupidity" is a sign you're on course to learning something new and wonderful.