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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.
We manipulate constantly — but few of us want to be called “manipulative.” Here, ex-Google executive Jenny Wood redefines an unfairly maligned trait.
Professor of leadership Michael D. Watkins identifies ways high-performing teams can be sabotaged — and offers simple fixes for each.
Jono Hey — whose sketches have been shared by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Bartlett — draws some of his most valued leadership insights.
While death-bed utterances are more famous, baby’s first words have influenced us too.
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.
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.
Rebuilding the NFL franchise in the early 2020s echoed the corporate overhauls that had transformed Boeing and Ford.
Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.
You’re a moody person. You have to be — because understanding moods philosophically can be crucial to your work-life.
Don’t become one of those organizations that slouches toward positive behavioral change — here’s how to move fast.
Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, warns us to be mindful of the incentives surrounding misinformation — including our desire to believe it.
We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.
Leaders ideally intertwine their own success with that of their teams — if that’s not the case at your workplace, here’s what to do.
Sure, “who you know” matters — but your best contacts will be the ones you don’t know very well.
Do you always act professionally in the workplace? Depends what you mean by “professional.”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The multifaceted nature of company culture is what makes it so challenging — this guide will help you make sense of the complexity.
Anne-Marie Rosser — CEO of creative agency VSA Partners — shares her cross-generational vision for a new brand of leadership.
The findings show that even small areas in the brain may have the potential to represent complex meanings.
It’s hard to know what other people know. But it’s not impossible.
In the brain’s language-processing centers, some cells respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words together.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
We spend over a third of our lives at work, yet the global workplace is often not a happy place. The solution may lie with our feelings of attachment.
There’s value to be found in the arguments that make you uncomfortable — especially in a culture that has trained us to avoid them.