Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
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The Vision
Smarter leadership
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
Steve Dennis is a strategy consultant, board advisor, and the author of Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption and Remarkable Retail: How to Win and Keep[…]
Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.
Joe Davis is a Managing Director and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group. He is the author of The Generous Leader: 7 Ways to Give of Yourself for Everyone’s[…]
The ability to toggle between abstract and concrete thinking is a key differentiator of high-potential leaders.
Donna is a lifelong learner with 30+ years of experience in leadership and organization development, talent management, and workforce diversity. She’s been fortunate to work across an eclectic array of[…]
The Culture
Better management, better teams
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.
Jim VandeHei is the co-founder and CEO of Axios, co-author of Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less, and author of Just the Good Stuff. Before Axios, VandeHei[…]
Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
David Oxley is the co-author of A Career Carol, with a background in management consultancy and corporate restructuring.
Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
Kevin Dickinson is a staff writer and columnist at Big Think. His writing focuses on the intersection between education, psychology, business, and science. He holds a master’s in English and[…]
The Unlock
Breakthrough thinking
Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn’t a good thing — it’s a denial of opportunity.
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem “there’s no success like failure, and failure’s no success at all.” He had a point.
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
The Transformation
Integrate technology faster
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
Maureen Dunne is a cognitive scientist, neurodiversity expert, global keynote speaker, board director, and business leader. She co-created the executive education program for business leaders on “Future-Ready Leadership” at the Harvard Kennedy[…]
The technology is not a replacement for human labor — it’s a way to complement existing human tasks.
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
The Learning Curve
Strategies for a smarter work-life
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
Kevin Dickinson is a staff writer and columnist at Big Think. His writing focuses on the intersection between education, psychology, business, and science. He holds a master’s in English and[…]
A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
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