All Videos — March 17, 2011

Advice to Leaders During Crises

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Leaders under pressure—be it from financial crisis or nuclear disaster—often fall prey to the same mistakes. What can Japan’s leadership learn from blunders made during the Great Recession?

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Collage showing a man in a suit with a briefcase floating, silhouettes crossing a street, and a signpost against a colorful sky, symbolizing leadership and direction.

Business

5 ways for leaders to evolve with the modern workforce

Anne-Marie Rosser — CEO of creative agency VSA Partners — shares her cross-generational vision for a new brand of leadership.

Two scenes: Top shows climbers on an ice-covered terrain, embodying fun and success. Bottom captures an airplane in flight against a clear sky.

The Long Game

Play it again: The causal link between fun and resilience

Fun in business is no laughing matter — it can create a golden strategic advantage and bring serious success in the long term.

An illustration showing a side view of a human brain with colored dots representing neurons and text excerpts in three languages in circular insets.

Neuropsych

Scientists find neurons that process language on different timescales

In the brain’s language-processing centers, some cells respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words together.

Starts With A Bang

Why we’ll never shoot Earth’s garbage into the Sun

It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it’s a losing strategy for elimination.

A pole with numerous traffic lights mounted in different directions creates an illusion of control against a clear sky background.

Business

Why great leaders know that “control is an illusion”

How to find the right balance between controlling teams and allowing them the agency to make mistakes — and learn from them.

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Guest Thinkers

American Sample Audience Mistake Aljazeera English TV For CNN!

With thanks to Alex Weprin who on March 17, 2011 filed a fascinating report based on a study which has been posted in the journal Arab Media & Society. The […]