DE&I has come under fire — but our leaders should still embed allyship deep within company culture. Here’s a plan.
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The Vision
Smarter leadership
Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”
Mike Hodgkinson is the Commissioning Editor at Big Think and Freethink, and the Editor of Big Think Business. His writing has appeared in The Independent, The Guardian, the Los Angeles[…]
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 Culture
Better management, better teams
DE&I has come under fire — but our leaders should still embed allyship deep within company culture. Here’s a plan.
Yetunde Hofmann is author of Beyond Engagement and founder of the Solaris Executive Leadership Development Academy.
When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
Jeff Wetzler is the co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization, and an expert in learning and human potential. He combines unique leadership experiences spanning more than 25 years in business[…]
Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
Philip Coggan is the former writer of the “Bartleby” and “Buttonwood” columns for The Economist. His books include The Money Machine, The Economist Guide to Hedge Funds, Surviving the Daily Grind, and More.
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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