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The Vision
Smarter leadership
Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
Barry Conchie is the founder and president of Conchie Associates, with expertise in psychometric talent assessments, leadership research and development, team building, and succession planning.
We can address the misalignment between the current leadership reality and traditional leadership practices with a simple formula.
Stephen Wyatt is founder and lead consultant at Corporate Rebirth and author of Antidote to the Crisis of Leadership: Opportunity in Complexity.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz is a partner and the Director of Research at investment firm Nightview Capital. A former investigative journalist, with bylines in The New Yorker, GQ, Fast Company, among other[…]
The Culture
Better management, better teams
When caught between the urge for wholesale change and fear of stasis, the best approach is to take it easy.
Ashley Goodall is a leadership expert who has spent two decades leading HR organizations at Deloitte and Cisco. He is the author of The Problem with Change.
“How is it possible to do work that you’re proud of and not feel like your job is encroaching on all parts of your life?” Cal Newport, Author of ‘Slow Productivity,’ explains.
Cal Newport is an MIT-trained computer science professor at Georgetown University who also writes about the intersections of technology, work, and the quest to find depth in an increasingly distracted[…]
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Cognitive systems famously posited by psychologist Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) may hold the key to a more productive and focused work environment.
Chris Griffiths is the founder and CEO of OpenGenius, a keynote speaker for organizations including NASA, Disney, and the United Nations, and the co-author of The Focus Fix: Finding Clarity, Creativity[…]
The Unlock
Breakthrough thinking
Some news is slow, some news is fast — and there are two simple techniques to help you filter both.
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,[…]
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz is a partner and the Director of Research at investment firm Nightview Capital. A former investigative journalist, with bylines in The New Yorker, GQ, Fast Company, among other[…]
Unraveling the subtle mechanics of luck can help us better steer the wheel of fortune.
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
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz is a partner and the Director of Research at investment firm Nightview Capital. A former investigative journalist, with bylines in The New Yorker, GQ, Fast Company, among other[…]
Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, explains how to find branding success by making “boulders” out of “pebbles.”
Evidence shows that “centaurs” — human–AI teaming — produce better performance than either people or software can achieve alone.
Jeremy Kahn is an award-winning journalist. He covers artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies for Fortune magazine.
The Learning Curve
Strategies for a smarter work-life
A simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”
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[…]
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
Our desire for recognition at work can lead to perilous ends.
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