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Map of Europe showing various countries shaded in blue with percentages indicating approval ratings for joining the European Union. Notable figures: Ukraine 77%, UK 52%, Serbia 44%, Turkey 49%.
Strange Maps
A continental shift: EU membership grows in popularity (even in the UK)
Absence makes the heart (and public opinion) grow fonder.
Frank Jacobs
A book cover titled "Billionaire Nerd Saviour King" by Anupreeta Das, featuring a black-and-white photo of Bill Gates with green text overlay about the nerd founder's influence on the world.
Business
How Bill Gates cemented the folkloric status of the “nerd founder”
He peppers his sentences with words like “neat” and “cool,” he’s not great at working the room after dinner — oh, and he's a peerless visionary.
Anupreeta Das
A close-up illustration of a Play-Doh container with the words "Kutol" and "Wall" on it, symbolizing its lasting success. The background features text fragments and abstract patterns.
The Long Game
Why the “extremophyte mindset” is crucial to lasting success
Like ultra-hardy plants that thrive in harsh conditions, businesses that see crises as opportunities are likely to win in the long run.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
Why long-term vision and “fusion teams” are crucial to your AI strategy
Vijay Tella — CEO of enterprise orchestration unicorn Workato — joins Big Think Business for an exploration of our “agentic” future.
Mike Hodgkinson
A green die showing two and a gray die showing five are placed on a gray surface, perhaps hinting at a stroke of luck.
Business
How the “4 Types of Luck” can enrich your work-life
Unraveling the subtle mechanics of luck can help us better steer the wheel of fortune.
Jonny Thomson
Big Think+
Introducing Big Think+ Analytics: Real-time analytics for your learning programs
With our new Analytics feature, you can easily identify trends and success metrics to maximize your learning program’s effectiveness.
Cover of "The Nightcrawler" featuring a chart showing China's economic growth surpassing the rest of the world, with a pixelated face overlaid. Emphasizing second-level thinking, the "Et . business" logo is in the bottom right corner.
Business
The long-term benefits of “second-level” thinking
Welcome to the Big Think debut of The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
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Business
Why an “AI-first” business plan will produce stratospheric startups
In new business use cases where AI is the default, the potential results are phenomenal — but humans should play a key strategic role.
Caleb Briggs & Rex Briggs
A person in a suit stands on stage, gesturing with both hands while speaking into a headset microphone, passionately discussing direct giving in their presentation.
Business
Why we should end the fantasy of the “Turnaround CEO”
Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.
Rory Stewart
A smiling bald man is positioned in front of a collage featuring a large clock, a graph, and a timeline spanning from 2004 to 2010. The background is primarily yellow with various black and white elements, reflecting Horowitz hindsight at its finest.
Business
The hard thing about hindsight: Why looking back has its limits
Big Think asks startup legend and VC heavyweight Ben Horowitz to reflect on his bestseller "The Hard Thing About Hard Things."
Mike Hodgkinson
A collage image featuring a side profile of a person, abstract patterns, financial data, a cloudy sky, a person resting, another with head in hands—capturing the essence of freedom from hindsight bias—and a sunset over the ocean.
Business
How to free yourself from “hindsight bias”
Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic "The Personal MBA" — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.
Josh Kaufman
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Business
Trick of the brain on hindsight: Founders who think they’re heroes
Why the best entrepreneurs should be more Obi-Wan Kenobi than Luke Skywalker.
Mike Maples & Peter Ziebelman
Two elderly men in glasses smiling. One man wears a white shirt and the other a suit and tie. The background features a blue book cover titled "Business Adventures," symbolizing their connection through timeless business wisdom.
Business
Golden in hindsight: The timeless business book still dog-eared by great leaders
"Business Adventures" by John Brooks was first published in 1969 and remains a must-read for all CEOs.
Tim Cooper
A collage of four glitchy video stills featuring the same man with various dramatic expressions, overlaid with green and purple digital distortion effects. A play button icon rests in the center, hinting at the lessons of hindsight within.
Business
How a visionary dot-com leader was scorched by hindsight’s afterburn
The rise and fall of Josh Harris — the genius who anticipated the digital revolution just a little too soon.
Jonny Thomson
A pair of hands appears to be gently tossing a baseball, reminiscent of Moneyball strategy. The image, accented with a yellow glow around the baseball, features a modern, abstract black and white design with an AI-inspired touch.
Business
Moneyball on steroids: Can AI grant us 20/20 foresight?
Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.
Kevin Dickinson
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Business
Timeless influencer? Why Dale Carnegie has not been axed by hindsight
After almost a century in print, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" still has lessons to teach us.
Kevin Dickinson
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Business
5 ways leaders can solve the “hindsight dilemma”
Four startup founders explain how to derive lessons from the past while still looking ahead to what’s possible.
Kevin Dickinson
Illustration of a rocket with a blue circle logo crashing into the ground, resembling the Quibi crash, with financial chart elements in the background.
Business
How hindsight might have saved Quibi from gold-plated debacle
Quibi was so focused on foresight they forgot the basics of hindsight.
Jonny Thomson
A man in a suit and bowler hat sits on a large turtle, holding reins attached to the turtle's head, symbolizing a steady change in pace.
Business
How to handle disruption the slow and steady way
When caught between the urge for wholesale change and fear of stasis, the best approach is to take it easy.
Ashley Goodall
Three Masai men, dressed in traditional attire and adorned with beaded jewelry, gather around a smartphone in an outdoor setting.
The Present
2.6 billion people don’t use the internet. What’s stopping them?
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?
Kristin Houser
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