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The Vision
Smarter leadership
How to find the right balance between controlling teams and allowing them the agency to make mistakes — and learn from them.
Hans-Werner Kaas is the co-dean of the CEO leadership program “The Bower Forum,” and a senior partner emeritus at McKinsey. He is the co-author of The Journey of Leadership.
By unlearning old leadership mindsets, cultures, and assumptions we can move from Industrial Age thinking to Intelligence Age thinking.
Terence Mauri is a global expert on leadership, AI, and disruption, founder of Hack Future Lab, and author of The Upside of Disruption.
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
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[…]
The Culture
Better management, better teams
These practical strategies can help you conquer burnout and achieve a state of calm and focused productivity.
Karden Rabin is the co-author of The Secret Language of the Body and co-founder of Somia International.
In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.
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.
The Unlock
Breakthrough thinking
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[…]
“People will claim that something is rigorous because it’s by an authority figure or it’s written in a book. But anyone can write a book.”
Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and[…]
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How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
Dr. Robbie Mochrie is an economics teacher, writer, and the author of How to Think Like an Economist.
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
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki discusses the dangers of cynicism and how skepticism can invigorate our relationships and communities.
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 simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
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