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Two men pose for a formal portrait; one wears a dark shirt and the other a suit and tie, set against a patterned background evocative of Alex Garland’s visual style, divided into green, gray, and blue sections.
Business
The Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza interview: “As a team, you can accomplish anything”
Want to know how to handle work-life pressure? Big Think asked Warfare co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza.
Tim Brinkhof
A person in a suit holds a red mask boldly in front of their face, symbolizing the leap to leader, while another mask partially conceals their true identity.
Business
Becoming a leader: Is “killing your old self” a good idea?
Adam Bryant makes a key observation about rising to the challenges of leadership — and your change-resistant former self won’t like it.
Adam Bryant
Collaged image with a Buddha statue, newspapers on finance, and text "The Nightcrawler" against a grid background. Featuring stock market graph details, it embodies the concept of mujo—impermanence—in the ever-changing financial landscape.
Business
Investing in an impermanent world: Lessons from mujō
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
A collage features a tennis player and a basketball player against a backdrop of financial charts, graphs, and mathematical equations on a checkered pattern.
Business
Athlete vs. grandmaster: The psychology of decision-making
How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
Robbie Mochrie
A detailed black and white illustration of a porcupine is centered on a worn paper background with a green border.
Business
How the “porcupine dilemma” teaches us to cooperate like champions at work
Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.
Jonny Thomson
The Harvard crest displayed on a black background in the Ivy League.
Business
The case against hiring people from Ivy League schools
Get rid of the notion that the best employees come from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
Liz Elting
competency framework
Big Think+
5 best practices for developing a competency framework
A competency framework is a way to align individual performance with organizational goals. Read on to learn how.
Giovanna Acosta
Neuropsych
The “Gold-Silver-Bronze” psychological model that elite athletes use to succeed
What can elite athletes teach you about how to win?
Jonny Thomson
Two men look at a laptop in front of a blackboard.
Smart Skills
What is tactical empathy and how can it help in negotiations at work?
And what if both parties are skilled at mirroring each other? Will it produce a stalemate?
Anne Quito
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