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In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.
The rapid crash of Nokia was triggered when key information gatekeepers became bottlenecks. Here’s the key lesson.
Want to know how to handle work-life pressure? Big Think asked Warfare co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza.
The cofounder of Hyrox — one of the fastest-growing global brands in fitness — puts his snowballing success through a proper Big Think workout.
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.
Networking — not zombie-crunching your job applications — gives you a better chance of getting sourced or referred for a role.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Professor of leadership Michael D. Watkins identifies ways high-performing teams can be sabotaged — and offers simple fixes for each.
Groundbreaking invention does not always translate to commercial benefits. The challenges that faced Microsoft Research help explain why.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Neuroscientist and author Anne-Laure Le Cunff discusses the lasting benefits of uncertainty, curiosity, and the experimental mindset.
Magicians use “change blindness” to delight audiences — and you can use it to become an excellent colleague.
Nobody likes a micromanager but if you push too hard in the other direction things could get much worse. Here’s how to reset the balance.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Stockholm has been called a “unicorn factory” for its success with new businesses. A unique connection with sports philosophy helps explain why.
Professional sport is a hotbed of “performance anxiety” — and to start managing pressure in all settings, we need to properly define it.
The legendary investor explains the transformative Objectives and Key Results goal-setting framework with an imaginary Super Bowl strategy.
Whether it’s LeBron’s shooting patterns or your corporate AI strategy, actionable insights are the key to turning data into meaningful results.
Tennis pro Mardy Fish and Spanx founder Sara Blakely both turned failure into their greatest asset.
The story of how the world high jump record was smashed in 1968 contains golden lessons for business and innovation.
Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.
By designing smart systems, we can help ourselves live up to our best intentions — and perform even better in our workplaces.
When Star Trek’s Captain Picard and The Office’s Dwight Schrute channel philosopher Karl Jaspers, we can all benefit.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.
Confronting your “absolute stupidity” is a sign you’re on course to learning something new and wonderful.
Don’t become one of those organizations that slouches toward positive behavioral change — here’s how to move fast.
We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.