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[…]
Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.
Being a good leader requires emotional capital, which is one reason why many bosses are so bad at it.
When the going gets tough, nothing beats a wide network of tried-and-true connections.
As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power and a plate of cookies.” (Something like that.)
There is no sure-fire formula for success, but you can be better prepared to create your own.
You can’t control external threats, but you can manage how you prepare and respond to the risk.
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When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.
A five-year-old reading a picture book in her pillow fort. A college student and his friends at the midnight matinee. A ninety-year-old watching her soaps. What do they have in […]
Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]