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In this Big Think+ preview, IBM’s VP of Marketing & Communications explains why companies shouldn’t fear their employees’ use of social media.

ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman explains why it’s important for women to maintain authenticity when communicating confidence in the workplace.

The former head of ABC News laments that scandals like the one at NBC undermine trust in the news industry. “Every time this happens, it takes away a little of the credibility of everybody in the news business,” he says.

In a Big Think interview, David Westin, who ran ABC News for 14 years, laid out the steps that NBC needs to take to keep Brian Williams at the anchor desk and recover from Choppergate.

Coca-Cola’s VP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains the two reasons why his company remains attractive to investors. First, its presence as a so-called “iconic brand.” Second, its proven ability to leverage its assets in new ways.

Business executive Jody Greenstone Miller believes Sheryl Sandberg missed the mark in her landmark 2013 book “Lean In.” It’s not a lack of ambition keeping women on the outside looking in, says Miller. It’s lack of time, as well as a lack of respect for varying time commitments.

The President & CEO of NPS Pharmaceuticals predicts tremendous growth for the pharmaceutical industry in the coming years as new cures and treatments are developed.

As a high-wire artist, Philippe Petit doesn’t have much room for mistakes. Still, he finds that mistakes are our best teachers and advises friends and students to treat them as such.

Intuition and improvisation are not opposites. They are cousins. One must take an intellectual approach to an adventurous exploration of the unknown.

High-wire artist Philippe Petit wasn’t just born with superior balance; it’s something he’s developed all his life and something he applies to all his life.

A marriage of discipline and play seems contradictory, but Philippe Petit thrives on being an extreme and contradictory artist.

Philippe Petit calls himself something of a Luddite. We live in a world in which we are slaves to our gadgets. His brand of art calls for a level of focus not possible when tethered to a device.

High-wire artist Philippe Petit explains how to practice creativity while sleeping.

High-wire artist Philippe Petit describes his process of compressing chaos in order to build a model for creative output.

How to you inspire people? How do you touch an audience? High-wire artist Philippe Petit explains the secret is to not try at all. Instead, be yourself.

High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who four decades ago performed illegally between the World Trade Center towers, explains how his personal brand of outlaw creativity can be harnessed to inspire and solve problems.

Innovation expert Michael Schrage explores the major questions that have risen from the recent Sony hack. He questions whether hacking and cyberattacks should be treated as mere misdemeanors or as more serious affronts to personal freedom.

People hate mathematics because they fear and don’t understand it. Mathematician Edward Frenkel envisions a world where that’s no longer an issue.

Money is one of the hardest things to talk about in a family. Bruce Feiler offers tips for how to facilitate financial conversation with your children.

Happy families play together. That’s the basis of why it’s important to travel together. Author Bruce Feiler walks through the best ways for families to explore their world without succumbing to stress.

All families fight — it’s just a fact of life. The highest functioning families are the ones that manage conflict best.

Research shows that eating together brings a family closer and helps children develop. The problem is many Americans don’t do it.

Happy families combat the stress of the modern age by always adapting. The system out of which this adaptation occurs is the weekly family meeting.

Author Bruce Feiler lists the three major family shifts of the past generation and explains how exploring these shifts led him to write his latest book.

Lawrence H. Summers leads a six-part workshop on employing rational, data-driven thinking to make complex decisions.

Author and entrepreneur Andrew Keen argues that the free business model employed by Google and Facebook is “the original sin” of the Internet and that it’s corrupted everything around it.

Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk explores his field’s long, complex, and stubborn history with traumatic experiences.

Kip Tindell, CEO of the Container Store, explains the secret to maintaining honor and integrity while also being a top-notch salesperson.

Elon Musk is the ambitious founder and CEO of SpaceX, a private company that has won more launch contracts than anyone else in the launch business. In this lesson excerpt, Musk explains his approach to innovation in the space race. The full lesson, available on Big Think+, offers strategies for identifying an industry worthy of disruption.

Composer Peter Baumann examines the mind’s overzealous thirst for information and how anyone can calm their attention.