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Leaders: Your well-being fix should be your highest priority

Major League Baseball and Ivy League research confirm that tackling well-being is hard work — but well worth the effort.

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Are you an “accidental manager”? Take these 4 crucial steps

Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.

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The rising value of in-person connection

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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How the 3 pillars of “unreasonable hospitality” can transform any business

Restaurateur Will Guidara explains why it’s not just what you do, but how you make people feel that leads to successful ventures.

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5 ways AI can create stronger teams

Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank highlights an AI-powered pathway towards more productive and more creative teams.

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We can’t “de-bias” our brains but we can change our systems

By designing smart systems, we can help ourselves live up to our best intentions — and perform even better in our workplaces.

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5 reasons “fractional leadership” is the antidote to leader burnout

An alternative vision of the future of work for senior executives might hold a solution to relentless workplace stress.

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Investing in the next generation of AI

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Why AI for business means a revolution in efficiency

Philosopher and author Christopher DiCarlo outlines the key areas where AI continues to reshape the labor landscape.

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Well-being masterclass: How to avoid the pitfalls of company “carewashing”

Your teams need authentic caregiving, not an insincere plan to merely check all of the well-being boxes.

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Why leaders should ride the “SURF Framework” for sustainability

An authentic career strategy built around sustainability involves embedding these key principles into all jobs, argues Marilyn Waite.

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The inside story of NVIDIA

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Why “human-AI symbiosis” is essential for business and society

An approach based on collaboration and empathy can place “connection with people” at the heart of AI’s purpose.

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Why the medium is still the message

Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.

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3 ways “limit situations” can help you prepare for the worst

When Star Trek’s Captain Picard and The Office’s Dwight Schrute channel philosopher Karl Jaspers, we can all benefit.

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Sam Altman: The superintelligent robots are coming

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Why great communicators listen to the music of “The Five Ps”

Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.

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Why 2025 will take us closer to the “Turing horizon”

Chetan Dube — founder and CEO of Quant — tells Big Think why a pivotal and monumental year for agentic AI has just begun.

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How to embrace “psychological magic” to be more creative

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Great minds don’t think alike: The business case for neurodiversity

Temple Grandin’s story reveals how embracing neurodiversity can lead to groundbreaking innovations and more successful teams.

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Heidegger’s “mood theory” explains why you do anything at all

You’re a moody person. You have to be — because understanding moods philosophically can be crucial to your work-life.

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How to build something that lasts

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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5 ways to rapidly improve your company culture

Don’t become one of those organizations that slouches toward positive behavioral change — here’s how to move fast.

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10 lessons I learned in 2024

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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5 ways women are redefining leadership

Women bring new and innovative ways of exercising power to the table, argues Gaia van der Esch. All business teams will benefit.

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Go grudge-free: Use the “Weil method” to deal with insults

We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.

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Inside Google’s quantum computing breakthrough

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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The key to techno-scientific progress? “Bubbles”

From tulips to Bitcoin, bubbles have been given a bad rap as destroyers of dreams — but they’re essential for our brightest future. Here’s why.

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What long-term investors can learn from John Keats

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

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Ethan Mollick’s 4 guiding principles for leading with AI

The Wharton School professor — and author of Co-Intelligence — outlines ways we can tap into the AI advantage safely and effectively.