Spotify’s Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

Adam Bryant makes a key observation about rising to the challenges of leadership — and your change-resistant former self won’t like it.

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Professor of leadership Michael D. Watkins identifies ways high-performing teams can be sabotaged — and offers simple fixes for each.

Investor Guy Spier joins Big Think for a chat about the “Oracle of Omaha,” generative AI, what confuses him, and more.

“You need to run towards the pain and darkness and not away from it. I think the best leaders always run towards the darkness. They always run towards a problem.”

The founder of gourmet fast food juggernauts Pret and Itsu unpacks the meaning of success and what really inspires him.

Jono Hey — whose sketches have been shared by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Bartlett — draws some of his most valued leadership insights.

You got your promotion — but managing the pressure inherent to your elevated role is now a crucial part of your job.

The road to “uncaged leadership” means reimagining your professional identity and value. Here’s how.

A re-evaluation of how we perceive introverts in leadership is long overdue. Here are the compelling reasons why.

Steve Jobs once quipped that Apple’s professional managers “knew how to manage, but they didn’t know how to do anything.”

AI, anxiety, and emotional intelligence are on learners’ minds as they prepare to tackle the new year.

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.

Embedding any leadership philosophy in sports demands a selective and multi-disciplinary approach.

George Raveling — the iconic leader who brought Michael Jordan to Nike — shares with Big Think a lifetime of priceless wisdom learned at the crossroads of sports and business.

Webflow CEO Linda Tong tells Big Think how her lifelong love of sports has guided her ascent to the C-Suite.

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

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

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

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

If you have any sort of power for any reasonable length of time, you will be changed by it — awareness of the effects is crucial.

Startup success can often hinge on a key lesson derived from behavioral science … and Jerry Seinfeld’s “Night Guy vs. Morning Guy” routine.

In some organizations “founder mode” can become synonymous with over-reliance. Here’s how to avoid the pitfalls of “apparent irreplaceability.”

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If “founder mode” runs its course, CEOs should cultivate a new skillset rooted in the authenticity of self-awareness.

Airbnb’s CBO, Dave Stephenson, joins Big Think for a chat about elite-team leadership, “founder mode,” the Taylor Swift effect, and more.

Semyon Dukach — founding partner of VC firm One Way Ventures — adds balance to the founder mode debate.

Anne Chow, former CEO of AT&T Business, lays out a new approach to inclusive leadership that takes “thinking bigger” to the next level.