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A playbook for L&D leaders who want to drive growth, not just deliver training
Professor of leadership Michael D. Watkins identifies ways high-performing teams can be sabotaged — and offers simple fixes for each.
“I’d prefer to think about a different axis, which is, should government be more or less effective? Should government work faster or slower?”
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Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
DESI has allowed astronomers to create an unprecedented 3D map of the Universe representing 20% of the entire sky.
4 things you should consider before launching your next global learning program.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.
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Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
Generative AI is arriving fast — both overtly and covertly — and without solid L&D guidance leaders and teams will be hobbled, argues Matt Beane.
It’s 50% stronger than comparable materials used in aerospace.
The hunt for extraterrestrial life begins with planets like Earth. But our inhabited Earth once looked very different than Earth does today.
“The fear of panic has killed more people than most disasters themselves.”
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“The public really doesn’t realize that they are much closer to CIA spies than they think they are.”
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The outrageously accomplished magician-inventor-author chats to Big Think about fear, multitasking, and successful work-life reinvention.
Exoplanets can exist anywhere around their parent stars, even so close that they evaporate or disintegrate. Even the rocky ones.
This class emphasizes the importance of actively engineering professional networks to enhance career development. Instructors like Nicholas Christakis and Jack D. Hidary provide actionable strategies for building connections that align […]
If our Milky Way were located in the Virgo cluster instead of the Local Group, chances are we’d already be a “red and dead” galaxy.
Annie Duke, a poker champion turned decision scientist, talks with Big Think about how to choose well under uncertainty.
New research from Big Think+ sheds light on why employees can find the act of providing feedback to be intimidating, and how L&D can ease this fear by elevating feedback beyond pure evaluation.
Much like a muscle, providing effective feedback is an asset leaders can develop over time with focus, consistent effort and commitment.
Slack’s recent radical upskilling booster week highlighted the urgent need for new approaches to L&D: here are some of the most groundbreaking.
“Can we push these cells to do something other than what they normally do?” asks developmental biologist Michael Levin. “Can they build something completely different?”
LHC scientists just showed that spooky quantum entanglement applies to the highest-energy, shortest-lived particles of all: top quarks.
New research from Big Think+ shows that leaders crave more feedback on their leadership and management skills.
“The amount of interest is enormous,” says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. “People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this.”
The military is courting tech startups to help it win the AI arms race.
Rebuilding the NFL franchise in the early 2020s echoed the corporate overhauls that had transformed Boeing and Ford.
Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.