leadership
Fun in business is no laughing matter — it can create a golden strategic advantage and bring serious success in the long term.
Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.
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We spend over a third of our lives at work, yet the global workplace is often not a happy place. The solution may lie with our feelings of attachment.
Why Bob Stiller — founder and former CEO of billion-dollar beverage company Green Mountain Coffee Roasters — believes shared learnings are a win-win.
“We’re acting more like fans of a football team going to a game than a banker carefully choosing investments.”
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How to find the right balance between controlling teams and allowing them the agency to make mistakes — and learn from them.
In a world of distractions, several remarkable companies show why focus is the ultimate strategy for endurance.
By unlearning old leadership mindsets, cultures, and assumptions we can move from Industrial Age thinking to Intelligence Age thinking.
Benjamin Oakes — CEO of buzz-worthy biotech company Scribe Therapeutics — joins Big Think for a chat about innovation, human endeavor, and more.
Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?
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Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.
For extraordinary long-term success in business we can look to insights from British Olympic cycling, Roger Federer and neuroeconomics.
We can address the misalignment between the current leadership reality and traditional leadership practices with a simple formula.
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New research from Big Think+ shows that leaders crave more feedback on their leadership and management skills.
Jeremy Johnson — co-founder of the talent network Andela — reflects on leadership in the age of remote work and AI.
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He peppers his sentences with words like “neat” and “cool,” he’s not great at working the room after dinner — oh, and he’s a peerless visionary.
Like ultra-hardy plants that thrive in harsh conditions, businesses that see crises as opportunities are likely to win in the long run.
Vijay Tella — CEO of enterprise orchestration unicorn Workato — joins Big Think Business for an exploration of our “agentic” future.
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In new business use cases where AI is the default, the potential results are phenomenal — but humans should play a key strategic role.
Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.
Quibi was so focused on foresight they forgot the basics of hindsight.
Four startup founders explain how to derive lessons from the past while still looking ahead to what’s possible.
After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.
Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.