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Professional sport is a hotbed of “performance anxiety” — and to start managing pressure in all settings, we need to properly define it.
The legendary investor explains the transformative Objectives and Key Results goal-setting framework with an imaginary Super Bowl strategy.
Whether it’s LeBron’s shooting patterns or your corporate AI strategy, actionable insights are the key to turning data into meaningful results.
Tennis pro Mardy Fish and Spanx founder Sara Blakely both turned failure into their greatest asset.
The story of how the world high jump record was smashed in 1968 contains golden lessons for business and innovation.
Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.
By designing smart systems, we can help ourselves live up to our best intentions — and perform even better in our workplaces.
When Star Trek’s Captain Picard and The Office’s Dwight Schrute channel philosopher Karl Jaspers, we can all benefit.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.
Confronting your “absolute stupidity” is a sign you’re on course to learning something new and wonderful.
Don’t become one of those organizations that slouches toward positive behavioral change — here’s how to move fast.
We have it in our power to forgive a debt — and learning to use this power in the workplace can be golden.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Leaders ideally intertwine their own success with that of their teams — if that’s not the case at your workplace, here’s what to do.
This supremely simple hack can help you establish good habits, break bad ones, and guard against failure.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Storytelling skills are not just for entertainment — practical exercises used by the cream of Hollywood can transform your work-life.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Cal Newport explains how you and your teams can accomplish more while improving quality and supercharging workplace morale.
Take it from Bezos, Musk, and Einstein — rethinking lines of inquiry can transform business, investing, and innovation strategy.
The successful tactics of big-name leaders — including Bob Iger, Mary Barra, and Satya Nadella — reveal key approaches to innovation.
Do you always act professionally in the workplace? Depends what you mean by “professional.”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.
Airbnb’s CBO, Dave Stephenson, joins Big Think for a chat about elite-team leadership, “founder mode,” the Taylor Swift effect, and more.
Don’t make the mistake of blindly following quantitative metrics — whether you’re helping clients or looking for lunch.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.