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Be a Leader of People, Not Numbers
In our virtual, global world, leaders must figure out how to forge personal relationships with their employees even if they are on the other side of the globe. -
How Women Lead Differently Than Men
Successful female leaders tend to act like role models, inspiring and encouraging others. These qualities are make them better suited as leaders of the organizations we've developed in the modern world. -
Chess Life
The first African-American grandmaster traces his obsession with chess to a high school friend who kept crushing him at the game. -
Staying Sane in the Heart of Darkness
In order to respect herself and to keep hold of her sanity, Betancourt refused to follow her guards' orders. When you’re obliged to do things you don’t want to do, your identity is at stake—you can lose yourself, she says.
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How to Become More Creative
about 8 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? First, stop searching for the creativity formula. When Steve Jobs was designing Pixar's office space, the computer graphics company he founded between gigs at Apple, he wanted to locate the building's only bathrooms in a center atrium, forcing people to interact ... Read More
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Sleepy or Drunk? You're Ready to Problem Solve!
about 9 hours ago
What's the Latest Development? In a scientific study, college students were asked to solve a brain teaser early in the morning and late at night to measure problem solving abilities relative to alertness levels. Prior to answering the riddle, most students self-identified as night owls, implying ... Read More
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Simon Doonan's Fashion Tips For Mad Scientists
9 days ago
The hilarious swami of style and fashion egalitarian Simon Doonan, author of Gay Men Don't Get Fat, offers some efficient guidelines to personal style for the mad scientist whose mind is on loftier things. Read More
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Life's Too Short: How to Read the Right Books
9 days ago
Let’s say you’re in the top fifth percentile of avid readers, tearing through a book a week on average. With such literary gusto raising your sails, you might feel like the entire world is an open book to browse at your leisure. But in actuality, you will hardly scratch the surface of available ... Read More
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How To Make Your Performance Review Truly Useful
28 days ago
Most career-oriented managers approach their annual performance reviews hoping to get useful feedback about what they need to do to increase their chances of getting promoted. But more often than not, they come away dissatisfied, feeling the feedback was inadequate. Even high-performers with top ... Read More
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Your Storytelling Brain
29 days ago
The left hemisphere of the brain is always trying to make sense of past thoughts and experiences. Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga ponders our need to hear and tell coherent stories about ourselves. Read More
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Do You Have the Moral Compass of a Toddler?
about 1 month ago
What's the Big Idea? Are we born with a sense of morality? Or is ethical awareness something we arrive at only as we age? Like nature versus nurture, this is a question so loaded it's become a philosophical exercise as much as a basis for scientific inquiry. In his Floating University lecture ... Read More
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Pinsky: "Americans Are Not Just Gluttonous Dupes." What's Your Favorite Poem?
about 1 month ago
What's the Big Idea? As the United States Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Robert Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project, a program dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry's role in Americans' lives. Pinsky asks Americans to submit videos ... Read More
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Why Mozart Rocks So Hard. Artistic Genius Explained.
about 1 month ago
Editor's Note: Over the next 12 days, Big Think will be running excerpts from all the lessons that make up our first online course, Great Big Ideas. During this period, we are offering discounted subscriptions to Big Think readers. You can now subscribe and gift this course for $99. Please sign up ... Read More
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Václav Havel's Velvet Legacy
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? Timothy Garton Ash writes that the late Václav Havel, who oversaw his country's bumpy transition to democracy, was the epitome of a dissident, "because he persisted in this struggle, patiently, non-violently, with dignity and wit, not knowing when or even if the ... Read More
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Just Enough Adversity Breeds Resilience
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? A meta-analysis of studies of how traumatic events affect mental health found that the number of adverse experiences may determine whether we become better able to handle what life throws at us. Those who underwent no or few hardships, or many adversities ... Read More
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Getting Ahead by Leading Across
about 1 month ago
Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. (Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.) Carla was literally bred for success as a business ... Read More
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