Julius Caesar conquered Gaul but his emotional intelligence was pitiful — and there’s plenty we can learn from his leadership deficiencies.

What 150-year-old Japanese workshop Kaikado can teach us about finding calm through focus in an age of distraction.

Great companies are built on intention, not instinct. Music mogul and entrepreneur Steve Stoute, often called “the CEO other CEOs turn to for advice,” shares what it takes to become a strong leader.

In this excerpt from Flourish, Daniel Coyle shares how stillness, presence, and attention help people build meaningful connections.

Timeless guidance on communication, time management, creativity, and more from some of today’s most influential thinkers.

Practical guidance for navigating AI’s role in modern learning organizations.

"In the process of mapping the heavens, it doesn't take long to realize the data problem they generated."

Too many rich and prominent people turn out to be egotistical jerks: Brad Stulberg argues for a more grounded path towards excellence.

"The process of systematizing, correcting errors, finding approximations, and making them work as civil systems that was what really drove me to start looking at human calculation and what was the foundation that it laid for the modern computer age."

Labels help your brain make sense of a complex world, but when self-attached, those same labels can convince you that you're unable to grow.

AI will shape the future of work, but human leadership will decide whether that future is good — and happiness should be the touchstone.

Three virtues every good leader must develop.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

The deep study of friction and surfaces — so crucial to industrial manufacture — emerged from a mid-century engineering conference.

AI may be rewriting “how” we work — but not “why” we work. And this has profound implications for leadership.

Tech leaders may have backed Trump in 2024, but the majority of the community still leans left — and has a big opportunity ahead.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work.

Practical lessons from a year of building leadership frameworks, programs, and partnerships.

In an age of polycrisis, argues leadership coach Lisa Bennett, we should spend less time trying to save the world — and focus on savoring it instead.