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Discover top ideas and strategies from today’s leading business voices.

A person wearing glasses and a denim jacket works on a laptop at a table in a cafe. Several other individuals, including both humans and AI enthusiasts, are seated and engaged in different activities in the background.
The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.
It's a proclivity that sometimes leads to internal conflicts and high turnover.
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Former Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Chip Bergh revitalized the brand with a visionary innovation plan.
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Smart CEOs can harness authenticity and humanity on socials — but one slip can spell disaster. Here’s a strategic plan.
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DE&I has come under fire — but our leaders should still embed allyship deep within company culture. Here’s a plan.
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When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
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Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
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Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”
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Beef production is largely responsible for greenhouse gas emissions from the food system.
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Poor research can be worse than no research at all.
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Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
A painting of a mythological figure driving a chariot pulled by two white horses through the clouds, draped in a flowing red fabric, symbolizing executive ego.
We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
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30 years ago Jim VandeHei — co-founder and CEO of Axios — got leadership feedback all wrong. Now, he has the ideal blueprint so you can get it right.
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Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
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Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online.
View of a cityscape through a large glass window framed by steel beams, showcasing high-rise buildings burdened with debt under an overcast sky.
Consumer debt shapes American lives so thoroughly that it seems eternal and immortal, but it’s actually relatively new to the financial world.
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Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.
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Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
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The ability to toggle between abstract and concrete thinking is a key differentiator of high-potential leaders.