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

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When Google runs a smart city, who owns the data?
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Rich is brilliant at his job. He completes work in half the time of his coworkers. Should he have to sit at his desk just as long?
Boardroom veteran David Roche offers key strategies that can lay the groundwork for CEO success.
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"Stargate" could be used to train the world’s most powerful AIs.
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Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
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The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
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The old certainties of “business as usual” have been crushed by disruption — here's a strategy for resilience.
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Why most billionaires aren’t geniuses and most geniuses aren’t billionaires, explained by political scientist Brian Klaas.
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According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
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On the morning of April 20, 1961, all conditions were "go" for an attempt at free flight. A man was on standby with a fire extinguisher. Just in case.
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Sam Smith — founder and former CEO of finnCap Group — argues that a culture of empathy will help superscale any business.
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During the industrial era the cost of artificial light fell off a cliff — and the road to illumination was paved with ingenuity and slaughter.
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Marketing expert Jonah Berger explains how simple tweaks to your word use can have a huge impact on team communication.
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Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.
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For human-centered leadership to achieve a “tipping point," people, productivity, and profits must be aligned.
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Big Think talks to Konrad Feldman — founder of advertising tech innovator Quantcast.
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Ditch the old brain vs. heart assumptions, and instead think about a heart-led brain.
A college education currently provides roughly a 10% rate of return, beating the long-term performance of equities.
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Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.