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

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.
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When Google runs a smart city, who owns the data?
Woman wearing pixelated sunglasses sits at a desk, with graphic overlays of a line graph demonstrating workplace equality, classical figures in discussion, and a clock indicating 2 o'clock.
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.