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Roberto Diaz, former first chair of the National Symphony Orchestra, explains how exactly you go about bringing 80 to 100 musicians together in one synchronized, improvisational team.
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All organizations make mistakes. The economist Tim Harford argues that organizations need to create a culture where these mistakes are revealed, exposed and corrected as soon as possible.
This 30-second spot was produced by Rick Perry’s campaign to run in Iowa in advance of the Iowa Caucus. The spot went viral on Youtube.
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Confidence is a mark of intuitive thinking regardless of whether intuitive thinking is expert intuitive thinking or heuristic intuitive thinking.
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Important aspects of how we live today will shock the consciences of those who look back on us, says Summers, just as we are shocked by the consciences of those […]
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“One of the problems with promotions is that we promote people based on outcomes, not about the quality of their decisions,” says Ariely.
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Harvard Professor Lisa New describes how Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables speaks to classic American responses to economic crisis.
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In this selection from his Floating University lecture, Dr. Jeffrey Brenzel presents five takeaways from reading the classics.
In this amazing video, aerial acrobat and dare devil Yves Rossy jumps from a helicopter and flies over the Swiss Alps using a jet pack. Rossy then joins two jets […]
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Economist and Author Daniel Altman explains why middlemen are thriving in the global economy.
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Economist and Author Daniel Altman explains why middlemen are thriving in the global economy.
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The President of Human Capital at Mercer, a global consulting firm, discusses one of the most interesting findings of the firm’s international “Inside Employees’ Minds” survey.
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The whole process of how we design and create future generations is changing. Your grandchildren, maybe your children, maybe even you, are going to reproduce differently than your grandparents did.
This video depicts police at the University of California, Davis pepper-spraying seated protestors.
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In this selection from his Floating University lecture, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Essential Value of a Classic Education,” Jeffrey Brenzel, Philosopher and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at […]
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In this selection from his Floating University lecture, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Essential Value of a Classic Education,” Jeffrey Brenzel, Philosopher and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at […]