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Every organization has a power block of dutiful but unappreciated talent. Here’s an effective plan for engagement.
Brad Deutser is President and CEO of the Deutser consultancy. He is the author of Leading Clarity: The Breakthrough Strategy to Unleash People, Profit, and Performance and Belonging Rules: Five Crucial Actions that Build[…]
When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.
Lucy Parker is a corporate advisor and former BBC documentary maker. In government, she led the UK Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Talent and Enterprise.
Huge shifts in the workforce demand real-world changes in management practices; “command-and-control” no longer cuts it.
Elizabeth J. Altman is Associate Professor of Management at the Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is coauthor of The Innovator’s Guide to Growth and Workforce Ecosystems.
The Culture
Better management, better teams
Get rid of the notion that the best employees come from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
Liz Elting is the founder and CEO of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, and founder of TransPerfect, the world’s largest language solutions company. She is the author of Dream Big and[…]
Talent wants to be free — but a safe company culture puts “the maze in the mouse” and shackles progress.
Behnam Tabrizi is the author of Going on Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation. He has been teaching “Leading Organizational Transformation” at Stanford University’s Department of Management Science and[…]
When a whoopsie-daisy just won’t cut it.
Kevin Dickinson is the Learning Curve columnist at Big Think and Big Think+, which focuses on the intersection between education, psychology, and science. He holds a master’s in English and[…]
The Unlock
Breakthrough thinking
Defamiliarization is a common tool in the arts. Here we learn how seeing things from a different angle can lead to billion-dollar success.
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed,” advised Stoic philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had a point.
Wendy Leshgold is the president and co-founder of the Fast Forward Group, a professional development and executive coaching company, and the co-author of Fast Forward.
How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.
Tiago Forte is one of the world’s foremost experts on productivity. He has taught more than 20,000 people worldwide through his programs and writes and speaks on how technology can[…]
The Transformation
Integrate technology faster
We used to think, “That email isn’t going to write itself.” But now it can, thanks to AI. And there’s so much more, from coding to marketing.
Your organization won’t become a “data democracy” organically — shared knowledge is key.
Barbara H. Wixom is Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR), faculty director for the MIT Sloan online short course Data Monetization Strategy,[…]
A “stakehodler” has both a voice and a vote, an economic interest in how each network stewards important global resources.
Alex Tapscott is a writer, speaker, investor, and advisor. He is the co-author (with his father Don Tapscott) of Blockchain Revolution and the author of Web3.
The Learning Curve
Strategies for a smarter work-life
In work and life, the rules of success are being redefined.
Kevin Dickinson is the Learning Curve columnist at Big Think and Big Think+, which focuses on the intersection between education, psychology, and science. He holds a master’s in English and[…]
When a whoopsie-daisy just won’t cut it.
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