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01/28/2022

Management training can help increase employee retention and productivity. Here are a few questions to ask when searching for a program.

12/09/2021

Diversity training is easy to get wrong. Here are four research-backed methods to build an effective program.

12/08/2021

Leadership training can have huge dividends, when done right. Here are seven best practices.

11/15/2021

Introducing the all new, Big Think+.

With a diverse library of lessons from the world’s biggest thinkers, we’re helping organizations get smarter, faster. Check out our brand new look at BigThink.com/Plus and explore our premium learning solution for businesses.

02/18/2021

What Would It Take To Create A Great Place To Work For All? with Michael Bush

The business case for diversity and inclusion is overwhelming. We know that diverse teams benefit from increased productivity and a wider knowledge base. We know that varied perspectives help us source new ideas and generate creative solutions better than more uniform workplaces. And we know that co...

02/03/2021

A Top Executive’s Guide To Propelling Your Career Forward with Carol Sawdye, Chief Financial Officer at CAA and former Global COO at PwC.

It can sometimes feel like career progress is beyond your control. This can be especially acute if you are a young professional or entering a new industry. You’re too inexperienced, you believe, or not well enough connected yet. As a result, you decide to focus on career progress later. According ...

01/25/2021

6 Laws For Strategic Networking with Historian Niall Ferguson

History is not the story of great people directing the course of the world. It’s about networks. Sure, great people may have had an outsized pull on certain events. But men and women, no matter how influential, are simply nodes within the complex connections of society. History is the

01/14/2021

The Best Of The Best: Big Think Edge In 2020

For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a "best of" much. We don't need to repeat the reasons here; it's sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was only one of many difficulties facing the world last year. But among the crises and political turmoil, our shelter-in-place existences did fur...

01/11/2021

This Year, Ditch Your Career Ladder For A Career Lattice with Senior Economic Correspondent Neil Irwin!

The corporate word-stock suffers no shortage of overworked metaphors. We drill down to find low hanging fruit, and despite lots of moving parts obscuring our window of opportunity, we mustn’t drink the Kool-Aid

01/06/2021

Thought Experiments: A Surefire Way To Stretch Your Team’s Creativity with Philosopher Susan Schneider!

Quick! There’s a runaway train on the tracks. Some dastardly evildoer has knocked the driver out cold and tied five people to the tracks ahead. The train is barreling down on them, and unless something is done, they will be killed. You happen to be in the train yard standing next to

12/18/2020

6 Steps For Building Your Innovation Prototyping Kit with Luis Perez-Breva, PhD

Writers, filmmakers, and mythologizing biographers tend to imagine innovation originates with a lone genius who has “the spark,” that light-bulb moment when the path from inspiration to world-altering invention reveals itself. In reality, innovation is a team sport, one that's less a lightbulb m...