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Four diversity training methods that actually work

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How to build a successful leadership development program

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

What would it take to create a great place to work for all? 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...

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

A top executive's guide to propelling your career forward 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 ...

6 Laws For Strategic Networking with Historian Niall Ferguson

6 laws for strategic networking 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

The Best Of The Best: Big Think Edge In 2020

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...

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

This year, ditch your career ladder for a career lattice! 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

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

Thought experiments: A surefire way to stretch your team's creativity 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

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

6 steps for building your innovation prototyping kit 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...