Julius Caesar conquered Gaul but his emotional intelligence was pitiful — and there’s plenty we can learn from his leadership deficiencies.

Liz Tran makes the case for a new kind of intelligence that addresses our ability to handle today’s ever-fluctuating challenges: AQ.

Kaizen taught me that tiny, consistent changes can be more powerful than dramatic overhauls.

Many top performers start behind — and overtake the early leaders later.

The actor learned control, endurance, and focus on-set. Those lessons became the foundation of his real-world fight with addiction and self-hatred.

These cultural lies make normal struggle feel like failure. A habit of experimentation makes it feel like progress.

Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.

AI may be rewriting “how” we work — but not “why” we work. And this has profound implications for leadership.

Author Zack Kass argues that AI will not end work — it will expand it, pushing us toward new ways of creating, connecting, and adding value.

Time blocking is a remarkable technique for ensuring your daily actions are guided forward by your overarching goals and intentions. Here’s how to supercharge it.

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant emphasizes that while no one excels at a skill initially, effective leadership can uncover and nurture the untapped potential in team members through guidance and practice.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Media trailblazer Tim O’Reilly tells Big Think why AI requires "get yourself dirty" work — and warns us not to buy the hype.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

From Charles Schwab to Jensen Huang, great leaders never attribute their success to flawless planning — they point instead to what went wrong.

Kuang discusses the rituals, routines, and words of advice that have helped her write six best-selling novels in one decade.

Common law has long balanced innovation and accountability. Can it do the same for AI?

One of the many reasons I love my job is that, on any given week, I get to talk with a dozen or so smart, thoughtful L&D leaders to hear […]

In a world of fast answers, leadership shaped by suffering is radical — and transformative.

In this excerpt from "The First Eight," Congressman Jim Clyburn shares the story of Robert Smalls, the man whose audience with Lincoln may have saved the Union army.

We chat with Mark Klarzynski, founder of PEAK:AIO, on how his company became an international player in data storage for the age of AI.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

The plan — conquer China and push west to attack the Ottomans — was peak imperial hubris, as the Spanish themselves eventually realized.

Maybe — just don't expect a carbon copy.

“There would be something very, very empty and meaningless about [a] sort of life with no problems.”

Everywhere we turn, we’re surrounded by polished images of how life should look, and even though we know perfection isn’t real, this can leave us feeling stuck. In this class, Oliver Burkeman invites us to see through that illusion and embrace our limitations, revealing a more grounded path to productivity that actually works for real, imperfect people.

Why the most enduring organizations stop chasing trends and start designing systems that prioritize people over processes.

In most organizations, contradictions are treated as problems to be fixed. But what if they’re actually the point?

A preview of the latest novel by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author.