Economics & Work
Take it from Bezos, Musk, and Einstein — rethinking lines of inquiry can transform business, investing, and innovation strategy.
The successful tactics of big-name leaders — including Bob Iger, Mary Barra, and Satya Nadella — reveal key approaches to innovation.
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.
Businesses are realizing that rapid disruption without stability can lead to long-term failure. A new era of thoughtful, sustainable growth is emerging.
Studying why innovation clusters form can shed light on how to better promote research and growth.
Airbnb’s CBO, Dave Stephenson, joins Big Think for a chat about elite-team leadership, “founder mode,” the Taylor Swift effect, and more.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
College degree? Not so much. Employers want teams with a diverse skill set who can adapt to changing industry demands.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The co-founder of Wired magazine shares his insights on how a long-term mindset can shape a brighter, more innovative future.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Fun in business is no laughing matter — it can create a golden strategic advantage and bring serious success in the long term.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.
In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Evidence shows that “centaurs” — human–AI teaming — produce better performance than either people or software can achieve alone.
Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.
The best of all investor attributes is easily attained — and unbeatable in combination with other advantages.
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
Is there a force keeping humanity in check?
Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, explains how business leaders can navigate a future in constant flux.
The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.
Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
Consumer debt shapes American lives so thoroughly that it seems eternal and immortal, but it’s actually relatively new to the financial world.