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Leaders across industries can learn from Pope Leo XIV’s balanced perspective.

“It’s not like we can’t enter a new area and hit a home run, but there’s just a far, far lower chance of that happening.”

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In this bonus episode of our series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” a healthcare economist must make critical decisions with partial information.

On this episode of The Insightful Leader: when Fuyao Glass opened a U.S. factory, it underestimated the importance of translating company culture.

Need some extra motivation to reach your fitness goals? Anthropomorphizing objects can help, new research shows.

For the most part, yes! And the more we look, the better we get.

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New research challenges the long-held belief that unconscious attitudes are set in stone.

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While increasing bonuses and commission rates might seem like a good idea, doing so can inadvertently harm the quality of an organization’s workforce.

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But there’s little common ground in the research that Republicans and Democrats cite.

Donald Trump speaks to a crowd.

The administration hopes to bring back manufacturing and reduce trade deficits. But renegotiating trade may damage global trust in the U.S.

After the Biden administration’s broader approach to regulating competition, expect more-targeted enforcement in the years ahead.

The effect of peer influence “raises some interesting and potentially troubling questions about the nature of expertise and decision-making.”

On this (rerun) episode of The Insightful Leader: You can’t always control what happens at work. But reframing setbacks, and instituting some serious calendar discipline, can go a long way toward reducing stress. 

As companies innovate, the resulting complexity makes further growth more challenging.

Regardless of their political ideology, people are less likely to follow back users from certain racial groups.

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While many view the internet as the death knell of local print journalism, the unraveling started decades earlier—with the rise of television.

From freelancers to independent contractors, people who rely on temporary work are less likely to get loans and achieve life milestones.

A former Fortune 500 CEO offers advice on arguably the most difficult career transition in business.

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When discussing business strategy, leaders should leave room for new voices, who could spur the next big idea.

Take the backroad to a B2B business model by stimulating demand from the bottom up.

On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we’ll discuss how these movies can help us navigate conflict and tackle power dynamics.

Be yourself! No, not like that. On this (rerun) episode of The Insightful Leader, we help you navigate the competing advice about how much to share and hold back.

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