3 Takeaways features insights from the world’s best thinkers, business leaders, writers, politicians, scientists and other newsmakers. Each episode ends with 3 key takeaways to help you understand the world in new ways that can benefit your life and career. Hosted by Lynn Thoman.
259 episodes transcribedHiding what we really think can have devastating social consequences, and helps explain the rise of Donald Trump, why Harvey Weinstein got away with i...
Countless people knew what Harvey Weinstein, Elizabeth Holmes, and the Catholic Church were doing – but remained silent. Why do good people allow the...
Our brains run the show and determine how we relate to the world. Discoveries from the front lines of neuroscience show our brains are creators (as op...
Why will tech and automation never lead to the demise of human work? What qualifies as “good” work? What role will robots and AI play in the fast-appr...
It’s counter-intuitive but true: letting go of being a good person is key to becoming a better one, and often times it starts with acknowledging our u...
Harvard economics professor and former IMF Chief Economist Ken Rogoff is one of the world’s preeminent economic thinkers. Here he brilliantly dissects...
Learn how scarcity of anything - money, food or social connections - affects our daily lives and leads us astray. Scarcity reduces both intelligence a...
Lawrence Bacow, President of Harvard University, shares how he sees the future of education and the values he leads by at Harvard. Learn the role of u...
Of the 10,000 business plans Bill Sahlman has read, only 3 companies met their plan. Find out what it takes to succeed. Entrepreneurs have to be real...
The deck is still stacked against women in the workplace. Learn how some women dramatically defy the odds, and what both men and women can learn from...
Technology is advancing at exponential speed, and humanity is having serious trouble keeping up. Azeem Azhar, a tech seer who has founded and sold fou...
He’s been called “a successor to Einstein.” Here you’ll see why, as physicist Brian Greene offers profound insights into our place in the universe, ho...
Current debates over climate change are focused almost entirely on reducing emissions - which is something we should do - but we also need to answer t...
Did you know that by asking better questions, you get better answers and better results from negotiations, as well as conversations? Learn what the 2...
Your entire life is an open book of information collected by tech companies. According to Tom Wheeler, former head of the Federal Communications Commi...
Being a leader of any organization today may be more difficult than ever. What enables some leaders to thrive while others fail? What are some of the...
How can we reduce or neutralize unconscious bias? It’s a critical question these days – especially with DEI in mind – answered by an expert: Iris Bohn...
“Education runs on lies. That’s probably not what you’d expect from a former Secretary of Education, but it’s the truth.” Arne Duncan exposes the lies...
The research is in, and it shows that a large part of being successful is understanding how to form the right habits. In fact, forming habits can be m...
Steve Jobs once said that the biggest innovations in the 21st century would be at the intersection of biology and technology. Nature offers tantalizin...
