Shane Snow

Shane Snow Shane Snow is an award-winning entrepreneur, explorer, and journalist. His writing has appeared in GQ, Fast Company, Wired, and The New Yorker—and he is a world-renowned keynote speaker on innovation and human behavior.

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The Crucial, Empowering Difference Between Hope and Optimism

Early in my career, I had an a-ha moment that made me feel silly in retrospect and smarter from then on. I realized that I had been using the words “skepticism” and “pessimism” interchangeably—and that was hurting me.

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when leaders dont lead

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When Leaders Don't Lead: What To Say When Someone Makes A Mistake

What to say when someone makes a mistake? THERE'S A COMMON CHOICE that team leaders make that causes them to "lose" their team. It's the choice that's

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conflict resolution

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4 Communication Habits That Reduce Workplace Drama

These 4 things will help you deal with misunderstandings at work and get work done A FEW YEARS AGO, I was in a cab in Moscow ona book-writing...

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innovation

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Why Bad Ideas Are Good For Innovation

Mark Tigan, civil servant of the village of Winooski, Vermont, was thirty-two years old when the president of the United States called to shut him...

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quotes by pablo picasso to inspire innovative ideas

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5 Of My Favorite Innovation Lessons... From Picasso

Apple Computers is well-known for minimalist product design; its notebook computers are carved from a single block of aluminum to eschew seams....

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debate beyonce jayz

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Debate Tactics To Keep Discourse From Going Off The Rails

Here’s a question:Would Beyonce have gotten to where she is without Jay-Z?

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getting out of your comfort zone

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Overcoming Cognitive Entrenchment, So We Can Make Breakthroughs

Early in my career, I got some advice from a CEO I looked up to:

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healthy skepticism

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The Art (And Benefits) of Productive  Skepticism

Let's talk about thephrase “take at face value” for a moment. In dictionary terms, it means “to accept something as it appears, without looking for...

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problem solving

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How To Use Second-Order Thinking For a Creative Problem-Solving Process

In the late 1950s,the Chinese leader Mao Zedong launched a campaign to get rid of four types of pests he deemed responsible for the “transmission of...

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