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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What is Intellectual Humility? How It Works And How To Develop It

Intellectual Humility: A Timeless Virtue Intellectual Humility is one of the most exciting fields of study in current psychology and philosophy. Recent research has convinced me that getting better at it can change our lives—and make a big...

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Lateral Thinking

How To Use Lateral Thinking To Form Innovative Hypotheses

Part 5 of my Lateral Thinking explainer series This is about doing what most people jump straight to in Step 1 of a typical problem-solving process:...

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lateral thinking

Using Lateral Thinking To Test & Bulletproof Innovative Ideas

Lateral thinking for strategic decision making Part 6 of my Thinking Different explainer series digs into how to run your ideas through the gauntlet,...

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lateral thinking and cognitive diversity

How To Build Cognitive Range & Solve Problems Smarter

The importance of focusing on multidisciplinary development The conclusion of my Lateral Thinking explainer series. In this episode, we explore how...

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lateral thinking

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Lateral Thinking: A Primer

What is lateral thinking? Pretend that you're hosting some friends at your house for dinner.

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How To Have A Productive Debate

THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF DEBATES. MOST PEOPLE AREN’T VERY GOOD AT THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY GETS US PLACES.

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company culture

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Culture Add Is Better Than Culture Fit

PEOPLE Should ADD TO your company CULTURE, NOT FIT IT. When I was a few years into running my first big company, I went to a mentor of mine with a...

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cognitive diversity innovation

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Cognitive Diversity: The Key to Both Innovation And Better Teamwork

Explorations > Teamwork > COGNITIVE DIVERSITY Ghenghis Khan, the Mongol leader who killed and conquered his way to owning the largest...

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