Perhaps the biggest obstacle to change and innovation is not lack of ideas, resources, or time, but simply the fear of failure. Recognizing this, many leaders have asked me: how can we learn to accept ...

Lifelong Learning Isn’t Optional — It’s Essential to Be a Successful CEO. Here’s How to Make It a Priority. Entrepreneurs and CEOs must be highly motivated, driven and curious, but most of all, they ...

Most of us never got a formal lesson in how learning works, but we picked up messages about what counts as "smart," what's worth knowing, and how we're supposed to learn. But there's a catch to an ...

Joelle K. Jay, Ph.D., is an award-winning executive coach, LRI Director and author: The Inner Edge: The 10 Practices of Personal Leadership. It’s so discouraging. You fought so hard to get up that ...

What enables a student to be a successful learner in school, while others struggle? This question is being asked with renewed urgency, as many students work from home without as much face-to-face ...

A person interacts with a custom-built Minecraft environment used to study adaptive social learning in a virtual foraging experiment. This study, published in Nature Communications, was designed to ...

Ask a host of experts how to be smarter, and they’ll give you the same counterintuitive answer: acknowledge all the ways you’re probably being dumb. Warren Buffett’s right-hand man Charlie Munger ...

You might think a guy with so much insider knowledge might point his kids to a particular professional niche or industry sector. But on a fun, free-wheeling recent episode of podcast Your Mom’s House, ...

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett's top piece of advice for young people looking to grow their wealth is not about money or investing — it's about who you spend time with and what you choose to do ...

A research team at the University of Cologne examined how optional support influences students' learning success and ...