16 Nov Presentation Skills – How to avoid death By PowerPoint
Do you actually know how many ideas a single slide should contain, or have you just been guessing?...
B2 – Upper-intermediate
16 Nov What Everyone Gets Wrong About Procrastination
Is procrastination actually a time management problem, or have you been solving the wrong problem this whole time?...
16 Nov How Ads Follow You Around the Internet
Do you actually know the difference between a cookie that helps a website remember you and one that exists purely to follow you across the internet?...
16 Nov Brené Brown on Empathy
What is the actual difference between empathy and sympathy, and do you know which one you default to at work?...
16 Nov How The Six Degrees Phenomenon Has Changed Science
You've probably heard the "six degrees of separation" idea at a party. But do you actually know what it means mathematically?...
15 Nov The science behind ‘us vs. them’
When someone from another department, company, or culture disagrees with you, how quickly does your brain file them under "them"?...
12 Nov to see Germany’s future, look at its cars – guided video
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Complete Lesson Plan, Guided, Management, Politics, Technology, The Economist
Germany's carmakers face the same challenges as its new leaders: a need to innovate, tackle climate change and reassess its trade relationship with China. How this world-renowned motor industry navigates the road ahead could tell a lot about Germany’s future....
11 Nov How Marvel Went From Bankruptcy to Billions
If your company hit rock bottom financially, would you know which single asset to bet everything on to survive?...
11 Nov The sunk cost fallacy
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Business, Management, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology
Have you ever kept funding a project not because you believed in it, but because walking away felt like admitting defeat?...
11 Nov The economics of K Pop
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Music, Politics, Polymatter, Popular Culture
When a music fan buys a CD they will never play, what are they actually purchasing?...