09 Mar Why Some People Are Always Late
Is being late actually a personality flaw, or is it closer to a biological trait you were born with?...
B2 – Upper-intermediate
09 Mar How Red Bull Makes Money Selling Nothing
Does Red Bull actually make anything, or is it just a very expensive logo on a racing car?...
02 Mar What does it REALLY take to be successful?
Do you genuinely believe your success so far is mostly the result of your own effort and decisions?...
01 Mar The formula for selling a million-dollar work of art
What actually determines the price of a painting that sells for $10 million while an almost identical one sells for $10,000?...
01 Mar Ransomware
If your company's files were locked by ransomware tomorrow morning, who in your organization would make the call on whether to pay?...
28 Feb Why are natural gas prices so high?
Posted at 19:30h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Business, Economics, Partial Lesson Plan, Politics
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28 Feb How Do the Olympics Make Money? The Olympics Business Model Explained
Do you actually know where most Olympic revenue comes from, or do you just assume it's ticket sales?...
28 Feb The Puzzle of Motivation. The surprising truth about what motivates us
If you give someone a bonus for doing great work, are you actually making them better at their job or just better at chasing bonuses?...
06 Feb Are Musk’s Starlink Satellites Overcrowding Space?
Posted at 08:20h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Science, Technology, WSJ
This video talks about “Starlink”, another of Elon Musk´s (madcap 🤔) enterprises. Starlink is all about communications satellites and, if the experts in this video are to be believed, their sheer numbers and relative proximity to earth are making space very crowded and could even...
03 Feb NFTs Are Fueling a Boom in Digital Art. Here’s How They Work
Posted at 11:18h
in Art, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Technology, WSJ
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives. The heart of the problem, he says, is the insidious idea that we can do it all. As entrepreneurs and executives find...