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New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research suggests that human beings are equipped for, and even prefer, a kind of mild hierarchy. However, there is a certain alchemy behind successful leaders. For instance, we don't want leaders that are too powerful or too autocratic or are too able to impose punishment on ourselves. The best leaders foster connections, friendships, and cooperation among their subordinates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS Nicholas A. Christakis is a physician, sociologist, and director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, where he is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science. His most recent book is Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (March 2019). Follow him on Twitter @NAChristakis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS: So I looked at a number of cases of groups being in very demanding circumstances. I looked at a sample of shipwrecks, for example 20 cases of groups of 19 or more people stranded for two or more months on isolated shores. I looked at the Shackleton expedition. I looked at the Mutiny on the Bounty and the Pitcairn Islanders. I've looked at groups of scientists that were

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