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Don’t Bet Against Twitter
A decade ago, after the Arab Spring, everyone was talking about Twitter. Five years ago, when Space X and Tesla were starting to make serious …
Nothing Lasts Forever
China is the future. We’ve been hearing that for thirty years. It does sound pretty plausible. It took Britain seven generations to industrialize. It took …
Show Me the Data
The fictional LA detective, Joe Friday, was famous for saying “Just the facts, Ma’am.” Similarly, in the tech and business worlds, “Show me the data” …
Wanted: CEOs with People Skills
These graphs by Axios and HBR, revealing the most-wanted skills in the C-suite, got our attention. They show that “culture” and other high-EQ qualities are …
Social Cop-Ye-ing
One thing that allows us to dominate the animal kingdom is our ability to copy what we perceive as successful behavior. This is why most …
Would You Be Missed If You Were Gone?
Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s CEO in 2014. Since then its share price has exploded, after years of stagnation, marking one of the biggest turnarounds in …
We Contain Multitudes
Walt Whitman said it best back in 1855: “I contain multitudes.” We all do. We all carry different identities around with us, often in competition …
Driving Off the Glass Cliff
British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, resigned earlier this week after only 6 weeks in office, the shortest tenure for any PM on record. There was …
Listen Like a Trampoline
Change without listening doesn’t happen. Why is this true? When you don’t listen, it signals that you think you already know enough. And if you …
Big Speech Coming Up? Here are a few tips
Step One: Don’t give a speech during the daylight. Ever. Step Two: When you give a speech (at night of course), opt for dark red ominous lighting. …
Marshall Goldsmith on the Essentials of Leadership
Marshall Goldsmith started his career out as a business school professor but ended up as one of the world’s top executive coaches. In Episode 142 …
All the Previous You’s
Recently, we listened to Marshall Goldsmith’s interview on The Knowledge Project, Episode #142. Marshall Goldsmith is one of the top executive coaches in the world, …
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