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Fair Winds, President Carter
A life well lived
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The Anatomy of Elite Education
Comparing the top business schools.
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Slow Then Fast
Change comes for all.
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What Kareem Thinks About Lebron
One star celebrates the brightness of another
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Difficult but Necessary
Best of times, worst of times.
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Slava Ukraini!
When a war leader speaks to the world.
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The Time Tax
Government as a high-cost, low-yield experience.
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When Images Tell Stories
Images can capture a moment in unique, haunting ways.
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Write Now
The least we can do is record and remember whatever happens next.
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The Science of Feedback
What we hear.
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Why We Should Nap
What if the best way to boost productivity is to relearn something every child knows?
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What We Can Learn from Magic and Bird
"I even hated him more because I knew he could beat me"
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Deming's Fourteen Points on Productivity
Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it is almost everything.
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What To Learn From Kids
Adults use weasel words to impress, confuse, and obfuscate. Kids know better.
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Firefights and Friendships
As Mattis says, if you’re taking on the world, bring your allies. You will need them.
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How Eisenhower Made Decisions
So everything begins with elimination. Start with the poison.
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Innovation Is Not Only For Young People
In this world, wisdom is a competitive advantage
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The Man Behind American Productivity
Before there was Tim Ferriss, there was Frederick Winslow Taylor.
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What We Can Learn from Railroads
From Sea to Shining Sea.
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Why Leaders Should Break Ranks
Nixon built up then used his deep bank of anti-communist credentials
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When To Be Greedy
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful."
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The Two Forms of American Capitalism
Modern America has two forms of capitalism that unnaturally co-exist.
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Calling All Defiant Ones
The beauty of defiance
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How One Billionaire Makes Decisions
Innovation has one key thing in common with investing: the winners make smart, non-consensus bets.
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Meetings by Elon Musk
“Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”
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Write More, Challenge More, Fear Less
The strange thing about my public writing is that, although it is short, informal, and real-time, every essay is deeply personal.
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People Leave, Culture Stays
Culture requires leadership. Culture demands sacrifice. Culture elevates teamwork and common goals.
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John Wooden’s Secrets to Success
Twelve lessons from the ten-time champion
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The Moral Case for Disrupting College
So here’s a wild idea: instead of a single American college education system, whose costs go up and to the right faster than any other industry, we create competitive education systems (plural).
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The Superpower of Encouragement
People can find similar types of life-changing encouragement anywhere.
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Munger on Newspapers and Wisdom
We’re not exactly reading The Federalist Papers.
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Why Time is Transformational
Twenty years into what is now a trillion dollar company, Amazon still considers it “Day 1” of its journey.
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Thinking In Loops
When designed correctly, loops can create immense value for people within its gravitational pull.
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The Most Important Professional Question
If the answer is anything other than an emphatic yes, you may want to look at other opportunities.
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Leadership Stress, Quantified and Qualified
Leadership is like porn: you know it when you see it.
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Dollars and Multipliers
The story of a single dollar’s journey through the economy.
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The Transformational Power of Partnership
"Although our form is corporate, our attitude is partnership."
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Amazon, Ownership, and B-School Fails
After twenty years, Amazon is on its way to becoming a trillion dollar company. Its story is a lesson in the simple-yet-revolutionary power of ownership.
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The Language of Money
The internet’s interface changes every ten years
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The Balance of Power in Business
Balance of Power is a key concept in global affairs and nature — and also in the innovation economy.
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A Message To Garcia
There are times in our lives when we must complete our missions regardless of externalities.
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Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom
The internet offers three interconnected, world-changing verticals for learning: information, knowledge, and wisdom.
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The Ten Percent Rule
If life cooperates, I would love to work for another fifty years.
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Overhauling the Input-Outcome Cycle
Outcome-focused work is deliberate, direct, and controlled.
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Leaders and Founders, Opinions and Data
When presented with new and better information — data — the great leader will eagerly and enthusiastically change her once-strongly held opinion.
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Make Executives Great Again
People learn how to be workers, not leaders.
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Measuring Greatness
In basketball and life.
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Rituals, Artifacts, and Honoring The Dead
All great institutions have rituals and artifacts, but the American military has more than most.
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Be Ruthless in One Way
Instead, entrepreneurs should focus on high-value activities — the repeatable behaviors that directly improve your business.
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Building a Differentiated Network
Be there to make decisions, solve problems, and build coalitions
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My Personal Maze
Although I’m in my mid-thirties, my life really started about fifteen years ago.
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John Whitehead and Purpose-Driven Leadership
Measured by his peers’ opinions and memories, John Whitehead was a giant.
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The Single Worst Leadership Trait
The most difficult people to deal with are those who lack self-awareness.
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How Goldman Adapts
The powerhouse of change
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Don’t Make This One Mistake
Since 1776, the United States Marine Corps’ lead element — the group that directly accomplishes the organization’s mission — has been its infantryman.
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Two Realities in Asia
Xi outlined China’s goal to develop the world’s leading naval force
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How To Build a Sustainable Moat
The best moat is to be purpose-driven
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What Baseball Can Teach Us
Going for the big win rather than avoid the small loss
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Zuck and The Know-Nothings
Zuckerberg will have to answer for his company
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Asian Davos
Chinese President Xi will further outline his economic vision at the Boao Forum
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When Authenticity Trumps Risk
The immutable importance of authenticity
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How Newton’s Law Applies to Trust
When trust evaporates
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Stoic Sails
Remember what the Stoic says
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The Dangerous Future Of #FakeNews
Disinformation is a dangerous beast
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When Work is Liberating
Research shows that we perform at our best when we have a sense of purpose
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Why Cities Are The New Nation-States
Nation-states defined the 20th century. Cities will define the 21st century.
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How Democracy Works
Change is hard, but participation is easy
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How To Fire Someone
How you change teammates will matter as much as why you do it
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Making More By Doing Less
Under new leadership, Uber deserves credit. It is getting stronger by doing less.
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How To Reclaim Your Wisdom
If you want to gain wisdom, the best first step is to stop destroying it.
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Three Lessons from Phil Knight’s “Shoe Dog”
Thankfully, Shoe Dog is not a dull retelling of Nike’s quest for global domination or Knight’s penetrating business insights.
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Avoid This Person At All Costs
Low-conviction partners are poisonous.
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Using the Decades Test
People tend to work with short-term, transactional partners
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McKinsey’s New Boss
McKinsey epitomizes the establishment
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Leading Through Tragedy
Tragedy says a lot about who we are and what we care about
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7 Leadership Lessons from George Washington
Look to the first
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How to Lead on Climate
No regulation required Stripe to go carbon-neutral
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The Enlightenment is Working
Data don't lie
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Why Did You Rob The Bank?
Innovation is not about technology, emerging markets, or applying an academic framework to a theoretical problem.
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Innovation in War and Policy
The foundational principles of American war and peace must be updated
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Think and Act Bigger
They are expected to orbit the sun for hundreds of millions of years
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Leadership Velocity
Leaders should aim for velocity, not speed
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Magnificent Bastards
Fifty years ago, the Magnificent Bastards volunteered to fight in a foreign land
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What to Learn from Netflix
Netflix has mastered the art of focus
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The Power of One
People often confuse busy and productive
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Permissionless Innovation
Real innovation is permissionless
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Old Products, New Models
One of the most dangerous misconceptions about innovation is the idea that important product breakthroughs are entirely new.
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Mind Your Defaults
By listing these virtues, Franklin named what he wanted to be so that he could work toward those things every day.
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Scattered Actions, Focused Reactions
Sir Isaac Newton said for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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New Year, New (Trade) War
Donald Trump's one consistently wrong idea
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Don’t Make Life Short
The very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.
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Investing in Relationships
The importance of loving and being loved, caring and being cared for, giving and receiving
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Lost Einsteins and Liberating Talent
Children’s ability to invent tracks parents’ income
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Ban Technology to Become Smarter
It is nearly impossible to break the Facebook-Twitter-Instagram monopoly on focus
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Uber's Primary Failure
The slow death of multi-dimensional leadership
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The Marine Corps Way
Honor. Courage. Commitment.
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Climate Leaders are A-Changin’
Leadership means not skipping the hardest problems
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