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Purpose-Driven Leadership in an Era of Polarization
Even in difficult times, leadership must be about empathy, authenticity, fairness and service. That's according to Darren Walker, the outgoing CEO of the Ford Foundation, a nonprofit with an endowment of billions of dollars and a charge to reduce poverty and injustice. Drawing on ... Show More
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283: Wendy Smith, A strategy to navigate a paradox
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 283, an episode with</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">an expert on organizational paradoxes,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Wendy Smith. Get Wendy's Book</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">h ... Show More
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 274, an episode with Bill George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic and currently a professor at Harvard Business School. He has written two of the most enduring leadership classics of all time:</span> <em>< ... Show More
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