Leaders LoopThe New Strategy Behind Revenue Growth
Professor Raghu Iyengar discusses the expanding role of the chief revenue officer. … Read More
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Your Business Has a Pest Problem
I’VE SPENT 45 years in the pest control industry: 30 in corporate leadership and 15 building my own company, Pied Piper Pest & Lawn, from the ground up. In that time, I’ve seen just about every kind of infestation imaginable. But some of the worst ones never required a spray wand. Early in my management career, I started noticing something strange: the same thought processes I used to assess and c
First take/next take/last take
Nailing it in the first take is a sign of preparation and professionalism. No need for two tries if you are clear about what you’re doing and how. The next take is where hope lies. This one was pretty good, but next time, we’ll bring it. And the last take is good enough. That’s why […]
Leading Thoughts for July 23, 2026
IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig on managing emotions: “Stress, anger, and anxiety can cause narrow-mindedness and the fight-flee-or-freeze syndrome. It’s not at all helpful when you need to engage in critical thinkIng, problem solving, innovative thinking
Robots Are Coming — but Not Everywhere
Getty Images “The ChatGPT moment for robotics is coming,” declared Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2025. It’s a widespread expectation: that humanoid robots will follow the same explosive adoption curve as generative AI. Our research suggests the opposite. Humanoid robotics will be adopted unevenly, across diverging use cases and […]
[Outliers] John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
John D. Rockefeller became the richest man the world had ever known by thinking differently about business, competition, and family. This episode isn’t just the story of Standard Oil. It’s about the principles that built one of history’s greatest business empires and what they can teach us today. Along the way, you’ll see the … The post [Outliers] John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Gre
Industrialism and the slippery slope
One of the best traditional bakeries in New York has a kitchen you can see from the counter. People wait in line for their handmade French baguettes, and the confirmation that they were made right here and right now is reassuring. I noticed that the baker was using a mechanical gadget called a loader. It […]
What the World Cup Teaches Brands About Cultural Marketing
Wharton professor Americus Reed discusses how brands create cultural relevance beyond traditional sponsorship. … Read More
How Constraints Shape Creativity and Athletic Development
Author David Epstein discusses creativity, performance, and the value of broad athletic development. … Read More
Computer and browser use in Codex (5 real examples)
Watch now | 🎙️ I show you exactly how I use browser use and computer use in Codex to QA my app, manage LinkedIn, and shop for Hawaii, including the under-prompting trick that makes frontier models work harder
A New Way to Address Troubled Team Dynamics
Gillian Blease/Ikon Images The Research The authors adapted the Big Five personality test into a tool for illustrating personality preferences among team members. They and their colleagues tested the tool with over 600 ad hoc teams that attended IMD leadership development programs. They confirmed the applicability of this method with 100 senior executive teams in […]
State champs
Compared to what? 98% of the time, the state champ loses at nationals. Every billionaire but one isn’t the richest person in the world. Only one of the 300 people who direct a feature film each year will win an Academy Award. And only one public company has the greatest share price growth. Competition is […]
Why Consumers Are Still Spending Despite Inflation
Professor Barbara Kahn explains what is driving resilient retail spending. … Read More
Why a sabbatical can change everything
An exploration of sabbaticals—extended breaks from work—and how they can create meaningful personal and professional transformation, with practical guidance on taking an extended time off.
Creating Shared Prosperity With AI: Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson has a challenge for anyone worried about artificial intelligence: Stop asking what AI will do to us, and start asking what we will do with AI. In this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, the Stanford University economist explains why technology isn’t the biggest barrier to progress — people, organizations, and institutions are. […]
The Having/Doing job gap
It’s a dance between workers, bosses and the market. The most stable quadrant happens when a thoughtful and consistent boss hires the right person, pays them fairly, creates positive working conditions and useful training. In return, the company gets extraordinary performance. That’s someone doing a good job who also has a good job. A particularly […]
Apply Lessons from “Moneyball” to Business Recruiting and Find Your Next Tom Brady
ORGANIZATIONS often believe they’re selecting the best candidate when in reality they’re selecting the person who best matches familiar credentials, patterns, or assumptions. That distinction matters. As the 2011 movie Moneyball demonstrated through baseball recruiting how success improves dramatically when talent is evaluated against the factors that actually predict performance — not the ones pe
🎙️ How I AI: How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas
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How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman
Listen now | 🎙 How Alex Lieberman (Morning Brew) built a Claude workflow that interviews him before drafting, codes his voice in Markdown, and runs a six-persona revision loop before posting
How Leaders Unlock Innovation on the Front Lines
PPaint/Ikon Images Balancing the daily grind of operations with the spark of innovation is one of the most persistent challenges managers face.1 Regulatory compliance, performance metrics, and the never-ending demands of customers can easily crowd out creative thinking. Work overload or mismanaged operations elevate employee stress, which directly constrains ideation capacity. This cognitive bottl