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HERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2026 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. The Mattering Effect: Creating a Life of Meaning and Worth by John R. Miles If you’ve ever wondered, If I stopped performing, producing, fixing, achieving, proving, would I still matter? then this book is for you. As John R. M
I’m excited to share this previously unreleased 2022 conversation between Charlie Munger and Todd Combs. As with any Munger talk, the subjects are both deep and wide. I’ve pulled out the ideas that most resonated with me. You’ll learn how Munger recognized people worth betting on, chose problems worth solving, and turned a long attention span into … The post [Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview w
Rock and roll came from the transistor radio. When Sony launched its cheap portable radio more than sixty years ago, it came with a headphone. For the first time in history, teenagers could listen to music without their parents eavesdropping. This opened the door to Chuck Berry and then the Beatles. AM radio needed hits, […]
Here is a selection of Posts from September 2026 that you will want to check out: The Biscuit Story: A Lesson in Leadership From the Antarctic via @AdmiredLeaders Words That Change the World by @KevinPaulScott Leading with Inquiry (How to Have a Better Dialogue) by @EdBatista Slumps via @LeadershipMain When Every Choice Costs You Something by @PhilCooke Why Does Originality Feel So Rare in a World
Watch now (24 mins) | 🎙️ Claire tests OpenAI’s DevDay releases, from Dots, Spaces, and Sites to AI-picked thumbnails and a $97 game, and shares what’s worth trying first
Samuel Ventura, vice president of hockey strategy and research for the Buffalo Sabres, explores how a rapidly rising salary cap is changing roster construction, contracts, and player valuation. … Read More
Daniel Taylor, Wharton finance professor and director of the Forensic Analytics Lab, explains how prediction markets are evolving and why stronger surveillance systems are needed to detect insider trading and manipulation. … Read More
Watch now (46 mins) | 🎙️ Educator and developer John Lindquist shares eight Jev demos, from live voice classification and deduplication to agent routing, showing how low costs make once-impractical ideas worth trying
Grundini/Ikon Images The Research The authors interviewed 39 executives representing 10 countries and multiple industries and hosted an online workshop with 36 executives responsible for enterprise data to learn how their companies were using digital technologies and data to address their sustainability challenges. In addition, they surveyed 360 respondents in Swiss manufacturing companies twice t
If you buy a coal mine, the business model is simple: dig out as much coal as you can economically justify, then walk away. On the other hand, the model for a brand or a community or a movement is to relentlessly generate value, connection and possibility. Growth can be sustainable and occasionally exponential. Too […]
Remote work erodes the personal bonds that boost collaboration at the office, according to research from Wharton’s Peter Cappelli. He offers guidance on making the most of hybrid schedules. … Read More
Plus, some reflections and takeaways from the day
AI could threaten humanity. We can’t rely on a handful of technology companies to prevent an apocalypse, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther. … Read More
Jessica Wachter, Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professor in Quantitative Finance at the Wharton School, explains the productivity gains AI investment must deliver to justify the boom. … Read More
Andy Carter/Ikon Images The in-house lawyers at real estate investment firm Alturas Capital Partners used to rely on outside counsel for much of its lease work. Thanks to generative AI, it can now do that work internally, saving the firm hundreds of thousands of dollars in spending and compressing lease work that once stalled for […]
We avoid this question all the time, and it costs us. Don’t put kerosene in an electric car. It won’t work. Don’t give your dog dark chocolate, it’ll make him sick. And yet, we often hesitate to be honest about what gets us moving. What puts something at the top of your priority list, or […]
Cornell finance professor Maryam Farboodi and Penn economics professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde explore AI’s impact on the economy and financial markets, raising questions about growth, investment, and whether we’re in a bubble. … Read More
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Watch now (26 mins) | 🎙️ Jev returns type-safe structured values instead of text, which makes it the fastest, cheapest classification layer I’ve ever put in a pipeline—and this week I shipped three real projects with it
Organizations invest to create an audience that sticks with them, either because they have no choice or because of an emotional connection. When this occurs, most then take profits. They decrease service, increase pricing and generally seek payback for the work they did to get to this position. But there’s another path. Every change creates […]
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