Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna became IBM’s CEO and pushed the century-old company beyond protecting legacy hardware, centering speed, open-source software, and AI while offering a case study in remaking business models, managing heavy capital demands, and surviving technological shifts.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Arsalan Tavakoli

Arsalan Tavakoli, Databricks co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering, brings experience spanning a computer science PhD, McKinsey, and enterprise data platforms to questions of hypergrowth, cloud migration realities, and why software monopolies may lose defensive moats.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Ariel Cohen

Ariel Cohen co-founded Navan to improve corporate travel and expense reporting, applying consumer-app standards to enterprise software and AI to customer-support routing while developing practical lessons on hypergrowth, startup scaling, and challenging entrenched business models.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from Anton Howes

Anton Howes, a historian, studies the British Industrial Revolution, arguing that invention is a transmitted cultural practice rather than an innate human trait and tracing how an “improving mentality,” historical transparency, and early machinery helped progress accelerate.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Anthony Tan

Anthony Tan co-founded Grab and grew a Malaysian taxi-booking service into Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing and delivery network by adapting operations to local infrastructure and regulation, grounding lessons in market competition, hands-on management, and real consumer problems.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is an American historian and journalist documenting Eastern European totalitarianism and modern autocratic networks, tracing how cooperating dictatorships fracture democratic institutions and why people may surrender democracy for the apparent simplicity of authoritarian rule.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Anna Wintour

Anna Wintour has led Vogue through its shift from print to digital, combining an exacting management style and routine with a deliberate fusion of high fashion and celebrity culture alongside methods for editing, hiring, and directing creative teams.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Anna Bateson

Anna Bateson, CEO of Guardian Media Group, is known for a reader-revenue model designed to protect editorial independence without a hard paywall, illuminating how adaptable leaders balance commercial reality, organizational purpose, and continual transition in modern media.

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