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Lessons from Jixun Foo

Jixun Foo, Senior Managing Partner at Granite Asia, is a prominent venture capitalist whose accumulated experience offers entrepreneurs and investors a concise study in investment philosophy, strategic judgment, and the practical questions that inform investing strategy.
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Lessons from Jeff Sands

Jeff Sands, corporate turnaround specialist and author of Corporate Turnaround Artistry, treats crisis leadership as an exercise in self-command: control thoughts and reactions first, then stabilize cash, customers, and employees through decisive action and adaptable authority.
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Lessons from Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura, an influential psychologist bridging behaviorism and cognitive psychology, reshaped how we understand motivation and learning through self-efficacy, with enduring implications for education, therapy, and public health—and for how people understand their own capacity to act.
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Lessons from Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman, a psychologist and science journalist, transformed understanding of human intelligence and leadership through groundbreaking work on emotional intelligence, making EQ the distinctive lens through which his contribution across both fields is best studied.
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Lessons from Trevor Moawad

Trevor Moawad, a mental conditioning coach to elite athletes, coaches, and performers, advanced neutral thinking: a pragmatic, behavior-based alternative to reflexive optimism that favors realistic, actionable responses when pressure makes conventional positive thinking insufficient.
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Lessons from Dr. Anders Ericsson

Dr. Anders Ericsson, a Swedish psychologist and researcher of expertise and human performance, changed how expert development is understood through deliberate practice, a more nuanced framework than the popular 10,000-hour rule built upon his research.
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Lessons from Dr. Cameron Sepah

Dr. Cameron Sepah, a clinical psychologist, executive coach, and UCSF Medical School professor, integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, evolutionary psychology, and evidence-based practice to address modern questions of performance, health, masculinity, and the mind.
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Lessons from George Mumford

George Mumford, a mindfulness and performance expert who worked with legendary athletes and teams, blends Eastern contemplative traditions with Western psychology, using five mindfulness-based “superpowers” to help people move beyond self-interference and perform at their peak.

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