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Lessons from Annie Duke

Annie Duke, a former professional poker player and decision-making author, teaches people to think in bets. Her key distinction separates decision quality from outcome quality, helping us account for luck, embrace uncertainty, and learn without judging choices solely by results.
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Lessons from Amy Webb

Amy Webb, founder and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group and an adjunct professor at NYU Stern, treats the future as something leaders can shape through disciplined foresight and strategic action.
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Lessons from Rita McGrath

Rita McGrath, a Columbia Business School professor and authority on strategy and innovation, challenges the assumption of durable competitive advantage, showing why leaders must navigate turbulent markets through a succession of carefully managed transient advantages.
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Lessons from Michael Bungay Stanier

Michael Bungay Stanier, a coaching and leadership author, makes curiosity a practical discipline: ask better questions, empower others, and resist the inner “Advice Monster” that turns useful conversations into reflexive attempts to provide answers.
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Lessons from Kelly Starrett

Dr. Kelly Starrett, a physical therapist, coach, and author, frames mobility as basic self-maintenance. His “supple leopard” ideal joins strength and power with agility, flexibility, and freedom from pain so people can move fully through life.
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Lessons from Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen, originator of disruptive innovation theory, explained how great companies can fail while apparently doing everything right. His work reveals how smaller, nimbler challengers can unsettle established businesses amid landscapes of constant change.
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Lessons from Hubert Joly

Hubert Joly, former Best Buy CEO and architect of its turnaround, advances a human-centered, purpose-driven capitalism. His leadership asks how a “noble purpose” beyond profit can connect people to meaningful work and unlock extraordinary results.
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Lessons from Wes Bush

Wes Bush, an authority on product-led growth and author of “Product-Led Growth,” examines how products can become the primary engine of acquisition, activation, and retention, giving businesses a strategy for letting customer experience lead the sale.

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