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To Win, Tell a Story: Foot Locker w/ Ken Hicks from 2023-12-13T05:01:17
When Ken Hicks became CEO of Foot Locker in 2009 the company didn’t have a leg to stand on: the economy was in a recession, sales were down almost a billion dollars, and the brand was widely expect...
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Etsy: Josh Silverman from 2023-12-06T05:38:11
Josh Silverman built Evite and turned around eBay. Then, in 2017, Etsy came calling. The online marketplace for creative goods was in deep trouble. Growth had plateaued and the company was on the v...
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Cultivating a Culture of Candor: Kim Scott from 2023-11-29T05:01:28
Since 1992, Kim Scott has worked in almost all levels of management—from a diamond business in Moscow to startups in the Silicon Valley to leading teams at Google. Along the way, she developed a ma...
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A New Way to Think: Roger Martin from 2023-11-22T05:01:25
Over a career spanning four decades, Roger Martin has been a management consultant, an influential business strategy thinker and author, as well as the Dean of the Rotman School of Management...
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Marvel: Peter Cuneo from 2023-11-15T18:43:16
When Peter Cuneo joined Marvel as CEO in 1999, it was a struggling publishing house teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Ten years later, Disney bought Marvel for $4.5 billion. Cuneo tells his unli...
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Avon: Andrea Jung from 2022-04-20T00:10:58
For over a decade as CEO of direct-sales giant Avon, Andrea Jung was one of the most powerful women in the cosmetics industry. During her tenure, Jung saw striking success, but also faced daunting ...
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Target: Brian Cornell from 2022-04-13T00:10:20
There was a devastating data breach, a failing foray into Canada, and they were losing US customers fast. In 2014, Target seriously needed a win—Brian Cornell was that win. He'd turned around plent...
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Great at Work: Morten Hansen from 2022-04-06T00:10:35
As a young management consultant at Boston Consulting Group, Morten Hansen regularly put in long hours–up to 90 a week. The highest performer in his office, however, was a colleague who clocked sig...
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Uncharted: Margaret Heffernan from 2022-03-30T00:10:04
Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, CEO, executive leadership coach, and author of six books. Her often counter-intuitive insights on collaboration, consensus-building, and decision-making have ...
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Verizon: Ivan Seidenberg from 2022-03-23T00:15:38
Ivan Seidenberg worked his way from splicing cables for the phone company, all the way to being the CEO of Verizon. During his career, he helped the company weather not one but two tectonic changes...
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The Campbell Soup Company: Doug Conant from 2022-03-16T00:10:30
In 2001, Campbell's Soup was in freefall: the company's value had halved and employee engagement was at an all time low. Doug Conant knew he could salvage the iconic company, but first, things were...
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Lowe's: Marvin Ellison from 2022-03-09T00:15:20
Marvin Ellison took the tough jobs nobody wanted, and it got him from retail security guard all the way to CEO of two Fortune 500s. Now, when things are precarious, companies like JC Penny and Lowe...
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Soundtracks: Jon Acuff from 2022-03-02T00:10:33
Jon Acuff is the author of seven best-selling books and the host of the podcast "All It Takes Is A Goal", becoming widely known for his humorous approach to leadership and Christianity. Son of a Ba...
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Taco Bell: Mark King from 2022-02-23T00:15:12
Mark King has a reputation for turning businesses around by moving fast on innovative, and sometimes expensive, endeavors. Before his current tenure as CEO of Taco Bell, Mark served as president fo...
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Mastercard: Ajaypal Singh Banga from 2022-02-16T00:15:21
How Ajay Banga runs one of the world's largest companies with an unusual leadership philosophy... something he calls "the decency quotient." And how he turned Mastercard from a credit card company ...
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Black Magic: Chad Sanders from 2022-02-09T00:10:32
Throughout his life, Chad Sanders found himself having to navigate white culture; at school, in the tech industry, and eventually in his career in entertainment. He learned to cope with the frustra...
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General Stanley McChrystal from 2022-02-02T11:46:46
General Stanley McChrystal was born into a military family: three generations of men in his family were officers in the armed forces. He followed the family tradition and eventually rose up the ran...
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Radical Candor: Kim Scott from 2022-01-26T00:10:34
Since 1992, Kim Scott has worked in almost all levels of management—from a diamond business in Moscow to startups in the Silicon Valley to leading teams at Google. Along the way, she developed a ma...
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American Express: Kenneth Chenault from 2022-01-19T00:10:24
Kenneth Chenault learned early on to only worry about the things he could control, this helped him when life—and business at American Express—threw unpredictable events his way. He broke barriers a...
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Range: David Epstein from 2022-01-12T00:10:31
David Epstein is a science writer and investigative reporter. His articles have spanned a wide range of topics from crime and violence to athletes using steroids to the intersection of science and ...
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Unilever: Leena Nair from 2022-01-05T00:10:56
Growing up in a small town in India, Leena Nair overheard her mother say it was too bad her daughter was born a girl, because it meant her smarts and talents would go to waste. But Nair went on to ...
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PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi from 2021-12-29T00:10:26
Listen again. After becoming the CEO of PepsiCo in 2006, Indra Nooyi became the first woman and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company. From Chennai, India, to Yale's School of Management, ...
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Peloton's Dara Treseder from 2021-12-22T00:10:17
Listen again. As a child growing up in Ibadan, Nigeria, Dara Treseder was often told to get her head out of the clouds. But her mother encouraged her to dream big and to follow her ambitio...
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The Power of Strangers: Joe Keohane from 2021-12-15T00:10:22
Joe Keohane is a longtime journalist and editor who believes that talking to strangers can not only help people feel happier and more empathetic, but can actually make the world a better place. In ...
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NASA: Ellen Ochoa from 2021-12-08T00:10:44
After one of the most deadly disasters in the history of space flight, Ellen Ochoa was a leader in NASA's recovery. She fixed the technical things that went wrong, but the most critical changes, sh...
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The Proximity Principle: Ken Coleman from 2021-12-01T00:10:57
Ken Coleman calls himself "America's Career Coach." In his syndicated call-in show, and in books like The Proximity Principle and One Question, Coleman helps people think about what kind of work th...
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Best Buy: Hubert Joly from 2021-11-24T00:10:16
In 2012, to say there was a crisis at Best Buy — is an understatement. In January, Forbes published an article with the headline: WHY BEST BUY IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. And then, in March, the comp...
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Machiavelli for Women: Stacey Vanek Smith from 2021-11-17T00:10:55
Stacey Vanek Smith has reported on business and the economy for over 15 years now, first for public radio's "Marketplace," and now as the host of Planet Money's daily podcast "The Indicator." Over ...
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The Obstacle is The Way: Ryan Holiday from 2021-11-10T00:10:24
Ryan Holiday is one of his generation's most influential thinkers. Many people - from rappers to NFL quarterbacks to corporate CEOS and entrepreneurs - credit his writing for introducing them to th...
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Gatorade: Sarah Robb O'Hagan from 2021-11-03T00:10:30
Sarah Robb O'Hagan is brutally honest about the many, many times she messed up on the way to transforming Gatorade. She was a rabble-rouser at Virgin, which ended with her getting fired. She took a...
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PepsiCo: Indra Nooyi from 2021-10-27T00:15:46
After becoming the CEO of PepsiCo in 2006, Indra Nooyi became the first woman and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company. From Chennai, India, to Yale's School of Management, Nooyi worked her way up...
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Peloton: Dara Treseder from 2021-10-20T00:10:14
As a child growing up in Ibadan, Nigeria, Dara Treseder was often told to get her head out of the clouds. But her mother encouraged her to dream big and to follow her ambition if it would lead her ...
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Built to Last: Jim Collins from 2021-10-13T00:10:11
It's not an understatement to say that Jim Collins is one of the most influential business writers in modern history. Collins, however, thinks of himself more as a researcher than an author. Each o...
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Lego: Jørgen Vig Knudstorp from 2021-10-06T00:10
For years, it was a secret: the family that owned LEGO was actually losing money on the company. The man who built the company back up into one of the biggest toymakers in the world, Jørgen Vig Knu...
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Introducing Wisdom From The Top from 2021-09-27T10:19:59
From the creator of How I Built This, stories of crisis, failure, turnaround, and triumph from some of the greatest leaders in the world.
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