How the Atlantic Went From Broke to Profitable in 3yrs: a new #businessmodel : high-profile writers -> higher quality journalism, offering fewer stories free & no longer discounting subscriptions, raising prices for annual subscriptions .. & it is working! wsj.com/business/media…

I was so lucky to be able to have Danny Kahneman as a best friend and collaborator for decades. He usually ended our conversations with 'to be continued...' but I now have to simulate his part which is impossible. My favorite image of us 'working'.

Oscar night, tonight, is a big night for Virtuoso Teams. We have two chapters contending for well-deserved awards: Oppenheimer and Bernstein are both excellent examples of how innovating teams, and great leadership, can outperform.

The IMD_MIT Driving Strategic Innovation program starts in just one month… a lifetime in our fast-moving world. Join us, with ⁦Alex Osterwalder🇨🇭⁩ ⁦JimPulcrano⁩ ⁦Howard Yu⁩ Duncan Simester ⁦Charles Fine⁩ for all things innovation imd.org/innovation/dsi…

Thinking about how current change could change your life? Join Abhijit Bhaduri & myself, Wednesday, March 8, discussing Career 3.0, and what it means for you and your orgaization.

Edward R. Murrow and the invention of broadcast journalism is a disruption/transformation story that still speaks to our times. Leadership at its best, from within an otherwise bureaucratic organization! Forbes
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Celebrating athletic wins & carrying guns wherever we want: one is protected by the constitution, and other isn’t. What does that tell us about our societal values?

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“It’s up to the parents if they don’t want their child to read a book, It shouldn’t be up to politicians.”

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“Extraordinary though Musk’s achievements have been, a board must be more than a fan club.”
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The effort to read these ultra-fragile, 2000 year-old scrolls is amazing, but so are the insights this project is revealing into the future of AI-enhanced work: wix.to/J53pzdt

When the Senate votes on support for Ukraine, we will be taking one of the most consequential votes any of us have ever taken.

Our allies and adversaries are watching. We must choose honor in Ukraine.

“To capture the whispers of the morning,”

Leadership in the waning period of an industry’s generational S-curve can be perilous. Smartphones could be facing this soon. What can we learn from this event?

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Creativity and Chaos, two concepts so different, but so frequently paired together, were discussed in a panel at the Drucker Forum on organizations & leadership need to be reinvented if our flirtations with chaos are to reliably lead to new ideas: lnkd.in/eH5XB_ZX

How might AI affect work in the future? A project, involving a loose ecosystem of different talents, augmented by AI to read ancient scrolls offers a set of modern leadership insights
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Zhang Ruimin receives Thinkers50 lifetime achievement award for a career devoted to maximizing human value
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White House spokesman Andrew Bates responds to the Republican Speaker:
 
'We absolutely reject the offensive accusation that gun crime is uniquely high in the United States because of Americans' 'hearts.' Gun crime is uniquely high in the United States because congressional…

“We can arm our people, but we can't house our people. We can load them up like a heavy-weapons platoon, but we can't arrange a one-room efficiency for the winter. We can hand them an AR-15 .. [but] we can't protect our fellow citizens…”

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Anti-Abortion
Anti-LGBTQ+
Anti-Social Security
Anti-Medicare
Anti-Democracy

Insurrectionist Mike Johnson is now second in line to the presidency. The American people deserve better.

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Mike Johnson might be speaker of the house, but he doesn’t speak for most of us! What we don’t need are: homophobes, election deniers, another man who thinks he knows more about womens’ liberties than women do, opponents of Ukrainian freedom, & an enemy of social security.