Episodes (Page 2)
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Rory Sutherland reveals persuasion formula explaining why people make decisions and how psychology drives behavior change
Rory Sutherland
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Mary Kay Ash built a $2 billion company by getting ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results through meritocracy
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Jim Murphy teaches seven principles of inner excellence to eliminate fear and master pressure
Jim Murphy
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Charlie Munger identified 25 psychological tendencies that cause smart people to make bad decisions
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Ron Shaich founded Panera Bread and Au Bon Pain, helping define the fast casual restaurant segment
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Steve Wozniak engineered Apple's technology but refused to play Silicon Valley's power and money games
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Anthony Scilipoti, CEO of Veritas Group, called the collapses of both Valeant and Nortel before they happened through forensic accounting and disciplined questioning of narratives
Anthony Scilipoti
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Jim Clayton rebuilt his business after bankruptcy at 27 by refusing bad loans and vertically integrating
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Tracy Britt Cool earned the nickname 'fireman' at Berkshire Hathaway for turning around struggling subsidiaries
Tracy Britt Cool
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Hetty Green built a multi-billion dollar fortune in the late 1800s despite legal restrictions on women
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Barry Diller, at 83, shares surprising candor about his successes and failures building IAC
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Ed Stack built Dick's Sporting Goods from a struggling family store into an 800+ store empire
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Lulu Cheng Meservey discusses why trust and conviction are contagious in communication and strategy
Lulu Cheng Meservey
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Fred Smith founded FedEx on an idea everyone said would fail and built an $88 billion empire
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Benedict Evans argues AI is the biggest change since the iPhone, not just new electricity
Benedict Evans
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John Bragg controls half the world's wild blueberries and built North America's largest private telecom from a town of 1,100
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Dr. Sue Johnson provides frameworks for lasting relationships that amplify connection and prevent cheating
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Sol Price, the inventor of the warehouse club model, is profiled.
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Ryan Petersen explains Flexport's system-building approach to scaling logistics by turning complex multi-party operations into simple, repeatable processes
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Katharine Graham's transformation of the Washington Post is detailed.