Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter One key reason I value our Outthinker roundtables is that they rarely stay theoretical for long. We may begin with a framework. We may invite someone with deep expertise to discuss the issue. But quickly, the conversation moves into the real work of leadership: What happens […]
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Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter Luxembourg looks like the kind of place where a Bond film would begin. The city rises in layers. Stone bridges stretch over deep green ravines. Glass buildings catch the light above medieval walls. Narrow streets bend into grand civic squares. There is a sense of secrecy,
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Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter A recent LinkedIn post by Jason Chudoba, managing partner at ICR, caught my attention. Jason had just joined one of our Outthinker roundtables on strategy and investor relations, where he helped frame a conversation among chief strategy officers, investor relations leaders, transformation executives, private equity leaders,
Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter As part of the research for a book I hope to publish next year, I have interviewed 26 entrepreneurs who built companies that grew beyond $1 billion in revenue. These are people who did not just start businesses. They created categories, reshaped industries, attracted customers at
Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter Last week, I had lunch with my daughter in Lisbon. It was one of those moments that seems ordinary while it’s happening but feels increasingly meaningful as your children grow older. A few hours carved out between flights, meetings, and speaking engagements while my daughter happened
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Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter For years, leaders have been told that customers do not just buy products or services. They buy experiences. That idea, popularized by Joe Pine and James Gilmore in The Experience Economy, changed how companies thought about value creation. Coffee was no longer just coffee. A hotel
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Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter As a professor at Florida International University (FIU), I am fortunate to contribute to conversations that connect academic insight with the strategic realities facing today’s leaders. Recently, FIU’s Luxury Leadership Forum invited me to write about intrapreneurship: the often overlooked force behind the majority of the
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Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter Every once in a while, a leader says something that takes an idea you have been circling for years and makes it suddenly simpler. That happened to me recently when I was speaking with a group of executives, and Jason Marx, CEO of Wolters Kluwer Tax
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Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter At the recent AICPA CFO Conference in Miami Beach, I stood before a room of finance leaders inside the Fontainebleau and explored a question every growth-minded executive is now facing: how do you grow faster without growing more fragile? The conversation made one thing clear. Growth
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Listen to an AI audio recording of this newsletter A few weeks ago, I was talking with my friend Jeff about how much of life and business runs on default. We like to imagine that we are constantly making thoughtful, intentional choices. But of course, we are not. We do not have the time, attention,
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