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Conversations on leadership

Long-form discussion with the people who have to make the call.

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0516:49

The asset with no replacement

A quarter of Ugandan adults have hypertension and nine in ten of them do not know. On working hours, what burnout actually means, and the one impairment you cannot detect in yourself.


0415:55

What the climb actually costs

Forty-five per cent of the people who reached the top had a major career blow-up behind them. What the evidence says about how the climb actually happens, which costs buy something, and which buy nothing at all.


0318:45

Ask who answers in eighteen months

Boeing had many people who knew and no one who could stop it. Ford turned on a single red square on a slide. What a named owner actually needs, and why a committee cannot force the call.


0219:28

A good year is a poor diagnostic

Nakumatt's top line looked healthy almost to the end. Wells Fargo hit its target every quarter while the business rotted. Equity Bank grew from insolvency by being able to explain exactly why each customer paid.


0118:34

Good at emergencies, bad at prevention

Kodak built the first digital camera and funded film anyway. Nokia needed a burning platform. Adobe and Safaricom moved while the numbers were still good, and what separates the two groups is not vision.

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