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American leadership proved pivotal. Elected president in November 1952, Eisenhower had decided that the unification of Europe and its joint defense, including the Federal Republic of Germany, was, in the words of one historian, a kind of skeleton key, unlocking the solution to a number of problems at once, and most important, providing a type of
... See moreHenry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
effective CEO/coach might say,
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
place of Jobs, six Apple executives drive the company today, delivering ideas that the rest of the company executes. They are: Tim Cook, the unassuming CEO with an operations background. Eddy Cue, the colorful senior vice president of software and services. Phil Schiller, the deceptively powerful head of product marketing. Jeff Williams, the chief
... See moreAlex Kantrowitz • Always Day One
Andy Grove was a rare hybrid, a supreme technologist and the greatest chief executive of his day. We sorely miss him.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
If our reasoning is correct, the nation-state will be replaced by new forms of sovereignty, some of them unique in history, some reminiscent of the city-states and medieval merchant republics of the premodern world. What was old will be new after the year 2000. And what was unimaginable will be commonplace. As the scale of technology plunges,
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