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On Advancing Transatlantic Cooperation
You could say Susan Danger has dedicated her career to advancing transatlantic cooperation. And you wouldn’t be wrong. For the last 21 years, she has been leading the 60-year-old American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU), first as its Managing Director and now as its CEO. During...
On Being a Pioneering Leader
I think of a pioneer as a bold adventurer, someone who confidently goes where no one has gone before and who passionately shares the opportunities they discover as they explore the world. In my world, that makes Charles Bolden Jr. the quintessential 21st-century pioneer. This highly accomplished man has been...
On the Alchemy of Global Leadership
Sometimes I think of Cem (pronounced as “Gem”) as a twenty-first century alchemist. He is a pharmacist, after all, with a profound understanding of what makes things work in global businesses and an insatiable curiosity about human nature and psychology. The number of his direct reports that have been promoted...
On Being a Leader of Leaders
How many leaders do you know who can confidently take a three-month sabbatical, leave their executive team in charge, and come back to a stronger team and great business results? Bob Ahearn, VP and Managing Director of the Americas at Booking.com, is one of those rare few. I worked with...
On Technology Policy
“I want technology to be something that makes lives easier, that fundamentally democratizes systems. We have to find a way to keep the humanity in technology. It is shaping humans—and we need to be shaping it.” In an ideal world, every engineer and every company working on new tech would...
On Being a Superpower of Political Persuasion
“All I’ve ever wanted to do is continue to make America better. I still think that America is the best country in the world and our best hope for the future. My mindset was always ‘America is the greatest—and can be greater.’” Sarah Longwell, prominent political strategist and a leading...
On Democracy in America
“There are urgent threats to our democracy that clearly need to be addressed: voting rights, access, security. These are all short-term. What hasn’t been addressed for decades are the fundamental structures of how our democracy works. That’s where RepresentUs fits.” —Joshua Graham Lynn That is how clearly Joshua Graham Lynn...
On Doing Big Things
Not everyone is destined to make a big difference in the world. And not everyone has a big vision compelling them to do so. Which is perfectly okay. There is no mandate that as a human, you must “do big things”. That said, there are certainly big things that need...
On The Human Side of Technology
DJ didn’t try to follow in his father’s footsteps, but he did. “The system didn’t quite work for us, but we ended up in good places.” That’s how Dr. DJ Patil describes himself and his father, Dr. Suhas Patil, when I interviewed DJ on my podcast, Lori on Leadership. Dr....
On Democracy & Tech
Facebook was created in 2004. YouTube, a year later. Twitter, a year after that. “Some people forget there was a time when we weren’t quite sure if we needed to use any of these new digital tools for political campaigning.” Katie Harbath joined Facebook to do just that in 2011....
On Being An Instrument of Change
There’s an old folk tale of a man who was a very clever smuggler. Every day, the smuggler would come to the border with his donkey and the official there would say, “I am pretty certain you’re trying to smuggle something.” And every day, the officer would pull apart the...
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