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What Great Leaders Can Learn from Great Photographers

Harvard Business Review

Sam Abell falls into the latter camp of truly reflective practitioners. Abell has figured out that the way to get a great photograph is not to take it but to make it. For him, framing his first photographs as a boy, this meant fighting his instinct to follow a moving subject with his lens. Photo Credit: Sam Abell.

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The Great Collision

Harvard Business Review

If you accept the proposition that societies and economies are heading off the rails, then here's my hypothesis: we're about to careen into a Great Collision — people bumping up against the self-imposed perimeter of their own carefully constructed lives; human potential crashing headlong against choices that make the least of it.

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