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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age inspired Jeff Bezos to create the Kindle ; Sergey Brin mines Stephenson’s even more famous Snow Crash for insights into virtual reality. Science fiction can help.

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The 3 Things CEOs Worry About the Most

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Randall Stephenson of AT&T explained, “We had 270,000 people we employed around the globe. As David Thodey put it, “Leadership was pretty important. Leadership Competition' ” Some CEOs worried about setting direction and tone for the company across regions.

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