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Impatience as an Instrument
Knowing When to Push and When to Wait
Seeking Discomfort
Why it Matters and How to Build it as a Skill
The CEO Who Is Everywhere Is Running Nothing
A specific failure I have watched repeat itself across industries and company sizes
From Transformation to Continuity
How to sustain momentum in business transformations
The Accountability Deficit
Why Most Leaders Avoid It and What It Costs Them
Advice to the Youth
What I Would Tell the Next Generation of Leaders
Sustainable Performance
Why I Don’t Believe in Burnout
My #1 Negotiation Principle
What 40 Years of High-Stakes Deals Taught Me
The MENA Potential
The opportunities the MENA holds, and what the next generation of leaders needs to do differently.
The Succession Plan That Ran Itself
The most powerful talent tool in your organization costs nothing and most leaders avoid it
Frugal Engineering: Doing More With Less
The $5,000 car and why constraint is an underrated driver of innovation.
The Best Diversity Argument Is a Performance Argument
How I took Nissan from 1% to 5% women in management, and why the same logic applies to every underrepresented group in your company.
AI and the Future of the Executive Assistant
On AI elevating roles and the skills of the future.
Mobility in Focus: Markets, Policy, Strategy
Insights from my conversation with ElektroAuto News on China’s strategy, Europe’s policy failures, and the path forward for Western automakers
When Public Policy Works Versus When It Fails
Sharing clear patterns that separate successful state interventions from catastrophic ones
Creating Innovation Inside Bureaucracies
Sharing my 5 principles for breakthrough change in large organizations
Beyond Batteries: Why China Leads the EV Race
This newsletter examines how China captured 60% of the global EV market despite the West's technological head start. I highlight how China's lead is about superior business model execution.