The CEO Diary with Fexingo: Leadership Lessons, Executive Decisions, and Corner Office Stories

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The CEO Diary with Fexingo: Leadership Lessons, Executive Decisions, and Corner Office Stories

The CEO Diary with Fexingo examines the real decisions behind corner offices—the trade-offs, the missteps, and the quiet calculations that shape public companies and private empires. Each episode, Lucas and Luna dissect a specific CEO move: a surprise acquisition, a sudden resignation, a pricing pivot, or a cultural turnaround. They walk through the numbers—revenue per employee, market share shifts, executive compensation ratios—and weigh the strategic logic against the human cost. Lucas, with his journalist's instinct, pushes for clarity on what was actually decided; Luna, equally sharp, challenges whether the outcome was worth the risk. Together they avoid platitudes, focusing on what executives actually do when the cameras are off. This is not a motivational show. It is a steady, unsentimental look at how power operates inside a public company: how boards influence succession, how activist investors force change, how founders lose control, and how CEOs rebuild after a crisis. The listener is someone who either holds a management role or aspires to one—someone who reads proxy statements for fun and wants to understand the gap between press releases and reality. After each conversation, you will walk away with one specific question to ask about any CEO you follow: What would I have done with that information in that moment?

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Episodes

148 episodes

How Angela Ahrendts Transformed Burberry with Digital Luxury

Aug 1, 2026 · 9:50
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How Jorgen Vig Knudstorp Saved LEGO from the Brick

Jul 30, 2026 · 5:17
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How Daniel Ek Led Spotify to Profitability

Jul 30, 2026 · 8:07
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How Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen Bet the Company on Subscriptions

Jul 29, 2026 · 8:49
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How Alan Mulally Saved Ford Without Bankruptcy

Jul 29, 2026 · 8:28
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How Satya Nadella Built a Growth Culture at Microsoft

Jul 28, 2026 · 6:27
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How Hubert Joly Revived Best Buy with Human-Centered Leadership

Jul 28, 2026 · 5:48
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How Mary Barra Is Steering GM Through an Electric Revolution

Jul 28, 2026 · 8:55
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How Tim Cook Made Supply Chain the Secret Weapon at Apple

Jul 27, 2026 · 7:02
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How Patrick Doyle Turned Around Domino's Pizza

Jul 27, 2026 · 5:47
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How Jensen Huang Built NVIDIA's AI Moat with CUDA

Jul 26, 2026 · 7:18
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How Bob Iger Rebuilt Disney's Creative Engine

Jul 26, 2026 · 7:52
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How Jamie Dimon Built a Fortress Balance Sheet at JPMorgan

Jul 25, 2026 · 6:02
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How Howard Schultz Built Starbucks Third Place Culture

Jul 24, 2026 · 7:52
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How Marc Benioff Built Salesforce on a Single Crazy Idea

Jul 24, 2026 · 8:36
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How Ferrari Masters Scarcity and Brand Power

Jul 23, 2026 · 10:11
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How Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Redefined Subscription Entertainment

Jul 23, 2026 · 7:37
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How Toyota Reinvented Manufacturing with the Toyota Production System

Jul 23, 2026 · 8:21
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How Jack Ma Transformed Alibaba with a Vision for Small Business

Jul 22, 2026 · 10:01
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How Zara's Supply Chain Defies the Retail Slowdown

Jul 22, 2026 · 9:23
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How LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault Masters the Luxury Portfolio

Jul 21, 2026 · 10:22
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How Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol Revived the Third Place

Jul 21, 2026 · 9:22
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How Leica Defied Digital Disruption

Jul 20, 2026 · 13:08
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How Toyota Reinvented Manufacturing with the Toyota Production System

Jul 20, 2026 · 6:26
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How IKEA Flat-Packs Its Way to Global Dominance

Jul 19, 2026 · 8:10
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How Patagonia Made Purpose a Profit Center

Jul 19, 2026 · 9:15
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How Pixar CEO Ed Catmull Saved Creative Culture After Disney

Jul 18, 2026 · 9:59
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How Satya Nadella Changed Microsoft from Windows-First to Cloud-First

Jul 18, 2026 · 11:14
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How Lululemon Built a Cult Following Through Community and Scarcity

Jul 17, 2026 · 9:23
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How SpaceX Reusable Rockets Reshaped the Space Economy

Jul 17, 2026 · 15:28
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How Nintendo Turned Mario Into a $60 Billion Franchise

Jul 16, 2026 · 8:53
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How Novo Nordisk Conquered the Obesity Market

Jul 16, 2026 · 10:56
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How Nvidia Kept Its Edge After the AI Chip Boom

Jul 15, 2026 · 10:34
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How ARM Redesigned the Chip Business with Licensing

Jul 15, 2026 · 8:14
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How Estee Lauder Built a Luxury Beauty Empire on Prestige and Scarcity

Jul 14, 2026 · 0:19
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How Costco Cultivates a Retail Army with Double the Industry Wage

Jul 14, 2026 · 13:43
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How Carl Icahn Reinvented Activist Investing for the 2020s

Jul 13, 2026 · 10:16
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How Spotify Owns the Podcast Ecosystem by Owning Discovery

Jul 13, 2026 · 7:38
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How Novo Nordisk Conquered Obesity and the Weight Loss Drug Market

Jul 12, 2026 · 9:35
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How Netflix Axed Its Own Cash Cow and Survived

Jul 12, 2026 · 6:24
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How Duolingo Turned a Free App Into a Billion-Dollar Business

Jul 11, 2026 · 12:50
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How Hank Green Built a Media Company Without Selling Out

Jul 11, 2026 · 9:48
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How Starbucks Howard Schultz Forged the Third Place

Jul 10, 2026 · 10:35
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How Visa CEO Al Kelly Built a Thousand-Year Payment Network

Jul 10, 2026 · 13:01
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How Tony Hsieh Built Zappos Culture on Customer Service

Jul 9, 2026 · 6:09
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How Trader Joe's Culture Creates Unbeatable Retail Margins

Jul 9, 2026 · 7:40
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How Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert Steers a B Corp Through Turbulence

Jul 8, 2026 · 8:17
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How Howard Schultz Built Starbucks Third Place Philosophy

Jul 8, 2026 · 11:17
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How IKEA Built a Secret Profit Machine Through Supply Chain Ownership

Jul 8, 2026 · 10:26
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How Leica Defied Digital Disruption

Jul 7, 2026 · 11:30
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How Anne Wojcicki Built 23andMe Through Regulatory Fire

Jul 7, 2026 · 10:00
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How Satya Nadella Changed Microsoft Culture from Know-It-Alls to Learn-It-Alls

Jul 6, 2026 · 8:31
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How Nintendo Defied Doom and Won Again with the Switch

Jul 6, 2026 · 9:20
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How Pixar Saved Itself from Disney and Then Saved Disney

Jul 5, 2026 · 9:34
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How Jørgen Vig Knudstorp Saved LEGO from Near Bankruptcy

Jul 5, 2026 · 6:48
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How Patagonia Gave Away Its Company to Fight Climate Change

Jul 4, 2026 · 11:29
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How LVMH Keeps Billion-Dollar Brands Independent

Jul 4, 2026 · 10:46
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How James Dyson Turned Bagless Vacuum into a Global Empire

Jul 3, 2026 · 8:19
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How Indra Nooyi Remade PepsiCo for the Long Term

Jul 3, 2026 · 5:55
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How Pixar Saved Itself from Disney and Then Saved Disney

Jul 2, 2026 · 11:39
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How Ford CEO Jim Farley Bet the Company on EVs with a Fleet of Mustangs

Jul 2, 2026 · 15:18
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How Nvidia Reinvented Its Business Model Twice

Jul 1, 2026 · 8:18
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How Bob Iger Revived Disney Through Creative Discipline

Jul 1, 2026 · 8:41
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How Marc Benioff Turned Salesforce into a Platform Giant

Jul 1, 2026 · 9:14
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How Reed Hastings Built Netflix Culture into Competitive Moat

Jun 30, 2026 · 6:33
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How Jamie Dimon Built a Fortress at JPMorgan Chase

Jun 30, 2026 · 9:17
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How John Malone Built a Media Empire on Debt and Cable

Jun 29, 2026 · 8:41
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How Brian Niccol Remade Chipotle After the E Coli Crisis

Jun 29, 2026 · 7:30
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How Nvidia Reinvented Its Business Model Twice

Jun 28, 2026 · 9:00
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How Indra Nooyi Remade PepsiCo for the Long Term

Jun 28, 2026 · 8:39
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How Howard Schultz Built Starbucks Third Place

Jun 27, 2026 · 7:09
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How T-Mobile and Sprint Merged Against All Odds

Jun 27, 2026 · 10:14
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How Leica Defied Digital Disruption

Jun 26, 2026 · 7:50
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How Satya Nadella Changed Microsoft from Rivals to Partners

Jun 26, 2026 · 10:03
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How IKEA Engineered Flatpack Empire Through Relentless Cost Cutting

Jun 25, 2026 · 9:07
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How SoftBank Vision Fund Reshaped Venture Capital

Jun 25, 2026 · 6:32
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How Patagonia Put Its Mission Before the Money

Jun 24, 2026 · 7:18
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How Hank Paulson Forced the 2008 Bank Bailouts

Jun 24, 2026 · 9:44
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How Starbucks Built a Third Place Worth a Hundred Billion Dollars

Jun 23, 2026 · 11:50
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How Jin Li turned Alibaba into a cloud giant

Jun 23, 2026 · 10:46
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How Anne Mulcahy Turned Xerox Around from the Brink

Jun 22, 2026 · 5:53
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How Ken Chenault Steered American Express Through 9-11 and the Financial Crisis

Jun 22, 2026 · 7:00
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How Carlos Ghosn Grew Nissan Back from Bankruptcy

Jun 21, 2026 · 8:38
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How Sam Altman Forced a Board Coup at OpenAI

Jun 21, 2026 · 10:47
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How Anne Wojcicki Kept 23andMe Alive Through Regulatory Fire

Jun 20, 2026 · 10:02
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How Daniel Ek Turned Spotify from Startup to Audio Giant

Jun 20, 2026 · 7:51
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How Reed Hastings Built Netflix Through Two Near-Death Moments

Jun 19, 2026 · 10:21
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How Jamie Dimon Kept JPMorgan Stable Through Three Crises

Jun 19, 2026 · 9:37
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How Marc Benioff Turned Salesforce into a Stakeholder Powerhouse

Jun 18, 2026 · 7:40
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How Shigeru Miyamoto Kept Nintendo Creative Through Every Crisis

Jun 18, 2026 · 7:34
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How Nvidia Kept the Long Bet Alive

Jun 17, 2026 · 9:50
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How Toyota Recovered from Its 2010 Recall Crisis

Jun 17, 2026 · 9:02
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How Howard Schultz Led Starbucks Through Its 2008 Crisis

Jun 16, 2026 · 8:25
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How Minimalist Design Saved Muji from Irrelevance

Jun 16, 2026 · 9:34
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How Leica Defied Digital Disruption

Jun 15, 2026 · 11:33
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How James Dyson Built a Vacuum Empire on 5,127 Failures

Jun 15, 2026 · 7:10
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How Satya Nadella Changed Microsoft's Culture from Know-It-Alls to Learn-It-Alls

Jun 14, 2026 · 9:42
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How David Neeleman Reinvented Airline Service With JetBlue

Jun 14, 2026 · 9:15
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How Indra Nooyi Transformed PepsiCo with Performance with Purpose

Jun 13, 2026 · 9:27
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How Mary Barra Remade General Motors from Within

Jun 13, 2026 · 7:52
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How LEGO Built Back After Almost Losing Everything

Jun 12, 2026 · 7:05
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How Brad Smith Steered Microsoft Through Antitrust and Cyber Threats

Jun 12, 2026 · 4:03
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How Hiroshi Mikitani Built Rakuten Into a Tech Empire

Jun 12, 2026 · 14:13
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How Bob Iger Returned to Disney and Reset the Narrative

Jun 11, 2026 · 9:49
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How Takumi Yamamoto Saved a 400-Year-Old Kyoto Ryokan

Jun 11, 2026 · 12:37
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How Anne Wojcicki Built 23andMe Through Regulatory Chaos

Jun 10, 2026 · 8:44
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How Patagonia Gives Away Its Billion-Dollar Company

Jun 10, 2026 · 9:09
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How Hank Paulson Rescued the Economy in 2008

Jun 9, 2026 · 9:52
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How Masayoshi Son Built SoftBank on the 300-Year Vision

Jun 9, 2026 · 12:10
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How Akira Mori Transformed a Regional Developer into a Global Real Estate Giant

Jun 8, 2026 · 10:29
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How John Mackey Built Whole Foods and a Conscious Capitalism Movement

Jun 8, 2026 · 7:17
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How Paul Polman Made Unilever Purpose-Driven

Jun 7, 2026 · 8:13
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How Alan Mulally Saved Ford Without a Bailout

Jun 7, 2026 · 10:45
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How Ursula Burns Led Xerox Through a Radical Reinvention

Jun 6, 2026 · 12:16
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How Howard Schultz Brought Starbucks Back From the Brink

Jun 6, 2026 · 5:54
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How Reed Hastings Rescued Netflix from the Qwikster Debacle

Jun 5, 2026 · 9:52
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How Jensen Huang Built NVIDIA from Graphics Chips to AI Infrastructure

Jun 5, 2026 · 7:18
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How Tony Hsieh Built Zappos on Customer Service and Culture

Jun 4, 2026 · 6:54
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How Satya Nadella Rebuilt Microsofts Internal Culture First

Jun 4, 2026 · 9:28
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How Toto Reinvented the Toilet and Built a Global Brand

Jun 3, 2026 · 6:54
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How Jamie Dimon Built JPMorgan into a Banking Behemoth

Jun 3, 2026 · 7:02
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How Satya Nadella Changed Microsofts Internal Culture First

Jun 2, 2026 · 8:43
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How Marc Benioff Built Salesforce on the Idea That Software Should Be a Service

Jun 2, 2026 · 11:29
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How Mary Barra Steered GM Through an EV Reinvention

Jun 1, 2026 · 13:43
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How Jamie Dimon Reinvented JPMorgan After the Financial Crisis

Jun 1, 2026 · 11:50
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How a Former Employee Saved a Dying Company

May 31, 2026 · 7:39
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How Leica Defied Digital Disruption

May 31, 2026 · 9:12
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How Satya Nadella Transformed Microsoft from Windows to Cloud

May 30, 2026 · 8:10
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How Indra Nooyi Redefined PepsiCo for the Health-Conscious Consumer

May 30, 2026 · 8:26
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How Masayoshi Son Built SoftBank on the Go Big or Go Home Bet

May 29, 2026 · 10:56
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How Tetsuro Kano Turned KDDI into a Digital Juggernaut

May 29, 2026 · 10:25
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How Brian Chesky Redesigned Airbnb for Survival

May 28, 2026 · 7:17
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How A.G. Lafley Rebuilt Procter and Gamble from Within

May 28, 2026 · 8:21
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How Bob Iger Mastered the Art of the Second Act at Disney

May 27, 2026 · 9:39
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How Tim Cook Quietly Built the World's Most Profitable Supply Chain

May 27, 2026 · 9:44
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How Leena Nair Is Reinventing Chanel for a New Era

May 26, 2026 · 7:44
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How Satya Nadella Turned Microsoft into a Cloud Giant

May 26, 2026 · 8:20
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How Reed Hastings Built Netflixs Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

May 25, 2026 · 8:56
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How Pat Gelsinger Is Rewriting Intels Silicon Playbook

May 25, 2026 · 9:20
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How Leena Nair Turned Chanel Around

May 24, 2026 · 8:01
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How Daniel Ek Took Spotify from Startup to Audio Empire

May 24, 2026 · 10:04
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How Jensen Huang Built NVIDIA's Culture of Urgency

May 23, 2026 · 11:06
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How Shantanu Narayen Reinvented Adobe for the Cloud Age

May 23, 2026 · 11:05
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How Howard Schultz Returned to Starbucks and Changed the Playbook

May 22, 2026 · 10:27
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How Mary Barra Steered GM Through the Ignition Switch Crisis

May 22, 2026 · 9:34
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How Jamie Dimon Rebuilt JPMorgan After the Financial Crisis

May 21, 2026 · 9:10
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How Satya Nadella Changed Microsofts Culture

May 21, 2026 · 7:57
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How Sundar Pichai Defended Google's Search Empire

May 19, 2026 · 9:18
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