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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp

This was an act of political suicide. His support within the party evaporated overnight. He was left standing on principle—alone. Warren recognized that his father had “painted himself into a corner.”6 From his earliest childhood, Warren had always tried to avoid broken promises, burned bridges, and confrontation. Now Howard’s struggles branded three principles even deeper into his son: that allies are essential; that commitments are so sacred that by nature they should be rare; and that grandstanding rarely gets anything done.

The Snowball

Alice Schroeder

A single hand of Liar's Poker is random enough that there's essentially no expected profit, so when John Meriwether proposed upping the risk 10‐fold, he was actually raising the “cost” of the game to both of them a hundredfold (remember, it's the standard deviation of the gamble squared that matters). As Meriwether guessed, that kind of increase in the cost of the risk was too much for Gutfreund to accept on a lark. And, as Michael Lewis rightly surmised, it was a calculated decision from a person who had a sound understanding of the price of risk.

The Missing Billionaires

Victor Haghani and James White

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