Personal Highlights:

• Paul Bracken, a professor of political science at Yale, was one of the civilian individuals invited to participate in playing the classified nuclear war game....

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• Whiteboarding also requires active thinking and inevitably reveals how well (or not) any employee, including an executive, knows the material. Employees must demonstrate their thought...
• Jensen runs the company in the way he does because he believes that Nvidia’s worst enemy is not the competition, but itself—more specifically, the complacency...
• “I did more bathrooms than any CEO in the history of CEOs,” he would recall.

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• Kingdoms were often handed over to adolescents, whose absolute power fascinated them as might a game. Hardly grown out of the age in which it...
• ‘the richest women are always the most expensive.’

Personal Highlights:

• I could not enter it, did not want to enter it, and then understood that I recognized it as a tool of my enemy. I...

Personal Highlights:

• looking back at the man tagging along.

Personal Highlights:

• Even after most American car companies transitioned away from steel-bodied cars, Papaw would stop at used-car dealerships whenever he saw an old Ford or Chevy....

Personal Highlights:

• I like to tell stories about the things that have happened to me because I like hearing stories. I think people’s lives are stories. People’s...
• The old joke in the former USSR was always, “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”
• Gorbachev seemed amused by this. “Dayte mne posmotret’ na Vashu pechat’.” “Let me see your stamp.” Fortunately, I had it with me, in my briefcase....