The Knowledge with David Elikwu

David Elikwu speaks with Jenny Blake an Author, Speaker, and Podcaster.

Jenny Blake loves helping entrepreneurs and organizations move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams.

We talked about this idea from her book, pivot about being able to make incremental changes in your career and really move yourself into a direction that aligns with what you really want to be doing and how to find joy in your work.

📜 Full transcript:

www.theknowledge.io/jennyblake/

https://youtu.be/czh3z7Rlyek

👤 Connect with Jenny Blake:

Twitter: @jenny_blake: https://twitter.com/jenny_blake

Book: Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want,

Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, and

Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business

Website: http://pivotmethod.com/

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

Medill Northwestern University: https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/

UCLA: https://www.ucla.edu/

Daily Bruin: https://dailybruin.com/

Palo Alto Networks: http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/

Free Time: https://itsfreetime.com/

Parkinson’s Law: https://personalmba.com/parkinsons-law/

Andrew Wilkinson: https://twitter.com/awilkinson

Shane Parrish: https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish

Luke Burgis: https://lukeburgis.com/

Kardashians: https://g.co/kgs/DgtHBB

Suits: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1632701/

Ama Amo Agyei: https://www.instagram.com/amaa__official/?hl=en

The legend of success: https://www.theknowledge.io/issue34/

Steph Smith: https://stephsmith.io/

Andreessen Horowitz: http://a16z.com/

a16z: http://a16z.com/

Doug Kirkpatrick: https://dougkirkpatrick.com/

Zapier: https://zapier.com/

Notion: https://www.notion.so/

Nick Sonnenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksonnenberg/

itsfreetime.com/toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/toolkit

itsfreetime.com/authors: http://itsfreetime.com/authors

👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io

Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com,

Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

🚀 Career Hyperdrive

Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

During this course, you will make the leap from 'going with the flow' to actively crafting your journey. And you’ll join a community of ambitious peers who will hold you accountable for betting on yourself.

http://careerhyperdrive.com

🧭 The Knowledge

On The Knowledge Podcast you’ll hear from the best and brightest minds in business, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Hosted by writer and entrepreneur David Elikwu, each episode features in-depth interviews with makers, thinkers, and innovators from a variety of backgrounds.

The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

Website: theknowledge.io

Podcast: plnk.to/theknowledge

David Elikwu speaks with Josh Spector, a newsletter publisher and an audience and business growth strategist.

He helps creative entrepreneurs to grow their audience and businesses and he also writes a great newsletter called For The Interested.

We talked all about, so many great frameworks for shipping great work and finding the right audience, creating work that you are proud of and being able to create work consistently in a way that doesn't lead to burnout.

📜 Full transcript:

www.theknowledge.io/joshspector/

https://youtu.be/D5eX4v6KYNE

👤 Connect with Josh Spector:

• Twitter: @jspector: https://twitter.com/jspector
• Website: http://joshspector.com/
• Newsletter: https://fortheinterested.com/subscribe/

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

51: A moment of honesty ⏱️: https://www.theknowledge.io/issue51/

Hollywood: https://www.hollywood.com/

Connected Comedy: https://connectedcomedy.com/

A Person You Should Know: https://apersonyoushouldknow.com/about/

Ann Friedman: https://www.annfriedman.com/

James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/

Substack: https://substack.com/

👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io

Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com,

Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

🚀 Career Hyperdrive

Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

During this course, you will make the leap from 'going with the flow' to actively crafting your journey. And you’ll join a community of ambitious peers who will hold you accountable for betting on yourself.

http://careerhyperdrive.com

🧭 The Knowledge

On The Knowledge Podcast you’ll hear from the best and brightest minds in business, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Hosted by writer and entrepreneur David Elikwu, each episode features in-depth interviews with makers, thinkers, and innovators from a variety of backgrounds.

The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

Website: theknowledge.io

Podcast: plnk.to/theknowledge

David Elikwu speaks with Blake Burge, a content creator and director of manufacturing at Neoinsulation.

We talked all about the overlaps between creativity and entrepreneurship and the secrets behind his overnight success as a content creator on Twitter.

And finally, we discussed a ton of great frameworks for being able to consistently produce great content.

📜 Full transcript:

https://www.theknowledge.io/burge/

https://youtu.be/Tm0sZYbG06M

🎙 Listen to your favourite podcast player

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👤 Connect with Blake Burge:

Twitter profile: @blakeaburge / https://twitter.com/blakeaburge

Newsletter: While You Were Away / https://whileyouwereaway.beehiiv.com/

Excel Course: https://excelfoundations1.carrd.co/

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

Sam Parr: http://samparr.com/

David Morris: https://twitter.com/wdmorrisjr

Vincent van Gogh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Bach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach

Mozart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart

Warren Buffett: https://twitter.com/WarrenBuffett

David Goggins: https://davidgoggins.com/

Sahil Bloom: https://www.sahilbloom.com/#Hero

👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io

Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com,

Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

🚀 Career Hyperdrive

Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

During this course, you will make the leap from 'going with the flow' to actively crafting your journey. And you’ll join a community of ambitious peers who will hold you accountable for betting on yourself.

http://careerhyperdrive.com

🧭 The Knowledge

On The Knowledge Podcast you’ll hear from the best and brightest minds in business, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Hosted by writer and entrepreneur David Elikwu, each episode features in-depth interviews with makers, thinkers, and innovators from a variety of backgrounds.

The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

Website: theknowledge.io

Podcast: plnk.to/theknowledge

David Elikwu speaks with Dave Kline, a solopreneur, and owner of MGMT Accelerator & Skillscouter.

He advises executives on how to build exceptional teams and improve their careers.

We talked about some of the big mistakes that both new and experienced leaders make, how to delegate effectively, how to empower teams and a lot of frameworks and mental models for making effective decisions in a replicable way.

📜 Full transcript:

https://www.theknowledge.io/dkline/

https://youtu.be/UIG1WwWCn98

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Twitter Profile: @dklineii

Website:

• Skillscouter
• MGMT Accelerator

LinkedIn: Dave Kline

Kodak

Xerox

Mayer Brown

Brian Armstrong

Moody’s

Bridgewater

Ray Dalio

Goldman

Zappos

Toyoda five why’s

Annie Duke

Seattle Seahawks

Rory Vaden

Seth Godin

👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

• Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge
• Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io
• Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com,
• Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

During this course, you will make the leap from 'going with the flow' to actively crafting your journey. And you’ll join a community of ambitious peers who will hold you accountable for betting on yourself.

http://careerhyperdrive.com

On The Knowledge Podcast you’ll hear from the best and brightest minds in business, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Hosted by writer and entrepreneur David Elikwu, each episode features in-depth interviews with makers, thinkers, and innovators from a variety of backgrounds.

The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

Website: theknowledge.io

Podcast: plnk.to/theknowledge

David Elikwu speaks with Arielle Jackson, who is the marketing expert in residence at First Round, and also an amateur jewelry maker.

Arielle built a well-storied career working in marketing at Google, Square and Cover. Now she’s a force multiplier at First Round, helping startups pop! She’s also teaching a course on Maven called Startup Brand Strategy.

📜 Full transcript:

www.theknowledge.io/arielle/

https://youtu.be/pAD1KmhjVZQ

🎙 Listen to your favourite podcast player

https://plnk.to/theknowledge

👤 Connect with Arielle Jackson:

Twitter profile: @hiiamArielle

LinkedIn: Arielle Jackson

Maven: https://maven.com/arielle/startupbrandstrategy

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

Rory Sutherland

Alchemy

Robert Cialdini

Influence

Dr Harvey Karp

The Happiest Baby on the Block

Mike Maples Jr.

Malcolm Gladwell

Google

Square

First Round

Josh Koppelman

Seesaw

Brett Berson

Chris Lochhead

Reid Hoffman

The Startup of You

The Alliance

👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter.

• Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge
• Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io
• Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com,
• Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

During this course, you will make the leap from 'going with the flow' to actively crafting your journey. And you’ll join a community of ambitious peers who will hold you accountable for betting on yourself.

http://careerhyperdrive.com

On The Knowledge Podcast you’ll hear from the best and brightest minds in business, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Hosted by writer and entrepreneur David Elikwu, each episode features in-depth interviews with makers, thinkers, and innovators from a variety of backgrounds.

The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

Website: theknowledge.io

Podcast: plnk.to/theknowledge

David speaks with Ama Amo-Agyei, a wellness entrepreneur and the founder of Plantmade.

Plantmade creates powerful, vegan growth products handmade in small batches to make an actual difference in you and the planet!

📜 Full transcript:

www.theknowledge.io/ama/

https://youtu.be/VqLgXoAAVMY

🎙 Listen to your favourite podcast player

https://plnk.to/theknowledge

👤 Connect with Ama:

Twitter: @amaa__official

Podcast: @riceathomepodcast

Website: weareplantmade.com

📄 Show notes:

Where everything started for Ama [3:53]

Learning what wealth looks like [6:03]

The book that changed her life [7:25]

Lessons about success [9:22]

The insight that helped Ama to break free [11:26]

How Ama’s life trajectory changed [15:45]

The first steps Ama took to be an entrepreneur [19:59]

Learning and developing skills [24:21]

Copywriting is a massive skill to be able to develop [31:04]

Getting a job in recruitment sales, Ama’s worst decision [37:18]

A conflict of passion [42:20]

Getting fired two weeks before COVID [45:34]

How getting fired became the best thing to happen to her [47:21]

The secret to resilience [48:42]

Self-limiting beliefs [51:56]

Impostor Syndrome is a good thing [53:51]

The optionality that comes with success [59:00]

Building a legacy with Plantmade [1:01:48]

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Ryan Holiday

Shane Parrish

Apple

Dan Lok

Garyvee

Impostor Syndrome

MoonxCosmetics

Mariee Revere

Kia Commodore

Pennies To Pounds

Steven Bartlett

Plant Made

👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people learn more and live better.

• Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge
• Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io
• Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com,
• Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love.

During this course, you will make the leap from 'going with the flow' to actively crafting your journey. And you’ll join a community of ambitious peers who will hold you accountable for betting on yourself.

http://careerhyperdrive.com

On The Knowledge Podcast you’ll hear from the best and brightest minds in business, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Hosted by writer and entrepreneur David Elikwu, each episode features in-depth interviews with makers, thinkers, and innovators from a variety of backgrounds.

The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter.

Website: theknowledge.io

Podcast: plnk.to/theknowledge

David Elikwu speaks with Bob Gower, an author, speaker, and consultant, who cares deeply about creating organizations that are a net positive for the world.

Bob Gower assists leaders in aligning their teams on all levels in order to achieve optimal performance.

He is the author of two books, Agile Business: A Leader's Guide to Harnessing Complexity and Radical Alignment: How to Have Game-Changing Conversations to Transform Your Business and Life, as well as a former contributor to the Huffington Post and Inc.

Full transcript:

www.theknowledge.io/bob-gower/

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Connect with Bob Gower:

Twitter: @gower_bob

Books: Radical Alignment

Website: bobgower.com

Show notes:

Let's dig into the background as a whole [2:31]

The Hypocrisy of Prosperity gospel [5:03]

Daniel Kahneman writer of Thinking Fast and Slow [13:16]

The quality of the question rather than the quality of the answer [21:57]

Emotional Agility by Susan David [26:00]

How do groups of people come together to do things [28:13]

On our own as individual humans, we're actually so useless [31:09]

The social conquest of earth by EO Wilson [34:59]

Great leaders, charismatic but do seem to be jerks [40:01]

What made Job’s a great leader [41:29]

The cults of Silicon Valley [48:55]

When people use the meaning and significance [49:39]

Most valuable piece a leader to have [54:25]

Mentioned in the show:

Pentecostal Christianity

Zen Buddhism

Daniel Kahneman

Escape from Freedom

Ernest Becker

Eric Fromm

Emotional Agility

Descartes' Error

Denial of death

Social Conquest of Earth

EO Wilson

Radical Alignment

Antonio Demasio

Susan David

Steve Jobs

Elon Musk

Larry Ellison

Elizabeth Holmes

Theranos

Maslow’s Hierarchy

Adam Newman

WeWork

Kim Scott

Just Work

About David Elikwu:

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people learn more and live better.

* Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

* Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io

* Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com

* Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

🚀 Career Hyperdrive

David runs a course which will help you build a toolkit of mental models and bulletproof core skills that will drastically shorten the growth curve for your career, business or personal brand. Join the next cohort to take control of your path, build future-proof skills, and design a career you can be proud of.

http://careerhyperdrive.com

🧭 The Knowledge

As a writer and serial entrepreneur, David Elikwu speaks with elite performers from a variety of backgrounds, unpacking everything there is to know about navigating the world around us.

This podcast is a catalogue of excellent data points. Join us each week for actionable insights to make sense of what matters most.

The Knowledge is a curated digest of the world's best ideas, drawing on insights from psychology, philosophy, business and culture. We explore tools, frameworks and stories that will help you navigate with clarity and cut through the noise.

Website: theknowledge.io

Podcast: plnk.to/theknowledge

David Elikwu speaks with Richie Brave, a Broadcaster at BBC Radio 1xtra and Head of Diversity for a Publishing Company.

Richie dug into his background growing up in London, and how he was able to craft his own career, defining success on his terms to build a life that suits him. Finally, Richie shared some of the incredible grassroots work that he does in his local community.

📜 Full transcript:

https://theknowledge.io/richiebrave

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👤 Connect with Richie Brave:

Twitter: @RichieBrave

[email protected] / bbc.co.uk/pudsey

📄 Show notes:

Radio is definitely something he always wanted to do since young [3:06]

Music was always big for him growing up [6:57]

Life for him coming up in the area that he lived in [12:10]

How did he make helping other young people and doing the CBT related things [19:40]

Took the opportunities that were presented in front of him [24:30]

Hard work, doesn't always pay off [26:34]

Allowing people to reimagine and dream [33:49]

Financial freedom [35:44]

Having a platform allows us to have a collective conversation across the black communities [39:37]

Built his whole career by being himself [44:46]

You follow impartiality guidelines when being in BBC [47:01]

Section of his wages every month goes towards charitable things [49:35]

A bit of respect is so important for him [53:13]

Being online is a really weird thing [1:03:28]

We move fund [1:06:20]

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Black Joy

British Broadcasting Corporation

Turbo Pascal

We move fund: Youth Social Action

👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people learn more and live better.

Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge

Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io

Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com,

Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

🚀 Career Hyperdrive

David runs a course that will help you build a toolkit of mental models and bulletproof core skills that will drastically shorten the growth curve for your career, business, or personal brand. Join the next cohort to take control of your path, build future-proof skills, and design a career you can be proud of.

http://careerhyperdrive.com

🧭 The Knowledge

As a writer and serial entrepreneur, David Elikwu speaks with elite performers from a variety of backgrounds, unpacking everything there is to know about navigating the world around us.

This podcast is a catalogue of excellent data points. Join us each week for actionable insights to make sense of what matters most.

The Knowledge is a curated digest of the world's best ideas, drawing on insights from psychology, philosophy, business, and culture. We explore tools, frameworks, and stories that will help you navigate with clarity and cut through the noise.

Website: theknowledge.io

Podcast: plnk.to/theknowledge

David Elikwu speaks with Christine Carrillo, an Executive Coach for Early Stage CEOs, Founder of The 20-Hour CEO

Over the last decade, she built and led three companies that have generated $200M in revenue. She experienced everything from bootstrapping a business to $25M to building a hyper-growth VC-backed company to $28M ARR in under two years.

https://youtu.be/AbIr-Mrg-M4

Twitter: @ChristineCarril

Website: christinecarrillo.com

https://theknowledge.io/carrillo

Early background and upbringing [4:10]

How did she start at the very bottom [6:14]

How did she start her own company [9:09]

What kind of success does she look up to? [22:12]

The idea of success started to turn into freedom [25:22]

Unethical moments she experienced [27:34]

She’s very fortunate to have a CEO coach [43:12]

A lot of pressure being extraordinary [48:30]

How are you as a CEO [51:24]

When she started Butler heath [1:00:19]

I hate managing people [1:03:15]

Prioritizing family over work [1:20:27]

Kaiser

Techstars

The 20 hour CEO

Butlr Health

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people learn more and live better.

• Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge
• Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io
• Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com,
• Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

David runs a course which will help you build a toolkit of mental models and bulletproof core skills that will drastically shorten the growth curve for your career, business or personal brand. Join the next cohort to take control of your path, build future-proof skills, and design a career you can be proud of.

http://careerhyperdrive.com

As a writer and serial entrepreneur, David Elikwu speaks with elite performers from a variety of backgrounds, unpacking everything there is to know about navigating the world around us.

This podcast is a catalogue of excellent data points. Join us each week for actionable insights to make sense of what matters most.

The Knowledge is a curated digest of the world's best ideas, drawing on insights from psychology, philosophy, business and culture. We explore tools, frameworks and stories that will help you navigate with clarity and cut through the noise.

Website: theknowledge.io

Podcast: plnk.to/theknowledge

David speaks with Colin Landforce, the CTO of Unrivaled Brands.

They talked about Colin’s early forays into entrepreneurship, building things from high school and college and beyond, and then also this incredible journey of building a publicly traded cannabis company (Unrivaled Brands).

And then finally, they also talked about the idea of building a brand around yourself and tenets of being able to find authenticity and being yourself and finding your voice.

https://youtu.be/b83OwOuc2tY

Twitter: @landforce

Website: landforce.co

Podcast: builders.build

Full notes and transcript here:

theknowledge.io/landforce

Thoughts on being a builder [4:20]

How did he get into cannabis [14:48]

How cannabis works from a legislation perspective [16:51]

The nature of any startup [19:50]

Trouble with the cannabis industry [22:13]

How to lead effectively and help the business to succeed [25:10]

What do you think makes you take that first step [31:31]

Different ideas he tried [35:26]

Being able to experiment, try things and to play in different spaces [44:10]

Skills to develop and can execute well [45:49]

How to manage social media presence [53:57]

David Belle

Twilio

Crypto

WordPress

David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people learn more and live better.

• Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge
• Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io
• Course: http://careerhyperdrive.com
• Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com
• Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge

David runs a course which will help you build a toolkit of mental models and bulletproof core skills that will drastically shorten the growth curve for your career, business or personal brand. Join the next cohort to take control of your path, build future-proof skills, and design a career you can be proud of.

As a writer and serial entrepreneur, David Elikwu speaks with elite performers from a variety of backgrounds, unpacking everything there is to know about navigating the world around us.

This podcast is a catalogue of excellent data points. Join us each week for actionable insights to make sense of what matters most.

The Knowledge is a curated digest of the world's best ideas, drawing on insights from psychology, philosophy, business and culture. We explore tools, frameworks and stories that will help you navigate with clarity and cut through the noise.