5 Key CEO Insights for the Week Ahead

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1. How to Adopt a Utopian Mindset & Create Hopeful Future with Kristen Ghodsee

"When we stop dreaming and thinking with a utopian mindset, we're allowing our cognitive capacity to hope to atrophy. We're losing the ability to imagine our way out of the challenges we'll face in the 21st century. We need to encourage intellectual and imaginative risks to face the challenges of the future." Read More.

2. How to Leverage Backward Design to Maximize Content Marketing Outcomes with Purna Virji

"I always start with backward design. Start with the business outcome, then find your audience. Superficial personas are insufficient. In-depth understanding of customers is where to start. Do a needs analysis: find the gap between what your content's talking about and what your customers really need. Identify that gap and then look for an overlap between what audiences want and what you can talk about well." Read More.

3. How to Use 4-7-8 Breathing to Improve Your Sleep with Dr. Michael Breus, PhD

?"4-7-8 breathing, developed by Dr. Andrew Weil of Harvard, is a technique I use to help people lower their heartrate so they can naturally fall asleep faster. Here’s how it works: you breathe in slowly for a count of four, hold your breath for seven, and then exhale slowly for a count of eight." Read More.

4. How to Master Collective Decision-making with Deborah Liu

"Leaders aren't there to make decisions; they're there to ensure great decisions are made. A strong leader ensures the right decision is reached without necessarily having to make it themselves. The key is to provide the right guidance and processes to ensure this happens." Read More.

5. How to Solve Critical Challenges in Collaboration with AI with Hod Lipson

"I want to shift people's thinking about AI from fear to guidance, from fearing it to steering it. This powerful AI doesn’t know where to go. It’s like an incredibly powerful child with an inventive ability and a naive perspective on the world. AI has immense power but no understanding of which problems it should solve. On the other hand, we humans may not always know how to solve problems, but we certainly know where the problems are. We can leverage this ability as business leaders—and leaders in general. " Read More.

5 New Mentors This Week

New transformative insights this week from Roger Spitz , Hermann Simon , - Rachel Morris MNCIP, PCC - , Michael Hilb , Harry Korine , Ivan Lansberg and Devin DeCiantis !

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