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Boeing is in crisis. This week’s New York Times’ article by Bill Saporito, “Boeing Made a Change to Its Corporate Culture Decades Ago. Now It’s Paying the Price,” tells well the stack of mini-crises that birthed mega-crisis for one of America’s most “iconic” companies. On January...

Still in theaters, the new movie Ferrari stars the extraordinary Penelope Cruz and Adam Driver and is the next best thing to getting into a race car yourself. Even more than brilliant acting and dazzling driving, the movie tells well the 1957 story of comeback as Enzo Ferrari and his wife fight a bankruptcy pre-quelled 10 years earlier . . . and bet the company on the iconic Mille Miglia, the hair-raising 1,000-mile race across the untamed Italian countryside.

Over several decades, I’ve made it a mission to see—live—some of history’s greatest musical performers … And even I’m impressed with the list: Jethro Tull | Steppenwolf | Ten Years After | Deep Purple | Three Dog Night | David Bowie | Frank Sinatra | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young | Bob Dylan | Bonnie Raitt | Mike Cross | Neil Young | Tom Jones | Procol Harum | Tony Bennett | The Who | Billy Joel | Cyndi Lauper | Phil Collins | Rod Stewart | Willie Nelson | Aretha Franklin | Sam Moore | Sting | Alicia Keys | Eric Clapton | The Allman Brothers | Elton John | Paul McCartney | Garth Brooks | Paul Simon | Madonna | Sarah Brightman | Andrea Bocelli | Barbara Streisand | The Beach Boys | Celine Dion | Tina Turner | Shania Twain | Cher | U2 | Stevie Wonder | Florence + The Machine | Lady Gaga | Michael Jackson | The Rolling Stones, and Bruce Springsteen…

See below this interesting and important article from Axios


Axios Finish Line

By Mike Allen, Erica Pandey and Jim VandeHei ·Apr 20, 2023 Apr 20, 2023 Axios CEO Jim VandeHei is here with his weekly column on life, work and leadership. Drop him a line: jim@axios.com. * Smart Brevity™ count: 729 words ... 3 mins. Thanks to Amy Stern for the copy edit.

1 big thing: Normal America

Today, the world’s fastest growing region is calling for greater leadership. At present, around the world, in both government and business, we see a wider and wider difference between the skill, quality, and power of our leaders. Arguably, leadership, particularly in Asia, makes more of a difference today than at any point in recent history. This is true because the stakes for the leaders of Asia are higher—and so, then, are the demands of leadership.

Vladimir Lenin once declared: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” 2022 was a year where decades happened. It was a very exponential year. Over thirty years, in advising over twenty-two winning global presidential campaigns, we’ve learned there are two kinds...