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286 – Please Demote Me – Satya Nadella

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105 – A rose by any other clinical name (Rerun)

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285 – Building Empires – Forrest Mars

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284 – The Meaning You Choose – Tsutomu Yamaguchi

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283 – What Data Can’t Tell You – New Coke

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282 – Can You See Tahiti? – Polynesian Voyaging Society

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281 – Stronger Than Steel – Stephanie Kwolek

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280 – A Portfolio of Possibilities – Picasso and Kahnweiler

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279 – Computer Says No – UK Office Scandal

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233 – Sorry We Suck: Domino's Pizza (rerun)

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278 – Selling Steam Trains – James Watt

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277 – Noticing Changes Everything – Jane Goodall

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276 – What We Do is Who We Are – Emlyn Hatch

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275 – The Magic Went Missing – Manchester United

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273 – Bold, Brave and a bit Quirky – Paul Fairweather

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272 – Are You Selling Trombone Oil? – Bob Iger

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271 – Planning for the Unexpected – New Horizons

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215 – Rising from Burnout – Simone Biles (rerun)

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209 – Take the Opposing View (rerun)

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270 – Publishing on Principal – Katharine Graham

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269 – Generosity Inspires Generosity – Maria Andrejczyk

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268 – Sharpening the Saw – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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267 – Back to What Matters – Howard Schultz

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266 – The Right to Wear Pants – Helen Hulick Beebe

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265 – Thrown to the Sharks – Quentin Tarantino

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261 – Gambling on a Curry – Dishoom

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264 – Finding What Didn’t Exist – Beth Norris

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263 – Chasing Payment, Finding Connection

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262 – What We Walk Past

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260 – Every Turn is An Olympic Final – Mary Meagher

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259 – Unreasonable Hospitality – Will Guidara

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258 – A Memorial in Mashed Potato – Maya Lin

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257 – How to Make a Great Story Boring – Notre-Dame

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256 – The Power of Coaching

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255 – Rich Church, Poor Church

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128 – Collaboration and diversity is how you make progress (Rerun)

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254 – Cooking Up Company Culture – Ericsson

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253 – Radical Transparency in Action – Patagonia

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252 – The Architecture of Play – Carl Sorensen

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251 – Starting an Airline with a Blackboard – Richard Branson

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250 – Barbie is Born – Ruth Handler

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249 – Find the Torture You’re Comfortable With – Jerry Seinfeld

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248 – Tuning into New Frequencies – Hedy Lamarr

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247 – The Cure was Already Here – David Fajgenbaum

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246 – The Value is in the Doing : Patrick Matthew

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245 – Doing the Human Thing: Joe Ingles

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244 – Building Culture with Your Bare Hands: Jeff Bezos

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243 – Trust Your Spider Senses: Stan Lee

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242 – Who’s Going to Bell the Cat?

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241 – Turning Mistakes Into Magic: Miles Davies

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Episode 240 – Everyday Storytelling: The Secret to Better Communication

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239 – Patrick Cooley: How Stories Shape Leadership at Mars

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238 – When Incentives Backfire: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt

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237 – Play Your Own Game: Josh Waitzkin

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236 – Ignoring Expertise: The Vasa

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235 – Price vs Value: Julius Caesar's Ransom

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234 – Paul Luxton: Storytelling and Authenticity in Leadership

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233 – Sorry We Suck: Domino's Pizza

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232 – Humanity in the Trenches: The Christmas Truce of 1914

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231 – A Parade to Billions: Bob Iger

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230 – Purpose Drives Performance: Adam Grant

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229 – Less is More: Edward Everett

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228 – The Power and Peril of Storytelling: Orson Welles

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227 – Too Good to Ignore: Cecilia Payne

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226 – Falconry and Fortitude: The Siege of Malta

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225 – Shady Dealings in a Bright Industry: Phoebus Cartel

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224 – Small Inventions Can Change the World: John Gates

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223 – Shelley Beumont: Storytelling in Communications

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222 – Bridge to Nowhere

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221 – Accidentally Iconic: Paul Simon

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220 – Paul Fairweather: Storytelling and Creating Without Fear

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219 – The Art of Brewing Influence

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218 – Punching an Unconventional Path to Greatness – Vasyl Lomachenko

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217 – The Foundations of Royal Canin – Jean Cathary

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216 – Challenge the Status Quo – Todd McFarlane

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215 – Rising from Burnout – Simone Biles

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214 – Jumping to New Ideas – Richard Fosbury

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213 – Value is Relative

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212 – Fight Fire with Fire – Wagner Dodge

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211 – Looks Can be Deceiving – Ronald Read

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210 – There’s a Story Behind Everything

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209 – Take the Opposing View

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208 – Making Numbers Meaningful

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207 – Control is an Illusion – Barbra Streisand

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206 – Necessity is the Mother of Invention – John Sipe

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205 – Creativity in Constraints – Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie

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204 – The Serve and Return Turning Point: Agassi, Becker and perseverance

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203 – The resilience and persistence story of Penfolds Grange

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202 – Efficiency versus cost cutting

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201 – Governance and accountability lose their Barings

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200 – Weber BBQ Australian Success

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199 – Approach to the south poles apart – Amundsen Scott

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198 – Mayor in the monkey suit – Stuart Drummond

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197 – Atlanta Olympic swim 1996 – Kieren Perkins

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196 – Better fire story – Michigan Uni

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195 – Bullet train kingfisher nose – Eiji Nakatsu

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194 – French reverse mortgage – Jeanne Calment

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193 – Rolling Stones songwriting – Andrew Loog Oldham

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192 – Americas Cup speed focus – Peter Blake

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190 – Infancy of the newborn test – Virginia Apgar