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The World's Great Business Leaders

The World's Great Business Leaders

Lifting the lid on the triumphs and pitfalls of leadership

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The World's Great Business Leaders

Lifting the lid on the triumphs and pitfalls of leadership

Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton with John Huey
My Story
16 min4.4
The Ride of a Lifetime
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
30 min4.4
Finding My Virginity
Finding My Virginity
Richard Branson
The New Autobiography
29 min4.6
Losing My Virginity
Losing My Virginity
Richard Branson
How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
30 min4.4
Pour Your Heart Into It
Pour Your Heart Into It
Howard Schultz
How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
18 min4.4
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
John Wood
An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
18 min4.0
#GIRLBOSS
#GIRLBOSS
Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso‘s story of transformation, from high school dropout to CEO of a multimillion-dollar fashion empire
17 min4.2
Alibaba
Alibaba
Duncan Clark
The house that Jack Ma built
20 min4.3
Think Like Zuck
Think Like Zuck
Ekaterina Walter
The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg
12 min4.1
Startupland
Startupland
Mikkel Svane
How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business
15 min3.9
Becoming Steve Jobs
Becoming Steve Jobs
Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli
The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
25 min4.4

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