You’ve just been blindsided by a business setback or a personal loss. The experience could render you crippled by caution, or it could help you reframe the future. As the interviews below demonstrate, life lessons can create opportunity for growth and innovation. At times, they can harness the potential that turns the biggest gambles into the greatest payoffs.
In this edition of Readers & Leaders, learn how perceived setbacks turned three authors into catalysts for change and transformed their approach to business and leadership. When met with the challenges of Ebola and energy deprivation in the poorest communities, Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, employed the “big bets” concept—using innovative solutions to tackle the world’s greatest problems. In a new Author Talks interview, Dr. Shah shares the importance of learning from others to enact change, why trusting your moral instincts is important, and why giving up control is essential to achieving scale and sustainability. In other featured interviews, Ron Shaich, founder and former CEO of Au Bon Pain and Panera Bread, explores how the loss of his parents helped him redefine a life well-lived and turn pain into purpose, and BBC analysis editor Ros Atkins discusses how a lost job opportunity triggered a journey into improving his communication skills.
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