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Learning to Lead: How to Take Your Firm to Future Growth

Mike Useem, Wharton Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management, talks about the future of work, the future of leadership, and his new book: The Edge: How Ten CEOs Learned to Lead - and the Lessons for Us (released June 22, 2021).

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