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Craft & work
What role should instinct play in major decisions?
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The American Academy of Achievement, to its honourees, its oral-history interviews
Near-verbatim recurring Academy prompt about judgment under pressure.
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Akio Toyoda
President of Toyota Motor Corporation, 2009–2023; chairman from 2023
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Toyota Group genba leader, Toyota Group genba-leader dialogue, Toyota Times, 29 February 2024
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Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
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