Strategy writer and Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he was Dean from 1998 to 2013; co-author with A.G. Lafley of Playing to Win.
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I think of it as one of the handful of books written in the 21st century that I find most valuable to my thinking and work (along with The Mystery of Capital, (Growth) Mindset, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Good Jobs Strategy, and Grit
Playing to Win/Practitioner Insights piece assessing a popular strategy book against Playing to Win
Nadia Schadlow is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served as a deputy national security adviser during Trump’s first term.
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Um, a second book um I just took back from my bookshelf because of uh Peru, but the mystery of capital by Hernando Dodto. And I think it's also interesting to remind us of sort of some perpetual problems in the Western Hemisphere um the the the tension um between you know socialism and capitalism and and Hernando Dotto specifically speaks about the importance of titles to land.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-nadia-schadlow.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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