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EJ Elena Shin

EJ Elena Shin

Leadership] Inside Europe’s Economic Crises — How Christine Lagarde Leads in a Fragmented, Volatile World (ft. Francine Lacqua)

Leadership] Inside Europe’s Economic Crises — How Christine Lagarde Leads in a Fragmented, Volatile World (ft. Francine Lacqua)

Inside Europe’s Economic Crises With Christine Lagarde —Lagarde's leadership style: mandate-led, calm under pressure, consensus-driven where possible (but also authoritative where needed), and direct about trade-offs.

Leadership] The Dimon Operating System — How to Run a Scaled Institution Without Losing Speed (ft. David Rubenstein)

Leadership] The Dimon Operating System — How to Run a Scaled Institution Without Losing Speed (ft. David Rubenstein)

Jamie Dimon's leadership style: direct, detail-first, allergic to bureaucracy, and anchored in “do the right thing, fast.”

Leadership] AI Is the Main Thing — What's in Jon Gray's Winning Leadership Recipe to CEOs & How Blackstone Stays Ahead at $1.2T+ Scale

Leadership] AI Is the Main Thing — What's in Jon Gray's Winning Leadership Recipe to CEOs & How Blackstone Stays Ahead at $1.2T+ Scale

AI is driving a once-in-a-generation infrastructure buildout. The edge isn’t predicting outcomes—it’s executing through disruption risk, staying paranoid in the right ways, and preventing scale from turning into bureaucracy.

Obsidian Memo] First Principles Thinking for Sustainable/Impact Investing: Rebuilding the Stack from the Atoms Up

Obsidian Memo] First Principles Thinking for Sustainable/Impact Investing: Rebuilding the Stack from the Atoms Up

First principles thinking can rescue impact investing from fuzzy labels—by rebuilding the thesis from fundamentals: causal mechanisms, additionality, constraints, verification, and accountability. A practical framework for sharper decisions and real-world outcomes.

Obsidian Memo] 1929 — Lessons from the 1929 Crash & A Reminder That Craft Still Wins (ft. Andrew Ross Sorkin's London Talk)

Obsidian Memo] 1929 — Lessons from the 1929 Crash & A Reminder That Craft Still Wins (ft. Andrew Ross Sorkin's London Talk)

Lessons from the 1929 crash + Andrew Ross Sorkin’s London talk: what today’s CIOs must learn about hidden leverage, AI-driven growth illusions, and trust decay—plus reflections on leadership, policy, and a signed-copy moment for a New Yorker in London.

AI Notebook] Infrastructure, Compute & the Future of Work — Elon Musk’s AI Future (20-year playbook), ft. Peter Diamandis

AI Notebook] Infrastructure, Compute & the Future of Work — Elon Musk’s AI Future (20-year playbook), ft. Peter Diamandis

Elon Musk predicts AGI by 2026 and the end of mandatory labor in 20 years. I summarize his "Age of Abundance" timeline, the US-China AI race, and the energy bottleneck. Plus, a reflection on finding purpose in a post-work world and the value of human imperfection.

Book] Leadership | Typhoon – Joseph Conrad

Book] Leadership | Typhoon – Joseph Conrad

Why does Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos keep Typhoon by Joseph Conrad on his bedside table? This 100-page leadership masterclass shows how Captain MacWhirr's quiet resolve during a catastrophic storm reveals what real leadership looks like—no charisma, just ballast.