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A pension fund deciding where to invest for the next twenty years wants to know how a company’s emissions profile will affect its value over that period. In most cases nobody can give it a reliable answer. Dame Alison Rose, who led NatWest Group from November 2019 to July 2023 and now serves as a…

Ask a senior executive about mentoring and you will usually get a warm answer that commits to nothing. The word has been drained by overuse. It now covers everything from a scheduled coffee to a genuine, uncomfortable, career-altering conversation. What separates the two is rarely the seniority of the mentor. It is whether anyone is…

Every occupation teaches something, but most of what it teaches is technical and stays inside the job. Farming is unusual in that its lessons tend to escape. A person who has spent years watching weather destroy work carries that experience into how he raises children and how he handles a business setback, whether or not…

Leadership literature has a tendency to arrive slightly late. By the time a set of leadership qualities has been named, studied, codified, and published, the environment that made those qualities urgent has usually moved on. Dame Alison Rose has spent her career operating in a financial institution large enough to feel macroeconomic shifts before most…

Origin stories in business tend to arrive retrospectively, tidied into neat cause and effect. The pivot moment, the formative insight, the experience that explained everything that followed. In the case of Michael Shanly, the origin story has the unusual quality of being precisely true. It involves a boy, a bicycle, and a house with boarded…

A podcast built on the premise that agricultural expertise should be freely accessible faces a particular challenge: the expertise it needs does not all live in one place. The agronomist with the most rigorous understanding of soil health in the Midwest may know relatively little about livestock economics. The crop insurance specialist who can explain…

Product evolution reveals a company’s commitment to continuous improvement. First-generation products establish proof of concept. Second-generation offerings refine based on real-world use. Third-generation products represent maturity, incorporating years of field experience into design decisions that address actual user pain points rather than hypothetical problems. Irrigreen’s recent release of its third-generation sprinkler head and controller demonstrates…

Public-facing work invites opinion. In live music, that scrutiny is constant, emotional, and rarely neutral. Artists bring expectations. Audiences bring memory. Cities bring their own sense of ownership over cultural spaces. Seth Hurwitz has spent decades operating inside that pressure without allowing it to derail his judgment. As the founder and chairman of I.M.P. and…

Educational content often struggles with tone. Lean too technical and audiences disengage. Lean too entertaining and substance thins out. Tanner Winterhof has built a recognizable voice by refusing to choose between the two. As a co-host of the Farm4Profit podcast, he teaches business fundamentals for the agricultural industry through a style that blends humour, candor,…

On a show night in Washington, D.C., the work rarely lives behind a desk. It lives in the passage between the lobby and the floor, and in the quick checks a staff member makes when a line starts to bend the wrong way. Seth Hurwitz has spent decades building venues where those details decide whether…