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How Tech Mogul Scott Kriens Found His Way to Conscious Leadership

By Aaron Kahlow — 2017

After decades as an executive in the tech industry, Scott Kriens resigned as CEO of Juniper Networks in 2009 to follow his passions in the areas of authentic leadership and integrated living. Now his new project, 1440 Multiversity, is scheduled to open in May 2017 as a retreat center offering “teachable skills for better living” programs presented by top names in personal development, health and wellness, leadership, career development, and more. CONSCIOUS COMPANY Chief Expansion Officer Aaron Kahlow caught up with Kriens on a tour of the new Santa Cruz, CA, campus to hear more about how he found a renewed sense of mission in life and what he’s learned about values-driven leadership along the way.

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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders.

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Adam Grant
2017
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Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

Drawing on his groundbreaking work on intelligence and creativity, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, developer of the theory of Multiple Intelligences, offers fascinating revelations about the mind of the leader and his or her followers.

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Howard E Gardner
2025
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The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go

How do great leaders thrive in uncertain times? By changing their mindsets about power. Why do some organizations grow and thrive with complexity, while others collapse under their own weight? The answer is simple, but transformative: when power is hoarded and lorded over others, it is finite.

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Matthew Barzun
2025
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Start with Why—How Great Leaders Inspire Action | Simon Sinek | TEDxPugetSound

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership—starting with a golden circle and the question: “Why?”. His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Wright brothers.

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Simon Sinek
2009
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What’s Your Problem? To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve

Are you solving the right problems? Have you or your colleagues ever worked hard on something, only to find out you were focusing on the wrong problem entirely? Most people have. In a survey, 85 percent of companies said they often struggle to solve the right problems.

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Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
2020
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Principle-Centered Leadership

How do individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve organizations failing despite the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being spent on them? How do we unleash creativity, talent, and energy within ourselves—and others—in...

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Stephen Covey
1992
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Linda Hill: How to Manage for Collective Creativity

What's the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of "Collective Genius," has studied some of the world's most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas...

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2015
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Marcus Aurelius: How to Wake Up Early (Stoicism)

In this video we will be talking about 10 important insights for waking up early from the writings of Marcus Aurelius. He was also a devout student of the philosophy of Stoicism.

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Marcus Aurelius
2019
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Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck

A friendly, funny, practical guide for creatives and entrepreneurs, written by a four-time Emmy award-winning and two-time Grammy-nominated composer-guitarist-producer who has worked with Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, and Krishna Das, among many others.

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David Nichtern
2019
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The Innovator’s Cookbook: Essentials for Inventing What Is Next

From bestselling author and Internet pioneer Steven Johnson, an essential book for anyone interested in innovation: the key texts on the topic from a wide range of fields as well as interviews with successful, real-world innovators, prefaced with an original essay from Johnson that draws upon his...

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Steven Johnson
2011
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