Courage

Kissinger’s Leadership

Henry Kissinger’s best selling “Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy” (2022) revolves around six detailed biographies through which leadership is analyzed. The biographies are interesting, and his access to these people presents unique insights. However, the “so what” aspect of leadership from these six biographies is underdeveloped. Notes: “Leadership is most essential during periods of […]

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Zero to One

Zero to One

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (2014) by Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal and major startup funder thereafter) and Blake Masters (who took a course with Peter at Stanford, and using the extensive course notes produced the basis for this book). The crux of the book is vertical innovation […]

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About me

Logan Cochrane

Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.

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