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Stefan Stern - The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition

Sep 06, 202432 min
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Episode description

Many of us wrestle with daunting life-choice questions from time to time: what should I be aiming for? Am I being ambitious enough? Has an excess of ambition led me astray?


Stefan Stern has dedicated a lifetime to answering these questions. The FT's former management columnist, a think-tank director, and now a professor at Cass Business School, Stefan joins the podcast to investigate how ambition and success work together through the unlikely icon of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth. Whether your looking for a change of direction or emphasis on how to move forward, this meditation on the complex nature of ambition is for you.

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