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Matthew Barzun has served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Sweden. He served as National Finance Chair for former President Barack Obamaโ€™s re-election campaign in 2011 and 2012. In 2008, he volunteered for then-Senator Barack Obamaโ€™s presidential election campaign, leading the effort to conduct supporter-driven small-dollar fundraisers. He joined CNET Networks in 1993 as its fourth employee and held various management positions during his 11 years with the company, including Chief Strategy Officer. He speaks frequently at organizations, governments, and nonprofits about the ideas in this book.

For inquiries about speaking engagements, please contact matthew@matthewbarzun.com.

MATTHEW BARZUN

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TESTIMONIALS

& Reviews

โ€œA leadership manifesto like youโ€™ve never read before. Every page is eye-opening, provocative, and energizing.โ€

โ€“ CHARLES DUHIGG, author of The Power of Habit

โ€œDelightfully paradoxical and deeply insightful. Read it and lead differently.โ€

โ€“ ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, CEO of New America and former director of policy planning. US Department of State

โ€œA gift. This is certainly the path to the collective leadership we need to tackle todayโ€™s challenges and shape a better future.โ€

โ€“ WENDY KOPP, CEO and cofounder of Teach for All and founder of Teach for America

โ€œMatthew Barzun might well be the first modest man to write a great book on leadership. This is a gift.โ€

โ€“ RICHARD THALER, Nobel Prize laureate and coauthor of โ€œNudgeโ€

โ€œAn extraordinary book about human flourishing, about linking properly to the best bits of ourselves and of others to move mountains. Enlightening and brain reviving.โ€

โ€“ ALAIN De BOTTON, author of โ€œHow Proust Can Change Your Lifeโ€ and cofounder of โ€œThe School of Lifeโ€

โ€œFun, informative, and mind-expanding for everyone, whether youโ€™re leading a business, a country, or a family.โ€

โ€“ DANNY MEYER, author of โ€œSetting the Tableโ€ and โ€œCEO of the Union Square Hospitality Groupโ€

โ€œA brilliant challenge to conventions that have held back organizations for decades and a crisp playbook for making distributed leadership work for everyone.โ€

โ€“ TED SARANDOS, co-CEO and chief content officer of Netflix

โ€œBravo. These are ideas that can heal and inspire in a time when we are suspicious, tribal, at each othersโ€™ throats.โ€

โ€“ KEN BURNS, documentary filmmaker

โ€œThis book is a breakthrough. Itโ€™s beautifully written, perfectly timed, and heralds a new way forward. Im buying a dozen copies to share with friends and colleagues.โ€

โ€“ SETH GODIN, founder of altMBA and author of โ€œThe Practiceโ€

โ€œA book as provocative, energizing, and humane as Barzun himself. It points the way forward in a time which we desperately need new and better leadership.โ€

โ€“ ADMIRAL JAMES STAVRIDIS, U.S. Navy (retired), Supreme Allied Commander at NATO (2009-2013)

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