Every global enterprise connects as a culture before it brings value to a market. The third book in the Redefining Leadership series goes beneath the strategy to the human architecture that creates it. The first gathered the icons. The second carried innovation across borders. This one asks what produces the global systems that proliferate: the cultures that shape a region before it becomes a global destination, the art that invites a leader to innovate, and the conversations that reflect a true meeting of the minds. What gives an organization that je ne sais quoi - the quality every competitor feels but none can copy? What holds a society together across generations, and what makes global enterprises thrive for a century while others dissolve in a decade? How does value move through human systems - across languages, borders, and beliefs? Here are the makers and interpreters. Poets beside physicists. Chefs, composers, curators, and the executives who credit a novel or a piece of music with the impetus that redirected a company.
They speak about the traditions they inherited, the ones they broke, and what they carry from continent to continent. Anne Tammel has spent over twenty-seven years in the spaces where the future is designed. A Fortune 100 advisor, global positioning strategist, and Silicon Valley native who began her career at the firm that launched the Macintosh for Steve Jobs, she founded Poets and Dreamers International in 2001 on the premise that words, art, and conversation invite transformation. Join Anne on this journey of conversations with some of the greatest global minds of our time. Anne Tammel explores how jazz bands form the best models for collaborative teams, cooking with passion unites regions, AI restores botanical gardens, human speech begins as music, and peak performance starts with gratitude. From the organic orchards of San Jose and early Silicon Valley with Steve Jobs, to the design houses of New York, hidden studios of Paris, and boardrooms of top executives; from the Riot House with Led Zeppelin to the shores of Amalfi. Open this book and join the Poets and the Dreamers.