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I tend to surround “myself with people Page 21: Holiday who share a certain Gifts For Good Guide. optimistic vision of the Twenty-six great gift ideas that keep on world – people more giving and inspire the future. Allbirds apt to ask why than footwear, shown here, why not. (page 22) promise all natural materials and claim to Neil Blumenthal,” be the world’s most Co-Founder Warby Parker comfortable shoe.
54/ Smart Tech Cool gadgets and ideas that change our world. 56/ Advice For The Richest Person in History 14/ Save The Date Here’s what Jeff Bezos should do with Meet like-minded people at his $143 billion. world-class events. 60/ Fix a Phone or Prison 16/ Inspire The Future The social enterprise beating knife crime Mythbusters who challenge the status quo. in Britain. 18/ First Houses on Mars 62/ Food Innovators Will be Eco-Friendly Baking sustainability into our culinary delights. The first Martian dwellings are already being planned. 64/ Deval Patrick Shaping a life worth living. 21/ Holiday Gifts for 66/ 7 Leadership Trends 2019 Good Guide Bigger, better, faster for your best year yet. Amazing gifts that promote social good. 68/ Bigger Than Plastic 30/ Oprah Winfrey Three ocean-lovers show that activism and Her greatest lessons and hopes for the future. adventure can go hand-in-hand. 34/ Destinations 70/ Leadership Playbook 2019 Sustainable places that will turn you green. Do you have the essential qualities that make a great leader? Find out here. 36/ Aluna - The Movie Can ancient wisdom save our future? 90/ Can Art Make You a Better Person? 38/ Be Chief A Spanish art consultant wants us to take art It’s a choice, not a title. off its pedestal. 40/ Are You Prepared For 92/ Get a Grip. You Can Break an Intelligent World? That Glass Ceiling What China can teach is about artificial World’s best female boulderer shows us how. intelligence. 94/ Fast Food Nation 46/ A View on Innovation The dark side of the all-American meal. Smart glass shows that it pays to focus on people in buildings. 96/ Top 8 Women CEOs under 40 48/ Michael Bloomberg That you’ve probably never heard of. Straight talk from a “C” student turned billionaire. 98/ Finding Common Ground One funeral, two former presidents, one message 52/ 101 Reasons to Get of unity Out of Bed 100/ My Son Died From Opioids Small world steps. Big planet heroes. So I changed the law. 102/ The Last Word Ten years after the crash - something you should know.
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electric cars commonplace, but Elon is doing it. Sadly, this is the opposite of what most people are taught. As we grow up we are taught to conform to the way things are and to be “realistic.” You can’t make a living as a musician we’re told. Taylor Swift didn’t learn that. You need a college education to be successful. Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, and Mark Zuckerberg didn’t accept that. You can’t live on another planet. Our grandchildren will probably laugh at that, thanks to unrealistic people that Do you ever wonder why some people are able to are making it possible. The most interesting and succeed in spite of enormous obstacles and others successful people in the world are unrealistic… are stopped by small setbacks? I don’t pretend to sometimes even considered unreasonable in their know all the reasons for this, but there is one quality expectations. They have a vision that redefines what I have found to be common in successful leaders we is possible and then they do it – while the reasonable have interviewed around the world, regardless of people are explaining why it can’t be done. The where they come from. Real leaders suffer from a unreasonables inspire a future that is far better than condition that is incurable; they all have unrealistic the world reasonable people would have us settle for. expectations. They believe that every problem Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad has a solution. They believe that they can solve Yunus described it to me this way. He said, “Real some significant problem that no one else has been leaders are able to see something that is unclear to able to solve. Somehow they were not properly others, but once described, they say, “yes, that’s it… domesticated as children into accepting the world that’s what we want.” as it is. They find it impossible to accept the concept Richard Branson may have summed it up best that they are powerless to change things. They have when he shared that “Real leaders see opportunities been told repeatedly that they are crazy, foolhardy, where others see only challenges.” unreasonable and unrealistic. And that is true! I must confess, the Real Leaders team is comprised It’s unrealistic for a 16 year-old girl to think that she of unrealistic people who believe that the world can prevail over the Taliban and be a world leader can be led by gender-balanced teams of visionary for girls education, but Malala earned a Nobel Peace leaders, and that we are all born to lead in our own Prize for doing just that. It’s unrealistic for a girl who way. In a short-sighted, paternalistic and parasitic grew up in poverty and dreamed of being an inspiring world some might question how realistic that vision teacher to think that she could become the first black is. But every day we see evidence that our vision is woman in America to achieve billionaire status (by becoming a reality. being an inspiring teacher to millions), but Oprah If you are one of the “realistic” people out there, did it. And it’s unrealistic for an immigrant to think try joining the millions of “unrealistic” people who he could disrupt the automotive industry and make are changing the world. You will never feel more alive than when you defy the odds and achieve something remarkable, and dare I say, “unrealistic.”
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I like hearing the word “yes.” It’s immediately uplifting and filled with new possibility. In putting this edition of Real Leaders together I heard the word often: “Yes, count me in,” “Yes, I’d love to,” “Yes, you may.” Collaboration used to be just a feel-good word, but it has become a pillar of our Grant Schreiber with Stedman Graham, a new member of the Real Leaders Advisory Board. modern economy and a crucial ingredient to success. Saying yes to a project, person or idea that STRIVE TO INSPIRE at first seems like an improbable match, a waste of time or a deviation from a busy schedule, can turn “When you learn, Liberating a new frontier. out to be one of your best decisions yet. In a world teach, when where entrepreneurs have mixed crickets with you get, give.” cookies (page 62), skateboards with sea waste (page 24), 3-D printers with Mars (page 18) and glazing – Maya Angelou. with smartphones (page 46), there must have been a time when – despite the craziness of the idea – someone said yes. There are 105 stories and ideas in this edition of Real Leaders. I challenge you to find one that inspires you, think of a crazy idea and find someone who will say yes. I’ll never forget the day I saw Oprah’s first Grant Schreiber, Editor televised show in 1986! I was fresh out of college [email protected] and wanted a career in journalism. I remember thinking, “that’s a strong woman who knows how to engage and inspire people.” Ever since then, she has been one of those influential people who has personally inspired me to speak out about issues that matter. I’d like to thank Ms. Winfrey MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE WITH US for “leading by example” and hope that we have honored her accordingly in this issue. In the spirit We all know, together, that humanity and the planet we share are in trouble. And we stand at a precipice. of the holidays and inspired by Oprah’s “Favorite Things” we have created a “Gifts for Good” guide Just as I stood at the precipice to walk onto a rocket ship to be part of a moonshot to build the that will help shine-a-light on gifts that deliver international space station, you all — right here, right now — stand on the precipice of an opportunity to social impact. Some call it “buying with a purpose” create and deliver moonshots that will transform our future. Join with us at the intersection of frontier but I call it “smart shopping which advances the world.” We invite you to explore! technology and impact investing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
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I look forward to FROM REFUGEE advocating“ for children around the world, just as TO FASHION RAMP others advocated for me. Somali-American supermodel and activist Halima Aden Halima Aden ” has become a UNICEF Ambassador. As a refugee herself, she uniquely understands the needs, hopes and dreams of the 30 million children around the world who have been forcibly displaced by conflict. Despite walking the ramps of New York Fashion Week and appearing on the cover of Vogue, the 20-year-old always had a long- standing dream of returning to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where she was born, to help those who are experiencing what she once did. “Although the children in Kakuma may be refugees, first and foremost they are children,” she says. “They deserve every opportunity to flourish, to hope, to dream, to be successful,” www.unicefusa.org
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GENERATION ROBOT Throughout the years, technology has improved drastically - creating machines and devices that were unimaginable 50 years ago. Perhaps the most advanced and interesting of society’s technological advancements is robots - but it’s also the most misunderstood. Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer, roboticist, and television host, best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, wants to debunk many of the fears. More than 70% of Americans express concern about a world in which machines perform many of the tasks done by humans. Imahara believes humans and robots can coexist and work together in harmony. “Robots not only have MOUSER/ GENERATION ROBOT MOUSER/ GENERATION a technological impact on society, but also a social and moral one,” says Imahara. Rather than doing repetitive, automated tasks, modern robots now involve psychology, because machines will increasingly be working alongside humans and thus need to understand people. www.mouser.com 17 WINTER 2018 / REAL-LEADERS.COM THE TWO-WORLD’S-COLLIDE-SECTION THE FIRST HOUSES ON MARS WILL BE ECO-FRIENDLY The first human dwellings for Mars are already being planned. Ironically, these future structures have more in common with the Stone Age.
Habitat units will parachute down to the surface of Mars using airbags to cushion the landing. Once in place, the pods will be inflated remotely and connected together via tunnels. Soil and rock (“regolith”) will be moved into place by small robots and 3-D printers will construct exterior shells from recycled mission waste to protect against the planets harsh radiation. FOSTER + PARTNERS
18 REAL-LEADERS.COM / WINTER 2018 The architects of Apple Park, the futuristic, multi-billion dollar new headquarters for Apple in Cupertino, California, have set their sights on a more ambitious construction project - Mars. London-based firm Foster + Partners have an ongoing collaboration with NASA to help develop habitable pods for the first citizens of this fourth planet from the sun, where an underground liquid ‘lake’ was recently detected in the depths of space. The architects won a NASA competition that aims to advance fundamental construction technologies that create off- world habitats. Foster + Partners won by scoring higher points for maximizing the use of local resources and waste from the space mission. Competitors were marked down for ideas that relied on water and imported construction materials. By using 30% recycled mission plastics with 70% Martian soil and rock, the winning architects demonstrated that sustainable, eco-friendly solutions are still possible 34 million miles from earth. “We hope that people are enthused and excited about the possibilities of the future,” says David Summerfield of Foster + Partners. “And that it will inspire the next generation to reach for the stars.”
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