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Quick, what’s one word you’d use to describe a leader you admire? “Charismatic” or “bold” might spring to mind—but what about “humble” or “resilient”? These traits are crucial, say the authors of McKinsey’s forthcoming CEO Excellence book (available to preorder), in the latest Inside the Strategy Room podcast episode. The lively conversation with Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vik Malhotra highlights leadership lessons from nearly 70 CEOs, with insight on the practices and mindsets that set the best CEOs apart, touching on everything from managing through the pandemic and other crises to making big strategic bets. Don’t miss it.

— Emily Adeyanju, digital editor, New York

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“Business has a very big stake as leaders to be engaged in making sure that the moment we have a couple of months of low virus spread, that we remember to make the investments needed to ensure that when and if a variant emerges, we’re able to have those protections in place and, frankly, more protections in place than we’ve had in the last year as well.”

—Shubham Singhal, senior partner, on the impact of the COVID-19 Omicron variant on businesses in “New variant, new challenges: How are we coping with Omicron?”

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