What Makes Great Leaders & How to Live an Extraordinary Life | Dr. Jared Diamond
Dr. Jared Diamond, PhD, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and Professor at UCLA. We discuss the surprising and often chance events that shaped human history and leadership in politics, religion, business and athletics. As one of the most influential public-facing scholars of the last 100 years, Dr. Diamond also shares his advice on how to pursue a career and life that reflects your unique interests and that makes a positive contribution to the world. He also shares the tools he uses to keep his mind and body vigorous.
Articles
- Patterns of non-electrolyte permeability (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences)
- Molecular forces governing non-electrolyte permeation through cell membranes (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences)
- Monkey responses to three different alarm calls: evidence of predator classification and semantic communication (Science)
- Leadership or luck? Randomization inference for leader effects in politics, business, and sports (Science Advances)
- The effect of CEOs on firm performance (Strategic Management Journal)
- The island dilemma: Lessons of modern biogeographic studies for the design of natural reserves (Biological Conservation)
Books
- Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter? by Jared Diamond
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography by Ernst Mayr and Jared Diamond
- The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich
- Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic by Sandra Kahn and Paul R. Ehrlich
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman—Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual by Yvon Chouinard
People Mentioned
- Ernst Mayr: evolutionary biologist, ornithologist
- Alan Hodgkin: physiologist, Nobel laureate
- Andrew Huxley: physiologist, Nobel laureate
- Gerald Edelman: immunologist, Nobel laureate
- David Hubel: neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate
- Torsten Wiesel: neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate
- James Watson: biologist, geneticist, Nobel laureate
- Francis Crick: biologist, biophysicist, Nobel laureate
- Peter Marler: Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis
- Richard Feynman: theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate
- Murray Gell-Mann: theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate
- Robert B. Woodward: organic chemist, Nobel laureate
- Paul Ehrlich: evolutionary and population biologist
- Sandra Kahn: orthodontist, craniofacial growth
- Robert Sapolsky: Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Stanford University
- Thomas Lovejoy: conservation biologist
- Sherman Mellinkoff: Professor of Medicine and Dean, UCLA School of Medicine
- Edgar Douglas Adrian: physiologist, Nobel laureate
- Bryan Matthews: physiologist
- A.J.P. Taylor: British historian
- Benjamin Britten: English composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach: German Baroque composer
- Adolf Hitler: Nazi German dictator
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. President
- Harry S. Truman: U.S. President
- Winston Churchill: British prime minister
- Joseph Stalin: Soviet dictator
- Benito Mussolini: Italian Fascist dictator
- Augusto Pinochet: Chilean military dictator
- Anwar Sadat: Egyptian president
- Nelson Mandela: South African president
- Lee Kuan Yew: Singapore's founding prime minister
- Neville Chamberlain: British prime minister
- Claus von Stauffenberg: German resistance officer
- Christopher Columbus: Italian navigator and explorer
- Jesus: central Christian figure
- Saint Paul the Apostle: early Christian missionary
- Saint Mark: early Christian missionary
- John the Baptist: Jewish preacher
- Joseph Smith: Mormon founder
- Brigham Young: Mormon religious leader
- Ann Lee: Shaker movement founder
- Jim Jones: Peoples Temple cult leader
- David Koresh: Branch Davidian cult leader
- Muhammad: Prophet of Islam
- Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi: Sudanese religious and military leader
- John Wooden: UCLA basketball coach
- Bill Walton: basketball player
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: basketball player
- Bill Belichick: football coach
- Bobby Knight: basketball coach
- Yvon Chouinard: Patagonia founder
- Steve Jobs: Apple cofounder
- Bill Gates: Microsoft cofounder
- Jeff Bezos: Amazon founder
- Elon Musk: Tesla and SpaceX leader
- Mark Zuckerberg: Meta cofounder
- Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO
- Dario Amodei: Anthropic cofounder
- William Hewlett: Hewlett-Packard cofounder
- David Packard: Hewlett-Packard cofounder
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