Megan Sauer

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Megan Sauer

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says he's never been afraid to pose questions. As a kid, Jassy persistently asked family and friends, "Why?" to learn about the world — "perhaps to an annoying extent," he wrote in his most recent annual letter to shareholders, which published on April 10. Throughout his tenure at the $2.01 trillion company, Jassy has noticed that the same simple question has helped Amazon, and its employees, become successful, he wrote.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Megan Sauer |Lauren Shamo

Charles Coristine used to revel in working at Morgan Stanley. He loved the pace, even waking up in the middle of the night to trade in the Tokyo and London stock markets. In 2011, after nearly two decades on Wall Street, Coristine burned out. He tried multiple remedies: switching to a vegetarian diet, meditating, enrolling in an MBA program. None of them worked. At a barbeque, Coristine met an owner of snack company LesserEvil, who talked about wanting to sell his "flatlining" business.

3 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Megan Sauer

Running a $1.92 trillion company isn't for the faint of heart, according to Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Most of his job relies around making high-stakes decisions and solving problems other people have been unable to fix, Pichai said at a Stanford Business School speaking event in April 2022. Whenever he needs to cope with stress at work, he remembers a simple two-part mantra he learned as a graduate student, he said.

4 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Megan Sauer

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates likes to stockpile advice for when she feels uncertain. Whenever someone tells her something helpful, French Gates writes down their quotes so she can "replay them in my head," she told the Wall Street Journal Magazine in a story published on Monday.

4 weeks ago | nbcnewyork.com | Megan Sauer

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