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The $25B CEO: Most Leaders Are Setting Goals Way Too Small
April 14, 20261h 39m · 19,443 words
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Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest trucking companies in the world, and leads a team of 40,000 people across a multi‑billion‑dollar operation. He started as employee, trained under Brad Jacobs (who’s built eight multibillion‑dollar companies from scratch), and has spent the last two decades turning engineering discipline, frontline feedback, and a deep belief in human potential into a repeatable leadership system.
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In my mind, what ego is, you think that you're so good at something that you stop learning.
“Naturally, when you do that, you automatically atrophied that person's brain from them being able to find the best outcome.”
“I usually do it with more than one platform because each one of them will have slightly different takeaways than what the takeaways that I had. And I think the variability between them can make you spot things that you didn't see”
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