Just out in TIME - The Price of Faustian Bargains with Trump time.com/article/2026...
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
@jeffsonnenfeld.bsky.social
Yale SOM Lester Crown Professor in Practice of Management, Founder of Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI) -- jeffrey.sonnenfeld.celi@yale.edu
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Just out on @CNBC - Ukraine Starlink slowdown raises Musk business risks www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/u...
In @fortune.com - The backwards AI pacing debate & how far business is from the frontier - DC & Silicon Valley have found a new fight over AI in pacing...Corporate USA is yrs behind the AI frontier & labs’ fortunes will be decided by trust & adoption, not raw capability. fortune.com/2026/09/22/a...
Just out in @fortune.com - Trump's $5,000 pledge and the bond market revolt shows it's a voter bribe costing every American $8,000 fortune.com/2026/09/10/t...
In TIME - Leaders Pivoting on Data Centers Require More Than Roads, Water, & Power Promises - Leaders across the political spectrum...want communities to actually benefit. The best listen to citizens’ concerns while constructively raising the bar for the data center industry time.com/article/2026...
In Chief Executive - Five Types of AI Prep Boards Need - Your board won’t be your AI savior but can help you prepare. Avoiding obsolescence. Career clichés. Guard your information. Don’t fall for the hype about physical infrastructure. Remember your history. chiefexecutive.net/five-types-o...
Just out in @hartfordcourant.bsky.social - CT Way is the American Way - Connecticut (Lamont vs. Fazio) a Model of How American Politics Should Work www.courant.com/2026/08/13/o...
On @cnbc.com - Putin is the grand puppeteer behind these conflicts www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...
In @fortune.com - Careful what you bid for: The Ellisons’ PSKY/WBD deal is slipping toward a costly legal and financial cliff - During the bidding war, we called it a lose-lose proposition. The coin landed PSKY's way, and the levy for calling the toss may still come due fortune.com/2026/08/03/p...
Just out in TIME with Amb. John Herbst, Gen. Tom Kolditz, and Col. Cedric Leighton - Putin the Puppeteer - How Russia Benefits from Trump's War in Iran time.com/article/2026...
On @msnownews.bsky.social with @stephruhle.bsky.social - Trump's tariff threats fit pattern of divert and distract from Trump's Ten Commandments yale.box.com/s/ziifquc3ek...
In @fortune.com - Trump's Tariff Tantrum Piles More Dizzying Distractions On Top of Ever-Spiraling Failures fortune.com/2026/07/22/t...
In @TIME - Why It Is Time for the West to Crush Putin’s War Economy - The NATO gathering promoted a fiction of joint action and self-congratulation...the private sector has fought this war with greater consistency and courage than the many governments praising each other. time.com/article/2026...
In TIME - Which Side Are You On? Swift, Trump, and America's 250th - Swift and Trump are entertainers, multi-billionaires, unrelenting self-promotion machines. Yet one stands for honest, self-made success... The other for inherited wealth, anger, divisiveness, corruption... time.com/article/2026...
Just out in FORTUNE - Netflix could turn NBC into its biggest bet yet — and this time, the math actually works fortune.com/2026/06/30/n...
Just out in TIME - How Mission Hijacking Undermines the Fight for American Democracy time.com/article/2026...
Just out in @fortune.com - Trump mistakes the bully pulpit for bullying leadership — history’s villains were never heroes fortune.com/2026/06/24/t...
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Just out in @TIME with Sen. Tim Wirth and @asharangappa.bsky.social - How Trump Keeps Exploiting America’s Legal Loopholes time.com/article/2026...
Just out in @TIME with Sen. Tim Wirth and @asharangappa.bsky.social - How Trump Keeps Exploiting America’s Legal Loopholes time.com/article/2026...
Just out in Fortune - The Supreme Court handed Trump a Golden Chariot on tariffs - now he just has to accept it and not fight it fortune.com/2026/05/26/s...
Just out in TIME - with Amb. Bill Taylor and Col. Cedric Leighton - How Ukraine Found the Cards To Win, Without Help From the U.S. time.com/article/2026...
In @fortune.com - Patching the AI Policy Patchwork: Most AI Bills Lack Clarity and Coherence - The common failure is the lack of a structured method to determine whether a proposed rule addresses the gap. Our 3-stage test offers a clear solution... fortune.com/2026/05/15/a...
Just out in @TIME - Colonies in Collision: What Some Allied Leaders Get Wrong About Trump time.com/article/2026...
In @fortune.com - Your trusted advocate or your rebellious Frankenstein: How you deploy Agentic AI determines which one you get - Winners decide how close to the customer agents get, and how they draw the line b/t work AI does and work humans still own fortune.com/2026/05/07/a...
In @fortune.com - Why your data infrastructure, not your AI model, will determine whether Agentic AI scales - "Agentic AI has attracted much attention...but the public remains fixated on what systems can do, not the conditions required to deploy." fortune.com/2026/04/30/a...
In @fortune.com - Anthropic’s most powerful AI model exposed a crisis in corporate governance. Here’s the framework every CEO needs - W/o governance addressing accountability, transparency, bias, & privacy, deployment will stall on significant risks fortune.com/2026/05/02/a...
In @fortune.com - AI won’t kill your job, it will kill the path to your first one - Our sweeping cross-industry research shows that, as Agentic AI scales, changes are already happening, just quietly fortune.com/2026/04/29/a...
Just out in @fortune.com - The futility of Trumpian grandiosity - fortune.com/2026/04/13/t...
So honored that our new book, Trump’s Ten Commandments, achieved instant New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller status in first week!! A MUST-READ for anyone who wants to FIGHT Trump effectively. som.yale.edu/story/2026/j...
So honored that our new book, Trump's Ten Commandments, is an instant @nytimes.com Bestseller!
In @fortune.com - America’s CEOs have become reluctant guardians of democracy - "...the architecture of trust a functioning democracy requires has buckled, and capitalism remains one of the few forces with the reach and the credibility to fill the gap" fortune.com/2026/04/06/c...
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Leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld dissected the behavioral patterns behind Trump’s rise, survival, and power plays.
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To understand Trump's political evil you have to understand Trump, and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld does. Watch him break down his new book 'Trump's Ten Commandments' on the LP Pod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUMcQkLaVyU
Just now on @cnn.com Erin Burnett OutFront - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses what new book, Trump's Ten Commandments, reveals about Iran conflict yale.box.com/s/x23sk9j37i...
Just out in @hartfordcourant.bsky.social - CT’s Lamont field guide countering Trump echoes our new book on Trump playbook www.courant.com/2026/03/29/o...
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"In Over His Head" - Trump’s Iran War Strategy Backfires Amid Chaos Prof Jeff Sonnenfeld, @Yale, wrote the book on Trump...literally. In his opinion, Trump is distracting from the Epstein files AND he's bitten off more than he can chew in Iran. youtu.be/juG5Xwa7U0A
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"He's not happy, he doesn't know his limits." Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, author of "Trump's Ten Commandments," joins @stephruhle.bsky.social to talk about how Trump is likely unhappy because he no longer has anyone in his orbit keeping him accountable.
Just out from TIME - The Method to Trump's Madness (Exclusive Preview of New Book, Trump's Ten Commandments) time.com/article/2026...
On @nbcnews.com @meetthepress.com - "Yale's Sonnenfeld explains how Trump is 'shopping messages' on Iran war 'to find out what works’ in his forthcoming book" Pre-orders can be made via Amazon: www.amazon.com/Trumps-Ten-C... www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
On @cnbc.com - Israeli President Herzog Urges American Business Leaders to 'Stay the Course' Against Iran at Yale CEO Caucus app.box.com/file/2160429...
In FORTUNE - Israeli President’s message to CEOs in D.C.: ‘We need to be steadfast, take a deep breath, and finish the undermining of Iran’ fortune.com/2026/03/11/i...
Yale CELI presents the Legend in Leadership Award to Chef Andrés at the March CEO Caucus: "Andrés is that rare leader whose vision has transformed not only an industry but also our collective understanding of what it means to serve others" @chefjoseandres.bsky.social som.yale.edu/story/2026/c...