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012. The Apple Store Creator on Why the Most Important Thing You Bring to Work Is You ft. Ron Johnson

Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 18m

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What if the most important thing you bring to work isn’t your résumé, your expertise, or even your ideas? Ron Johnson helped transform Target, built the Apple Store alongside Steve Jobs, and later became CEO of JCPenney. Across a career spent reimagining some of the biggest names in retail, he came to believe that your most important contribution at work is something no résumé can capture: your inner voice. It’s the perspective you discover when you get still enough to realize what you actu...