#405: Sami Kayyali: Most CEOs Are Terrible Communicators and Nobody Tells Them

The Spencer Lodge Podcast by Spencer Lodge

Jul 4, 202601:11:46News & Politics

Sami Kayyali is the founder and managing director of Rekarda, one of the most specialist communications businesses in the UAE. But the work he does is not what most people think. He is not building slides. He is sitting...

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