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Peter Bregman

A few thousand years ago, the Bible story goes, Pharaoh woke up from a dream he couldn't understand: He was standing by a river and saw seven robust cows emerge, followed by seven emaciated cows. "I have not seen such ugly ones throughout the entire land of Egypt," he would later say to Joseph, who he was hoping would interpret the dream for him.

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