Outthinkers
113 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Outthinkers podcast is a growth strategy podcast hosted by Kaihan Krippendorff. Each week, Kaihan talks with forward-looking strategists and innovators that are challenging the status quo, leading the future of business, and shaping our world.
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#105—Bob Sutton: Leveraging Friction in Your Organization
November 24, 2023 11:20 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBBob Sutton is an organizational psychologist and professor of Management Science and Engineering at the Stanford Engineering School. He has given keynote speeches to more than 200 groups in 20 countries, and served on numerous scholarly editorial boards focused around his work on leadership, innovation, organizational change, and workplace dynamics. His most recent book, THE FRICTION PROJECT: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder, co-written with Huggy ...
#104—Andy Binns & Ellie Amirnasr: Paving a Path of Success for Corporate Explorers within Your Organization
November 10, 2023 12:12 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBIn this episode, Andy Binns, co-founder and Director of Change Logic, and an award-winning author who publishes articles on innovation strategy and execution in established firms is joined by an additional guest, Ellie Amirnasr, director of digital ventures at MANN+HUMMEL, who was a chapter author, alongside Andy, of Corporate Explorer Fieldbook: How to Build New Ventures In Established Companies. Their work with this just-released 2023 book brings to the forefront the corporate explorer: ...
#103—Shannon Banks: Unlocking the Power of Social Leadership and Purpose
October 27, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBShannon Banks is managing director of Be Leadership, and an award-winning facilitator, consultant, and coach. A pioneer in the field of social leadership, she founded her company in 2014 to help organizations bring their purpose to life through their people. In this episode, we'll dive into her steadfast belief that it is leaders that have the power to ignite purpose through social leadership. Shannon has delivered quality, bespoke work to diverse clients across many sectors, including Roch...
#102—Matt Abrahams: Optimizing Your Strategic Communication Toolkit
October 13, 2023 10:06 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MBIn this episode, Matt Abrahams, leading expert in communication with decades of experience as an educator, author, podcast host, and coach shares some of his top insights into strategic communication. He gives us a holistic explanation of what effective communication is, as well as dives into practical daily tips and techniques you can use in any conversation. As a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, he teaches popular classes in strateg...
#101—Bob Muglia: The Critical Role of People in Digital Transformation and the Future of AI
September 29, 2023 10:50 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBBob Muglia is a data technology investor and business executive, former CEO of Snowflake, and past president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Division. His rich background as a long-time leader in the tech space afforded him the unique position of being on the frontlines of the internet and related tech revolution. Bob is an advocate that while technology and strategy are important, it is critical to maintain keen awareness of that your people are the critical coupling between digital trans...
#100—Outthinkers Reaches 100: Special Highlights Episode
September 15, 2023 12:03 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBDear listeners, this week we celebrate our 100th episode. We want to take this opportunity to thank you for your support and listenership, as we treat you to a compilation of some of our favorite insights over the past years. Below you'll find a highlights reel broken down into clips in four categories: CLASSIC STRATEGY: Featuring Rita, McGrath, Richard Rumelt, John Hagel, and Mike Tushman who each share with us timeless ideas around strategy. LEADERSHIP, CULTURE & WORKFORCE: Featuring Ada...
#99—Daniel Trabucchi: The Evolution of Platforms: Creating Value Beyond Digital Archetypes
September 01, 2023 10:20 - 24 minutes - 33.1 MBDaniel Trabucchi is the co-author, with Tommaso Buganza, of Platform Thinking: Read the past. Write the future. He is Senior Assistant Professor at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano where he fosters research and teaches at the intersection between innovation management and leadership, with a strong focus on platform thinking and the human side of innovation. He is the co-founder of Symplatform, the international symposium on digital platforms that aims to match managers a...
#98—Dorie Clark: Crafting a Powerful Personal Brand in the Age of AI
August 18, 2023 10:07 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBDorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world. She has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. She was honored as the #1 Communication Coach by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards and one of the Top 5 Communication Professionals in the World by Global Gurus. She is a keynote speaker and teaches for Columbia Business School. She is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Gam...
#97—Tiffani Bova: Elevating Your EX to Improve Your CX
August 04, 2023 10:07 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBWhat questions are addressed in this podcast? What are aspects of Employee Experience (EX) that leaders often overlook with dire consequences on CX? Who in an organization should own EX? Are there tangible ways to measure EX vs. CX? What is the ROI of developing a more thought-out employee experience? _________________________________________________________________________________________ Summary: Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist and business strategist at Salesforce, an...
#96—Michael Lenox: Unraveling Digital Transformation
June 30, 2023 11:16 - 22 minutes - 31 MBMichael Lenox is an award-winning professor, consultant, author, speaker, and podcaster. For over twenty-five years, he has been helping MBA students and executives navigate the competitive dynamics of markets in the face of innovation and disruption. He is the author of five books, including his latest, Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation (Stanford Business Books, June 27, 2023). Michael is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business at the University of Virginia’s D...
#95—Terence Mauri: Navigating Complexity and Uncertainty with Agility and Resilience
June 23, 2023 11:40 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBTerence Mauri is the founder of the management think thank Hack Future Lab, a bestselling author and a visiting Professor at IE Business School. Terence challenges leaders to pivot from ‘wait and see’ to ‘explore and disrupt’ in a world of complexity and uncertainty. Terence says: ’Building a bold and resilient future never happens by accident. To sustain vitality for the long-term, we must have an eye on the future while searching every day for the upside of disruption.’ His recent publicat...
#94—Ralph Birchmeier: Insights for Strategists from an Investment Expert
June 16, 2023 11:04 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MBRalph Birchmeieir’s expertise is in accounting, finance, valuation, and strategy. He is a former partner at a global investment firm where he headed financial research into banks, insurers, and real estate concerns. He and his team routinely met with company managements, emerging fintechs, insurtechs and IT professionals. He also sat on two investment committees, constructing global equity portfolios in small cap and all cap strategies. Ralph retired at the end of 2018, taking time ou...
#93—Rob Cross: Reducing the Effects of Microstress through Organizational Networks
June 09, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBRob Cross has studied the underlying network dynamics of effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers for more than 20 years. Through research and writing, speaking and consulting, and courses and tools, Rob’s network insights are transforming the way people lead, work and live in a hyper-connected world. He is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership, Babson College and co-founder and current research director of the Connected Commons, a consortium ...
#92—Elizabeth Altman: Rethinking the Definition of a Workforce in the Modern Era
June 02, 2023 11:15 - 31 minutes - 43 MBDr. Elizabeth J. Altman is an associate professor of management at the Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and guest editor of the MIT Sloan Management Review Future of the Workforce project. Altman served as a visiting assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point in Fall 2018 and has served as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School. Altman teaches strategy, organizational theory, and human resources management in undergraduat...
#91—Thales Teixeira: Decoupling the Customer Value Chain for Competitive Advantage
May 26, 2023 10:39 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBThales Teixeira the co-founder of digital disruption consultancy Decoupling (Decoupling.co), and previously the Lumry Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, where he taught for 10 years. There he has taught MBA, doctoral and executive-level courses in Marketing Models, Digital Marketing and E-commerce. His two primary domains of research constitute Digital Disruption and The Economics of Attention. He is the author of dozens of articles published in trade press outlets such...
#90—Marc Beckman: The New Era of Branding in the Metaverse, Web3 and the Digital Era
May 19, 2023 10:26 - 25 minutes - 35 MBMarc Beckman is the Co-Founder and CEO of DMA United, the award-winning advertising agency positioned at the center of style and design. His philosophy concentrates on building equity at the intersection of content and commerce. In fact, Marc has designed and implemented creative campaigns for countless individuals and corporations within DMA United’s polycultural platform, including venerable brands such as NBA, Pepsi, Sony, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Nelson Mandela, Gucci, and MoMA. Ma...
#89—Linda Yates: Building Your Corporate Ventures Growth Machine
May 12, 2023 11:02 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBLinda Yates is the founder and CEO of Mach49, the growth incubator for global businesses with clients including Goodyear, Gundersen Health, Hitachi, Intel, Pernod Ricard, Schneider Electric, Shell, and many more. She is a seasoned CEO and board member with over thirty years of experience bridging Silicon Valley and the Global 1000, creating global strategy, building companies, and driving innovation for large multinationals worldwide, and the author The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Crea...
#88—Mohan Subramaniam: The Future of Competitive Strategy and the Evolving Role of Data, Customers and Digital Ecosystems
May 05, 2023 10:05 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBMohan Subramaniam is a Professor of Strategy and Digital Transformation at the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. He focuses on the digital transformation of incumbent industrial firms and new sources of competitive advantage in the digital age. He is a recognized thought leader in digital strategy, and have helped senior executives in several companies find new sources of value and growth for their companies when competing with data within emerging digital ecosystems. He outlin...
#87—Sally Susman: Insights from Pfizer's Chief Corporate Affairs Officer in Crafting Public Discourse
April 28, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MBSally Susman is Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Pfizer. She is also Vice Chair of the Pfizer Foundation. Sally leads engagement with all of Pfizer’s external stakeholders, overseeing communications, corporate responsibility, global policy, government relations, investor relations, and patient advocacy. Before joining Pfizer in 2007, she held several senior communications and government relations roles at Estée Lauder Companies and the American Express Company....
#86—David Shrier: The Accelerated Adoption of AI and Digital Technologies
April 21, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 28.6 MBDavid Shrier is a globally-recognized expert on technology-driven change at scale. He is a Professor of Practice, AI & Innovation, with Imperial College Business School, where he is founding faculty of the Centre for Digital Transformation and leads the new Trusted AI initiative. Healso chairs the Research group for the World Metaverse Council. Through his venture studio Visionary Future, David also works extensively with the private sector helping established organizations build innovati...
#85—Stephanie Woerner: Four Pathways for Digital Transformation
April 14, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBStephanie Woerner, Director and a Research Scientist at MIT's Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also the co-author, with Peter Weill, of What's Your Digital Business Model? And with Peter Weill and Ina Sebastian, Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value. Stephanie studies how companies use technology and data to create more effective business models, as well as how they manage the associated organizational change...
#84—Andrew Winston: Achieving Net Positive Impact as a Business
April 07, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 28 MBAndrew Winston is one of the world's most widely read writers and leading thinkers on sustainable business. His books on sustainability strategy, including Green to Gold and The Big Pivot, have sold more than 150,000 copies in seven languages. Winston has also written cover stories for Harvard Business Review and published hundreds of articles in HBR, MIT Sloan Management Review, and other top publications. He was recently selected for the Thinkers50 Radar 2020, a list of 30 thinkers to wa...
#83—Avi Goldfarb: AI-Generated Predictions as a Strategic Asset
March 31, 2023 13:52 - 19 minutes - 27.1 MBAvi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare and Professor of Marketing at Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He is also Chief Data Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab, a fellow at Behavioral Economics in Action at Rotman, and a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Avi has written extensively on a broad range of topics from marketing, statistics, law, management, medicine, political science, refugee studies, among many...
#82—Nina Mažar: Employing Behavioral Science in Your Company's Strategy
March 24, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MBNina Mažar is Professor of Marketing at Questrom School of Business at Boston University and author of the book Behavioral Science in the Wild (with Dilip Soman). Nina was the 2019 president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and has been named one of "The 40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs Under 40 In The World” (2014). With her focus on behavioral science she examines ways to help individuals and organizations make better decisions and increase societal welfare. Popular acco...
#81—Lindsey McInerney: The Metaverse, NFTs and Tech as Part of Your Brand Strategy
March 17, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes - 37.1 MBWhether building hyper-growth startups or advising Fortune 500 companies, the Royal Family or the United Nations, Lindsey McInerney has spent her career helping people understand the impact of cutting-edge technologies and adopt them early. An internet nerd and tech futurist, Lindsey has launched multiple projects in the metaverse and web3 space and remains excited about the ways crypto, blockchain, NFTs, and extended reality (XR) will change our digital and physical landscape. As Global H...
#80—David Rogers: An Essential Guide to Digital Transformation
March 10, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes - 30.2 MBDavid Rogers is one of the world’s leading expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the author of five books. His landmark bestseller, The Digital Transformation Playbook, was the first book on digital transformation and put the topic on the map. David defined the discipline by arguing that digital transformation (DX) is not about technology; it is about strategy, leadership, and new ways of thinking. In his newest book, The Digital Tran...
#79—Miklos Dietz: Preparing for the Shift to an Ecosystem Economy
March 03, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes - 29.4 MBMiklós Dietz is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, where he leads McKinsey’s banking strategy and innovation work globally and is the managing partner of the Vancouver office. Miklos’s specialty is in helping financial services companies and other organizations harness digital technology and stay ahead of emerging trends. He is the author of The Ecosystem Economy: How to Lead in the New Age of Sectors Without Borders, a compelling and practical books I’ve read on this shift strategist...
#78—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: Talent Management in the Age of AI
February 24, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MBDr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an international authority in people analytics, talent management, leadership development, and the Human-AI interface. He is the Chief Innovation Officer at Manpower Group, co-founder of Deeper Signals and Metaprofiling, and Professor of Business Psychology at both University College London, and Columbia University. He has previously held academic positions at New York University and the London School of Economics, and lectured at Harvard Business School, Sta...
#77—Lele Sang: Lessons on Competing in China
February 17, 2023 12:00 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBLele Sang is Globe Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and coauthor (with Professor Karl Ulrich) of Winning in China: 8 Stories of Success and Failure in the World’s Largest Economy (Wharton School Press, 2021). She is also a contributor to Harvard Business Review and writes about international business. A formal journalist and editor, She has interviewed world leaders from prime ministers to Fortune 500 company CEOs. In addition to journalism, she had stints at st...
#76—Tom Davenport: AI as a Competitive Advantage—In any Organization
February 10, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBTom Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College. He is also a Visiting Professor at Oxford's Said Business School, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte's AI practice. He is a widely published author and speaker on the topics of AI, analytics, information and knowledge management, reengineering, enterprise systems, and electronic business. Tom has written, co-authored, or e...
#75—Tony O'Driscoll: Reconciling Humanity and Technology
February 03, 2023 12:00 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MBTony O’ Driscoll is a Professor, Research Fellow and Academic Director at Duke University. His central message emphasizes that the key digital-age differentiator is not technology, but people. Tony is the co-author of the new release, Everyday Superhero: How You Can Inspire Everyone and Create Real Change at Work. His role as adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Pratt School of Engineering afford him the unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge academic rese...
#74—John Mullins: Exploring Entrepreneurial Mindsets
January 27, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes - 31 MBJohn Mullins is an Associate Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School. He earned his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. An award-winning teacher and scholar and one of the world’s foremost thought leaders in entrepreneurship, John brings to his teaching and research 20 years of executive experience in high-growth retailing firms, including two ventures he founded and one he took public. Since becoming an entre...
#73—Efosa Ojomo: Prosperity through Innovation
January 20, 2023 12:00 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MBEfosa Ojomo is the Director of the Global Prosperity research group at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, an innovation-focused think tank based in Boston. Efosa is also on the faculty of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management where he teaches the course, Entrepreneurship and Market Creation in Emerging Markets. Efosa was selected as one of 30 thinkers in the 2020 Thinkers50 Radar list. He researches and writes about how innovation can transform or...
#72—Erica Orange: Trends to Keep Top of Mind
December 16, 2022 11:51 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBErica Orange is Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of The Future Hunters, one of the world’s leading futurist consulting firms. She evaluates emerging social, technological, economic, political, demographic and environmental trends—and identifies the strategic implications (the “So what?”) of those trends for several of the most influential Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and public sector clients. Erica’s ability to identify patterns, think critically and analyt...
#71—Simone Ahuja: Integrating Jugaad Innovation into Your Organization
December 09, 2022 12:02 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBDr. Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange, a global innovation and strategy firm headquartered in Minneapolis, USA. She is co-author of the international bestseller, Jugaad Innovation, called “the most comprehensive book yet on the subject” on frugal innovation by the Economist. This practical innovation playbook makes clear how and why leaders must support the passionate and purpose-driven “intrapreneurs” inside their organizations to drive innovation and achieve sustainable growth. ...
#70—Alex Budak: Becoming a Changemaker
December 02, 2022 12:38 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBAlex Budak is a social entrepreneur, faculty member at Berkeley Haas, and the author of Becoming a Changemaker. He teaches, speaks, and writes to help people make a positive impact in their lives, career, communities, and society. At UC Berkeley, Alex created and teaches the transformative course, “Becoming a Changemaker,” and is a Lecturer and Faculty Director for Berkeley Executive Education programs. As a social entrepreneur, he co‐founded StartSomeGood.com, ran Sweden’s most promine...
#69—Derek Lidow: The Historical and Modern Role of Entrepreneurs in Society
November 25, 2022 12:00 - 18 minutes - 26 MBDerek Lidow is unique in having successful careers as CEO of a global publicly traded semiconductor company, a founder and CEO of an innovative and valuable startup, and now as a teacher and scholar of entrepreneurship and innovation. Derek is a professor of the practice at the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at Princeton University. He is the author of Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises , Building on Bedrock: Wha...
#68—Andrew Binns: The Role of the Corporate Explorer
November 18, 2022 11:55 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBAndrew Binns is managing director and co-founder of Change Logic, a Boston-based strategic advisory firm. He works with CEOs, boards, and senior teams as they lead significant business change. He is the lead author of the new book Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game and won the best article award 2020 for his article, with Charles O’Reilly in the California Management Review – "Three Stage of Disruptive Innovation." Andy has 25 years of consulting ex...
#67—Kirstin Ferguson: Eight Traits to Mastering the Art of the Modern Leader
November 11, 2022 12:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBAs an award-winning and globally recognised leader, executive coach, company director, writer and speaker, Kirstin Ferguson is one of Australia’s most prominent leadership experts. Kirstin is also making a global impact, with UK-based Thinkers50 naming her one of the world’s top 30 “Thinkers to Watch” and she was shortlisted for the Distinguished Award in Leadership in 2021. Kirstin’s career includes over a decade of experience on a range of company boards, including a previous appoint...
#66—Hermann Simon: Pricing Strategies in Uncertain Times—through Inflation and Beyond
November 04, 2022 11:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBHermann Simon is the Founder and Honorary Chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners, today the world’s leading price consultancy with 41 offices and 1600 employees. From 1995 to 2009 he served as the CEO and is the firm’s Honorary Chairman today. He is an expert in strategy, marketing and pricing and the only German in the “Thinkers50 Hall of Fame” of the most influential management thinkers in the world. In German-speaking countries he has been continuously voted the most influential living man...
#65—Vijay Govindarajan: Closing Possibility Gaps While Creating the Future
October 28, 2022 11:35 - 23 minutes - 32.2 MBVijay Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and is a Faculty Partner in the Silicon Valley incubator Mach 49. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His most recent best seller is Three Box Solution. His Harvard Business Review articles “Engineering Reverse Innovations” and “Stop the Innovation Wars” won McKinsey Awa...
#64—Peter G. Klein: Organizational Design as a Competitive Advantage
October 21, 2022 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBPeter G. Klein is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Baylor University’s business school, and Faculty Director of Baylor's Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. He is also Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics and Carl Menger Research Fellow at the Mises Institute. Peter’s research focuses on the links between entrepreneurship, strategy, and organization, with application to innovation, diversification, vertical coordination,...
#63—Julia Boorstin: Why Women Leaders Excel, and What We Can Learn
October 14, 2022 10:39 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBJulia Boorstin is the author of recently released book, When Women Lead. CNBC’s Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and has been an on-air reporter for the network since 2006. She also plays a central role on CNBC’s bicoastal tech-focused program “TechCheck” delivering reporting, analysis, and CEO interviews with a focus on social media and the intersection of media and technology. In 2013, Julia created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting private c...
#62—Michael Schrage: Re-examining Human-Machine Collaborations
October 07, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes - 30.4 MBA research fellow with MIT Sloan School's Initiative on the Digital Economy, Michael Schrage’s research, writing and advisory work focuses on the ‘behavioral economics’ of models, prototypes and metrics as strategic resources for managing ‘innovation risk’ and opportunity. He is author of award-winning The Innovator’s Hypothesis [MIT Press 2014], Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become? [Harvard Business Review Press 2012] and Serious Play [Harvard Business Review Press 2000]. His ...
#61—Bruce Usher: The Role and Impact of Business in Climate Change
September 30, 2022 11:00 - 19 minutes - 27 MBBruce Usher is professor of professional practice and the Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. He teaches on the intersection of finance, social and environmental issues, and is a recipient of the Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom, the Lear Award, and the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2019, Bruce published Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century, the first in the Earth Institute’s sustainability ser...
#60—Mark Esposito: The Great Remobilization—Redesigning the World
September 23, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBDr. Mark Esposito is recognized internationally as a top global thought leader in matters relating to The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the changes and opportunities that new technology will bring to a variety of industries. He is Co-Founder & Chief Learning Officer at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up venture and Co-Founder and Chairman of the Strategic Foresight Board for the Circular Economy Alliance, an EdTech venture. He was recognized in 2016 by Thinkers50 as one of the 30 most ...
#59—Venkat Ramaswamy: Rethinking Value Creation through Co-Creation
September 16, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBVenkat Ramaswamy is Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is a globally-recognized thought leader, idea practitioner, and eclectic scholar with wide-ranging interests in innovation, strategy, marketing, branding, IT, operations, and the human side of the organization. Venkat's award-winning book in 2004, The Future of Competition, co-authored with the late C.K.Prahalad, introduced Co-Creation as a revolutionary concept. It provide...
#58—Marshall Goldsmith: Creating a Life of Fulfillment as a Leader
September 09, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MBDr. Marshall Goldsmith, a New York Times #1 bestselling author, has written or edited 47 books which have sold over 3 million copies, been translated into 32 languages, and become listed bestsellers in 12 countries. Amazon recently recognized the ‘100 Best Leadership & Success Books Ever Written,' and included Marshall’s Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Marshall is the only living author with two books on the list. Marshall is a member of the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame. He ...
#57—Horst Schulze: Insights into Creating a Winning Culture from a Leading Hotelier
September 02, 2022 11:24 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBA legend and leader in the hotel world, Horst Schulze's teachings and vision have reshaped the concepts of service and hospitality across industries. Horst’s professional life began more than 65 years ago as a server's assistant in a German resort town. He has worked for both Hilton Hotels and Hyatt Hotels Corporation before becoming one of the founding members of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in 1983, where he created the operating and service standards that have become world famous. H...
#56—Lisa Bodell: The Value of Simplicity to Strengthen Your Strategy
August 26, 2022 11:44 - 20 minutes - 28.6 MBFutureThink CEO Lisa Bodell ranks among the Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and is the best-selling author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She’s a global leader on simplification, collaboration, and innovation, whose keynotes leave audiences inspired to change and arm them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters. Lisa brings a compelling perspective to the sought-after topics of simplification and innovation to over 100,000 people each year. A thought leader and ser...