When I learned that Rob Siegel had been the lead researcher for Andy Grove's book "Only the Paranoid Survive," I knew I just had to meet him! Today, he is a lecturer in management at Stanford, is a partner in a venture investment fund, sits on a bunch of boards and is generally very plugged […]
How did recognizing a simple pain point, that most shavers had come to accept as just the “way things are,” enable Harry’s to disrupt an $18 billion market and topple the entrenched giants Gillette and Schick from their perches? How did some retail newcomers like The RealReal and incumbents like Walmart maintain growth and valuations […]
Quick: When I say "tax guy" at a Big Four accounting firm, my guess is your pulse doesn't start to quicken. But in the case of Jeff Saviano, you'll find a delightful departure from that stereotype. Jeff hosts a podcast called "Better Innovation," is the EY Tax Innovation Leader for the firm and has just […]
The thing about inflection points is that steady-state is not an option. You’re either going to seize the moment and thrive or miss it and suffer a setback. The good news is that using the tools built for high-uncertainty environments, you can move forward into the future with more confidence. Rita McGrath will share her […]
I first met Zachary Karabell when he was enrolled in my Columbia Executive Education program "Leading Strategic Growth and Change" and he made a big impression on me all those years ago. I'm delighted to catch up with him to talk about his rich collection of activities - he has a brand new book out […]
Zoe Chance graduated from a massively successful corporate career to doing groundbreaking research to teaching a hugely popular elective at Yale called Mastering Influence and Persuasion, aka "Doing Uncomfortable Things That Make You a Better Person.” She's a TED speaker, consults with major companies and has a new book coming out in 2022, "Influence for […]
We think of unusual events as rare - but as my Friday Fireside Chat guest, Jonathan Brill, points out, they may be rare individually, but when they accumulate, the chance of their creating a catastrophic inflection point increases. Indeed, his research finds that most firms in the US have faced four significant calamities every year! […]
John Hagel was seeing around the corners of the business world long ago. He's well known for his work presented in 7 books on business, digitization and what he's learned as the director of the Deloitte Center for the edge. He's moving on from that role, and in this chat we'll be talking about his […]
Sarah Stein Greenberg has been a fixture at Stanford's famous "d.school" since 2010, and is currently its Executive Director. When the design movement swept across the product landscape, led by thinkers such as David M. Kelley, a co-founder of IDEO, the d.school was where many of its most important advocates and evangelists called home. Greenberg […]
Organizations around the world are reinventing themselves so they can innovate more quickly and effectively through the use of Agile thinking and practices. This Fall, the fourth annual World Agility Forum will bring together top companies, their leaders, and prominent Agilists to explore the challenges and celebrate the successes of Agile.
Super Session With Rita McGrath – The New Playbook: What You Need to Rethink Your Strategy in a Post-Advantage World -- Have your thinking challenged in this fun, fast-paced, and insightful session that will teach you how to move forward strategically, even in high uncertainty conditions.
Peter Cappelli and I go back a long way and I can't wait to get caught up with him in this Friday Fireside Chat. Cappelli was one of my professors at Wharton and had a huge influence on the way I think about talent and people strategies. He's a high-impact scholar who looks at questions […]
If you could pick someone to lead you through an intelligent conversation about the new world of work, you couldn't do better than to consult with Jennifer Moss. Author of the forthcoming HBR Press book "The Burnout Academic," Jennifer has written a best business book of the year, won awards for her success as an […]
Leading Strategic Growth and Change (Live Online) is a five-day virtual program focused on the process of finding opportunities, launching new ventures, and leading necessary organizational changes to revitalize and transform an organization in times of uncertainty. Participants will learn how to thrive in rapidly changing and highly uncertain environments and will be able to […]
Everybody Wants To Rule the World. When R "Ray" Wang says it, he isn't just channeling a popular musical line, he really means it. In his view, digital giants are pulling further and further ahead of the rest of us and will eventually reshape our economic future into one of extreme capitalism. He anticipates we […]
I promised Harvard Professor and expert on equality and inclusion Robert Livingston that I would read his book "The Conversation" before he joined me for a Friday Fireside Chat. I did, and am ever so glad. He takes us through a journey centered on three questions: What is racism? Why should everyone care? What can […]
Liz Wiseman changed the way we think about high performing organizations with her groundbreaking book "Multipliers." She found that, despite the best of intentions, some leaders diminish the creativity and impact of their teams while others multiply those same attributes. The performance effects are astonishing! Now, she has a new book on the brink. "Impact […]
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first ever Thinkers50 Ranking and will see business and management thinkers from around the world sharing two days of ideas, inspiration, and celebration. The anniversary as well as the current disruption caused by the pandemic gave us the opportunity to re-think our biennial event. This year’s Awards […]
Ron Adner and I have been intellectual sparring partners and friends for a very long time. He's just come out with a terrific new book, "Winning the Right Game" which tackles head on the strategic challenge executives confront when the ecosystems they compete in are disrupted. The problems start, as Adner explains, when strategists choose […]
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the development of India, partnering Industry, Government and civil society, through advisory and consultative processes. CII is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led and industry-managed organization, with over 9000 members from the private as well as public sectors, including SMEs and MNCs, […]
Marcus Eriksen made a huge impression on me when I first met him. He is an environmental scientist, educator and author as part of his day job. On the side, he's built rafts out of junk, floated down the Mississippi river for days on said raft, writes books about his adventures and advocates for the […]
By some estimates, up to 80% of all strategies — however brilliant — never generate their intended results. Rather than describing these disappointments as ‘failures of execution,’ leaders can mold both themselves and their organizations to successfully address the gap between strategy and results. To achieve this agility, organizations require leaders who are perceptive, comfortable […]
This is a time of shockingly rapid change, and tech remains at the center both of our challenges and our opportunities. This conference is part of an ongoing initiative that explores where the U.S. will go, and could go. We'll hear from experts on our national mood and politics, our cities, the role of business, […]
Chris Ategeka is an opportunity / talent catalyst, a successful entrepreneur, a TED talker and a Ugandan orphan, among many other things. His accolades go on for pages! He came to my attention for his work on the unintended consequences of technology, which he is addressing through an unusual startup funding model. We'll be talking […]
Anne-Marie Slaughter burst into the public eye with her 2012 article in the Atlantic "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." Since then, she's gone on to run New America Foundation as its CEO (among many other things, including her highly acclaimed book "Unfinished Business"). She has a new book out, "Renewal: From Crisis to […]
Christopher Mims is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and writes Keywords, a weekly column on technology. He has a fascinating new book out called "Arriving Today" that is particularly relevant to our pandemic-related supply chain disruptions. It's really eye opening! Before joining the Journal in 2014, he was the lead technology reporter for […]
Sought after author, consultant and speaker, Whitney Johnson, already laid the groundwork for personal and professional development in her previous work on how people can traverse the "S-curves" of learning. It's delightful that she has published an even deeper dive in her new book "Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company". […]
We are told that human beings make decisions on the basis of data and facts. Not so fast, suggests my Friday Fireside Chat guest, author, speaker and Columbia faculty member Frank Rose. We are instead hard-wired to respond to stories. His new book, "The Sea We Swim In" is a masterful exposition on storytelling, including […]
The dopamine hit - that delicious feeling your brain delivers to you as a reward, and part of our evolutionary programming - is addictive. And that's a problem, observes Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and author of the New York Times best-selling book "Dopamine Nation." We have as a […]
Michael Sikorsky is an entrepreneurs' entrepreneur! He's been named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year, has started and sold several businesses (one of which grew 2,300% in one year!) and is going to be joining me by the fireside! We're going to talk about his new venture, Copia Wealth Studios, which uses beautiful software to […]
We're going to offer a demonstration of the SparcHub system, a software tool to help you implement the concepts in Discovery Driven Growth. It organizes your portfolio along different dimensions of uncertainty, allows you to create a transparent, clear overall view, shows how you can track progress in a way that makes sense for new […]
How will companies adapt to a post-pandemic world? Reinvention. How do families thrive generation to generation? Resilience. Those are the keywords for the 8th Annual Family Enterprise Conference. With over a dozen speakers across industries and around the globe, you will learn how to adapt to an ever-changing world; one that is more inter-connected than […]
The Learning Forum Executive Network is a member driven organization. Our members design their learning experience to meet their most urgent needs. We have found that the insights that make a difference emerge from the daily work of leading practitioners that are not afraid of adversity. These leaders have often found that the best solutions […]
Roger Martin has been many things - a top-ranked management thinker, author of best-selling books, advisor to business leaders and the Dean of a Business school. I'm delighted that he will be joining me by the fireside to share insights from his latest fascinating book (created in partnership with our mutual friend David Champion over […]
Nancy Halpern is a leadership consultant who facilitates high-impact off-sites and coaches executives aspiring to the C suite. As a pioneer in the field of leadership development, senior executives trust her to find individualized solutions for themselves and their teams to the thorniest and most intractable of talent problems. What makes Nancy unusual is her combination […]
Asking for a Friend – Real Questions, Real Answers. Welcome to Asking for a Friend with Karin Hurt. Whenever we’re speaking at conferences, or conducting one of our leadership development programs, we find that leaders at all levels struggle with asking the really tough questions. It’s so much easier when they’re… Asking for a Friend!
It’s never been more vital to question the status-quo and be able to realize the boldest ambitions. When opportunities are everywhere – and seizing them is everything – there’s an incalculable value to the interplay of ideas and experience that happens only when we come together and challenge ourselves to reframe our thinking. Innovation Realized […]
Innov8rs Unconference is not your typical event. It's a collaborative learning program where you get answers to your questions and solutions to your challenges, guided by experts and supported by peers. You can choose to join 50+ Expert Talks covering the best and latest on all key trends and themes under corporate innovation management, as […]
Sure, we're all Olympic athletes and Nobel prize winners in our own minds, but have you ever wondered what makes them different than you and I? My Fireside chat guest has a great new book out that encapsulates the answer, synthesized from hundreds of hours of interviews with hugely successful people. "The Success Factor," Ruth […]
Members of our inaugural LearningHub cohort will join in for a live kickoff session with me.
Participants will learn how to thrive in rapidly changing and highly uncertain environments and will be able to immediately apply their learning to make rapid progress on an issue they identify. If you have ever worried about how to drive new growth or how to make a change initiative successful, you will enjoy the insights developed in this […]
Women’s Health Tech Wednesdays are designed to engage and inspire innovation within the healthcare community. All are welcome to participate in the weekly event, which will consist of a brief interview, followed by a live Q&A. We aim to facilitate connections and inspire change within the women's healthcare industry.
About The Show The Why or “The North Star” for this show is to share fresh information to empower new thinking. We welcome guests to the show to share their wisdom and inform the community to lead more fulfilled lives. About The Host - Aidan McCullen Aidan is a change consultant and works with organizations to […]
Big capital projects - hydroelectric facilities, subway systems, massive ERP installations - have in common that they are often built in a monolithic and customized way. Huge upfront investment, and no benefit until the thing is complete. It doesn't have to be that way, according to research conducted by my guest Bent Flyvbjerg. Even with […]
For two-plus years in crisis mode, the overwhelming concern has been survival. Now, the leadership imperative shifts to performance. Recovering societies desperately need fresh injections of economic energy. Our institutions must perform like never before. But does standing out as a “top performer” mean something different than it did just a few years ago? Traditionally, if […]
Michael Bungay Stanier (or "MBS" as those who know him affectionately call him has written books that have sold over a million copies, rebelled against a traditional path that would have been his fate after his Rhodes scholarship and developed an approach to coaching that "un-weirds" it. His latest book is "The Advice Trap: Be […]
Sharon Price John, the CEO of Build-a-Bear workshop, has had a fabled career that includes losing (even though you won), taking big risks and having them pay off, the mom thing and more recently the turnaround and transformation of the beloved brand. She's written about her experiences in a great book called "Stories & Heart" […]
Exploring the theories of disruptive innovation across a broad set of industries and circumstances with academics, researchers, and practitioners who have been inspired and taught by Professor Clayton M. Christensen.
A weekly podcast discussion about asymmetric learning - how organizations gain competitive advantage through their approach to learning, in all its forms. We will talk with thought leaders and experts to understand processes and systems of learning that lead to outperformance - hosted by Mike Rea, an expert on pharmaceutical innovation. Mike Rea hosts a blog […]
Everyone knows that agile ways of working depend on effective teamwork. What is less obvious is how effective teamwork fits into the capability creation process. In this talk, we will explore the four elements that signal that a team is working effectively, debunk pervasive myths (for instance that satisfaction on a team is highly correlated […]
Dick Rumelt has often been described as a strategists' strategist, someone who can reduce the most complex problems to their essence and use strategic choices to make the most significant difference in the outcome. He has a new book out, "The Crux" in which he debunks a lot of the activity that unfortunately takes the […]
Keith Ferrazzi is a consummate networker, an iconic influencer, and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His new book "Competing in the New World of Work" is an eye-opening tour of the new skills that are going to separate winners from losers in the post-pandemic competitive environment. He'll be joining me by the fireside […]
Winner of the 2022 New York EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, ExecOnLine co-founder Stephen Bailey has been revolutionizing access to high-quality executive development. One of the first to recognize how valuable on-line learning could be to anyone, he also emphasizes how important it can be to the career prospects of diverse talents. He's also […]
Matt Richtel is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist with the New York Times, a prolific writer and author of the new book "Inspired: Understanding Creativity, A Journey Through Art, Science and the Soul." He's uniquely qualified to write this particular book, which gets at the essence of human creativity through the lenses of biology, neurology […]
A conference focused on business leadership, innovation, marketing and customer experience. Hosted by the Fortnight Group, comprised of business leaders and executives such as Steve Denning, Curt Carlson, Darrel Rigby, Rita McGrath and many others who clearly see the challenges and vast opportunities for growth our world is facing today.
Leaders today are facing challenges unlike any other era. Business and workforce disruptions have reached epic proportions, competitors are appearing from new and unexpected places, and the return to normal has been replaced by a new constant – change. How do we make sense of this new business environment, and help workforce leaders adapt and […]
In 2018, Goldman Sachs reported that Google paid Apple $9 billion to be the default search engine on the iPhone; by 2022 that number is reportedly $20 billion. Why is a position that a user could easily change with just a few clicks so valuable? The answer, according to my Friday Fireside Chat guest, Eric […]
Join us for the launch of the CBS Alumni Club of HK’s Women's Committee, featuring a hybrid panel discussion on Mindful Leadership: Why It Matters Now with our distinguished panelists from the CBS community.
Leading Strategic Growth and Change is focused on the process of finding opportunities, launching new ventures, and leading necessary organizational changes to revitalize and transform an organization in times of uncertainty. Participants will learn how to thrive in rapidly changing and highly uncertain environments and will be able to immediately apply their learning to make […]
The evidence is clear: inclusive leaders and inclusive organizations outperform those that are not. Yet women remain underrepresented in all levels of management. Despite the compelling case for equality of gender representation at all levels of an organization, even with the best of intentions, unconscious bias can influence who advances at work. Participants in the Women […]
I just love a scrappy entrepreneurial story, and my Friday Fireside Chat guest, Ryan Close, has a great one. A former bartender, he noticed that people would love to enjoy cocktails, but didn't have the ingredients, the skill or the time to make them up. He started to play around with the concept that would […]
The Business Excellence Institute is a membership body that works to help its members – be they individuals or organizations – get outstanding results for all their stakeholders. It promotes excellence in management and the Business Excellence profession and has members on 6 continents. Established in 2016, the Excellence Hall of Fame recognizes and celebrates […]
The Drucker Forum in 2022 will redefine “performance that matters” in the wake of Covid, and explore how to realize more of our inherent human potential to drive it. We will showcase the work of enterprises, teams, and managers who have moved the needle on success as they define it.
The 1% Podcast brings together the 3Ps of People, Professions and Performance. We chat to top-class performers from eclectic areas (sport, business, politics, art etc.) to extract the tactics, tools and routines you can use to get 1% better and achieve success.
Christian Stadler is a Professor of strategy at Warwick Business School in the UK (formerly at the Tuck School). He was short-listed for the Thinkers50 strategy award in 2021. His new book "Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite" explores how interconnected and open strategies can challenge conventional wisdom about keeping things to yourself!
The Innovator's Handbook is published every year as the "bible" for everyone leading and doing innovation in large organizations, summarizing best practices and sharing how-to advise on everything innovation management. The launch for the 2023 edition is on December 6th The overall theme for the launch event is "Innovation Management in 2023", to inform the […]
Will Sherlin has produced a podcast on corporate innovation for 4 years or so. Discussion revolves around everything from design thinking and how to have more successful brainstorming sessions to how to employ improv comedy in the workplace and the importance of story-telling. Lots of really talented, really smart guests.
Rita Kakati-Shah, an award-winning gender inclusion strategist, is the author of "The Goddess of Go-Getting," a fun guide to making your way in the world when you are not in the majority group. Rita’s spin on diversity, equity and inclusion is that most people get it wrong and, as a result, the outcomes are causing […]
To thrive in complex and uncertain situations, we know that organizations do best when those at the ‘edges’ – who are close to customers and markets – can make decisions independently. A few organizations are figuring out how to do this by creating ‘permissionless’ structures, in which teams can self-manage, which speeds up responsiveness and […]
Richard Rumelt has been described by no less than McKinsey as a "giant in the field of strategy." He's also a dear friend and an enormously influential thought leader. We're going to chat about his latest book, "The Crux" in which he illustrates the principles of challenge-based strategy. The idea is that strategists need to […]
Established in 2006, CDT’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Roundtable is a knowledge sharing forum for the most senior technology executives. This partnership between technology leaders and UC Irvine is aimed at helping them lead their companies to success in a digitally-driven world. The forum provides members with access to leading thinkers and industry experts, facilitates […]
Will Sherlin produces a podcast on corporate innovation. Discussion will be about everything from design thinking and how to have more successful brainstorming sessions to how to employ improv comedy in the workplace and the importance of story-telling. Lots of really talented, really smart guests.
Designed for senior executives, the blended format of the Advanced Management Program offers participants curated coaching and an invitation to learn together. Over the course of 22 weeks, Columbia faculty and staff will support and challenge you to become a more agile, effective, and authentic leader through interactive online modules, in person immersion opportunities, executive […]
Bob Sutton is a rarity - a talented academic who knows how to translate serious research into practical use. He has more books to his name than we'll have time to talk about but some of my fave's are "The No A**hole Rule" and "The Knowing-Doing Gap." He's got a new one coming out with […]
Leading Strategic Growth and Change is focused on the process of finding opportunities, launching new ventures, and leading necessary organizational changes to revitalize and transform an organization in times of uncertainty. Participants will learn how to thrive in rapidly changing and highly uncertain environments and will be able to immediately apply their learning to make […]
Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You’d Rather Stay Home - Is this a great title, or what?? My Friday fireside chat guest is Morra Aarons-Mele, a globally recognized speaker, podcast host and author of the new book "The Anxious Achiever." She's on a mission to get people to understand that […]
Bent Flyvbjerg, a Professor at Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford and IT University of Copenhagen, is a leading world scholar on project and program management. His new book, How Big Things Get Done, was described by The Wall Street Journal as a "seminal work on big projects." Professor Flyvbjerg's research has led him to formulate an innovative approach to building […]
We all know about the big things that cause us to feel burned out. Toxic bosses. Obnoxious colleagues. Too much work. Impossible deadlines. The list goes on. But, did you know that sometimes your feeling of burnout isn't the result of one big thing - its the accumulation of tons of little things - Microstressors […]
It's easy to despair at high levels of inequality and lack of access to capital and resources that still face entrepreneurs who aren't white, male or well-connected. Freada Kapor Klein's career is a beacon of hope for those of us looking for real, practical solutions. The Fund, Kapor Capital, which she co-founded puts its money […]
Leading Strategic Growth and Change is focused on the process of finding opportunities, launching new ventures, and leading necessary organizational changes to revitalize and transform an organization in times of uncertainty. Participants will learn how to thrive in rapidly changing and highly uncertain environments and will be able to immediately apply their learning to make […]
Do you see employees as units of cost? Do you think that offering "market based" pay, few opportunities for advancement and obsolete tools is a solid path to business success? Then please join me and MIT professor Zeynep Ton for a session that could prove life-changing. Zeynep's research shows that well paid workers, trained, with […]
The statistics are in for business owners, and the story is anything but great. There's a good chance you're one of the 90% of business owners whose wealth is locked-up in the business. Your financial freedom hinges on a successful exit or liquidity event. But up to 90% of liquidity events fail. The high failure […]
What if you had one place where you can listen to the untold stories of some of the most accomplished and inspiring leaders in the world? In this podcast, productivity & performance coach, Stoyan Yankov, welcomes: ? Unicorn founders & entrepreneurs, ? Top-level executives from leading companies, ? Best-selling authors & experts, ? And many other extraordinary individuals! You […]
Tiffani Bova, author and Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce is herself a force of nature! While everybody sort of gets it that there is a relationship between the work experience of your people and the service experience received by your customers, they don't understand the real nature of the connection. In her forthcoming […]
Bestselling business author Bryce Hoffman and agility expert Marcus Dimbleby talk about decision making, strategy, resilience and leadership with some of the world’s best CEOs, cognitive scientists, writers, and thinkers in this weekly podcast. Each episode offers new ideas and insights you can use to become a better leader and a better thinker – because […]
Jeremy Utley is a major presence at the Stanford Design School, author of the recent popular book "Ideaflow" and a serial entrepreneur to boot! In what will prove to be an exciting conversation, he and I will be talking about how you can train yourself to generate a continual flow of good ideas and how […]
Subscription models are crazy powerful. Savvy small companies can easily deploy them to knock huge Goliaths off kilter. We’ve seen it in entertainment, software, hardware, news, retail, hospitality—the list goes on. In her podcast series, Robbie Kellman Baxter interviews the leaders of this revolution about how they’re using subscription pricing and membership models to redefine […]
You have doubtless at some point been asked to fill in a "Mad Libs" style positioning statement. Product ___ offers ___ benefits to ___ target customer, allowing them to ____. Typical. My guest this week, April Dunford, thoroughly debunked this nonsensical approach to positioning in her previous book "Obviously awesome" which is an amazing guide […]
Medium Day will be a virtual conference of our community where you’ll learn directly from people who share their lives on Medium. You’ll see a wide variety of perspectives from various publications, editors, authors, and our staff, and be able to ask questions.
Aside from being one of my dearest colleagues at Columbia, and someone I love to casually say I last saw at Davos, Sheena Iyengar is one of the worlds' foremost authorities on choice and choosing. She has a wonderful new book out on how we can find great solutions to truly difficult problems, with lots […]
