Events

Interbrand - the company that helps brands create iconic moves - is at the very forefront of new thinking about building brands and creating connections. I've been working with them […]

My Friday Fireside guest this week is Michael Schrage, who was so far ahead of the rest of us on all things digital that he helped design the Microsoft CEO […]

Marissa King's fascinating new book "Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection" is leading people to completely rethink the networks they have and the networks they need. We all […]

Nina McLemore and I first met through the Committee of 200, a powerful women's organization and subsequently during her Executive MBA program at Columbia Business School. She's a former big-company […]

Adam Bryant knows a thing or two about CEO’s and leadership – as he well should. In his years writing the famed “Corner Office” interview for the New York Times, […]

Led Google's AdWords team - arguably one of the most commercially successful innovations of all time - and author of a great book, "The Right It" - my guest this […]

Julie Lythcott-Haims is a best-selling author, speaker, advisor and wise person. Her New York Times Bestselling book "How to Raise an Adult" drew on her years of experience as Dean […]

Tony Ulwick, Author and founder of the consultancy Strategyn is well known as one of the creators, with Clayton Christensen and the gang at Innosight, of the jobs-to-be-done theory of […]

Do you ever wonder why some social shifts seem to 'stick' while others, despite a lot of light and heat, never get off the ground? Why policies that are broadly […]

Ram Charan was a management guru before the category was well and truly invented! A friend, mentor and longtime collaborator, Ram's work with CEO's and leaders has had an outsize […]

It takes someone special to be a thought leader amidst all the brainpower at the BCG Henderson Institute, and Martin Reeves is just that special. I've enjoyed collaborating with him […]

It is seldom that a management book could be described as "delightful." But, I'm thrilled that David Duncan's new book "The Secret Lives of Customers" is exactly that. It's a […]

George Stalk is a legend in the field of strategy. He was called a "Johnny Appleseed" at respected strategy consultancy BCG, invented a concept called time-based competition and has introduced […]

And now for something completely different! I first learned about category-defying artist Dessa from her brilliant Hamilton-style rap song in honor of Janet Yellen, the first female secretary of the […]

Something we don't do enough when looking for answers for big, hairy social problems is find places where solutions are actually working and see how we might benefit from their […]

Recent events from the COVID-19 pandemic to the killing of George Floyd have sparked social justice movements around the world and have placed diversity, equity, and inclusion at the forefront […]

Jayshree Seth, Ph.D., is a corporate scientist and chief science advocate for 3M Company, where she has worked for over 27 years to advance science and develop new technologies and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]