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AI Native with Kai-Fu Lee

October 13, 2026 · 33 min

In AI Native: The Mandate to Transform Your Company, Kai-Fu Lee argues that real competitive advantage from AI does not come from buying access to the most powerful model, but from rebuilding the company itself around AI. Lee is the…
The CEO with Nitin Nohria

September 29, 2026 · 32 min

In The CEO: The Role, the Reality, the Responsibility, Nitin Nohria argues that the CEO’s real work is not making the big decisions personally but building the conditions under which thousands of good decisions get made by everyone else…
How Great Things Happen with George Newman

September 16, 2026 · 32 min

In How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success, George Newman argues that great ideas are not conjured from within but discovered outside of us, already present in the world, and that finding them is a methodical…
Manage the Machine with Paula Goldman

September 1, 2026 · 30 min

In Manage the Machine: How to Harness Human-AI Collaboration at Work, Paula Goldman argues that AI has crossed over from being a tool to being a partner, and that the companies that win will not be the ones automating the most or the…
Global by Design with Vijay Govindarajan

August 18, 2026 · 29 min

In Global by Design: How to Create Innovations That Scale, Travel, and Transform, Vijay Govindarajan argues that the most powerful innovations are designed from the ground up for emerging markets like rural China or India, and then travel…

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Blue Ocean Strategy with Renée Mauborgne

August 4, 2026 · 31 min

In Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, Renée Mauborgne argues that lasting growth does not come from winning market share in crowded existing industries, but from creating…
From the Archive: Making Sense of Chaos with Doyne Farmer

July 21, 2026 · 31 min

As uncertainty continues to define the business landscape, we’re revisiting our conversation with economist and complexity scientist Doyne Farmer on why conventional forecasting often falls short in a world shaped by interconnected…
Crisis Engineering with Matthew Weaver and Mikey Dickerson

July 7, 2026 · 43 min

In Crisis Engineering: Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos Into Clarity, Matthew Weaver and Mikey Dickerson argue that organizational crises are not problems to be survived but are rare windows in which rapid, directed transformation…
The Irrational Decision with Ben Recht

June 23, 2026 · 27 min

In The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us, Benjamin Recht argues that the optimization and mathematical rationality we apply to every corner of modern life—from dieting to hiring to strategy—often fails…
AI Needs You with Verity Harding

June 9, 2026 · 38 min

In AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own, Verity Harding argues that AI governance is too important to be left to technologists alone—and that the rest of us need to join the conversation to shape this technology’s…
Incorruptible with Eric Ries

May 26, 2026 · 36 min

In Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great, Eric Ries argues that mission-driven companies face an invisible pressure that pushes them toward short-termism and conformity, no matter the intentions of…
Inside the Box with David Epstein

May 13, 2026 · 30 min

In Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better, David Epstein argues that constraints—not freedom—are what drive creativity, clarity, and focus. Epstein is a number one New York Times–best-selling author, known for Range and The Sports…

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