The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving
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The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving
CEOs and business leaders, management consulting senior partners, ground-breaking professors, thought-provoking writers and journalists, record-setting athletes and coaches, and award-winning actors and celebrities discuss the key issues facing the business world and broader society. Get free acce...
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680: Psychotherapist, Glenn Hutchinson, on Why Good People Cheat: What Infidelity Reveals About Decision-Making
Glenn Hutchinson, a psychotherapist who developed the personality science behind the assessments used by Match.com, explores one of the most misunders...
679: Director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center at MIT, Amos Winter on Global by Design
Amos Winter, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center at MIT, explains how innovato...
678: Social Organizational Psychologist, Jeremy Pollack, on Why Smart Leaders Still Fail at Conflict Resolution
Jeremy Pollack, PhD, argues that most workplace conflicts cannot be resolved by negotiating solutions alone. Before people can solve a problem togethe...
677: Global by Design: Vijay Govindarajan on Building Better Innovations
Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and co-author of Global by Design, explains how innovations de...
676: The key strategy question most boards do not answer, and cannot answer
Porsche just announced workforce cuts because of dropping sales in China. Every board reads that as an operations problem. It isn't. It's a risk probl...
675: Porsche to Cut 5000 More Jobs After Sales Collapse. Here's What Their Strategy Is Missing
Michael has said, all other things being equal, there's only a 10% chance of this working.
Porsche just announced 5,000 more job cuts ,on top o...
674: Social Psychologist, Owen Fitzpatrick on Why the Most Dangerous Propaganda Is the Story You Tell Yourself
Owen Fitzpatrick has spent years studying propaganda, belief systems, and decision-making in places such as North Korea, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Iran...
673: Why Immigrants Outperform. 3 Traits You Can Build Without Immigrating
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672: How Relying on ChatGPT or Claude Destroys Your Career
I had a coaching call this month where my client could not put his thinking together. He said to me that he wished he had ChatGPT right now. He could...
671: What World Cup Football Reveals About Strategy. The Fundamentals Problem
Most teams don't lose because of poor strategy. They lose because they abandoned the fundamentals. The World Cup proves it — and so does your business...
670: Harvard MBA Manisha Thakor on Hungry Ghost Mindset, How to Stop Being a Workaholic, Dealing with Work Addiction (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with the author of MoneyZen: The Secret to Finding Your "Enough", Manisha Thakor....
669: Stop Making Stupid Investments (with Founder of The Ultimate Investor, David Leiter)
David Leiter learned one of investing's hardest lessons while sitting on a trading desk during the dot-com boom. After watching seemingly everyone aro...
668: Private Equity Firm CEO, Rick Walker, on Power, Success and Getting Results (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with an experienced founder, leader, and thinker across a variety of domains, Rick...
670: The Experience Economy Is Selling You Belonging
People will save for four years, eat less, and travel across the world to watch their team play. Kris and Michael walk through Berlin during the World...
670: How to Overcome Career Frustrations with New York University's Dr. Tessa West (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with the author of Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You, Dr. Tessa West. I...
665: Google's Laura Mae Martin on How to Be Productive (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with the author of Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbein...
664: Negotiations in B2B Sales and Day to Day Leadership Situations with Andres Lares (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with the co-author of Persuade: The 4-Step Process to Influence People and Decisio...
663: Ex McKinsey and LBS Lecturer, Dr. Rebecca Homkes, on High Growth Strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with the author of Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in...
662: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI with Mark Abraham, BCG's Personalization Lead (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a strategy skills classic interview with the coauthor of the book Personalized: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI, Ma...
661: The Science of Sustainable Performance with Award Winning Science Writer Elizabeth Svoboda
Elizabeth Svoboda, award-winning science writer and author of The Art of Pacing, examines a question that sits at the center of many successful career...
660: Former Co-President and Board Member of WWE, George Barrios, on Systems Thinking, Conviction, and Leadership Under Pressure
George Barrios spent more than three decades moving between strategy, finance, operations, and general management before helping lead the evolution of...
659: The Success Trap: Breaking the Cycle of Never Enough (with Brooke Taylor)
Brooke Taylor spent more than a decade inside high-performance environments, including leadership roles at Google, before turning her attention to a q...
658: Market Engineering in the Age of AI with the CEO and founder of Traction Gap Partners, Bruce Cleveland
Bruce Cleveland has operated at the center of several major shifts in enterprise technology: Oracle's early growth, the creation of enterprise CRM at...
657: Adjunct Professor at Cornell University, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, on Critical Thinking vs. AI
In this conversation with Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, the discussion examines what happens to judgment and critical thinking as AI becomes embedded in dai...
656: The Habits and Systems That Shape Success (with Fredric Marshall)
Fredric Marshall spent decades helping companies including Apple, Pfizer, and Genentech solve problems in sales effectiveness, product launches, and o...
655: BCG Managing Director and Partner, Kristy Ellmer, on Why Change Fails and How Great Leaders Build Real Transformation
Kristy Ellmer has spent her career leading large-scale transformations across industries, countries, and operating environments. In this conversation,...
654: Associate Director of Culture and Change at BCG, Philip Jameson, on Why Most Transformations Fail
Philip Jameson discusses why most organizational transformations fail despite strong strategic intent, significant investment, and broad awareness tha...
653: Joe Pine, Author and Lecturer at Northeastern University, on the Future of Business
Management advisor and author Joe Pine explores a question that sits beneath most business strategy discussions but is rarely addressed directly: what...
652: Can Democracy Survive Free Market Capitalism? (with Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University, Mordecai Kurz)
Professor Mordecai Kurz argues that rising inequality is not simply the result of markets, but the combined effect of "technology, culture and policy"...
651: Ford School of Public Policy Adjunct Attia Qureshi on the Hidden Psychology Behind Effective Negotiation
Attia Qureshi examines negotiation not simply as a business skill, but as a core leadership capability that shapes influence, alignment, and decision-...
650: Climate Leader and Bestselling Author, Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, on Closing the Climate Action Gap
This discussion explores climate change through the lens of leadership, human behavior, and systems design, drawing on Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson's ex...
649: P&G and Walmart: The Story Behind the Groundbreaking Relationship (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic featuring an interview with the author of Collaborative Disruption, Tom Muccio.
In thi...
648: Rethinking Careers in a Nonlinear World with Venture Capitalist and Lecturer at Stanford University, Arun Gupta
Arun Gupta challenges conventional notions of career stability, arguing that "you should be seeking meaning… in meaning, you'll find your stability."...
647: Former Deloitte's Chief Learning Officer on Reevaluating Our Relationship with Change, Ashley Goodall (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic featuring an interview with the author of The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature...
646: CEO of FCLT Global and Former Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company on Turning Investor Dialogue into Strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
Sarah Keohane Williamson, CEO of FCLT Global and coauthor of The CEO's Guide to the Investment Galaxy, offers a disciplined primer for executives oper...
646: Former McKinsey Consultant Darryl Stickel on Building Trust With Consulting Clients (Strategy Skills classics)
Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 361, an interview with the author of Building Trust: Exceptional Leadership in an Uncertain World, Darryl Stickel....
645: Ex McKinsey expert on war games, John Horn. How to read your competitors (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic featuring an interview with the author of Inside the Competitor's Mindset, John Horn, where...
644: How to Tap the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life, with Co-CEO of Transcend, Jeff Wetzler (Strategy Skills classics)
For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic featuring an interview with a former Monitor Associate partner and Chief Learning Officer of...
643: Leading with Intent in an AI-Driven World with Louisa Loran, Google's Transformation Growth Lead
This discussion examines how senior leaders can navigate complexity, technology, and organizational change without losing clarity of purpose. Drawing...
642: Leading for Innovation in Complex Organizations (with Harvard's Linda Hill)
Linda Hill, Professor at Harvard Business School, discussed how leadership must adapt to enable innovation in complex organizations. Drawing on resear...