Thinkers50’s Stuart Crainer interviews Chris Clearfield, coauthor of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It with András Tilcsik, about how various failures have a shared DNA. How are these failures connected? How can...
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Thinkers50 Podcast: Richard D’Aveni
Would you buy a Jaguar if you knew it was 3D-printed? What other technological revolutions are underway that might radically shift power in corporations and around the world?
Thinkers50 Podcast: Ricardo Vargas
Thinkers50’s Stuart Crainer interviews Ricardo Vargas, Executive Director of the Brightline Initiative, about why we need to be aware of the gap between new business ideas and their implementation. Vargas speaks to the need for urgency when...
Only Communicate
Imagine you are a CEO. You take your top team away for a strategy session at a suitably well-furnished hotel somewhere in the countryside. Over two days of discussions, you emerge with a great new strategy for the organization. The future is mapped...
The Changing Nature Of Change
Look outside and test the temperature. Financial austerity lingers after the most major global economic crisis since World War II; shock political outcomes have created Brexit and a Trump presidency; there are 2.6 billion smartphone users, and...
Management In The Age Of Meltdowns
In April 20, 2010, mud began gushing out of the well onto the drilling floor at Deepwater Horizon. Seconds later a geyser of water and mud sprayed up inside the derrick at the center of the giant rig; gas sensors went off everywhere; and the lights...
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Global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce
