E158 – He Should Be My Boss – Satya Nadella’s Unexpected Move
A story that touched my heart about a CEO I admire and an act I never expected to happen in a dog eat dog world. Listen…
E157 – The Rose That Changed History – Florence Nightingale’s Data Revolution
Is having data and sharing data enough to convince people to take action? Of course not. We need…
E156 – Power without Mastery – The AI Blind Spot?
Like many of you, I’m navigating two very different emotions about AI — the excitement of a kid in a candy store and the…
E155 – No One Briefed The Gorilla – Prepare Then Let Go
Yesterday, Sir David Attenborough turned one hundred years old. No one alive has done more to make ordinary people like…
E154 – AI Needs Fresh Eyes – Walk out the door and come back in
Every good leader knows how to manage change. New processes, new structures, new tools etc. These are hard, but they’re…
E153 – The Man Who Said No – Human in the loop
I’ve been reading this book by Ethan Mollick called Co-Intelligence, and there’s this really interesting paradox he talks about. You’d think that…
E152 – The Bad News Office – Don’t trust good news
Nokia didn’t fail because it missed the future. That’s the version most people tell. It’s a cautionary tale told alongside Kodak…
E151 – The Streetlamp Trap – The Harder Question
Is there a lesson we can learn from the demise of Encyclopaedia Britannica on how organisations should…
E150 – Consequence Gets Compliance – The Yo-Yo Test
I was talking to Joy Bhattacharya yesterday about today’s story, and it triggered one from his own memory…
E149 – The Doctor Who Prescribed Parakeets – Purpose Changes Behaviour
During my years in the corporate world, a question that had often been on my mind was what makes…