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The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving — 539 episodes
685: Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy (Strategy Skills classics)
684: Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion (Strategy Skills classics)
683: Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, Jesper Rangvid, on the End of 40 Years of Falling Interest Rates
682: Founder and CEO of High Alpha Innovation, Elliott Parker. The Illusion of Innovation (Strategy Skills classics)
681: Harvard's Cornelia Choe on How Great Leaders See Differently
680: Psychotherapist, Glenn Hutchinson, on Why Good People Cheat: What Infidelity Reveals About Decision-Making
679: Director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center at MIT, Amos Winter on Global by Design
678: Social Organizational Psychologist, Jeremy Pollack, on Why Smart Leaders Still Fail at Conflict Resolution
677: Global by Design: Vijay Govindarajan on Building Better Innovations
676: The key strategy question most boards do not answer, and cannot answer
675: Porsche to Cut 5000 More Jobs After Sales Collapse. Here's What Their Strategy Is Missing
674: Social Psychologist, Owen Fitzpatrick on Why the Most Dangerous Propaganda Is the Story You Tell Yourself
673: Why Immigrants Outperform. 3 Traits You Can Build Without Immigrating
672: How Relying on ChatGPT or Claude Destroys Your Career
671: What World Cup Football Reveals About Strategy. The Fundamentals Problem
670: Harvard MBA Manisha Thakor on Hungry Ghost Mindset, How to Stop Being a Workaholic, Dealing with Work Addiction (Strategy Skills classics)
669: Stop Making Stupid Investments (with Founder of The Ultimate Investor, David Leiter)
668: Private Equity Firm CEO, Rick Walker, on Power, Success and Getting Results (Strategy Skills classics)
667: The Experience Economy Is Selling You Belonging
666: How to Overcome Career Frustrations with New York University's Dr. Tessa West (Strategy Skills classics)
665: Google's Laura Mae Martin on How to Be Productive (Strategy Skills classics)
664: Negotiations in B2B Sales and Day to Day Leadership Situations with Andres Lares (Strategy Skills classics)
663: Ex McKinsey and LBS Lecturer, Dr. Rebecca Homkes, on High Growth Strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
662: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI with Mark Abraham, BCG's Personalization Lead (Strategy Skills classics)
661: The Science of Sustainable Performance with Award Winning Science Writer Elizabeth Svoboda
660: Former Co-President and Board Member of WWE, George Barrios, on Systems Thinking, Conviction, and Leadership Under Pressure
659: The Success Trap: Breaking the Cycle of Never Enough (with Brooke Taylor)
658: Market Engineering in the Age of AI with the CEO and founder of Traction Gap Partners, Bruce Cleveland
657: Adjunct Professor at Cornell University, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, on Critical Thinking vs. AI
656: The Habits and Systems That Shape Success (with Fredric Marshall)
655: BCG Managing Director and Partner, Kristy Ellmer, on Why Change Fails and How Great Leaders Build Real Transformation
654: Associate Director of Culture and Change at BCG, Philip Jameson, on Why Most Transformations Fail
653: Joe Pine, Author and Lecturer at Northeastern University, on the Future of Business
652: Can Democracy Survive Free Market Capitalism? (with Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University, Mordecai Kurz)
651: Ford School of Public Policy Adjunct Attia Qureshi on the Hidden Psychology Behind Effective Negotiation
650: Climate Leader and Bestselling Author, Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, on Closing the Climate Action Gap
649: P&G and Walmart: The Story Behind the Groundbreaking Relationship (Strategy Skills classics)
648: Rethinking Careers in a Nonlinear World with Venture Capitalist and Lecturer at Stanford University, Arun Gupta
647: Former Deloitte's Chief Learning Officer on Reevaluating Our Relationship with Change, Ashley Goodall (Strategy Skills classics)
646: CEO of FCLT Global and Former Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company on Turning Investor Dialogue into Strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
646: Former McKinsey Consultant Darryl Stickel on Building Trust With Consulting Clients (Strategy Skills classics)
645: Ex McKinsey expert on war games, John Horn. How to read your competitors (Strategy Skills classics)
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)
643: Leading with Intent in an AI-Driven World with Louisa Loran, Google's Transformation Growth Lead
642: Leading for Innovation in Complex Organizations (with Harvard's Linda Hill)
641: Former Bain & Company Director Michael Farmer — Differences Between McKinsey, Bain and BCG, Strategy Consulting, Helping Ad Agencies and Their Clients Navigate Change (Strategy Skills classics)
640: Jim Hemerling, BCG. Co-author of "Beyond Great" (Strategy Skills classics)
639: Growth at Scale in the Age of AI (with McKinsey's Marc Canal)
638: How to Lead and Live with Less Stress and More Joy (with Former C-Suite Executive and Advisor to Fortune 100 Leaders, Amy Leneker)
637: Growth and Innovation at Scale, with Former IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce Executive Jason Wild
636: Dr. John La Puma on the Hidden Health Costs of Indoor Living
635: McKinsey Senior Partner Chris Bradley on The Real Drivers of Long-Term Economic Growth
634: BCG's Julia Dhar on Why 70% of Major Change Efforts Fail
633: The Invincible Brain with Johns Hopkins Professor Dr. Majid Fotuhi
632: Building Healthier Workplaces Through Attuned Leadership (with Nidhi Tewari)
631: How Elon Musk Thinks (with Charles Steel)
630: Business Innovation and Strategic Growth Advisor, Lorraine Marchand, on Sustaining Growth Through Innovation
629: Ashley Herd, Former Head of HR North America at McKinsey, on What Effective Managers Actually Do
628: Northwestern Law Professor John McGinnis on Constitutional Stability in the Age of AI
627: How Overworked Leaders Can Find Peace Again (with Dr. Guy Winch)
626: BCG Henderson Institute Senior Director Adam Job on Growth and Strategy in Uncertain Times
625: New York Times Bestselling Author and Navy Seal Advisor Daniel Coyle on Leadership, Psychological Safety, and Flourishing Teams
624: From IQ to AQ: Agility as the New Leadership Advantage (with Liz Tran)
623: Bain's Rishi Dave, the Secret of Top Sellers (Strategy Skills classics)
622: Leadership and Self-Deception with Arbinger Managing Partner, Mitch Warner (Strategy Skills classics)
621: Business Longevity Principles from Immigrant Entrepreneurs (with University of Oxford's Neri Karra Sillaman)
620: Former McKinsey partner on How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World's Toughest Places (Strategy Skills classics)
619: Founder of McKinsey's Strategy and Corporate Finance Insights Team on Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (Strategy Skills classics)
618: Rethinking Capitalism, Innovation, AI, and the American Dream (with Elizabeth McBride and Seth Levine)
617: Inc 5000 fastest growing company on Psychology behind leadership influence and human behavior (with MichaelAaron Flicker)
616: NYU Stern's Prof on How AI Is Rewriting the Future of Work (with Ben Zweig)
615: $12B Investment Firm CEO on Saving the American Dream (with Mark Matson)
614: Why Executive Leaders Feel Lonely
613: Microsoft CTO on AI, Human Agency and the Future of Work
612: How to Have More Hope with Dr. Julia Garcia
611: Former U.S. Intelligence Officer on AI, Leadership, and Thinking Like a Spy (with Anthony Vinci)
610: Cas Holman on Play, Creativity, and the Future of Work
609: UCLA Professor and MD on How Gravity Shapes Your Health and Mind
608: Harvard Professor and former CEO of Medtronic, Bill George, on How Leaders Should Manage Challenging Times
607: Raj Sisodia on Conscious Capitalism and How Business Can Heal the World
606: CEO Readiness: How Boards Decide Who Gets the Top Job
605: Harvard Economist John Campbell on How to Stop Losing Money to a Broken Financial System
604: How Design Thinking Rebuilt IBM and Reached 400,000 Employees
603: A $3.6B CEO on the "Poverty of Dignity" in Corporate America
602: Harvard's Scott Levy on His Path from Investment Banking to Public Education and Leading in Uncertain Times
601: Former CNN and NBC News Anchor Lynn Smith on Building Authentic Presence and Excellent Communication
600: Jamie Dimon & CEOs Are Rethinking Capitalism – Here's What That Means for You
599: Joy at Work in the Age of AI: The Pain Is Optional (with Bree Groff)
598: From Gas Station Cashier to Billion-Dollar CEO with Shirin Behzadi
597: McKinsey Senior Partner, Vik Malhotra, on What Distinguishes the Best Leaders
596: Ex-Siemens & Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld on AI, Energy & Leading at the Highest Level
595: What AI Can't Replace: Former design lead at IDEO on Safe Danger, Trust, and the Future of Work
594: $2 Billion NYC Real Estate Broker on the Strategy of Homeownership
593: New York Times Bestselling Author on How to Overcome Fear & Build Emotional Resilience (with Jim Murphy)
592: London School of Economics Lecturer on AI, Strategy, and the Future of Marketing
591: Founder and CEO of Xenopsi Ventures on Behavioral Science That Sells
590: Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author on What Good Leaders Can Learn From Bad Bosses
589: CEO of FCLT Global and Former Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company on Turning Investor Dialogue into Strategy
588: Former CEO of Jamba Juice on Leading with Culture
587: Globally Recognized Marketing Strategist on How to Build Brands That Dominate
586: Father of the Cable Modem Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard on Innovation and the Global Broadband Transformation
585: Former Goldman Sachs Executive, Erin Coupe, on Rituals for Success, Meditation, and Self-Leadership
584: ESSEC Business School Professor on How Geopolitics Shapes Corporate Strategy
583: The Four Pillars of Elite Teams (with Colin M. Fisher)
582: McKinsey's Venkat Atluri, How to thrive in the ecosystem economy (Strategy Skills classics)
581: President of the Sy Syms Foundation on Legacy, Leadership, and Family Enterprise
580: The Hidden Belief Blocking High Performers: "I'm Not Good Enough"
579: Former Accenture Partner Brad Englert on Career Growth Through Relationships
578: Stanford's Robert E. Siegel on Navigating the Toughest Leadership Trade-Offs
577: Former Submarine Commander L. David Marquet on How Leaders Make Better Decisions
576: Bain Senior Partner Sarah Elk on Doing Agile Right (Strategy Skills classics)
575: Ex McKinsey Expert on War Games, John Horn: How to Read Your Competitors (Strategy Skills classics)
574: McKinsey Senior Partner, Kate Smaje: Winning in the Age of Digital and AI (Strategy Skills classics)
573: How and when a consultant must disagree (Strategy Skills classics)
572: Improve Your Cognitive Performance with Herbs
571: Multi-Award-Winning Researcher Vanessa Druskat on Team Emotional Intelligence
570: Former Biotech CEO and Harvard Medical School Faculty Member Margaret Moore on the Science of Good Leadership
569: Advisor to Microsoft, Google, and Hilton Executives Reveals How Leaders Create High-Performance Cultures Without Sacrificing Employee Joy
568: The one thing every consulting case study must produce (Strategy Skills classics)
567: From Refugee to U.S. Marine pilot to NASDAQ-listed biotech CEO | Leadership & Fundraising Lessons (with Quang Pham)
566: Silicon Valley's CEO Whisperer on Why Most Startup Founders Fail (with Rich Hagberg)
565: Founder and CEO of GK Training on Communicating Effectively to Live a Better Life
564: Yale's James Kimmel Jr. on the Science of Revenge
563: Brand Global, Adapt Local: Executive Lessons from Nike, Louis Vuitton, and HubSpot
562: Steve Jobs' Former Colleague on How to Achieve Creative Velocity in the Age of Gen AI
561: Harvard's Bill George on Leading Authentically in Today's Workplace
560: American Economist and Professor, Steve Hanke, on Rewriting the Rules of Our Financial System
559: Professor of Finance at London Business School, Alex Edmans, on Why ESG and DEI Data May Contain Lies
558: Founder of McKinsey's Strategy and Corporate Finance Insights Team on Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies
557: CEO of The Turk Group on Becoming the Leader Others Want to Follow
556: Award-Winning Strategist Hernan Tagliani on What Brands Get Wrong About Multicultural Marketing
555: How a Billion-Dollar CEO Thinks and Leads (with Bill Canady)
554: Microsoft's Dean Carignan on Using AI to Boost Joy, Focus, and Productivity at Work
553: Founding Partner of DCM Insights on What Today's Rainmakers Do Differently
552: From Ditch Digger to 9-Figure CEO: Building a Business That Runs Without You
551: Microsoft Director on How to Empower Anyone to Innovate
550: Artist, Leader, and Yale Fellow Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir on Rethinking Leadership Through Intuition and Inner Clarity
549: Anesthesiologist and Reality TV Star on How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Connection
548: Experiencing The American Dream with Mark Matson
547: First African American Astronaut to Walk in Space on Lessons from His Missions and Embracing Infinite Possibilities
546: Renowned Experts Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Robert Biswas-Diener on Radical Listening
545: CIA Hacker to Tech Entrepreneur: How Cybersecurity Can Make or Break Your Business
544: Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review on the Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift
543: Co-founder of Peak 360 Wealth Management on Understanding Embodied Wealth
542: Chief Investment Officer at T. Rowe Price on the Psychology of Leadership
541: One of the World's Leading Management Thinkers on Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI
540: Finding Meaning at Work with Positive Psychologists, Wes Adams and Tamara Myles
539: The 80/20 CEO on Guiding Your Business from Panic to Profit
538: Industrial/Organizational Psychologist on Leading for Wellness
537: Ex-Google Exec on Breaking the Unwritten Rules
536: NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Joel Salinas on the Science and Art of Coming Together in a Conflicted World
535: Former Time Editor on Being Richer, Wiser, and Happier
534: The Science of Personal Power: How to Command Influence, Overcome Doubt, and Lead with Confidence
533: 3x Emmy Award-Winning ESPN Broadcaster on Being Audacious
532: Positive Psychology Expert on Setting Big Goals and Creating Your Best Life
531: Harvard Law Professor on Negotiation: Making 'Messy Conversations' Work for You
530: Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer's Direct Advisor: Leadership, Self-Management, and Life Lessons
529: Founder of Education Design Lab on 'Who Needs College Anymore?'
528: Kellogg's JP Pawliw-Fry on Aggressive Learning, the Last 8%, and Training Attention
527: Senior Researcher at Harvard Kennedy School on 'Make Work Fair'
526: The University of Texas Professor on How to Improve Your Virtual Communication
525: Quantifying the Real Value and Impact of Thought Leadership
524: Harvard Law School Alum on How to Train Your Team Effectively
523: Boston Consulting Group's Martin Reeves on 'The Imagination Machine' (Strategy Skills classics)
522: Former Editor of the Financial Times on the Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor
521: Ex-Accenture Global CEO on Transformation: Human-Powered Leadership in a Disrupted World
520: A Harvard Expert's Guide to Mastering Conversations
519: Bain & Company's Partner Rob Markey on Customer Strategy, Customer Loyalty and Retention (Strategy Skills classics)
518: Former EY and KPMG Managing Director, Michael J. Lopez, on Strategies for Navigating Change
517: Digital Transformation Consulting: Technology Leader Insights
516: Professor of Psychology on Succeeding as an Immigrant
515: McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, PwC et al. Consulting Job Application Office Selection
514: How to Select Consulting Specialization
513: 9-Figure Founder and E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year on How to Be Successful
512: How to Build Consulting Storyboards in 3 Weeks (This is How McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte Do It)
511: Disney's Former Head of Innovation on Sparking Creativity and Making Innovation Happen
510: P&G and Walmart: The Story Behind the Groundbreaking Relationship
509: First Director of Culture at Pixar Animation Studios on Constructive Disruption as a Force for Innovation
508: McKinsey's Rise to Prominence Under Marvin Bower
507: Decoding M&A: Why 70% of Deals Fail and the Scorecard for Predicting Success
506: Management Consulting Storyboard | Storyboarding used by McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, PwC et al.
505: How Leaders Can Prevent Burnout and Foster Mental Well-Being in High-Performance Cultures
504: The CEO's Dilemma: When to Speak Out on Political and Social Issues
503: Ex-Amazon Executive: How Leaders Win by Making Big Bets
502: Ex McKinsey and Founder of the LIS on How Interdisciplinary Learning Shapes Tomorrow's Leaders
501: From Harvard Engineer to Inc. 5000 CEO: David G. Ewing on How to Build a Successful Business
500: Keith Ferrazzi on 10 Shifts from Leadership to Teamship
499: Steps to Becoming a Fractional C-Suite Executive with Sara Daw
498: INSEAD Professor on Rethinking Your Growth Logic with Triple Fit Strategy
497: More Effective Leadership Through Conversations with Topaz Adizes
496: Prize-Winning Healthcare Journalist Mark Taylor on Saving Hospitals, Lives, and Billions of Dollars
495: Mathematician's Proven Plan for Saving Hospitals, Lives, and Billions of Dollars, with Eugene Litvak
494: World-Renowned Futurist, Brian Solis, on the Mindshift Tomorrow's Leaders Need Today
493: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI with Mark Abraham, BCG's Personalization Lead
492: The Future of AI and Personalization with David C. Edelman, HBS Lecturer and Former Fortune 50 CMO
491: Ex Google Executive, Megan Hellerer, on Living a Fulfilled Life
490: The Playbook for Winning the Status Game (With Alison Fragale, Distinguished Scholar of Organizational Behavior)
489: Leadership and Self-Deception with Arbinger Managing Partner, Mitch Warner
488: How to "Think Like Amazon" with John Rossman
487: How publishing a book fast-tracked me to partnership (Strategy Skills classics)
486: Promoting women into senior roles (Strategy Skills classics)
485: HBS Professors and 'Think Big, Buy Small' Hosts Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff on Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
484: How too much debt impacts cost of capital (Strategy Skills classics)
483: What is the role of government (Strategy Skills classics)
482: From a $3,000 investment into nearly $1 billion in lifetime sales
481: Former CEO of AT&T Business, Anne Chow, on How to Lead Bigger
480: Why approve investments with negative returns? (Strategy Skills classics)
479: Marshall Goldsmith on Democratizing Learning Using AI and Leadership With AI
478: Math for English Majors with Ben Orlin
477: Why Everything You Know About Public Speaking Is Wrong—And What You Should Be Doing Instead
476: Handling client's difficult questions (Strategy Skills classics)
475: 3.4 million followers minister on building a business and professional brand from the ground up
474: How accurate was our financial model for the market entry strategy study? (Strategy Skills Classics)
473: MIT Professor Deborah Ancona on How Family Ghosts End Up in the Executive Suite
472: Top-down view of energy (Strategy Skills classics)
471: Management consulting storyboards (Strategy Skills classics)
470: Audemars Piguet & leadership (Strategy Skills classics)
469: Market trends analysis (Strategy Skills classics)
468: How to overcome career frustrations with New York University's Dr. Tessa West
467: How to convert insights into strategy maps (Strategy Skills classics)
466: Former McKinsey partner on How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World's Toughest Places
465: The Triggers Behind Customer Purchases with Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane.
464: Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future with co-founder of FLOODGATE, Mike Maples, Jr
463: How to Quickly Build a 500k+ Social Media Following with Eric Cogorno
462: Intentionality: A Groundbreaking Guide to Breath, Consciousness, and Radical Self-Transformation by Finnian Kelly
461: Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times (with Ex McKinsey and LBS lecturer, Dr. Rebecca Homkes)
460: How to Build a "People-First" Culture with Unicorn Founder and CEO of One Planet Group, Payam Zamani
459: Professor of Finance at London Business School, Alex Edmans, on Facts, Data, and Evidence: Knowing What to Trust or Can We Really Trust Evidence?
458: Building an AI Meeting Assistant in Silicon Valley, with Krish Ramineni, Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai
457: Solving for Why: Strategies for creating a career of purpose and meaning with Dr. Mark G. Shrime
456: Winning Mondays: Empowering Leaders and Teams with Paul Epstein
455: US Open Medalist on Principles to Succeed at Any Table in Business, Sports, and Life
454: How VC Shapes Startups with Benjamin Shestakofsky
453: Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy
452: Former Deloitte's Chief Learning Officer on Reevaluating Our Relationship with Change, Ashley Goodall
451: Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion
450: Stanford Professor and Venture Capital Expert, Ilya Strebulaev. The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth
449: Navigating the New Data Rules, with Cristina Alaimo
448: Google's Martin Gonzalez and Josh Yellin on Why Startups Fail
447: AJ Jacobs on Leadership Lessons from His Year of Living Constitutionally
446: How to Tap the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life. Former Monitor Associate partner and Chief Learning Officer of Teach For America. Co-CEO of Transcend, Jeff Wetzler
445: Navigating Career Transitions in a Complex World with Former Olympic Coach & Innovation Expert, Pete Steinberg
444: Can you become immune to burnout? UPenn Burnout Expert Reveals What Stress-Resilient People Have in Common
443: Negotiations in B2B sales and day to day leadership situations with Andres Lares
442: Founder and CEO of High Alpha Innovation, Elliott Parker. The Illusion of Innovation
441: How do I know what is corporate strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
440: What is the big picture thinking? (Strategy Skills classics)
439: How to think about financial strategy | management consulting (Strategy Skills classics)
438: Scenario planning's common problems (Strategy Skills classics)
437: Google's Laura Mae Martin on How to Be Productive
436: Selling Services to PE Firms with Aimably's Founder and Stanford Grad, Claire Milligan
435: Stanford University's Jeremy Utley. AI's brainstorming and problem-solving potential
434: Conditions for great PowerPoint slides (Strategy Skills classics)
433: Digital strategy expert, Venkat Venkatraman. How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future
432: One of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation, Vijay "VG" Govindarajan. How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future
431: Design the value chain you need | value chain analysis (Strategy Skills classics)
430: Chief evangelist of Canva and host of the Remarkable People podcast, Guy Kawasaki, on Lessons from the world's most remarkable people
429: Benchmarking analysis (Strategy Skills classics)
428: Vice President of SCADpro, Paul Stonick. The Business Value of Design and The Cost of Not Innovating
427: Ex McKinsey and LBS lecturer, Dr. Rebecca Homkes, on high growth strategy
426: Professor of Neuroscience, Dr. Charan Ranganath, on Memory, Neuroscience, and Discovery
425: Former President of Nike's Consumer-Direct Division and Former Executive Vice President and COO of PepsiCo Discuss Strategies from Women Who've Made It—Christiana Smith Shi and Grace Puma
424: CEO of Churchome, David Kroll, on Using Modern Technology to Scale Your Nonprofit Organization and Grow Your Community
423: Value chain mapping (Strategy Skills classics)
422: Harvard grad and Cerebral data science team leader, Akshay Swaminathan, on winning with Data Science
421: A Visionary Business Leader and Best Selling Author, Mark A. Mears. What's LOVE Got to Do With Leadership?
420: What a strategy workshop will not give you at the end (Strategy Skills classics)
419: The one thing every consulting case study must produce (Strategy Skills classics)
418: The most important output in a consulting study | management consulting project | benefits case (Strategy Skills classics)
417: A professor of global politics at University College London, Brian Klaas. FLUKE: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
416: Consulting workshop best practices (Strategy Skills classics)
415: If VCs & Gov. join forces we can solve society's biggest problems. With venture capitalist and lecturer at Stanford University, Arun Gupta
414: How to resign from your job the right way (Strategy Skills classics)
413: Best-selling author and Harvard Business School professor, Ranjay Gulati — Courageous Leadership
412: Overall goal of every consulting interaction (Strategy Skills classics)
411: How important is corporate strategy? (Strategy Skills Classics)
410: How to run a scenario planning session (Strategy Skills Classics)
409: Being competitive the right way (Strategy Skills classics)
408: Professional values on studies (Strategy Skills classics)
407: If objective function is known, It's not a corporate strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
406: How to communicate recommendations (Strategy Skills classics)
405: New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Rich Horwath — How to Develop Your Strategic Fitness
404: B2B Sales Expert, Rana Salman, on Internal and External Strategies for Optimizing Your Sales Conversations and Communicating Solutions
403: Grooming corporate leaders (Strategy Skills classics)
402: Consulting: Confidence & getting results (Strategy Skills classics)
401: How to conduct a value chain analysis (Strategy Skills classics)
400: What the NYPD teaches us about complex corporate strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
399: 5 tips to fight fatigue (Strategy Skills classics)
398: Northwestern University Professor, Lan Nguyen Chaplin — How to Disrupt a System That Was Built to Hold You Back
398: CEO and Founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group, William Vanderbloemen — A guide to hiring the best talent
397: Period case studies (Strategy Skills classics)
396: CEO OF KUSI Global, Inc. and Harvard University Fellow, Talia Fox — The Power of Conscious Connection
395: The organizational design stream (Strategy Skills classics)
394: Avoiding the strategy echo chamber (Strategy Skills classics)
393: What makes it a transformation study? (Strategy Skills classics)
392: USA Champion Gymnast turned entrepreneur & VC, Lisa Carmen Wang — Overcoming Good Girl Brainwashing
391: How to complete logical case studies? (Strategy Skills classics)
390: $42 million in fees for one engagement (Problem)
389: $42 million in fees for one engagement (Assets)
388: President of WillowTree, Tobias Dengel — How AI Will Return Communication To Its Most Natural Form: Voice
387: $42 million in fees for one engagement (Person)
386: Three career path options for consulting partners (Strategy Skills classics)
385: When should you not brand yourself ex McKinsey (Strategy Skills classics)
384: Great Management Consultants are Artists (Strategy Skills classics)
383: How to handle a "horrible" client (Strategy Skills classics)
382: How and when a consultant must disagree (Strategy Skills classics)
381: How to get to $500k per month in 4 years (with Samuel Moses)
380: Private Equity Firm CEO on Power, Success and Getting Results (with Rick Walker)
379: Ex Microsoft AI Strategy Expert on Strategy and Vision in the era of Artificial Intelligence (with Brian Evergreen)
378: Director of the Advanced Management and Leadership Programme at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, Dr. Andrew White — The New Archetype of Business Leadership
377: The Fourth-Generation CEO of Premier Dental, Julie Charlestein — How to Create a Healthy Succession Plan
376: The Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, Tiffani Bova — The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth
375: The first Chief Digital Officer in the history of the Fortune 500, Atif Rafiq — Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action
374: Wharton School Professor of Management and Vice Dean for the MBA for Executives Program, Mauro F. Guillén — Embracing a post-generational mindset to live a long and fulfilling life
373: CEO and co-founder of Reboot.io, Jerry Colonna — Leadership and the Longing to Belong
372: Former President of Disney Stores Worldwide Jim Fielding — Leading Consumer Products Groups at the World's Largest Media Companies, Leading Disney Stores Worldwide, Time Management, Biggest Lessons Learned While at Disney
371: McKinsey's Emily Field — Power to the Middle, Reimagining the Roles of a Mid Level Manager, The Key to the Future of Work
370: Harvard MBA Manisha Thakor — Financial Services Thirty Years Career, Hungry Ghost Mindset, How to Stop Being a Workaholic, Dealing with Work Addiction
369: World leading expert on perfectionism, Thomas Curran — The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough
368: Should I email the full deck to participants before the strategy workshop? (Strategy Skills classics)
367: Are the analyses always the same for a strategy workshop? (Strategy Skills classics)
366: What if the client demands more analyses? (Strategy Skills classics)
365: What happens if the client asks for proof of the strategy? (Strategy Skills classics)
364: How confident must I be to lead the workshop? (Strategy Skills classics)
363: What is corporate strategy? (Strategy Skills classics)
362: What is a conceptual thinker? (Strategy Skills classics)
361: Former McKinsey Consultant Darryl Stickel — Building Trust With Consulting Clients, Testing Trust Deficit Within Your Team, Sharpening Trust as a Skill, The Most Effective Levers You Can Pull To Build Trust
361: Why you should read Bill Matassoni's memoir (Strategy Skills classics)
360: Columbia University's Steven Cohen, Environmentally sustainable growth
359: Ex senior McKinsey Partner and worldwide strategy practice co-leader, Kevin P. Coyne (Strategy Skills classics)
358: Workshop structure, process and outcome (Strategy Skills classics)
357: Philosopher Ivo Brughmans — Paradoxical Leadership, Management Consulting, Polarities, Dilemmas, The Metaphor of the Bus, Being Driven from Inside
356: Former Bain & Company Director Michael Farmer — Differences Between McKinsey, Bain and BCG, Strategy Consulting, Helping Ad Agencies and Their Clients Navigate the Changes in the Media Landscape, Transformation of a Creative Ad Agency (Huge)
355: McKinsey senior partner, Kate Smaje. Winning in the age of digital and AI
354: Former Microsoft executive & CEO of Snowflake, Bob Muglia. The future of AI
353: Management skills analysis challenges (Strategy Skills classics)
352: Corporate strategy analysis process (Strategy Skills classics)
351: Advanced predictive problem solving (Turquoise Eyes: A Novel about Problem Solving & Critical Thinking)
350: Finalize the overall storyboard for the client (Strategy Skills classics)
349: Business unit strategy: Core & critical (Strategy Skills classics)
348: Dr. Luana Marques (Harvard professor), How to transform anxiety into power
347: How to start shifting to the career you've always wanted - Author program Q&A 7 (Strategy Skills classics)
346: How to write a book even if you're "too junior" - Author Program Q&A 6 (Strategy Skills classics)
345: Martin Reeves (Boston Consulting Group), The Imagination Machine
344: Should I wait to publish a solo book? Author Program Q&A 5 (Strategy Skills classics)
343: Is it expensive? Author Program Q&A 4 (Strategy Skills classics)
342: What is the ROI? Author Program Q&A 3 (Strategy Skills classics)
341: Ex McKinsey expert on war games, John Horn. How to read your competitors
340: Is it a good time now or should I wait until I become more senior? Author Program Q&A 2. (Strategy Skills classics)
339: Is this good for my career at this point in time? Author Program Q&A 1. (Strategy Skills classics)
338: Yale's Ryan McAnnally-Linz, What makes a good life?
337: How publishing a book fast-tracked me to partnership (Strategy Skills classics)
336: Initial logic and objective function (Strategy Skills classics)
335: Sandeep Chennakeshu, How to build a resilient and lasting business
334: Bain's Rishi Dave, The secret of top sellers
333: Gaia Bernstein, Managing screen time and addictive technology
332: Oscar Trimboli, The art of listening
331: Michael P. Leiter, Ph.D. How to beat burnout
330: Christina Maslach, PhD, Extinguishing burnout and workplace stigma
329: McKinsey's Venkat Atluri, How to thrive in the ecosystem economy
328: Structure of the visioning workshop
327: Promoting women into senior roles (Strategy Skills classics)
326: How too much debt impacts cost of capital (Strategy Skills classics)
325: What is the role of government (Strategy Skills classics)
324: John U. Bacon, Developing a team of leaders (Strategy Skills classics)
323: Ben Pring, How should we regulate tech? (Strategy Skills classics)
322: Luke Burgis, What fuels our desires? (Strategy Skills classics)
321: Jenn Lim, Go beyond happiness (Strategy Skills classics)
320: Harvard's Frank Cespedes, Managing sales in a world of constant change (Strategy Skills classics)
319: Harvard's Sandra Sucher, What is the foundation of trust? (Strategy Skills classics)
318: Mark Mahaney, 10 proven rules to succeed in tech stock investing (Strategy Skills classics)
317: Scott O'Neil, How to thrive where you're at (Strategy Skills classics)
316: Tim Bottke, Redefining digital transformation
315: Suneel Gupta, The hidden meaning behind failure
314: Bill Carr, What drives Amazon's success? (Strategy Skills classics)
313: Why approve investments with negative returns? (Strategy Skills classics)
312: Handling client's difficult questions (Strategy Skills classics)
311: How accurate was our financial model for the market entry strategy study? (Strategy Skills Classics)
310: Top-down view of energy (Strategy Skills classics)
309: Dr. Wendy Suzuki, How to improve your performance, the right way
308: Management consulting storyboards (Strategy Skills classics)
307: Adi Ignatius, Diving deep into enduring business ideas
306: Carolyn Buck Luce, Be your own hero
305: Dr. Mindy Weinstein, How to use scarcity to drive sales
304: Dr. Ella F. Washington, DEI: The foundation of workplace utopia
303: Frank O'Connell, Building careers and lasting relationships
302: Ravi Sarathy, Understanding cryptocurrency and blockchain
301: Audemars Piguet & leadership (Strategy Skills classics)
300: Market trends analysis (Strategy Skills classics)
299: How to convert insights into strategy maps (Strategy Skills classics)
298: How do I know what is corporate strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
297: What is the big picture thinking? (Strategy Skills classics)
296: Nick Santhanam, Is there a decline in US industrial prowess?
295: Daphne Jones, Winning against all odds
294: How to think about financial strategy | management consulting (Strategy Skills classics)
293: Scenario planning's common problems (Strategy Skills classics)
292: Conditions for great PowerPoint slides (Strategy Skills classics)
291: Mauro Porcini, Designing company culture
290: Design the value chain you need | value chain analysis (Strategy Skills classics)
289: Linda Yates, Driving company growth through ventures
288: Benchmarking analysis (Strategy Skills classics)
287: Value chain mapping (Strategy Skills classics)
286: Dr. Cindy McGovern, Redefining sales and personal brand
285: Ashish Kothari, The best practices to live a happy and fulfilling life
284: Julia Boorstin, The commonalities of thriving female leaders
283: Wendy Smith, A strategy to navigate a paradox
282: Sean McLain, Success to downfall: The story of Carlos Ghosn
281: David Noble, MOVE: A framework to reinforce the leader in you
280: Jeff Lerner, Starting a business from scratch
279: Dr. Richard Winters, What makes you a great leader?
278: What a strategy workshop will not give you at the end (Strategy Skills classics)
277: The one thing every consulting case study must produce (Strategy Skills classics)
276: The most important output in a consulting study | management consulting project | benefits case (Strategy Skills classics)
275: Cassie Holmes, Living life to the fullest: How to spend your time with no regrets
274: Bill George, Integrating emerging leaders with purpose and authenticity
273: Consulting workshop best practices (Strategy Skills classics)
272: How to resign from your job the right way (Strategy Skills classics)
271: Overall goal of every consulting interaction (Strategy Skills classics)
270: Ten warning signs for a consulting workshop (Strategy Skills classics)
269: Gaurav Gupta, The principles of change management
268: Ashley Menzies Babatunde, The act of wellness
267: Christie Hunter Arscott, Redefining risk: How to build a career through bold actions
266: How important is corporate strategy? (Strategy Skills Classics)
265: Touraj Parang, Why you should plan an exit path
264: Ash Ali & Hasan Kubba, Discover your unfair advantage
263: Julio Mario Ottino, The coexistence of art, technology, and science
262: Amanda Lotz, Netflix with ads: Is it a good strategy?
261: Saleem Ali, The power of citizen science
260: Adam Markel, How to build long-term resilience
259: How to run a scenario planning session (Strategy Skills Classics)
258: Being competitive the right way (Strategy Skills classics)
257: Professional values on studies (Strategy Skills classics)
256: J.S. Nelson, Business ethics as a competitive advantage
255: Edward Sullivan, The employee first generation
254: Dr. Adam C. Bandelli, Relational intelligence: The key to transform relationships
253: Richard Rumelt, How to solve the crux
252: Jan Bonhoeffer M.D., Care: The missing piece of leadership
251: Barry Nalebuff, The radical way to negotiate
250: Tom Eddington, Climate change: The root cause of COVID
249: If objective function is known, It's not a corporate strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
248: What is a conceptual thinker? (Strategy Skills classics)
247: How to communicate recommendations (Strategy Skills classics)
246: Grooming corporate leaders (Strategy Skills classics)
245: Consulting: Confidence & getting results (Strategy Skills classics)
244: Satish Nambisan, Managing digital and globalization
243: Richard Hawkes, How do leaders integrate?
242: Eric Pliner, A guide to difficult decision making
241: Alex Bäcker, The key to happiness and success
240: Amy Herman, The artistic way of problem solving
239: Dan Saladino, The value of food diversity
238: Kian Gohar, How radical adaptability sustains continuous change
237: Ryan Jenkins & Steven Van Cohen, How to defeat loneliness through connection
236: David Siegel, How to conquer as a new CEO
235: John Boudreau & Ravin Jesuthasan, Seeing through the future of work
234: John A. List, Setting up scale: How to avoid voltage drop
233: Susan MacKenty Brady, Cultivating your best self through inclusivity
232: Dr. Natalie Petouhoff, Shaping empathy from the perspective of your employees and customers
231: Ravi Venkatesan, The triumph within mindset and self belief
230: Don Schmincke, The compelling saga: How to lead an organization toward success
229: Michael Reddington, Mindset shift: The key to effective communication
228: Fred Glass, Seizing opportunities: How Indianapolis kept the Colts
227: Ben M. Bensaou, Innovation through customer collaboration
226: Alicia Hare, A brighter approach to leadership
225: Mark Sirower, How to thrive and win in M&A
224: Patricia Stark, How to build genuine connections
223: How to conduct a value chain analysis (Strategy Skills classics)
222: Stan Bernard, MD, M.B.A., How to win the game as a transcender
221: What the NYPD teaches us about complex corporate strategy (Strategy Skills classics)
220: How and when a consultant must disagree (Strategy Skills classics)
219: 5 tips to fight fatigue (Strategy Skills classics)
218: Kindra Hall, How to control your life through storytelling
217: Period case studies (Strategy Skills classics)
216: The organizational design stream (Strategy Skills classics)
215: Catherine Bell, How to awaken company's humanity
214: Emily Bermes, How to thrive as a new generation executive
213: Avoiding the strategy echo chamber (Strategy Skills classics)
212: What makes it a transformation study? (Strategy Skills classics)
211: How to complete logical case studies? (Strategy Skills classics)
210: Three career path options for consulting partners (Strategy Skills classics)
209: When should you not brand yourself ex McKinsey (Strategy Skills classics)
208: Great management consultants are artists (Strategy Skills classics)
207: Tesla's strategy. Co-hosted by Bill Matassoni (Strategy Skills classics)
206: Can a functional partner lead the workshop over a sector partner? (Strategy Skills classics)
205: Does the strategy workshop offer precise answers? (Strategy Skills classics)
204: Adam Levin, How to protect yourself from cyber threats
203: Should I email the full deck to participants before the strategy workshop? (Strategy Skills classics)
202: Jeff Rosenblum, What is good marketing?
201: When consultants overbill a client (Strategy Skills classics)
200: Jason Goldsmith, The art of self-coaching and awareness
199: Are the analyses always the same for a strategy workshop? (Strategy Skills classics)
198: What if the client demands more analyses? (Strategy Skills classics)
197: What happens if the client asks for proof of the strategy? (Strategy Skills classics)
196: Kay Formanek, Embracing diversity in the workplace
195: How confident must I be to lead the workshop? (Strategy Skills classics)
194: Your body image impacts your confidence, which impacts your leadership (Strategy Skills classics)
193: Shir Nir, Lifestyle check: Improvement through self-assessment
192: Sabrina Horn, How to lead with authenticity
191: Carole Robin, Connecting across differences
190: Simon Mainwaring, Lead with we workshop
189: Michael Sacca and Mike Belsito, Customer empathy: User persona or jobs to be done?
188: Simon Mainwaring, The future of collaborative leadership
187: Jon Picoult, Why customer experience matters
186: Amanda Lotz, How the internet disrupted media industries
185: Why you should read Bill Matassoni's memoir (Strategy Skills classics)
184: Kent Taylor, The man behind the success of Texas Roadhouse (with Travis Doster)
183: How to start shifting to the career you've always wanted - Author program Q&A 7
182: What is corporate strategy? (Strategy Skills classics)
181: How to handle a "horrible" client (Strategy Skills classics)
180: Jonathan Brill, Turn uncertainty into opportunity
179: How to write a book even if you're "too junior" - Author Program Q&A 6
178: Should I wait to publish a solo book? Author Program Q&A 5
177: Matt Blumberg, How to build a successful startup
176: Kayvan Kian, Step back to move forward
175: David Bradford, What makes a good leader in 2021
174: Is it expensive? Author Program Q&A 4
173: What is the ROI? Author Program Q&A 3
172: Charlene Li, Grow your business via disruption
171: April Rinne, Rethinking humanity's beliefs
170: Gary Hamel, Everyone should be the manager
169: Tom Eisenmann, Startups and their wrong decisions
168: Jeff Kavanaugh, Unleashing your employees
167: Mike Zani, How data science could boost your workforce
166: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the bet of the century. Tim Higgins (WSJ reporter)
165: Rob Lachenauer, How family businesses span generations
164: Josh Baron, Family business during the pandemic
163: Is it a good time now or should I wait until I become more senior? Author Program Q&A 2.
162: Is this good for my career at this point in time? Author Program Q&A 1.
161: How publishing a book fast-tracked me to partnership
160: Rob Barnett, Increase your hire-ability
159: Ash Fontana, The AI-first company
158: Location is leverage or proximity is leverage (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #29, part 3)
157: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook's AI advantage (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #29, part 2)
156: 7-Eleven's inconvenient truth about convenience (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #29, part 1)
155: Taming the beast tech has become with actionable solutions. With Cognizant's Ben Pring
154: Harvard's Gorick Ng on career secrets
153: The experience economy strategy (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #28, part 2)
152: The checkmate asset the world doesn't know China is attracting (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #28, part 1)
151: Jonathan Byrnes, MIT. Build a targeted business that the likes of Google & Amazon can't match
150: A strategy expert vs. a CEO (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #27, part 3)