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Why Data Alone Won't Change Your Organization with Sebastian Wernicke

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Speak Memorably: Bill McGowan on the Art of Captivating Any Audience

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Mastering the Craft of Leadership with Rick Goings

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Plastic, Pollution & Power: Beth Gardiner on Who's Really to Blame

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The Transformation Economy with Rita McGrath and Joe Pine

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The Science of Better Leadership with Rita McGrath and Caroline Webb

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Leadership in an Age of Polycrisis with Rita McGrath and Caroline Stokes

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Designing Meetings that Matter with Rita McGrath and Rebecca Hinds

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Developing a Marketing Mindset with Rita McGrath and Rory Sutherland

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Leading with Humanity with Rita McGrath and Kevin Nolan

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Lessons from Three Decades at Columbia Business School

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How Organizations Can Win with AI with Rita McGrath and Charlene Li

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Achieving Real Business Growth with Rita McGrath and Victor Grizzle

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Understanding the New Longevity with Rita McGrath and Michael Clinton

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Longterm Strategic Thinking with Rita McGrath and Roger Dennis

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Building Strategy for the Future with Rita McGrath and Jonathan Brill

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Unlocking Human Potential with Rita McGrath and Chris Shipley and Scott Barry Kaufman

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Leadership and Transformation with Rita McGrath and Sharmla Chetty

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Rethinking Education with Rita McGrath and MacKenzie Price

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Getting Positioning Right with Rita McGrath and April Dunford

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Leading Incorruptible Organizations with Rita McGrath and Eric Ries

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Beating Burnout and Building Culture with Rita McGrath and Jennifer Moss

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Reimagining Work with Rita McGrath and Nilofer Merchant

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Catalyzing Organizational Change with Rita McGrath and Michael Lurie

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Building Beloved Brands with Rita McGrath and Monica Nassif

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The Science of Retiring Well with Rita McGrath and Teresa Amabile

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Maximizing Human Capacity with Rita McGrath and Vivienne Ming

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Building Lasting Organizations with Rita McGrath and Dave Whorton

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AI and Human Capabilities with Rita McGrath and Johan Roos

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The Future of Employment with Rita McGrath and Deborah Perry Piscione

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AI and the Knowledge Economy with Rita McGrath and Sangeet Paul Choudary

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The Psychology of High Performance with Rita McGrath and Christian Marcolli 

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Rethinking Authenticity with Rita McGrath and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

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Unlimited Leadership with Rita McGrath and Jose Marcilla

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Defying Organizational Drift with Rita McGrath and Steve Goldbach & Geoff Tuff

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Rising Against the Odds with Rita McGrath and Sylvia Acevedo

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Redefining Digital Identity with Rita McGrath and Don Tapscott

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The Remote Work Question with Rita McGrath and Peter Capelli & Ranya Nehmeh

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Systems Leadership with Rita McGrath and Rob Siegel

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Legacies of Resilience with Rita McGrath and Cheryl McKissack Daniel

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Celebrating Immigrant Entrepreneurs with Rita McGrath and Neri Karra Sillaman

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The Psychology of Performance with Rita McGrath and Michael Gervais

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Art and Human Connection with Rita McGrath and Chesney Snow

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The Power of Storytelling with Rita McGrath and Jaye Fenderson

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Rethinking Higher Education with Rita McGrath and Ben Nelson

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Deep connections, globally and locally, with with Rita McGrath and Jean Oelwang

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Leading Through Pressure with Rita McGrath and Sabina Nawaz

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Unlocking Human Potential with Rita McGrath and Scott Barry Kaufman

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How Digital Feedback Shaped the World with Rita McGrath and Martin Reeves

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The Secret to Radio Flyer’s Strategic Success with Rita McGrath & Robert Pasin

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The Strategic Edge of Storytelling with Rita McGrath and Frank Rose

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The Future of Manufacturing with Rita McGrath and Karla Trotman

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Unlocking Confidence with Rita McGrath and Sharon Price John

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Reclaiming Capitalism for Social Good with Rita McGrath and Peter Georgescu

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Becoming An Unstoppable Entrepreneur with Rita McGrath and Lori Rosenkopf

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What WD-40 Got Right About Corporate Purpose with Rita McGrath & Garry Ridge

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Party City’s Retail Innovation: Rita McGrath & Steve Mandell

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When To Pivot - with Rita McGrath by Hidden Brain

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How to Lead amid Constant Disruption - Rita McGrath & Terence Mauri

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Why Employee Experience is Crucial to Business Success: Rita McGrath & Stephan Meier

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Random Acts of Medicine: How unexpected events shape our health - Rita McGrath & Anupam Jena

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The Microsoft Playbook: Business Strategies That Work - Rita McGrath, Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin

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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath & Matt Beane author of “The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines"

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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath & Susannah Fox, former Chief Information Officer at Health and Human Services

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Rita McGrath joins KFNN

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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath & H.R. McMaster Author of "At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House"

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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath & Steven Brill, Author of "The Teamsters" and "America's Bitter Pill"

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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath & Frederik Pferdt Adjunct Professor at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design

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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath & Julia Boorstin, Senior media & technology reporter at CNBC and Author of "When Women Lead

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Rita McGrath & Paul LeBlanc Author of "Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them" - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Barron Witherspoon Author of "The Black Exec: And the Seven Myths"- Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Steve Wunker co-author of "The Innovative Leader" - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Anupam B Jena, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Chip Conley, Author of "Learning to Love Mid-Life"- Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Bob Sutton, Author of the "The Friction Project" - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Matt Abrahams Award-winning Podcast Host - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Kelly Richmond-Pope, a Professor at DePaul University - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Kai D. Wright, Columbia Professor- Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Sheena Iyengar - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Jeremy Utley Author of "Ideaflow." - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Tiffani Bova, Author of "The Experience Mindset" - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Zeynep Ton - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Freada Kapor Klein, Co-author of "Closing the Equity Gap - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Rob Cross and Karen Dillon , Authors of "Micro-stressors"- Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Morra Aarons Author of "The Anxious Achiever." - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Bob Sutton Professor and Organizational Psychologist @stanford - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Richard Rumelt Professor Emeritus at UCLA Anderson - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Rita Kakati Shah, Award-winning gender inclusion strategist - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Christian Stadler, Professor of strategy at Warwick Business School - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Ryan Close, Bartesian CEO - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Eric J. Johnson , Director of the Center for Decision Sciences at the Columbia Business School - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Matt Richtel, Pulitzer prize-winning author and journalist - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Stephen Bailey, ExecOnLine co-founder - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Keith Ferrazzi, Best-Selling Author of "Never Eat Alone" - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Sharon Price John, CEO of Build-a-Bear - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Michael Bungay Stanier, Founder of Box of Crayons - Thought Sparks

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Rita McGrath & Ruth Gotian, Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine - Thought Sparks

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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath & Roger Martin

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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath & Anna Lembke

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Thought Sparks with Rita McGrath & Whitney Johnson