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Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 38 | Natalie Nixon: Why Creativity is a Strategic SkillIn this Provocateurs podcast special recorded at the 2025 Thinkers50 London Summit & Awards Gala, creativity strategist Natalie Nixon discusses how organizations can harness creativity as a strategic business competency.
Challenging the misconception that creativity belongs only to artists, Natalie uses her “wonder-rigor” framework to demonstrate that the best engineers, scientists, CFOs, and leaders toggle between imaginative exploration (wonder) and disciplined execution (rigor). This chaordic balance between chaos and order is essential, she says, for driving sustainable innovation.
Turning to AI and the future of work, Natalie contends that technology offers an opportunity for more distributed, improvisational ways of working – which appeal in par...
2025-12-0436 min
The ProvocateursEpisode 38: Natalie NixonIn this Provocateurs podcast special recorded at the 2025 Thinkers50 London Summit & Awards Gala, creativity strategist Natalie Nixon discusses how organizations can harness creativity as a strategic business competency.Challenging the misconception that creativity belongs only to artists, Natalie uses her “wonder-rigor” framework to demonstrate that the best engineers, scientists, CFOs, and leaders toggle between imaginative exploration (wonder) and disciplined execution (rigor). This chaordic balance between chaos and order is essential, she says, for driving sustainable innovation.Turning to AI and the future of work, Natalie contends that technology offers an opportunity for more distributed, improvisational ways...
2025-12-0436 min
The Innovation ShowThe Magic of Code with Sam Arbesman | The Innovation Show (Thinkers50 Award-Winning Podcast)In this thought-provoking episode, Aidan McCullen — Thinkers50 Innovation Award Winner, author of Undisruptable, and host of The Innovation Show — welcomes Samuel Arbesman, scientist, author, and polymath, for the grand finale of their trilogy. Together, they explore The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World, diving deep into how code shapes our understanding of reality — from biology and evolution to artificial intelligence and the simulation hypothesis. Discover how code is the new DNA, the universal language linking art, philosophy, and technology, and why rekindling curiosity, humility, and wonder is essential in our age of...
2025-11-0559 min
Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 34: Karthik RamannaKarthik Ramanna is a professor of business and public policy at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government and author of The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World – recently named one of Thinkers50's Best Management Books of 2025.
In this episode of The Provocateurs, Karthik identifies three distinctive forces shaping our current moment: profound uncertainty about the future driven by AI, climate change, and demographic shifts; deep distrust in institutions of governance that people feel have delivered a "raw deal"; and a shift away from global humanism toward economic and cultural nationalism.
Discover the tools an...
2025-07-3039 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 34: Karthik RamannaLeading in the Age of OutrageKarthik Ramanna is a professor of business and public policy at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government and author of The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World – recently named one of Thinkers50's Best Management Books of 2025.In this episode of The Provocateurs, Karthik identifies three distinctive forces shaping our current moment: profound uncertainty about the future driven by AI, climate change, and demographic shifts; deep distrust in institutions of governance that people feel have delivered a "raw deal"; and a sh...
2025-07-3039 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 30: ReflectionsThe 2024 Provocateurs series featured nine inspiring thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and business authors who challenged us to re-think conventional approaches to leadership and management. Neri Karra Sillaman shared her remarkable story from refugee to building a multi-million-dollar sustainable fashion brand; Marcus Collins explored the hidden power of cultural influence in consumer behaviour; Lisa McKnight revealed how she transformed Barbie into a cultural phenomenon and billion-dollar success; and Andrew Winston redefined the role of business to create a thriving “net positive world”. One of the key highlights of the 2024 series was recording live at New York Climate Week w...
2025-02-2736 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 30: ReflectionsThe 2024 Provocateurs series featured nine inspiring thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and business authors who challenged us to re-think conventional approaches to leadership and management.
Neri Karra Sillaman shared her remarkable story from refugee to building a multi-million-dollar sustainable fashion brand; Marcus Collins explored the hidden power of cultural influence in consumer behaviour; Lisa McKnight revealed how she transformed Barbie into a cultural phenomenon and billion-dollar success; and Andrew Winston redefined the role of business to create a thriving “net positive world”.
One of the key highlights of the 2024 series was recording live at New York Climate Week with Paul Polman, former CEO...
2025-02-2636 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 29: Lisa McKnightTransforming BarbieExecutive vice president and chief brand officer of Mattel, Lisa McKnight is credited with leading the transformation of the Barbie brand. Under her leadership, Barbie became the number one global toy property in 2020 and 2021, and she redefined Barbie’s global social mission with the launch of the Dream Gap Project in 2018, a multi-year initiative which has positively impacted over 25 million girls.In this conversation with Steve Goldbach, leader of Deloitte’s sustainability practice in the US, and Des Dearlove, co-founder of Thinkers50, Lisa explains what drew her to the world of toys...
2024-10-3139 min
Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 29: Lisa McKnightTransforming Barbie
Executive vice president and chief brand officer of Mattel, Lisa McKnight is credited with leading the transformation of the Barbie brand. Under her leadership, Barbie became the number one global toy property in 2020 and 2021, and she redefined Barbie’s global social mission with the launch of the Dream Gap Project in 2018, a multi-year initiative which has positively impacted over 25 million girls.
In this conversation with Steve Goldbach, leader of Deloitte’s sustainability practice in the US, and Des Dearlove, co-founder of Thinkers50, Lisa explains what drew her to the world of toys, why the Barbie brand had fallen out...
2024-10-2539 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 28: Paul PolmanRecorded Live at Climate Week, New YorkPaul Polman is a business leader, campaigner, and co-author (with Andrew Winston) of Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive By Giving More Than They Take, a Financial Times Business Book of the Year. Together with Andrew, Paul is ranked #3 on the Thinkers50 Ranking. As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), Paul demonstrated that business can profit through purpose, delivering shareholder returns of 290% while the company consistently ranked 1st in the world for sustainability. Today he works across a range of organisations to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals...
2024-10-151h 03Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 28: Paul PolmanPaul Polman is a business leader, campaigner, and co-author (with Andrew Winston) of Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive By Giving More Than They Take, a Financial Times Business Book of the Year. Together with Andrew, Paul is ranked #3 on the Thinkers50 Ranking.
As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), Paul demonstrated that business can profit through purpose, delivering shareholder returns of 290% while the company consistently ranked 1st in the world for sustainability. Today he works across a range of organisations to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which he helped develop.
In New York for the 2024 Climate Week, Paul sat down...
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Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 27: Andrew WinstonAndrew Winston is one of the most widely read writers and thinkers on sustainable business. His books on sustainability strategy include Green to Gold, The Big Pivot, and most recently, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take, which he co-authored with Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever.
Andrew and Paul are ranked #3 in the Thinkers50 Ranking of top management thinkers and Net Positive featured on the Thinkers50 Best New Management Booklist in 2022.
In this Provocateurs podcast, Andrew joins Thinkers50 co-founder, Des Dearlove, and Kulleni Gebreyes, Deloitte US Consulting Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry Leader and...
2024-08-2349 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 27: Andrew WinstonThe Courage to be Net PositiveAndrew Winston is one of the most widely read writers and thinkers on sustainable business. His books on sustainability strategy include Green to Gold, The Big Pivot, and most recently, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take, which he co-authored with Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever.Andrew and Paul are ranked #3 in the Thinkers50 Ranking of top management thinkers and Net Positive featured on the Thinkers50 Best New Management Booklist in 2022.In this Provocateurs podcast, Andrew joins Thinkers50 co-founder...
2024-08-2349 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 26: Atif RafiqAtif Rafiq: Digital Disruptor
Provocateur of the C-Suite, Atif Rafiq has been disrupting companies for more than 25 years in Silicon Valley, the Fortune 500, and through a variety of his own startups. Having begun his career in digital native companies including AOL, Yahoo, and Amazon, Atif was named the first chief digital officer in the history of the Fortune 500 when he took on that role for McDonald's in 2013. He has overseen thousands of employees as a global P&L transformation and innovation leader in multiple companies and industries.
Today, over a half million people follow Atif’s ideas about management and le...
2024-07-1740 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 26: Atif RafiqAtif Rafiq: Digital DisruptorProvocateur of the C-Suite, Atif Rafiq has been disrupting companies for more than 25 years in Silicon Valley, the Fortune 500, and through a variety of his own startups. Having begun his career in digital native companies including AOL, Yahoo, and Amazon, Atif was named the first chief digital officer in the history of the Fortune 500 when he took on that role for McDonald's in 2013. He has overseen thousands of employees as a global P&L transformation and innovation leader in multiple companies and industries.Today, over a half million people...
2024-07-1740 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 25: Dane JensenDane Jensen: Decoding the Power of Pressure
How can we harness the positive powers of pressure? How can we mitigate the negative effects of pressure when the stakes are high?
Dane Jensen is the CEO of Third Factor, an instructor at Queen’s University and the University of North Carolina, and author of The Power of Pressure. In this podcast with Deloitte’s Geoff Tuff and Thinkers50’s Stuart Crainer, he explains that pressure is a function of three things: importance – how much the outcome matters to you; uncertainty – lack of surety about the eventual result; and volume – how many high-stakes...
2024-06-1239 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 25: Dane JensenDecoding the Power of PressureHow can we harness the positive powers of pressure? How can we mitigate the negative effects of pressure when the stakes are high?Dane Jensen is the CEO of Third Factor, an instructor at Queen’s University and the University of North Carolina, and author of The Power of Pressure. In this podcast with Deloitte’s Geoff Tuff and Thinkers50’s Stuart Crainer, he explains that pressure is a function of three things: importance – how much the outcome matters to you; uncertainty – lack of surety about the eventual result; an...
2024-06-1239 min
The Anxious AchieverThinkers50: The Limits and Responsibilities of LeadersLeaders of organizations have a large responsibility when it comes to their own mental health, and of those in their organization. When they speak up about mental health, others can too. But vulnerability comes with risks. How can leaders model openness around mental health without bumping up against stereotypes and judgment?In this roundtable conversation, host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmonson – the pioneer of the concept of psychological safety at work; entrepreneur and best-selling author Peter Sims; and Megan Reitz of Oxford University and Hult International Business School about th...
2024-05-2952 minThe Anxious AchieverThinkers50: Can We Banish Burnout?Burnout doesn’t come on because of weakness, and it doesn’t come about overnight. Many of us are walking around with some degree of burnout! On the flip side, it takes more than a vacation or loving your job to solve the problem. In this special Thinkers50 episode, host Morra Aarons-Mele explores some of the ways companies and individuals can more effectively avoid burnout and put in place more mentally healthy systems. She speaks with Alyson Meister, a professor at IMD Business School, Jon Jachimowicz, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Basima Tewfik, assistant professor at MIT Sloa...
2024-05-2257 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode #24: Jeff WetzlerHow to Tap into the Hidden Wisdom of the People Around You
Why do people withhold information from each other? Why are some of the smartest, successful people the worst at learning from each other?
Jeff Wetzler is on a quest to transform learning opportunities, both in business and in education. If we want to create a workforce for the future, with skills that cannot be replaced by AI, he explains, we have to do things differently not just within an organisation but at every stage of the education journey.
Jeff is the former chief learning officer at Teach for...
2024-05-2237 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 24: Jeff WetzlerHow to Tap into the Hidden Wisdom of the People Around YouWhy do people withhold information from each other? Why are some of the smartest, successful people the worst at learning from each other? Jeff Wetzler is on a quest to transform learning opportunities, both in business and in education. If we want to create a workforce for the future, with skills that cannot be replaced by AI, he explains, we have to do things differently not just within an organisation but at every stage of the education journey.Jeff i...
2024-05-1637 minThe Anxious AchieverThinkers50: Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy, Start Being Your Best FriendAs part of a month long series with Thinkers50 and The Silicon Guild, in this episode host Morra Aarons-Mele explores constructive ways we can improve our relationship with ourselves, instead of always being our harshest critic. She’s joined by Duke Professor Sanyin Siang, Lenny Mendoca, Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey, and Palo Alto City Council Member Julie Lythcott-Haims to talk about ways to change your self talk and your work. Learn more about Sanyin: https://centers.fuqua.duke.edu/cole/team_profiles/sanyin-siang/Hear our past episode with Len...
2024-05-1556 minThe Anxious AchieverThinkers50: Improving Work, Improving Mental Health (For Everyone)What are some of the most important management ideas out there in today’s world? Thinkers50 is an organization that aims to identify and share these important ideas day in and day out, and all month long host Morra Aarons-Mele is partnering with Thinkers50 and The Silicon Guild for a series of roundtable talks about mental health and work. In this episode, she speaks with Columbia Business School’s Rita McGrath, Copenhagen Business School’s Poornima Luthra, and entrepreneur Andrew Barnes, founder of the Four Day Week Movement, about rethinking how we work to improve mental health for everyone.
2024-05-0855 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 23: Neri Karra SillamanNeri Karra Sillaman: From Refugee to Fashion Revolutionary
At age 11, Neri Karra Sillaman’s world was turned upside down when her Bulgarian-Turkish family was forced to flee their home country. Driven by a hunger for education and a better life, Neri grabbed an opportunity to study business management at the University of Miami, where she became interested in how businesses – in particular, businesses founded by immigrants – are created and sustained.
She has subsequently become an expert in international and ethnic entrepreneurship, researching how the unique capabilities and mindset of immigrants create businesses that last. She received her doctorate from the Univer...
2024-04-1643 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 23: Neri Karra SillamanNeri Karra Sillaman: From Refugee to Fashion Revolutionary At age 11, Neri Karra Sillaman’s world was turned upside down when her Bulgarian-Turkish family was forced to flee their home country. Driven by a hunger for education and a better life, Neri grabbed an opportunity to study business management at the University of Miami, where she became interested in how businesses – in particular, businesses founded by immigrants – are created and sustained.She has subsequently become an expert in international and ethnic entrepreneurship, researching how the unique capabilities and mindset of immigrants create businesses that last...
2024-04-1643 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 22: Marcus CollinsMarketer extraordinaire, Marcus Collins is a clinical professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. A former advertising executive who worked on iTunes + Nike sport music initiatives at Apple, Marcus contends that what we wear, what we eat, where we work, who we date, and just about every facet of our social living is informed by our underlying culture. And the primary goal of all industries is to “get people to move”, whether it is to buy, to click, to watch, vote, or subscribe.
In this intriguing conversation with Steve Goldbach of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Marc...
2024-03-2745 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 22: Marcus CollinsCulture, Connections, and CommunityMarketer extraordinaire, Marcus Collins is a clinical professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. A former advertising executive who worked on iTunes + Nike sport music initiatives at Apple, Marcus contends that what we wear, what we eat, where we work, who we date, and just about every facet of our social living is informed by our underlying culture. And the primary goal of all industries is to “get people to move”, whether it is to buy, to click, to watch, vote, or subscribe.In this intriguing conv...
2024-03-2745 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 21: Amy ChangAmy Chang serves on the board of directors for The Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble, and has previously served on the boards of Cisco, Splunk, Marqeta, and Informatica.
In 2018, Amy’s start-up business, Accompany, an AI/ML-based relationship intelligence platform serving Fortune 500 companies, was acquired by Cisco for $270 million. Post-acquisition, she led Cisco’s multi-billion-dollar 6000-person Collaboration business.
Prior to Accompany, Amy was at Google, where she led the teams for Google Analytics for over seven years, growing Google Analytics to serve over 86% of the entire web. She also fulfilled roles at eBay and McKinsey, having started her career in h...
2024-02-1544 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 21: Amy ChangAmy Chang: Becoming An AI EntrepreneurAmy Chang serves on the board of directors for The Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble, and has previously served on the boards of Cisco, Splunk, Marqeta, and Informatica.In 2018, Amy’s start-up business, Accompany, an AI/ML-based relationship intelligence platform serving Fortune 500 companies, was acquired by Cisco for $270 million. Post-acquisition, she led Cisco’s multi-billion-dollar 6000-person Collaboration business.Prior to Accompany, Amy was at Google, where she led the teams for Google Analytics for over seven years, growing Google Analytics to serve over 86% of the...
2024-02-1544 min
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2024-02-1522 minThinkers50 PodcastReflections | The Provocateurs Podcast: Episode 20What did we learn from our provocateurs in 2023? Who provoked us to think again and act differently? Which stories remain with us?
The Provocateurs podcast series gives you direct access to the ideas, experiences, and insights of remarkable leaders from around the world. In 2023, in collaboration with Deloitte, Thinkers50 hosted an inspiring mix of guests in thought-provoking conversations.
The topics that were discussed and debated ranged from The Inside Track on Growth with Tiffani Bova to Radical Candor with Kim Scott. Along the way we unpicked branding and the metaverse with Martin Lindstrom, learned how to play our cards right...
2024-02-0151 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 20: ReflectionsWhat did we learn from our provocateurs in 2023? Who provoked us to think again and act differently? Which stories remain with us?The Provocateurs podcast series gives you direct access to the ideas, experiences, and insights of remarkable leaders from around the world. In 2023, in collaboration with Deloitte, Thinkers50 hosted an inspiring mix of guests in thought-provoking conversations.The topics that were discussed and debated ranged from The Inside Track on Growth with Tiffani Bova to Radical Candor with Kim Scott. Along the way we unpicked branding and the metaverse with Martin Lindstrom, learned how...
2024-02-0151 min
Lean Blog Audio with Mark GrabanCongrats to Four Podcast Guests Who Were Named to the “Thinkers50” ListBlog post with more info and links
Congratulations to my podcast(s) guests who were named to the Thinkers50 list of influential management thinkers!
I am thrilled to extend my heartiest congratulations to a remarkable group of individuals who have recently graced the stages of my podcasts, “Lean Blog Interviews” and “My Favorite Mistake.” These brilliant minds have been recognized on the prestigious Thinkers50 list for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of management thinking. Each has shared their invaluable insights with us, and it's a true honor to see them receive this well-deserved accolade.⭐ Amy E...
2023-11-2805 minLean Blog AudioCongrats to Four Podcast Guests Who Were Named to the “Thinkers50” ListBlog post with more info and links
Congratulations to my podcast(s) guests who were named to the Thinkers50 list of influential management thinkers!
I am thrilled to extend my heartiest congratulations to a remarkable group of individuals who have recently graced the stages of my podcasts, “Lean Blog Interviews” and “My Favorite Mistake.” These brilliant minds have been recognized on the prestigious Thinkers50 list for their groundbreaking contributions to the field of management thinking. Each has shared their invaluable insights with us, and it's a true honor to see them receive this well-deserved accolade.⭐ Amy E...
2023-11-2805 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 19: Chip BerghRescuing Levi’s
A self-declared ‘brand guy’, Chip Bergh was appointed president and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. in 2011. During his tenure the company has experienced a dramatic turnaround marked by outstanding performance and reclaiming its cultural relevance. In short, Levi’s has become cool again! Along the way, Chip has shown himself to be a provocateur.
In this podcast with Des Dearlove, co-founder of Thinkers50 and Geoff Tuff, Principal of Deloitte Consulting LLP, Chip explains why his own Levi’s have never seen the inside of a washing machine, how he galvanised the business community into pressing for gun violence p...
2023-11-0242 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 19: Chip BerghRescuing Levi’sA self-declared ‘brand guy’, Chip Bergh was appointed president and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. in 2011. During his tenure the company has experienced a dramatic turnaround marked by outstanding performance and reclaiming its cultural relevance. In short, Levi’s has become cool again! Along the way, Chip has shown himself to be a provocateur. In this podcast with Des Dearlove, co-founder of Thinkers50 and Geoff Tuff, Principal of Deloitte Consulting LLP, Chip explains why his own Levi’s have never seen the inside of a washing machine, how he galvanised the busines...
2023-11-0242 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 18: Sunny Bonnell Rare Breeds – Marching To A Different Drum Leadership and brand expert Sunny Bonnell is the bestselling co-author of Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different (with Ashleigh Hansberger, 2019). Sunny and Ashleigh are also the creators of the Rare Breed Leadership Platform, and the hit YouTube show, Rare Breed TV. In this Provocateurs podcast with Thinkers50 co-founder, Des Dearlove, and Geoff Tuff of Deloitte, Sunny outlines seven unconventional traits displayed by ‘rare breeds’ – traits that are traditionally seen as vices, such as being rebellious, audacious, emotional, and hot-blooded. However, she explain...
2023-10-0535 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 18: Sunny BonnellRare Breeds – Marching To A Different Drum
Leadership and brand expert Sunny Bonnell is the bestselling co-author of Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different (with Ashleigh Hansberger, 2019). Sunny and Ashleigh are also the creators of the Rare Breed Leadership Platform, and the hit YouTube show, Rare Breed TV.
In this Provocateurs podcast with Thinkers50 co-founder, Des Dearlove, and Geoff Tuff of Deloitte, Sunny outlines seven unconventional traits displayed by ‘rare breeds’ – traits that are traditionally seen as vices, such as being rebellious, audacious, emotional, and hot-blooded. However, she explains that if organisations can see these so...
2023-10-0535 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 17: Kim ScottThe author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott joins Steve Goldbach of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 to talk through the politics, practicalities, and purpose of feedback in the workplace.
In this discussion, part of The Provocateurs podcast series, Kim explains how her two-by-two framework for radical candor can help create productive feedback by avoiding the two extremes of obnoxious aggression and ruinous sympathy. She also shares her insights on bias, prejudice, and bullying and offers actionable responses for each one that can help...
2023-08-3050 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 17: Kim ScottThe author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott joins Steve Goldbach of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 to talk through the politics, practicalities, and purpose of feedback in the workplace. In this discussion, part of The Provocateurs podcast series, Kim explains how her two-by-two framework for radical candor can help create productive feedback by avoiding the two extremes of obnoxious aggression and ruinous sympathy. She also shares her insights on bias, prejudice, and bullying and offers actionable responses for each one t...
2023-08-3050 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 16: Morra Aarons-MeleAuthor of The Anxious Achiever and Hiding in the Bathroom, Morra Aarons-Mele is also founder of the award-winning social impact agency Women Online.
In this Provocateurs podcast episode, she joins Geoff Tuff of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 to set the record straight on normalising anxiety. Data shows that high achievers manage more anxiety and depression, and Morra explains how to rethink the relationship between mental health and success. She describes anxiety as a spectrum, where at one end it can be quite debilitating and at the other, it’s a nervous but motivating energy.
Having learned how to ma...
2023-08-3039 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 15: Annie DukeFormer professional poker player Annie Duke is a master of decision making. In this Provocateurs podcast, hosted by Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 and Steve Goldbach of Deloitte, she challenges us to examine our own biases and self-narratives to focus on the things we can control, in order to make better choices.
By sharing practical insights and strategies for improving decision making and developing resilience, Annie emphasises the importance of analysing decisions objectively, rather than relying on the outcome to determine their quality.
The author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, released in 2022, and national bestseller Thinking...
2023-08-3055 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 14: Martin LindstromSelf-confessed contrarian thinker and provocateur since childhood, Martin Lindstrom is an international branding expert and one of the world’s leading authorities on the metaverse. Here he joins Geoff Tuff of Deloitte and Des Dearlove of Thinkers50 in a fascinating conversation about branding as an emotional construct, the power of small data, and lying on a bed of Lego.
In the 1990s, Lindstrom pioneered how to build brands on the internet and has since coined terms such as clicks & mortar, contextual marketing, and texting. He has published eight New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including Buyology (2008), Small Data (2017), an...
2023-08-3044 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 13: Shelley ZalisShelley Zalis is a pioneer for online research, becoming the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25, and today she works with Fortune 500 companies, impact organizations, and conscious leaders to advance equality in the workplace. And she mentors women all over the world. Shelley is the CEO of The Female Quotient, an equality services company that creates platforms for women and solutions for organizations committed to closing the gender gap in the workplace. Its signature Equality Lounge is now a stand-out feature at key industry conferences around the globe.
In this compelling conversation with Deloitte’s chie...
2023-08-3040 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 12: Jim StengelJim Stengel is the President and CEO of The Jim Stengel Company, which works to build brands and companies by activating their purpose. He has authored the books ‘Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Greatest Companies’ as well as ‘Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups.’ He is also a speaker with the Washington Speakers Bureau, the host of The CMO Podcast, and serves as Dean of the Young Marketers Academy at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Jim is the former Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble, the largest marketer i...
2023-08-3047 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 8: Tom van der LubbeTom van der Lubbe is the visionary and inspirational co-founder of Viisi, a Dutch financial services company that offers customized mortgage solutions. Founded in 2010 at the height of the financial crisis, Viisi is a remarkable company. Its purpose is to change the world of finance, to make the industry better, more sustainable and more focused on the long term. Its open and transparent organization is part of Tom’s mission to leave the world a better place. Radical and disruptive, Viisi’s management and organization challenge the basics of how companies are traditionally run.
In a captivating and challenging conversation with...
2023-08-3038 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 6: Robert LefkowitzTrained at Columbia, the National Institute of Health and Harvard before joining the faculty at Duke University in 1973, Bob Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize winning scientist who is best known for showing how adrenaline works via stimulation of specific receptors. He is also a cardiologist and the author of the memoir, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline Fueled Adventures of an Accidental Scientist.
In this wide ranging conversation with Deloitte’s Steve Goldbach and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Bob Lefkowitz looks back on his amazing career and the lessons he has learned along the way. Fi...
2023-08-3049 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 5: Julie CarrierJulie Carrier is a trailblazer in the field of young women’s leadership. The CEO of Girls Lead Worldwide and founder of The Leadership Development Institute for Young Women, she researches and brings evidence-based, applied-neuroscience leadership coaching and development to girls and young women in high school through a set curriculum. Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Coaching and Mentoring Award in 2021, Julie is recognised as the ‘World’s #1 Coach for Young Women’ by Marshall Goldsmith and is a former Pentagon Senior Management Consultant in Leadership. She is the author of the US national bestseller Girls Lead.
In this episode, we hear about Ju...
2023-08-3048 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 4: Hubert JolyHubert Joly has been described as ‘a visionary’, and ‘one of the most gifted leaders of our time.’ As CEO of the electrical retailer Best Buy, Joly led a turnaround that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos described as ‘…remarkable – a case study that should be taught in business schools around the world.’
Now a lecturer at Harvard Business School and a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren, Joly’s book The Heart of Business is a playbook for leaders who are ready to abandon old paradigms and lead with a noble purpose. In it, Joly agitates for busines...
2023-08-2949 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 3: Debbie BialThe Posse Foundation identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential and places them in supportive, multi-cultural teams. Since 1989, Posse’s partner colleges have awarded $1.6 billion in scholarships and more than 10,000 scholars have so far been selected. Posse scholars graduate at a rate of 90 percent. Deborah Bial is the president and founder of Posse. In conversation with Deloitte’s Stacy Janiak and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Debbie shares insights from her remarkable story of running with a powerful idea when aged just 23 and turning it into a Foundation which makes an enduring impact on peoples’ lives—and the worl...
2023-08-2951 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 2: Dambisa MoyoDambisa Moyo is a true pioneer. Zambian-born, she serves on the global corporate boards of the 3M Corporation, Chevron, and Condé Nast. Her compelling combination of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, plus a uniquely wide ranging curiosity, can be seen in her succession of bestselling books: Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It, Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead and Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and...
2023-08-2942 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 1: Valerie RainfordValerie Rainford: Passion Plus Purpose
If passion and purpose are the currency of business, then Valerie Rainford has a lifetime of wealth from which to draw. Now, the founder and CEO of Elloree Talent Strategies, she is author of the award-winning memoir Until the Brighter Tomorrow: One Woman’s Courageous Climb from the Projects to the Podium. Her remarkable career is loaded with firsts: the youngest officer promoted in the history of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the most senior black woman and the first black woman Senior Vice President at JPMorgan Chase & Co. where she created an...
2023-08-2944 min
Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast Series - Powered by citiesabc.com and businessabc.netDes Dearlove, Thinkers50, Author of Certain Uncertainty & Megan Reitz, Founder of Reitz ConsultingToday's guests are Des Dearlove, a British business journalist, management theorist and a prolific author. He is also the co-founder of Thinkers50, the first global ranking of management thinkers with Stuart Crainer.ANDMegan Reitz is Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult Business School. She is listed on the Thinkers50 ranking of global management thinkers, and HR Magazine Most Influential Listing. She was also recently shortlisted for both the Radar and Breakthrough Idea Awards. She is also a contributor to ‘Certain Uncertainty’. Des Dearlove BiographyDes Dearlove is a British busi...
2023-07-1258 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 16: Morra Aarons-MeleAuthor of The Anxious Achiever and Hiding in the Bathroom, Morra Aarons-Mele is also founder of the award-winning social impact agency Women Online. In this Provocateurs podcast episode, she joins Geoff Tuff of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 to set the record straight on normalising anxiety. Data shows that high achievers manage more anxiety and depression, and Morra explains how to rethink the relationship between mental health and success. She describes anxiety as a spectrum, where at one end it can be quite debilitating and at the other, it’s a nervous but motivating energy. Ha...
2023-07-1139 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 15: Annie DukeFormer professional poker player Annie Duke is a master of decision making. In this Provocateurs podcast, hosted by Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 and Steve Goldbach of Deloitte, she challenges us to examine our own biases and self-narratives to focus on the things we can control, in order to make better choices. By sharing practical insights and strategies for improving decision making and developing resilience, Annie emphasises the importance of analysing decisions objectively, rather than relying on the outcome to determine their quality.The author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, released i...
2023-06-2155 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 14: Martin LindstromSelf-confessed contrarian thinker and provocateur since childhood, Martin Lindstrom is an international branding expert and one of the world’s leading authorities on the metaverse. Here he joins Geoff Tuff of Deloitte and Des Dearlove of Thinkers50 in a fascinating conversation about branding as an emotional construct, the power of small data, and lying on a bed of Lego.In the 1990s, Lindstrom pioneered how to build brands on the internet and has since coined terms such as clicks & mortar, contextual marketing, and texting. He has published eight New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including Bu...
2023-05-3144 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 13: Shelley ZalisShelley Zalis is a pioneer for online research, becoming the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25, and today she works with Fortune 500 companies, impact organizations, and conscious leaders to advance equality in the workplace. And she mentors women all over the world. Shelley is the CEO of The Female Quotient, an equality services company that creates platforms for women and solutions for organizations committed to closing the gender gap in the workplace. Its signature Equality Lounge is now a stand-out feature at key industry conferences around the globe.In this compelling conversation wi...
2023-05-0140 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 12: Jim StengelJim Stengel is the President and CEO of The Jim Stengel Company, which works to build brands and companies by activating their purpose. He has authored the books ‘Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Greatest Companies’ as well as ‘Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups.’ He is also a speaker with the Washington Speakers Bureau, the host of The CMO Podcast, and serves as Dean of the Young Marketers Academy at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.Jim is the former Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble, th...
2023-03-0347 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 8: Tom van der LubbeTom van der Lubbe is the visionary and inspirational co-founder of Viisi, a Dutch financial services company that offers customized mortgage solutions. Founded in 2010 at the height of the financial crisis, Viisi is a remarkable company. Its purpose is to change the world of finance, to make the industry better, more sustainable and more focused on the long term. Its open and transparent organization is part of Tom’s mission to leave the world a better place. Radical and disruptive, Viisi’s management and organization challenge the basics of how companies are traditionally run. In a capti...
2022-10-0438 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 6: Robert LefkowitzTrained at Columbia, the National Institute of Health and Harvard before joining the faculty at Duke University in 1973, Bob Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize winning scientist who is best known for showing how adrenaline works via stimulation of specific receptors. He is also a cardiologist and the author of the memoir, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline Fueled Adventures of an Accidental Scientist. In this wide ranging conversation with Deloitte’s Steve Goldbach and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Bob Lefkowitz looks back on his amazing career and the lessons he has learned alo...
2022-07-2749 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 5: Julie CarrierJulie Carrier is a trailblazer in the field of young women’s leadership. The CEO of Girls Lead Worldwide and founder of The Leadership Development Institute for Young Women, she researches and brings evidence-based, applied-neuroscience leadership coaching and development to girls and young women in high school through a set curriculum. Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Coaching and Mentoring Award in 2021, Julie is recognised as the ‘World’s #1 Coach for Young Women’ by Marshall Goldsmith and is a former Pentagon Senior Management Consultant in Leadership. She is the author of the US national bestseller Girls Lead.
2022-06-2148 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 4: Hubert JolyHubert Joly has been described as ‘a visionary’, and ‘one of the most gifted leaders of our time.’ As CEO of the electrical retailer Best Buy, Joly led a turnaround that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos described as ‘…remarkable – a case study that should be taught in business schools around the world.’ Now a lecturer at Harvard Business School and a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren, Joly’s book The Heart of Business is a playbook for leaders who are ready to abandon old paradigms and lead with a noble purpose. In it, Joly agitates...
2022-05-2449 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 3: Debbie BialThe Posse Foundation identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential and places them in supportive, multi-cultural teams. Since 1989, Posse’s partner colleges have awarded $1.6 billion in scholarships and more than 10,000 scholars have so far been selected. Posse scholars graduate at a rate of 90 percent. Deborah Bial is the president and founder of Posse. In conversation with Deloitte’s Stacy Janiak and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Debbie shares insights from her remarkable story of running with a powerful idea when aged just 23 and turning it into a Foundation which makes an enduring impact on peoples’ lives—and the worl...
2022-04-1351 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 2: Dambisa MoyoDambisa Moyo is a true pioneer. Zambian-born, she serves on the global corporate boards of the 3M Corporation, Chevron, and Condé Nast. Her compelling combination of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, plus a uniquely wide ranging curiosity, can be seen in her succession of bestselling books: Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It, Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead...
2022-03-1542 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 1: Valerie RainfordValerie Rainford: Passion Plus PurposeIf passion and purpose are the currency of business, then Valerie Rainford has a lifetime of wealth from which to draw. Now, the founder and CEO of Elloree Talent Strategies, she is author of the award-winning memoir Until the Brighter Tomorrow: One Woman’s Courageous Climb from the Projects to the Podium. Her remarkable career is loaded with firsts: the youngest officer promoted in the history of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the most senior black woman and the first black woman Senior Vice President at JPMorgan Ch...
2022-02-1544 min
The New P & L - Principles and Leadership in BusinessThe New P&L Monthly Business Book Review Club speaks to Dr. Ruth Gotian, Author of The Success Factor; Chief Learning Officer, Weill Cornell Medicine; Thinkers50 RADAR Award 2021 recipientThe New P&L Monthly Business Book Review Club series is sponsored by Carroll Consultancy Group – who are focused on dramatically developing people, performance and profits. If you want to accelerate your business growth in 2022, go to www.carrollconsultancy.com or connect via the links in the notes that accompany this podcast.
In this month’s episode of The New P&L Business Book Review Club we speak to the incredible Dr Ruth Gotian. Ruth is the Chief Learning Officer and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine at C...
2022-01-2042 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs: intro episodeThe Provocateurs, a collaboration between Thinkers50 and Deloitte, is a new podcast series profiling the world’s boldest leaders and the moves they make. These are people who have accomplished incredible things by ‘provoking’ the future they desire – in business and for society overall. Often overcoming human biases and acting with imperfect data along the way, each episode will profile a single provocateur and their story.
In this inaugural episode, we will introduce our five hosts and what you can expect from the series. Our second episode will feature the provocateur Valerie Rainford, the founder of Elloree Talent Strategies and former s...
2022-01-1541 minThe ProvocateursIntroduction to The ProvocateursThe Provocateurs, a collaboration between Thinkers50 and Deloitte, is a new podcast series profiling the world’s boldest leaders and the moves they make. These are people who have accomplished incredible things by ‘provoking’ the future they desire – in business and for society overall. Often overcoming human biases and acting with imperfect data along the way, each episode will profile a single provocateur and their story. In this inaugural episode, we will introduce our five hosts and what you can expect from the series. Our second episode will feature the provocateur Valerie Rainford, the founder of Ellore...
2022-01-1341 min
Capricorn Drive with DJ Complexion#JustDrive Dr Ruel J Khoza being inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of FameDr Reuel J. Khoza has been inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2021. He is a distinguished thought leader, entrepreneur, business leader, academic, author, farmer, musician, and active as an Africanist at the forefront of transformation in the South African political economy. Every two years, Thinkers50 salutes the leading business and management ideas of our age with their Ranking of management Thinkers and awards for distinguished achievement in a number of specific management categories. We’re joined on the line by Stuart Crainer- a Management Journalist and Business Journalist as well as a Business Theorist and a Professor at the IE...
2021-11-2407 min
Curve Benders by David Nour61 - From Ideas to Impact with Stuart Crainer + Des Dearlove, Thinkers50Join David Nour for this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast, as he hosts the founders of Thinkers50, Stuart Crainer, and Des Dearlove.
Internationally recognized experts and commentators on management thinking, Stuart and Des have championed the very best new management ideas for the past two decades. The editors of the Financial Times Handbook of Management, they are the authors of a number of best-selling books, including Generation Entrepreneur, Gravy Training, What We Mean When We Talk About Leadership, and the six-book Thinkers50 McGraw Hill series.
Through their work with Thinkers50, they are frequently asked...
2021-05-1137 min
CEONOWEp.61: Thinkers50 - hvad er nyt i 2019?Den 18. november 2019 samledes en række globale ledelsestænkere og virksomhedsledere i London til Thinkers50 2019, hvor de mest indflydelsesrige ledelsestænkere bliver kåret. I denne podcast-episode gennemgår Lars Ib de væsentligste ændringer i dette års Thinkers50, der blandt indebærer, at både Clayton Christensen og Michael Porter ikke er at finde på Thinkers50. Lyt med og bliv klogere i dag!
2019-11-2211 min
Thinkers50 PodcastDan Toma: InnovationDan Toma and Stuart Crainer discuss the impetus of his book, The Corporate Startup. Is it possible for large corporations to understand the innovations lifestyle movement? How can innovation be accounted for so that its KPIs are meaningful?
2019-09-1316 min
Thinkers50 PodcastMarga Hoek: SustainabilityBusinesses are interested in sustainable development, but they don't know where to start. Hoek, author of The Trillion Dollar Shift, argues that "Business for Good is Good Business".
2019-07-2618 min
Thinkers50 PodcastMichael Jacobides: EcosystemsStuart Crainer and Michael Jacobides discuss ecosystems. Success is as much about helping other firms to innovate as it is about being innovative yourself. Companies need to change the questions they are asking. We are now shifting from a product that is defined in terms of its individual goodsand services to something that can cross the boundaries and create new firms and new types of competition.
2019-07-0215 min
Thinkers50 PodcastGeoff Tuff: Detonate Your Business With InnovationHow should businesses allocate their spend between trying to disrupt markets, versus their core business. How has it changed over the last seven years?
2019-06-2016 min
Thinkers50 PodcastSteven Van Belleghem: Automation, AI and the Customer ExperienceThe future of customer experience is happening now, in China. What is causing Europe and North America to lag behind? What is the future of voice assistants, and how are smart companies using them to enhance and advance the customer experience?
2019-05-2325 min
Thinkers50 PodcastKarolin Frankenberger - Digital TransformationWhat is digital transformation? In this Brightline Initiative Podcast recorded in London, Stuart Crainer interviews Karolin Frankenberger, co-author of the book The Business Model Navigator. The two discuss digital transformation - not cutting edge technology, or digitizing products or processes, but rather holistic transformation of businesses with significantly changed value creation processes. What mistakes do companies commonly make in pursuit of digital transformation? Frankenberger discusses what delays in adoptation executives should watch out for.
2019-05-0119 min
Thinkers50 PodcastThinkers 50 Podcast: Detonate with Steve GoldbachIn this Brightline Initiative Podcast recorded in London, Stuart Crainer interviews Steve Goldbach, co-author of the book Detonate. In the book, Goldbach observes that executives are very clear about their fears of disruption, and have done very little in the way of actually challenging orthodoxies within their organizations.
2019-04-1118 min
Thinkers50 PodcastStephen Frost - DiversityStephen Frost, CEO of the Inclusion Consultancy, Frost Included, in conversation with Stuart Crainer.
2019-03-2819 min
Thinkers50 PodcastMarshall Van Alstyne - Fake NewsMarshall Van Alstyne in conversation with Thinkers 50 founder Des Dearlove. The two discuss Fake News and how its ramifications run more deeply than most people acknowledge.
2019-02-2821 min
Thinkers50 PodcastMarshall Van Alstyne: PlatformsIn this conversation between Des Dearlove and Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor at Boston University and author of Platform Revolution, the two discuss the nature of platforms and the three requirements for something to qualify as a platform.
2019-02-2413 min
Thinkers50 PodcastAlex Hill and Organisational LongevityAlex Hill, Cofounder and Director of The Centre for High Performance, discusses his research to discover seven long-lasting organisations.
2019-02-1427 min
Thinkers50 PodcastChris Clearfield and MeltdownHow are failures connected? How can complex systems be fixed and improved with simple tools?
2019-01-1722 min
Thinkers50 PodcastRichard D'Aveni And The Pan-Industrial RevolutionWould 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?
2018-11-2739 min
Thinkers50 PodcastRicardo Vargas: Bridging the Gap Between Ideas and RealityThinkers50'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.
2018-11-0720 min
Thinkers50 PodcastThinkers50 Brightline Initiative Podcast: Dan PontefractStuart Crainer interviews Dan Pontefract on his books, Flat Army, The Purpose Effect, and now Open to Think.
2018-10-1825 min
Thinkers50 PodcastThinkers50 Brightline Initiative Podcast: Reynolds & LewisThe Qi Effect: in our organizations, we design and implement processes, procedures and rules to control events and produce our desired outcomes. The problem is events are not as predictable as they seem to be, so we create new rules to deal with those problems. It creates a bureaucratic nightmare.
The antidote? Qi. Qi (pronounced chee) stands for Quality Interaction and is a new way of thinking about strategy execution. At the heart of understanding Qi is understanding what it means to be a person in relation with others.
2018-09-1208 min
Thinkers50 PodcastThinkers50 Brightline Initiative Podcast: Sheena IyengarIn this podcast brought to you in partnership with the Brightline Initiative, Stuart Crainer is in coversation with Sheena Iyengar, professor of business at Columbia University, and best-selling author of “The Art of Choosing,” which was named one of the best business books of 2010 by the Financial Times. In this conversation, Iyengar discusses The Art of Choosing, a Columbia course called "Think Bigger", and a concept she has named "The Authenticity Complex."
2018-09-0638 min
Thinkers50 PodcastHoward Yu, Author of LeapHoward Yu, author of "Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied", discusses the common pain point of executives whose products can be copied at any moment.
2018-08-1418 min
Thinkers50 PodcastDes Dearlove and Tendayi Viki on Innovation Made TangibleIn this podcast brought to you in partnership with the Brightline Initiative, Des Dearlove discusses Tendayi Viki
and 1508
’s new report, Innovation Made Tangible.
Tendayi and 1508 maintain that in the last several years innovation has become the most important part of many business leaders’ toolkit, and over 70% of C-Suite leaders view innovation as the most important capability for the future sustainability of their companies.
2018-06-2815 min
Thinkers50 PodcastDeborah Rowland: Leading ChangeDeborah Rowland's talk on how to lead change from the Thinkers50 2017 Gala event
2018-03-0810 min
Thinkers50 PodcastWork in ProgressWork in Progress: Anil Gupta, Roger Martin, Syd Finkelstein, Navi Radjou, Niraj Dawar, Mark Esposito, Subir Chowdhury and Juan Pablo Vazquez Sampere share their work in progress in this new Thinkers50 podcast
2016-09-0815 min
Thinkers50 PodcastNiraj Dawar Live at T50 2015Niraj Dawar speaks about branding at the Thinkers50 2015 event.
2016-08-1111 min
Thinkers50 PodcastInequalityAt Thinkers50 2015, Liz Mellon, Anil Gupta, and Don Tapscott talk about global inequality on this panel.
2016-07-2855 min
Thinkers50 PodcastDefining LeadershipStuart Crainer and Des Dearlove of Thinkers50 discuss leadership and what defines leadership.
2016-03-3009 min
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