Please enjoy my monologue Aha Moments with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of a...
Jun 01, 2020•2 hr
My guest today is Jeff Kreisler, a typical Princeton educated lawyer turned award-winning comedian, best-selling author, international keynote speaker and champion for behavioral economics. The topics are his books Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter and Get Rich Cheating: The Crooked Path to Easy Street. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Human Irrationality Hoarding Toilet Paper What is Money? Behavioral Science Jump in! --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, th...
May 29, 2020•47 min
Please enjoy my monologue The Great Reset with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a great piece ...
May 25, 2020•23 min
My guest today is Alexandra Carter, a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School, where she has spent over a decade helping thousands of people improve their negotiation skills. She is a world-renowned negotiation trainer for the United Nations, where she has taught dozens of negotiation workshops to hundreds of diplomats from more than eighty nations. The topic is her book Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything. In this episode of Trend Follo...
May 22, 2020•54 min
My guest today is Peter Linneman, the principal of Linneman Associates, the CEO and founder of American Land Fund and of KL Realty. He previously served as the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate, Finance, and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, retiring in December 2010. Linneman served as the founding chairman of Wharton’s Real Estate Department, and was the Director of Wharton’s Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Cente...
May 18, 2020•44 min
My guest today is Rebecca Henderson, the McArthur University Professor at Harvard University (the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member), where she teaches the acclaimed course on “Reimagining Capitalism.” Henderson spent the first twenty-one years of her career at MIT’s Sloan School where she was “teacher of the year” and where her research focused on the economics of innovation and on the question of how large organizations can reinvent themselves. The topic is her book Reimagi...
May 15, 2020•52 min
Please enjoy my monologue Walking through Doors and Selling Ten Million Books with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start?...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 37 min
My guest today is Bruce Daisley, the host of top business podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat; was Twitter’s most senior employee outside of the US in his role of vice president across Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and before that he ran YouTube UK at Google. Bruce’s passion for improving work led him to create his podcast where he interviews top business and thought leaders on making work better. This, his first book, was a number-one bestseller in the UK and a bestseller across Europe. The topic ...
May 08, 2020•40 min
Please enjoy my monologue The Deep State, Flow State and Animal Weapons with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d l...
May 04, 2020•2 hr 48 min
My guest today is Alexander Osterwalder, one of the world’s most influential strategy and innovation experts, a leading author, entrepreneur, and in-demand speaker whose work has changed the way established companies do business and how new ventures get started. Ranked No. 4 of the top 50 management thinkers worldwide, Osterwalder is known for simplifying the strategy development process and turning complex concepts into digestible visual models. Together with Yves Pigneur, he invented the Busin...
May 01, 2020•57 min
My guest today is Mike Dever, a trader and investor. He was also episode number one on this podcast! Mike has been on the front line of investment innovation and trading for more than 30 years. His firm, Brandywine Asset Management, has produced top-ranked returns for its clients that are uncorrelated to all conventional investment benchmarks. His out-of-the-box thinking, innovative investment philosophy and investment success have made him a featured subject of three books, “Bulls, Bears and Mi...
Apr 27, 2020•47 min
My guest today is Patrick J. McGinnis, a venture capitalist and private equity investor who founded Dirigo Advisors, after a decade on Wall Street, to provide strategic advice to investors, entrepreneurs, and fast-growing businesses. The topic is his book Fear of Missing Out: Practical Decision-Making in a World of Overwhelming Choice. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Overwhelming Choice Decision-making Fear of a Better Option (FOBO) Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) Social Theory a...
Apr 24, 2020•48 min
Please enjoy my monologue A Pandemic Attitude for Winning with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give yo...
Apr 20, 2020•20 min
My guest today is Howard Steven Friedman, a statistician and health economist for the United Nations. He has worked with major organizations including UNICEF, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, UNFPA, UNAIDS, UNDP, and UNESCO. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The topic is his book Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: The Value of Human Life Inequity and Ineq...
Apr 17, 2020•53 min
Please enjoy my monologue A Trend Following Flashback with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a ...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr
My guest today is Jack Canfield, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a leader in the field of personal transformation and peak performance and is currently CEO of the Canfield Training Group and Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. An internationally renowned corporate trainer and keynote speaker, he ...
Apr 10, 2020•54 min
My guest today is Steve Blank, eight-time entrepreneur-turned-educator. He is credited with launching the Lean Startup movement. He’s changed how startups are built, how entrepreneurship is taught, how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate. Recognized as a thought leader on startups and innovation, Steve was named one of the Thinkers50 top management thinkers and recognized by the Harvard Business Review as one of 12 Masters of Innovation. The topic is his writ...
Apr 06, 2020•40 min
My guest today is L. David Marquet (Captain, US Navy-Retired), a top graduate of the US Naval Academy, commanded the nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe from 1999 to 2001. Since leaving the Navy, he has worked with businesses nationwide as a leadership consultant. He also teaches graduate-level leadership at Columbia University. The topics are his books Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say–and What You Don’t and Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning F...
Apr 03, 2020•52 min
Please enjoy my monologue A Plan for an Uncertain World with Michael Covel on Trend Following. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a grea...
Mar 30, 2020•16 min
My guest today is Mark Perry, a military, intelligence, and foreign affairs analyst and writer. His articles have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and the Los Angeles Times, among other outlets, and he is a frequent guest commentator and expert on Al Jazeera television network. He is the author of eight books, including Grant and Twain, Partners in Command, and Talking to Terrorists. The topic is War in South East Asia. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we disc...
Mar 27, 2020•44 min
My guest today is Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, a globally recognized expert on innovation and problem-solving. He has shared and refined his reframing method with clients like Cisco, Microsoft, Citigroup, Time Warner, AbbVie, Caterpillar, Amgen, Prudential, Union Pacific, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, the Wall Street Journal, and the United Nations. The topic is his book What’s Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we dis...
Mar 23, 2020•47 min
My guest today is Jeremy Gutsche, a New York Times bestselling author, innovation expert and CEO of Trend Hunter, the world’s largest trend platform, with more than 3 billion views total views from 150,000,000 people. Over the last decade, he has helped more than 600 brands, billionaires, CEOs and NASA in the quest to make innovation and change actually happen. The topic is his book Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking. In this episode of Trend Following R...
Mar 20, 2020•49 min
My guest today is David J. Hand, an emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London, a former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and a fellow of the British Academy. His many previous books include The Improbability Principle, Measurement: A Very Short Introduction, Statistics: A Very Short Introduction, and Principles of Data Mining. The topic is his book Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters. In this episode of Trend Following Radio w...
Mar 16, 2020•45 min
My guest today is Stefan Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Thomke's research is focused on the process, economics, and management of experimentation and testing in the context of innovation management. Thomke's highly cited research has been published as research articles, case studies and notes extensively in books and leading journals such as California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Product Innovation M...
Mar 13, 2020•50 min
Please enjoy my monologue Welcome to Thunderdome with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a great...
Mar 09, 2020•57 min
My guest today is Laura Huang, a preeminent Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, and turning them to work in our favor. The topic is her book Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage. In this episode of Trend Following Radio...
Mar 06, 2020•51 min
Please enjoy my monologue When Mass Panic Rolls Out You Need A Plan with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like ...
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr 14 min
My guest today is Michael Shawn Malone, an American author, columnist, editor, investor, businessman, television producer, and has been the host of several shows on PBS. Currently (2009), Malone is a columnist for ABC News, an op-ed contributor for The Wall Street Journal, a contributing editor to Wired, and the editor-in-chief of Edgelings.com, a website focused on business and technology news in Silicon Valley. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1975, and received his MBA from SCU in ...
Feb 28, 2020•1 hr 24 min
Please enjoy my monologue Howard Marks Inspiration with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive. --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d like to give you a gre...
Feb 24, 2020•20 min
My guest today is Rob Markey, a partner and director at Bain & Company and the founder of the firm’s Global Customer Strategy and Marketing practice. He is a coauthor of The Ultimate Question 2.0 and is the host of the Net Promoter System podcast. The topic is his writing Are You Undervaluing Your Customers? In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Bain & Company partner Rob Markey argues most companies are too focused on earnings at the expense of customers. Instead they sho...
Feb 21, 2020•49 min