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The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving

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CEOs and business leaders, management consulting senior partners, ground-breaking professors, thought-provoking writers and journalists, record-setting athletes and coaches, and award-winning actors and celebrities discuss the key issues facing the business world and broader society. Get free access to our newsletter, Monday Morning at 8 am, along with sample episodes from our training programs on www.strategytraining.com. Go to https://www.firmsconsulting.com/promo.

Episodes

169: Tom Eisenmann, Startups and their wrong decisions

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 169, an episode with the Howard Stevenson Professor of Business Administration of Harvard Business School, Tom Eisenmann. Get Tom's new book here: https://amzn.to/3Dmxqkl Tom Eisenmann, as a Harvard Business School professor for the past 24 years, has guided over a thousand Harvard Business students and alumni as they launch new ventures up to their success. But not every startup story is like this. In this episode, Tom talked about a glimpse of his new book wh...

Sep 07, 202148 min

168: Jeff Kavanaugh, Unleashing your employees

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 168, an episode with Jeff Kavanaugh. Get Jeff's new book here: https://amzn.to/3Bfd8Hr Jeff Kavanaugh is the global head for Infosys Knowledge Institute - the research and thought leadership arm of global IT powerhouse Infosys, a leader in digital services and consulting. Aside from speaking on conferences, he also teaches at the Business School of University of Texas at Dallas as an adjunct professor. He serves on boards of the Institute of Business Analytics ...

Sep 02, 202158 min

167: Mike Zani, How data science could boost your workforce

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 167, an episode with Mike Zani. Get Mike's new book here: " data-userid="751940007443001344" data-orgid= "751940008097312768">https://amzn.to/3kskiBp Mike Zani is the CEO of The Predictive Index, a platform that is dedicated to talent optimization using over 60 years of proven science and software. They help businesses in creating high-performing teams, making objective hiring decisions, and inspiring greatness in people. They have 8,000+ clients that includes ...

Aug 31, 202151 min

166: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the bet of the century. Tim Higgins (WSJ reporter)

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 166, an episode with Tim Higgins. Get Tim's new book here: https://amzn.to/3BiHWai Tim Higgins is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He writes about tech and auto companies, mostly about Apple and Tesla. You can see him regularly on CNBC as an on-air contributor. Prior to this, he worked for Bloomberg News as writer for the Businessweek magazine. Throughout his career of covering big businesses and US Politics, he has won multiple Society of American Busin...

Aug 28, 202150 min

165: Rob Lachenauer, How family businesses span generations

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 165, an episode with Rob Lachenauer. Get Rob's new book here: https://amzn.to/3iRZ531 Rob Lachenauer is a Managing Partner and the founding CEO of BanyanGlobal. He has been both a consultant and entrepreneur throughout his career. He was a Vice President and Director of BCG for 9 years where he helped multi-national companies plan and implement strategies. He has also worked with family businesses throughout the world by helping them with decision-making while ...

Aug 01, 202157 min

164: Josh Baron, Family business during the pandemic

Welcome to. Strategy Skills episode 164, an episode with Josh Baron. Get Josh's new book here: " data-userid="751940007443001344" data-orgid= "751940008097312768">https://amzn.to/3iRZ531 Josh Baron is a partner and co-founder of BanyanGlobal, a professor at Columbia Business School, a thought leader and author of Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook : How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise (HBR Handbooks) . He has worked closely with family-owned companies, founda...

Jul 31, 20211 hr 3 min

163: Is it a good time now or should I wait until I become more senior? Author Program Q&A 2.

Learn more and see the application guidelines: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/experts-published-author-program/ Apply: email [email protected] This is the 1st of a 10 episode program to help our clients and customers measurably, radically transform their careers through The Author Program. How would your career, reputation, and earnings change as a published author? Imagine your client interactions when potential and current clients saw your thinking in a published book before they met y...

Jul 24, 20217 min

162: Is this good for my career at this point in time? Author Program Q&A 1.

Learn more and see the application guidelines: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/experts-published-author-program/ Apply: email [email protected] This is the 1st of a 10 episode program to help our clients and customers measurably, radically transform their careers through The Author Program. How would your career, reputation, and earnings change as a published author? Imagine your client interactions when potential and current clients saw your thinking in a published book before they met y...

Jul 22, 20218 min

161: How publishing a book fast-tracked me to partnership

Learn more and see the application guidelines: https://www.firmsconsulting.com/experts-published-author-program/ Apply: email [email protected] This is the 1st of a 10 episode program to help our clients and customers measurably, radically transform their careers through The Author Program. How would your career, reputation, and earnings change as a published author? Imagine your client interactions when potential and current clients saw your thinking in a published book before they met y...

Jul 22, 202127 min

160: Rob Barnett, Increase your hire-ability

Welcome to. Strategy Skills episode 160, an episode with Rob Barnett. Get Rob's new book here: https://amzn.to/3i9rMbo Rob Barnett is a headhunter, management executive, podcaster, entrepreneur and author of NEXT JOB, BEST JOB : A Headhunter's 11 Strategies to Getting Hired Now (Citadel, June 29, 2021. He founded Rob Barnett Media in 2018, an inclusive platform for thousands of job-seeking professionals and industry leaders, placing the right people in the best jobs. Rob has discovered, hired, a...

Jul 14, 202154 min

159: Ash Fontana, The AI-first company

Welcome to. Strategy Skills episode 159, an episode with Ash Fontana on the future of AI. Ash just published a great book on AI, THE AI-FIRST COMPANY, please see a link below. THE AI-FIRST COMPANY: https://amzn.to/3zRYW7o Among other insights, Fontana shows readers how to: Make AI your company’s first priority. Identify the most valuable data. Build AI teams. Create AI budgets. Integrate AI with existing processes. Measure its effectiveness. Reinvest the profits from automation to build a compet...

Jun 23, 20211 hr 4 min

158: Location is leverage or proximity is leverage (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #29, part 3)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo To get a copy of some of...

May 26, 202116 min

157: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook's AI advantage (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #29, part 2)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo To get a copy of some of...

May 25, 20219 min

156: 7-Eleven’s inconvenient truth about convenience (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #29, part 1)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo To get a copy of some of...

May 24, 202110 min

155: Taming the beast tech has become with actionable solutions. With Cognizant's Ben Pring

How can we take back control of technology so it will shape the society we want for ourselves instead of becoming a monster we can no longer tame? Monster: A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule our Jobs, Lives, and Future - https://amzn.to/3fAeX8T Ben Pring co-founded and leads the Center for the Future of Work a t Cognizant, an American multinational technology company that provides consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. Ben sits on the advisory board of the...

May 20, 20211 hr 1 min

154: Harvard's Gorick Ng on career secrets

"The book demystifies what managers expect but never explain and what top performers do subconsciously. These unspoken rules create an unlevel playing field between insiders and outsiders. My book bridges the divide by giving all early-career professionals the concrete, tactical advice they need to excel." The Unspoken Rules : https://amzn.to/2Rwzx1L Enjoying our podcast? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo We use affiliate links whenever possible ...

May 19, 20211 hr

153: The experience economy strategy (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #28, part 2)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo To get a copy of some of...

May 18, 202111 min

152: The checkmate asset the world doesn’t know China is attracting (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #28, part 1)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo To get a copy of some of...

May 17, 202117 min

151: Jonathan Byrnes, MIT. Build a targeted business that the likes of Google & Amazon can’t match

Every year, managers at companies large and small are finding it harder to compete with the likes of Google and Amazon, who are muscling into their businesses, stealing their customers, and cornering every conceivable market and service. Jonathan Byrnes , MIT-based expert on profits, pricing, and strategy, is a co-author of CHOOSE YOUR CUSTOMER: How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive (McGraw-Hill, May 11, 2021). The book illustrates how companies can survive—and win. CHOOSE YOUR CU...

May 16, 20211 hr 14 min

150: A strategy expert vs. a CEO (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #27, part 3)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo To get a copy of some of...

May 14, 202115 min

149: Sanctions are like punishing your spouse by letting them date other people (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #27, part 2)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo To get a copy of some of...

May 13, 202110 min

148: Three people that influence you the most (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #27, part 1)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo To get a copy of some of...

May 12, 202113 min

147: What's going to happen seven moves down the chessboard (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #26)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo...

May 03, 202122 min

146: Interview with 5-time tech CEO Josh Linkner about building a culture of innovation

In an era of dizzying speed, complexity, and competition, harnessing innovation is the only way to fuel growth and beat the old guard. Linkner’s newest book, BIG LITTLE BREAKTHROUGHS , reveals the creative thinking behind the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and why they focus on small, daily creative acts to topple industry giants. Drawing on his three decades of experience as a tech entrepreneur, his investments in over 100 startups (including a “unicorn”), and interviews with innovative ...

May 02, 202155 min

145: When promotions end and the runway ends (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #25)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo...

Apr 28, 202141 min

144: If Disney+ is just starting with streaming, where is Disney+ going? (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #24)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo...

Apr 21, 202140 min

143: Jim Hemerling, BCG. Co-author of "Beyond Great: Nine Strategies for Thriving in an Era of Social Tension, Economic Nationalism, and Technological Revolution"

Jim Hemerling is Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group’s San Francisco office and a leader in the firm’s People & Organization and Transformation Practices. He has been the leader of BCG Greater China and is a Fellow of the BCG Henderson Institute. His work with clients and his research focuses on holistic human-centric approaches to organizational transformation. Jim is a co-author of BCG's new book - Beyond Great: Nine Strategies for Thriving in an Era of Social Tension, Economic Nationali...

Apr 14, 20211 hr 2 min

142: The Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Devils aren’t sports organizations (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #23)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo...

Apr 13, 202129 min

141: Tesla is not an electric car company (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #22)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo...

Apr 05, 202138 min

140: The unspoken truth about strategy (Monday Morning 8 a.m. #21)

Hello everyone! This is Monday Morning 8 a.m., a weekly newsletter where we distill the insights from all of the distractions, articles, and emails that you receive in your inbox every day. In this newsletter, we’re going to focus on four major themes from last week’s news. To listen to the audio version of this newsletter, search for “ Strategy Skills ” in any podcast app. To get a written copy with links to mentioned articles sign up here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo...

Mar 29, 202147 min
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