MIT Press Podcast | 24 June 2023 | 0h 15m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Michael Schrage about his book The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas. Argues that testable hypotheses rather than good ideas are the key to innovation. Also introduces his 5×5 framework: giving diverse teams of five people up to five days to come up with portfolios of five business experiments costing no more than $5,000 each and taking no longer than five weeks to run.
Tag: Business
The History of Bell Labs With Jon Gertner
FourWeekMBA | 2 March 2023 | 1h 00m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Jon Gertner about his book The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. Discusses the history of Bell Labs, digging into the factors responsible for its role as an incubator of innovation and birthplace of many influential technologies.
Liz Hoffman on Crash Landing
Longform | 5 April 2023 | 0h 44m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Liz Hoffman about her book Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink. Tells fly-on-the-wall stories of how CEOs battled to survive the economic fallout of covid.
Lessons from Scaling Stripe
Lenny’s Podcast | 5 March 2023 | 1h 21m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Claire Hughes Johnson about her book Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building. Shares insights from her time at Google and Stripe on how to successfully build and scale organizations, the importance of building self-awareness, tactical advice on how to say things that are hard to say, as well as how to improve your internal communications, and more.
William Magnuson – For Profit: A History of Corporations
The Michael Shermer Show | 4 February 2023 | 1h 36m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with William Magnuson about his book For Profit: A History of Corporations. Traces the history of corporations from Rome onwards, arguing that modern corporations should recapture the spirit of civic virtue so that all stakeholders, not just shareholders benefit from the profits of enterprise.
Uri Levine on Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
The James Altucher Show | 19 January 2023 | 1h 05m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Uri Levine about his book Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs. Draws on his experience founding Waze, the crowd-sourced GPS navigation platform, to advocate an approach to entrepreneurship that is problem-based rather than innovation-based.
Power Failure: What Happened to GE?
The Next Big Idea | 19 January 2023 | 0h 58m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with William Cohan about his book Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon. Explores the role and responsibility of Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt in the downfall of General Electric, formerly the most valuable company in the world.
See also Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker article Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst?
Bethany McLean – Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries
The Lunar Society | 21 December 2022 | 1h 25m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Bethany McLean discussing the astounding similarities between Enron & FTX, how visionaries are just frauds who succeed (and which category describes Elon Musk), what caused 2008, and whether we are headed for a new crisis, why there are too many venture capitalists and not enough short sellers, and why history keeps repeating itself.
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