659: 87.00 Ravi Venkatesan on his book - What the heck do I do with my life
GUEST Ravi Venkatesan has been on the podcast about 5 years back. In that conversation we spoke about his journey and his transition from Cummins to Microsoft to Board Roles. In this conversation, we dive into his recently published book - What the Heck Do I Do with My Life. Some of the topics we cover include the notion of a punctuated equilibrium and the implication on how we adapt, being i...
1hr 32m Mar 16, 2022
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658: 86.00 Ayse Birsel on Bringing Design Thinking principles in creating a life we love
GUEST Ayse is an accomplished Industrial Designer and has worked with Brands like Herman Miller, IKEA, Amazon and Toyota. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. She was on the Fast Company’s list of Most Creative People in 2017 and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 people that are likely to shape the future of organiza...
1hr 16m Feb 25, 2022
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657: 85.00 Dorie Clark on Playing the Long Game
GUEST Dorie Clark is an American author and executive education professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She has recently published her 4th book - The Long Game - How to be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World. Her previous books include Reinventing You (2013), Stand Out (2015), Entrepreneurial You (2017). She completed her Master in Theological Studies at Harvard Divinit...
1hr 8m Jan 12, 2022
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656: 84.00 Rajiv Vij on his book - Inside Out Leadership
GUEST Rajiv Vij is a life and executive coach, author and speaker. He works with senior leaders of several Fortune 500 companies and other large organisations across Asia and India and has been a coach to industry leaders. He also voluntarily coaches a number of founders and leaders of social-sector organisations. He is the author of Discovering Your Sweet Spot: A Soul-searching Guide for Cre...
1hr 42m Dec 14, 2021
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655: 83.00 Harsh Mariwala on his book - Harsh Realities
GUEST Harsh Mariwala is Founder and Chairman of Marico, an FMCG giant well known for brands like Parachute and Saffola. He has recently Co-Authored the book - Harsh Realities (Published by Penguin Random House) along with Management Guru, Ram Charan. The book is a story of how Harsh broke away from the shackles of family-run Bombay Oil Industries Ltd, which was a commodities business to set up...
1hr 12m Nov 28, 2021
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654: 82.00 Sukhinder Sing Cassidy on her book - Choosing Possibility - How to master risk and thrive
GUEST Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is one of Google’s and Silicon Valley’s most respected leaders. She has worked at various tech and media companies including Google, Amazon, NewsCorp, Yodle and Polyvore. At one stage she was heading Latin America and Asia Pacific in Google in 2008. She is credited with building Google’s presence across 103 countries in LATAM and APAC. She has recently authored t...
1hr 5m Nov 10, 2021
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653: 81.00 Lloyd Reeb on Half-Time: Transitioning from a life of Success to Significance
GUEST Lloyd Reeb is a successful real estate developer and owner of retirement housing who made a mid-life transition, looking for greater meaning, joy and impact in his second half. He has had the privilege of investing 20 years helping leaders plan their second half. He helped launch the Halftime Institute, a global team that teach, coach and connect successful men and women in pursuit of si...
1hr 25m Oct 25, 2021
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652: 80.00 Harish Bhat on his journey, the Tata Group, Leadership, Social Impact and more
GUEST Harish Bhat is the Brand Custodian of Tata Sons. He has had a ~35 year career at the Tata Group and has held several leadership roles including COO - Watches and Accessories Business at Titan, MD & CEO of Tata Consumer Products, Chairman of the Board at Tata Coffee Limited and more. He is the Author of four books. "#Tata Stories", 40 timeless tales to inspire you. "An extreme love of co...
1hr 26m Oct 15, 2021
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651: 79.00 Katy Milkman on her book - How to Change - science of getting from where you are to where you want to be
GUEST Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research explores ways that insights from economics and psychology can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good, such as savings, exercise, vaccination take-up and discrimination. She has also rece...
1hr 15m Sep 23, 2021
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650: 78.00 Amy Edmondson on Psychological Safety and Leadership
GUEST Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Amy has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #3 in 2019. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published numerous academic and management o...
1hr 14m Sep 02, 2021
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649: 77.00 Darleen DeRosa on her book - Leading at a distance - Lessons on Virtual Leadership
GUEST Over the last year and a quarter, since March 2020, a lot of us have been thrown into this work from anywhere world without any prior preparation. It is like being thrown into the deep end of a swimming pool without any prior training. We have had to figure out our own response to the evolving situation. While there has been no shortage of wisdom and webinars, I have been looking for a r...
1hr 27m Aug 12, 2021
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648: 76.00 Tom Vanderbilt on his book - Beginners: Embracing challenges and the joy of learning at any age
GUEST For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which reveres expertise but looks down on the beginner. Upon entering adulthood and middle age, we begin to shy away from trying new things, instead preferring to stay nestled firmly in our comfort zones. Beginners asks the question: why are children the only ones allowed to experience the inher...
1hr 34m Jul 08, 2021
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647: 75.00 Dan Cable on Unlocking Our Best Self: Reflections through Life's Highlights
GUEST Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan’s research and teaching focus on employee engagement, change, organizational culture, leadership mindset, and the linkage between brands and employee behaviors. Dan was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List, The Academy of Management has twice honored Dan with “Best article” awards, and The Academy of...
1hr 23m Jun 25, 2021
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646: 74.00 Sally Helgesen on her book - How Women Rise
GUEST Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. Sally’s most recent book, How Women Rise, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, examines the behaviors most likely to get in the way of successful women. It became the top-seller in its field within a week of publication and rights ...
1hr 34m May 26, 2021
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645: 73.00 Dr. Jennifer Goldman Wetzler on embracing Healthy Conflict and finding our style
GUEST Dr. Jennifer (Jen) Goldman Wetzler is a leading expert on Conflict and Organizational psychology. For two decades, she has advised senior leaders at global corporations in a wide range of industries as well as at large non-profit and governmental institutions. She is the author of Optimal Outcomes - Free yourself from conflict at Work, at Home and in life.  Earlier in her career, she was...
1hr 17m May 07, 2021
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644: 72.00 Bill Carr on the Amazonian Way
GUEST Bill Carr is the Co-Author (along with Colin Bryar) of the recently published book Working Backwards - Insights, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. With twenty-seven years of Amazon ...
1hr 30m Apr 02, 2021
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643: 71.00 Sanjeev and Hari on their book: From Pony to Unicorn
GUEST Sanjeev Aggarwal and Hari TN have seen the "scale-up movie” in different contexts. Sanjeev was the Founder CEO of Daksh that he eventually sold to IBM. He is now an investor at Helion Ventures and Fundamentum Partnership. The have recently co-authored the book - From Pony to Unicorn - Scaling a Start-up sustainably. From Pony to Unicorn lucidly describes the X-to-10X journey that every s...
1hr 16m Mar 11, 2021
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642: 70.00 Bruce Feiler on his book - Life is in the Transitions
GUEST Bruce Feiler is an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 15 books, including Council of Dads, a book that describes how he responded to a diagnosis of a rare cancer by asking a group of men to be present in the lives of his young daughters. His latest work explores the power of life stories. Drawing on interviews with Americans in all 50 states, he offers strate...
1hr 22m Feb 18, 2021
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641: 69.00 Ramesh Srinivasan on dealing with Lifequakes and Leadership
GUEST Ramesh is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, and a leader in the Pharmaceutical and Organization practices. He is the Global Dean of the Bower Forum, McKinsey's program for CEO learning. He is a member of McKinsey's Global Social Responsibility Council, and sits on a few non-profit Boards in the Education sector in India. He also has been through the unimaginable trauma of losing tw...
1hr 15m Feb 03, 2021
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640: 68.00 Tenzin Priyadarshi on his book - Running toward mystery - a life of leaning into the unknown
GUEST Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is the president and CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2020, Priyadarshi released his book "Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of an Unconventional Life”. In the book, he speaks about his walking away from his school at the age of 10 based on some dreams he had been havi...
1hr 24m Jan 16, 2021
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639: 67.00 Ashley Whillans on her book - Time Smart - How to reclaim your time and live a happier life
GUEST Dr. Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Her research seeks to understand the associations between time, money, and subjective wellbeing. She is particularly interested in understanding how individual, organizational and societal factors lik...
1hr 32m Dec 21, 2020
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638: EP2.00 Vinay Sitapati on the Jugalbandi between LK Advani and AB Vajpayee and lessons in Leadership
GUEST Vinay Sitapati returns to the Play to Potential Podcast on the back of his recently published book - Jugalbandi - The BJP before Modi. The book begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism as a response to British-induced elections in the 1920s and moves on to the formation of the BJP in 1980 and ends with its first national government, from 1998 to 2004. The book also traces the entan...
1hr 22m Dec 08, 2020
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637: 65.00 Ashish Dhawan on transitioning from Private Equity to Social Impact and Leadership in the Social Sector
GUEST Ashish Dhawan is the Founder and Chairman of Central Square Foundation (CSF) and Ashoka University. He worked for twenty years in the investment management business and ran one of India’s leading private equity funds, ChrysCapital. In June 2012, he left his full time role at ChrysCapital to focus on philanthropic work in education. Ashish is an MBA with distinction from Harvard Universit...
1hr 36m Nov 10, 2020
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636: 64.00 Marshall Goldsmith - A masterclass on Executive Coaching
GUEST Marshall Goldsmith helps successful people achieve positive, lasting change in behavior; for themselves, their people, and their teams. He has four decades of experience of helping top CEOs and executives overcome limiting beliefs and behaviours to achieve greater success. He has received several accolades over the years. Thinkers 50 ranked him as World's most influential leadership thin...
1hr 1m Oct 30, 2020
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635: 63.00 Venkat Krishnan on Philanthropy and Giving
GUEST Venkat is the Founder of GiveIndia, a platform that strives to bridge the gap between two sets of people - People who want to give, who want to try and make a difference along with those that are doing phenomenal work but don’t know how to reach out to the people that want to support them. GiveIndia was born on April 28, 2000 out of the belief that equal opportunity is the cornerstone o...
2hr 19m Oct 03, 2020
2hr 19m
634: 62.00 Whitney Johnson on Disrupt Yourself: Applying Clay Christiansen's model of Disruptive Innovation to our career paths.
GUEST Whitney Johnson is the CEO of WLJ Advisors and one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. She is an expert on helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals. Whitney is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School's Corporate Learning and an executive coach and advisor to CEOs. She...
1hr 8m Sep 08, 2020
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633: 61.00 Atul Khatri on how he transitioned from an IT Business to becoming a successful Stand-Up comedian
GUEST Atul Khatri is one of the top Stand up comedians in the country. In his previous avatar, he used to run a successful IT Business with his brother for several years. When he got tired of the business routine, he tried his hand at DJing and Bar-tending before trying his hand at comedy in Feb 2012 as part of his new year resolution in 2012. 7 years later, he had a Netflix special featuring ...
1hr 57m Aug 15, 2020
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632: 60.00 Andrew Likierman on mastering the elusive art of Judgment
GUEST Sir Andrew Likierman is the former Dean of the London Business School. He has been researching the topic of Judgment for several years. He is the senior National Independent Director of Times Newspapers Ltd and an NED of listed insurance company Beazley Group and of Monument Bank. His former Non Executive roles have included Bank of England and Barclays Bank Plc. We initially spoke abou...
1hr 27m Jul 31, 2020
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630: 59.00 R Gopalakrishnan - Insights on CEO Transitions from his book Crash
GUEST R Gopalakrishnan is a man of many identities. A Board Member, an author, an advisor, speaker and a teacher. Apart from having an illustrious career in Hindustan Lever and Tata Sons, he has been on several Boards over the last few decades. He has authored 12 books since 2007 (that is a run rate of about a book a year if you think about it). He spends his time on Boards, as a Mentor and as...
1hr 23m Jun 25, 2020
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620: 58.00 BJ Fogg on his book Tiny Habits
GUEST BJ Fogg is a behaviour scientist with deep experience in innovation and teaching. At Stanford University, he runs the Behaviour Design Lab (earlier called Persuasive Tech lab). He spends about 50% of his time to Stanford and 50% to industry innovation. On the industry side, he trains innovators to use his work so that they can create solutions that influence behaviour (focus areas includ...
1hr 16m Jun 13, 2020
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609: 57.00 Jennifer Garvey Berger on Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps
GUEST Jennifer believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. This might be more true than ever as organizations across sectors and around the world are facing an unprecedented amount of volatility and change. Jennifer designs and teaches leadership programs, coaches senior teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and people with clients faci...
1hr 26m May 30, 2020
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597: 56.00 Raj Raghunathan on The pursuit of happiness: Insights on prioritizing happiness in life
GUEST Raj Raghunathan is a professor of Marketing at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, where he relies on themes from psychology, behaviorial science, decision theory and marketing to explain consumption behaviour. He also studies the impact that people’s judgments and decisions have on their own happiness and fulfilment. Based on his research, he teaches a ...
1hr 43m May 08, 2020
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582: 55.00 Matthew Walker on Sleep - The Swiss Knife of health and wellbeing
GUEST Matthew Paul Walker is a British scientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the book - Why We Sleep (NY Times Bestseller, #1 Sunday Times Best seller). Previously, he was a professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the impact of sleep on human health and disease. He has published m...
1hr 16m Mar 06, 2020
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573: 54.00 Jennifer Petriglieri on her book - Couples That Work: Making dual careers work
GUEST Jennifer Petriglieri is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and the author of Couples That Work, a book on how dual-career couples can thrive in love and in work. Her award-winning research and teaching focus on identity, leadership, and career development. She is particularly interested in how people’s close relationships shape who they become professionally an...
1hr 29m Feb 14, 2020
1hr 29m
565: 53.00 Lynda Gratton on the implications of a 100 year life on Career, Health and Choices
GUEST Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and is one of the World’s foremost thinkers at the intersection of leadership, the world of work and careers. Over the last 20 years Lynda has written extensively about the interface between people and organisations. Her eight books cover the link between business and HR strategy (Living Strategy), the new way...
1hr 12m Jan 29, 2020
1hr 12m
556: 52.00 James Clear on his book - Atomic Habits
GUEST James Clear is the Author of the book - Atomic Habits that has sold more than 1 Million Copies globally. He is the creator of The Habits Academy and runs the website jamesclear.com where he writes about habits and human potential. The central question he is trying to answer through his work is “How can we live better”. He has a weekly newsletter where he shares some of his ideas and this...
58m Dec 30, 2019
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547: 51.00 Sudhir Sitapati on how HUL turned out to be the CEO Factory of India
GUEST Sudhir Sitapati is currently Executive Director, Foods and Refreshments at Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL). He has just published his first book - The CEO Factory, published by Juggernaut Books. I have had the privilege of knowing him for the last 22 years right from the day we joined IIM Ahmedabad in the summer of 1997. This podcast conversation is special for a few reasons. 1) It is ...
1hr 17m Dec 19, 2019
1hr 17m
536: 50.00 Alan Eagle on The Transition from Sports Coach to Business Coach: Lessons from Bill Campbell
GUEST William Vincent Campbell Junior (Bill Campbell) was an American businessman and Chairman of Board of Trustees of Columbia University and Chairman of the Board of Intuit Inc. He was VP of Marketing and Board Director for Apple Inc and CEO for Claris, Intuit and Go Corporation. After his active career as a business executive he had a profound influence as a Coach. He worked with the who’s ...
1hr 8m Nov 12, 2019
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525: 49.00 Tasha Eurich on her book "Insight": Exploring the nuances of building self-awareness
GUEST Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author. With a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Tasha is the principal of The Eurich Group, a boutique executive development firm that helps companies—from start-ups to the Fortune 100—succeed by improving the effectiveness of their leaders and teams. Her primary areas of expertise...
1hr 10m Oct 16, 2019
1hr 10m
515: 48.00 Paddy Upton on his book "The Barefoot Coach" - Insights from coaching world-leading cricketers
GUEST Paddy Upton is a Head Coach in Professional T20 cricket, Mental Coach to professional athletes, Executive Coach and Professor of Practice at Deakin University. Changing careers, following a second master’s degree in Business Coaching from Middlesex University (2003), and along with Gary Kirsten as Head Coach, Paddy was appointed Mental Conditioning and Strategic Leadership Coach of the I...
1hr 39m Sep 25, 2019
1hr 39m
505: 47.00 Herminia Ibarra on navigating career transitions: Acting your way into a new way of thinking
GUEST Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School (LBS). Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties. An authority on Leadership and Career Development, Thinkers 50 ranks Ibarra among the top management thinkers in the world. She is the author of the best selling, Act Like a Leader, Think Like a L...
1hr 1m Aug 16, 2019
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495: 46.00 Matt Dixon - Triathlon Coach on Resilience, Discipline and Leadership
GUEST Matt Dixon is an Ironman University Master Coach and a former professional triathlete. He has a master’s degree in clinical and exercise physiology and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Men’s Journal, Men’s Fitness and Men’s Health. Dixon is also the author of two books, Fast-Track Triathlete and The Well-Built Triathlete, available from Velopress. Matt runs ...
1hr 35m Jul 25, 2019
1hr 35m
485: 45.00 Michael Watkins on the First 90 Days and Transition acceleration
GUEST Michael Watkins is the best selling author of The First 90 Days and Master Your Next Move: The Essential Companion to The First 90 Days, published by Harvard Business Review Press. He is the Co-Founder of Genesis, a global leadership development consultancy based in Boston, MA where he coaches CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. He is also Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at ...
1hr 26m Jun 13, 2019
1hr 26m
473: EP2.00 Kartik Hosanagar a Human's guide to Machine Intelligence
GUEST Kartik Hosanagar is the John C. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business and a Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Kartik’s research work focuses on the digital economy, in particular the impact of analytics and algorithms on consumers and society, Internet media, Internet marketing and e-commerce. His book - “A Human’s guide to Mach...
1hr 17m May 21, 2019
1hr 17m
463: 43.00 Rajat Gupta - Insights from his journey at McKinsey and his book - Mind without Fear
GUEST Rajat Gupta is a former CEO (Managing Partner) of McKinsey & Co. and led the firm between 1994 to 2003 across 3 terms of 3 years each. He was the first non-American CEO of McKinsey & Co. and arguably one of the first Indians to lead a pedigreed organization at a Global level. In 2012, Rajat was convicted on charges of insider trading and sentenced to two years in Jail. He recently publis...
1hr 8m Apr 27, 2019
1hr 8m
453: 42.00 Falguni Nayar on entrepreneurship, career management, and leadership
GUEST Falguni Nayar is the Founder and CEO at Nykaa.com. She founded it in 2012 with the vision of making the best of beauty products available all across India. Today, Nykaa.com’s collection includes the best of Indian and International brands across make up, skin care and hair care categories. Falguni is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and initially worked as a Consultant with AF Ferguson & Co ...
1hr Apr 10, 2019
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444: 41.00 Rich Fernandez on Searching inside Yourself
GUEST Rich Fernandez is the CEO of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI). Prior to this he was a Director of Executive Education and People Development at Google. SIYLI began as an initiative in Google in 2007 when a team of leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience and emotional intelligence developed an internal course for fellow Googlers. It quickly became incredibly popul...
1hr 13m Mar 14, 2019
1hr 13m
435: 40.00 Stewart Friedman on Total Leadership: Harmonizing work, home, self, and community for a fulfilling life
GUEST Stewart D. Friedman is a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984 and became the Management Department's first Practice Professor in recognition of his work within the fields of Leadership Development, ...
1hr 4m Feb 13, 2019
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426: 39.00 Ramachandra Guha on his book "Gandhi - The years that changed the world"
GUEST Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer based in Bangalore. He has taught at the universities of Yale and Stanford, held the Arné Naess Chair at the University of Oslo, and been the Indo-American Community Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In the academic year 2011-2 he served as the Philippe Roman Professor of History and International Affairs at the...
52m Jan 17, 2019
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415: 38.00 Tarun Khanna on his book - Trust - Foundation for entrepreneurship in developing economies
GUEST Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School (HBS), where he has sought for two decades to study the drivers of entrepreneurship in emerging markets as a means of economic and social development. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton and Harvard, he has taught courses on strategy, corporate governance and international business to MB...
1hr 1m Dec 05, 2018
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