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Demystifying Organizations

This management podcast tackles the big questions about leading organizations from some of the greatest thinkers of our time. Jeff Schatten PhD, a business professor at Washington and Lee University and in partnership with McGraw Hill Education, has conversations with top intellectuals, influencers and business executives about challenging topics that are essential to successful 21st century organizations-- insights you never knew you wanted to know.

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44:53

When businesses violate the public’s trust (w/ Sandra...

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/08/16

Sandra Sucher is a Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. Sucher is the author of over 100 business cases, technical notes, video interviews, and teaching notes cases on leadership and the ethical dilemmas of businesses and their managers, and two books: The Moral Leader: Challenges, Insights and Tools, and Teaching The Moral Leader: A Literature-based Leadership Course, A Guide For Instructors.

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41:58

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution (w/ Tom...

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/08/09

Tom Davenport is a professor of information technology and management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative for the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He has written or edited twenty books including The AI Advantage and over 250 print or digital articles for Harvard Business Review (HBR), Sloan Management Review, the Financial Times, and many other publications. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard

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42:04

Organizational Culture and Values (w/ President Will...

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/08/02

Will Dudley is the president of Washington and Lee University. He was previously the provost and professor of philosophy at Williams College. He is the author of two books, "Understanding German Idealism" (2007) and "Hegel, Nietzsche and Philosophy: Thinking Freedom" (2002). He is the editor of volumes on Kant and Hegel and has published numerous scholarly articles.

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39:47

CEO of Progressive, 2018 Businessperson of the Year:...

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/07/26

Tricia Griffith is the CEO and president of Progressive Insurance, the 3rd largest auto insurance company in The United States. In 2018, Tricia became the first women to be named Fortune’s Businessperson of the year. She leads Progressive’s 33,000 employees. We discuss a range of issues including culture, managing executives, diversity, technology and leadership.

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35:32

The Death of Conspicuous Consumption? (w/Peter Singer)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/07/19

Peter Singer has been dubbed by many as the “world’s most influential living philosopher.” Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University. He has written co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, untold number of articles and his writings have appeared in more than 25 languages. Singer is the founder and board chair of The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit that fights extreme poverty.

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48:01

Blockchain and Bitcoin (w/ Stephen P. Williams)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/07/12

Stephen P. Willams and Jeff Schatten discuss the promise of blockchain, some of the attributes and challenges inherent in cryptocurrencies and the ways in which blockchain might change the world. Stephen P. Williams is a writer, journalist, and author, with over a dozen published books. Author of Blockchain: The Next Everything, from Scribner publishers.

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48:08

Why We Work (w/ Barry Schwartz)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/07/05

Barry Schwartz and Jeff Schatten discuss why we work, what motives excellence, the and role that money plays in performance. Barry Schwartz is an emeritus professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and a visiting professor at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley. He has spent forty years thinking and writing about the interaction between economics and morality. He has written several books that address aspects of this interaction, including The Battle for Human Nature, The Costs of

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36:36

Connected Strategies (w/ Nicolaj Siggelkow)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/06/28

Nicolaj Siggelkow is a business Professor at the Wharton School of business at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Ph.D. in Business Economics the Harvard Business School. His research on how firms create and sustain competitive advantage has been published in the leading management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, and Organization Science. Professor Siggelkow is one of the most sought-after professors in Wharton’s MBA program, having been the

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49:56

Balancing Stakeholder Interests (w/ Roger Martin)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/06/21

Roger Martin was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. Roger serves as the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants. He has published 11 books the most recent of

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37:51

Improving Conversations (w/Celeste Headlee)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/06/14

Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of Heard Mentality and We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter. In her 20-year career in public radio, she has been the Executive Producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She also served as co-host of the national morning news show, The Takeaway, from PRI and WNYC, and anchored

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45:41

Trump the Negotiator (w/ Marty Latz)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/06/07

Marty Latz is an author, international speaker, and the founder of LATZ Negotiation. Since 1995, Latz has taught more than 100,000 lawyers and business professionals around the world how to negotiate more effectively. Mr. Latz received his law and negotiation training at Harvard Law School, and was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where one of his students was former President Barack Obama. Latz also negotiated for The White House on the White House Advance Teams. Marty

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42:34

Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing (w/ Renée Mauborgne)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/05/31

Renée Mauborgne is a professor of strategy at INSEAD. She is also Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. Mauborgne is ranked in the top 5 management gurus in the world in the Thinkers50 listing of the World’s Top Management Gurus, a title she has held for ten straight years. She is the highest placed woman ever on Thinkers50. Mauborgne served on President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for the President’s two terms

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32:33

How Insights Change Organizations (w/ Adam Grant)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/05/24

Adam Grant and Jeff Schatten discuss Grant’s recent article “The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights” and the challenge that many managers have in adopting “best practices.” They also discuss how to give constructive feedback. Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers and

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47:30

Rising to the Occasion: Leadership Forged in Crisis...

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/05/17

Nancy Koehn and Jeff Schatten discuss why some leaders are able to excel in crisis situations. They address key leadership issues such as whether leaders are born or created and the ways in which leaders navigate between values and strategy. They also discuss the leadership legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School. Koehn's research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact. Her book, Forged in Crisis: The Power

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44:45

Humble Leadership (w/ Edgar Schein and Peter Schein)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/05/10

Edgar Schein, Peter Schein and Jeff Schatten discuss the benefits and potential challenges of “humble leadership,” when leaders establish a personal relationship model with subordinates instead of basing interactions on a quid pro quo mindset. They discuss a wide range of issues relating to leadership, culture and professional relationships in a high-tech world. Edgar is a Professor Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is considered one of the foremost experts on organizational

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43:00

The Mind of the White-Collar Criminal (with Eugene...

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/05/03

Eugene Soltes and Jeff Schatten have a wide ranging discussion about white-collar crime and the complex motivations and factors that underlie corporate criminal behavior. Eugene Soltes is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Eugene has has been widely quoted by the media including in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg. He has fascinating work on corporate misconduct and fraud, which culminated in the book Why They Do

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35:20

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work (with...

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/04/26

Ian Bremmer, the president of Eurasia Group, and Jeff Schatten discuss globalization, artificial intelligence, the relationship between employment and well-being, and the future of work. Bremmer has authored several books, including the national bestsellers, Every Nation for Itself and The End of the Free Market. Bremmer has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, and Foreign Affairs. He appears regularly on CNBC,

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36:27

Quiet: The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/04/19

Susan Cain and Jeff Schatten discuss the introversion and the ways in which workplaces can better reflect and respect the dynamic range of personalities that makeup the population. Susan Cain is the Chief Revolutionary of Quiet Revolution and the author of the bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has been translated into 40 languages, is in its seventh year on the New York Times best seller list, and was named the #1 best book of the year by Fast

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30:18

Bedtime Stories for Managers (with Henry Mintzberg)

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/04/12

Henry Mintzberg, one of the world’s most influential thinkers in management, and Jeff Schatten discuss a wide range of issues that include leadership as a bottom-up process, the problem of relying on data, and how to stop short-term thinking. Henry Mintzberg is currently a professor at McGill University in Montreal. Mintzberg earned his PhD in management from MIT in 1968. Henry Mintzberg writes prolifically on the topics of management and business strategy, with more than 150 articles and fifteen

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36:32

Ritz-Carlton co-founder Horst Schulze on Building a...

Demystifying Organizations ·

2019/04/05

Ritz-Carlton co-founder Horst Schulze and Jeff Schatten discuss the founding and growth of the Ritz-Carlton. The conversation covers Horst’s creation of a people-centered corporate culture based on integrity and trust that he applied to employees and customers. During his tenure at The Ritz Carlton, Mr. Schulze served as President and COO responsible for $2 billion in annual operations worldwide. Today, Mr. Schulze serves on various boards and acts as a consultant across industries. He recently

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