Thinkers & Ideas

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Inspiring and thought-provoking conversations with leading thinkers about influential ideas on business, technology, economics, and science. Hosted by Nikolaus Lang and Adam Job.

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Manage the Machine with Paula Goldman

In Manage the Machine: How to Harness Human-AI Collaboration at Work, Paula Goldman argues that AI has crossed over from being a tool to being a partn...

•Sep 1, 2026

Global by Design with Vijay Govindarajan

In Global by Design: How to Create Innovations That Scale, Travel, and Transform, Vijay Govindarajan argues that the most powerful innovations are des...

•Aug 18, 2026

Blue Ocean Strategy with Renée Mauborgne

In Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, Renée Mauborgne argues that lasting growth does no...

•Aug 4, 2026

From the Archive: Making Sense of Chaos with Doyne Farmer

As uncertainty continues to define the business landscape, we’re revisiting our conversation with economist and complexity scientist Doyne Farmer on w...

•Jul 21, 2026

Crisis Engineering with Matthew Weaver and Mikey Dickerson

In Crisis Engineering: Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos Into Clarity, Matthew Weaver and Mikey Dickerson argue that organizational crises are not p...

•Jul 7, 2026

The Irrational Decision with Ben Recht

In The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us, Benjamin Recht argues that the optimization and mathematical rationality...

•Jun 23, 2026