Episode 6:
Seeing Around Corners: Spotting Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen

What is strategy in an age of exponential change? How do we ensure our organizations are agile enough to see and seize the next wave of value?

Rita McGrath, a globally-recognized thought leader and author in strategy and innovation, shares key ideas from her upcoming book, Seeing Around Corners. You’ll learn why businesses must become strategically agile, constantly adapting to catch the next value wave, and how leaders can develop the skill to see early signals of change and prepare their organizations to act quickly.

Episode 5: Futureproofing Organizations for Digital Disruption

Every industry faces new realities in the digital future. Business models and practices that have been tried-and-tested in the industrial age may not work going forward. Harvard Fellow Hari Nair and author of The Digital Matrix N Venkat Venkatraman share how to futureproof your organization by preparing next-generation leaders to recognize and respond to shifts in the digital era.

Episode 4: The Future of Learning: Learn to Work

The future of work is changing, and so must learning, so that we are prepared for the unknowns of continuous change. #1 global voice for education on LinkedIn Heather McGowan and leading technology analyst Chris Shipley discuss how to reimagine the career arc and retool our organizations for a very different future of work and learning.

Episode 3: Get Ready to Launch Your Next Innovation

Learn how to tackle a launch  – whether it is a new idea, project, business or career. Launching anything successfully means challenging the status quo and overcoming uncertainty. Hear from Sanyin Siang, Executive Director at the Coach K Center for Leadership and Ethics at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and professor at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering.

Episode 2: How Successful Leaders Manage Collaborative Overload

The collaborative intensity of work has exploded over the past decade. Most leaders spend 85% of their time on emails, meetings and phone calls. Professor of Global Business at Babson College Rob Cross shares how high-performing organizations and professionals harness the power of networks to innovate, execute and gain back 20% of their time by avoiding the pitfalls of collaborative overload.

Episode 1: Designing Organizations for Digital Disruption

Technology is rapidly disrupting how we interact and work. Our organizational structures are becoming outdated and need to be more agile to respond to these shifts. Justin Ferrell, a professor in design thinking at Stanford’s d.school, will explain how we can learn from digital user behavior to design creative and agile teams that are prepared for digital disruption.