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In The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong, John Kay provides a novel perspective on the evolution of the contemporary corporation.
One of the UKâs leading economists, Kay is a fellow of St Johnâs College, Oxford. He was the first dean of Oxfordâs SaĂŻd Business School and has held chairs at London Business School, the University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics and director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
In his conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Kay discusses the essence of the modern corporation, the changing relationship of capital and labour, the gap between the our historic concept of the corporation and the current reality and the forces that have and will further shape the corporation including sustainability, geopolitics, and technology.
Key topics discussed:
01:56 | The essence of a 21st century corporation
05:53 | The changing roles of workers and capital
12:26 | Limits to corporate scale
16:00 | Forces that will shape the future of corporations sustainability, geopolitics, technology
21:50 | The impact of AI on the nature of the corporation
24:12 | Implications for managers
Additional inspirations from John Kay:
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers (W.W. Norton & Company, 2020)The Long and the Short of It: A guide to finance and investment for normally intelligent people who arenât in the industry (IPS - Profile Books, 2016)Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance (PublicAffairs, 2015)Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly (Profile Books GB, 2011)
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In Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known, Amar Bhidé revisits and modernizes the concept of Knightian uncertainty. Introduced more than 100 years ago, the concept offers great potential for better understanding corporate decision-making.
A renowned expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and finance, Bhidé is a professor of Health Policy at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, as well as a professor emeritus of Business at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
In his conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Bhidé discusses the important distinction between repeated and unique events, the relationship between uncertainty and imagination, how corporations can use persuasive narratives and social routes to navigate the future, and whether AI will help or hinder these practices.
Key topics discussed:
01:16 | The definition of uncertainty
04:49 | The relation between uncertainty and imagination
09:32 | The power of corporate routines
15:57 | The changing nature of uncertainty
17:25 | How AI impacts uncertainty
21:02 | Corporate implications
22:38 | Implications for business education
Additional inspirations from Amar Bhidé:
A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy (Oxford University Press, 2010)The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World (Princeton University Press, 2008)The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (Oxford University Press, 2000)Flourishing in an Uncertain World: How Entrepreneurs Overcome Doubts and Disagreements (The Kansas City Public Library Lecture, 2025)
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In The M&A Failure Trap: Why Most Mergers and Acquisitions Fail and How the Few Succeed, Baruch Lev and Feng Gu provide a wealth of evidence on the success and failure factors of acquisitions.
Lev, professor emeritus of Accounting and Finance at NYUâs Stern School of Business and Gu, professor of Accounting and Law at the State University of New York, have analyzed more than 40,000 acquisitions over the past four decades. This has not only allowed them to understand the reasons why 75% of deals fail but also to develop a scorecard that can help decision-makers assess the likelihood of acquisition success ex ante.
In their conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Lev and Gu discuss how to measure acquisition success, how to curb overconfidence on the side of the acquirer, and key lessons for CEOs seeking inorganic growth.
Key topics discussed:
[02:45] How mergers and acquisitions have changed
[05:00] Judging the success or failure of acquisitions
[08:16] Drivers of acquisition failure
[14:41] Patterns of successful acquisitions
[17:27] Overconfidence and its causes
[19:51] Managerial implications
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In Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior, Sandra Matz explores what our digital footprints reveal about us and how these insights are used to influence our daily decisions.
Matz is the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, where she also serves as co-director of the Center for Advanced Technology and Human Performance. Using her background in psychology and computer science, Matz investigates the intricate connections between our digital and real lives and how these are shaped by technology.
In her conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Matz discusses the power of psychological profiling, highlights the harms as well as benefits of the personalization it enables, and outlines implications for businesses and regulators, including the possibility of entirely new business models.
Key topics discussed:
[01:10] Power of psychological profiling
[05:05] Scale and impact of big dataâbased psychological profiling
[09:06] Benefits and harms of personalization
[16:05] Challenges of regulating profiling and personalization
[17:57] Ramifications of the AI-driven content revolution
[23:20] Implications for businesses
[28:37] How to manage your data footprint
Additional inspirations from Sandra Matz:
Psychological Targeting: What Your Digital Footprints Reveal About You (TED Talk, 2019)
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In The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions and How the World Lost Its Mind, Dan Davies examines why companies and governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims they do not want.
Davies is an economist, writer, and former investment banker known for his insightful analysis of finance, corporate governance, and decision-making systems. He has written extensively on topics such as financial fraud, accountability in organizations, and the intersections of economics and management. His latest book combines cybernetics theory and real-world examples to explain how decisions are increasingly made not by accountable individuals, but by systems.
In his conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Davies describes the pathologies of failing decision-making systems, explains why we tend not to learn from past mistakes, and outlines why he worries that AI might not improve our capability to make decisions unless we carefully redesign decision systems to tap its potential.
Key topics discussed:
01:03 | Unintended outcomes generated by decision-making systems
07:08 | What we can learn from the theory of cybernetics
09:49 | Pathologies of failing information systems
11:49 | Why we make the same mistakes again and again
14:41 | How AI may impact decision-making
16:39 | Steps toward improving our decision-making systems
Additional inspirations from Dan Davies:
The Brompton: Engineering for Change, co-authored by William Butler-Adams (The Experiment, 2022)Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World (Scribner, 2021)Back of Mind (Substack)
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In AI Snake Oil: What AI Can Do, What It Canât, and How to Tell the Difference, Sayash Kapoor and his co-author Arvind Narayanan provide an essential understanding of how AI works and why some applications remain fundamentally beyond its capabilities.
Kapoor was included in TIMEâs inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in AI. As a researcher at Princeton Universityâs Center for Information Technology Policy, he examines the societal impacts of AI, with a focus on reproducibility, transparency, and accountability in AI systems. In his new book, he cuts through the hype to help readers discriminate between legitimate and bogus claims for AI technologies and applications.
In his conversation with Martin Reeves, chair of the BCG Henderson Institute, Kapoor discusses historical patterns of technology hype, differentiates between the powers and limitations of predictive versus generative AI, and outlines how managers can balance healthy skepticism with embracing the potential of new technologies.
Key topics discussed:
01:05 | Examples of AI âsnake oilâ
04:42 | Historical patterns of technology hypeand how AI is different
07:26 | Capabilities and exaggerations of predictive AI
11:42 | Powers and limitations of generative AI
17:11 | Drivers of inflated expectations
20:18 | Implications for regulation
23:26 | How managers can balance scepticism and embracing new tech
24:58 | Future of AI research
ï»żAdditional inspirations from Sayash Kapoor:
AI Snake Oil (Substack)A Checklist of Eighteen Pitfalls in AI Journalism (UNESCO article, 2022)
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In The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World, Karthik Ramanna provides a framework for leaders to navigate outrageâthe intense, polarized reactions to perceived social injustices, political stances, and misaligned corporate actionsâby addressing root causes, engaging stakeholders, and building resilience.
Ramanna, a professor of Business and Public Policy at the University of Oxfordâs Blavatnik School of Government, specializes in business-government relations and corporate accountability.
In conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Ramanna discusses the three causes of outrage (fear of the future, past injustices, and ideologies of othering), common instincts that mislead leaders, and his five-step framework for navigating the age of outrage.
Key topics discussed:
01:08 | Managing in the age of outrage
4:21 | Three causes of outrage: fear of the future, past injustices, and ideologies of othering
5:48 | The five-step framework for navigating the age of outrage
19:04 | Instincts which mislead companies into taking the wrong stance or making the wrong analysis
20:45 | The impact of âtemperate leadershipâ and leadership attributes
25:22 | Key factors impacting the age of outrage
Additional inspirations from Karthik Ramanna:
Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy (The University of Chicago Press, 2015)
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In The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications, Aswath Damodaran presents the corporate life cycle as a universal key for demystifying business finance, strategy and company valuation.
Damodaran is a professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Known as âthe Dean of Valuation,â he has published extensively in academic journals, written many books for students and practitioners, and remains the worldâs foremost expert on the subject of corporate valuation. In his latest book, he outlines how corporations age, describes the characteristics of each stage of their life cycle, and discusses implications for managers and investors.
In his conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Damodaran outlines how to determine where in the life cycle your company is at, what leadership skills and behaviors are required at each stage, and how the distribution of life cycle stages has changed over recent decades.
Key topics discussed:
00:56 | The stages of the corporate life cycle
02:21 | How to determine your stage in the life cycle
03:36 | The importance of acting your age
10:06 | Balancing capital allocation across the portfolio
11:27 | Leadership skills for different stages in the life cycle
16:56 | Creating value at any stage of the life cycle
20:21 | How the distribution of life cycle âshapesâ is changing
22:58 | The art of communicating complex ideas in simple ways
Additional inspirations from Aswath Damodaran:
Applied Corporate Finance (Wiley, 2014)Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset (Wiley, 2012)Musings on Markets⯠(Blog)
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In Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era, John Rossman provides a playbook for becoming an innovation and transformation winner.
Rossman was previously an executive at Amazon, responsible for launching their Marketplace business. Now, he is the managing partner of Rossman Partners, advising leading enterprises on large-scale change, and author of the best-selling books The Amazon Way and Think Like Amazon. In his latest book, he examines why high-stakes change efforts fail and how to frame and manage them more effectively. Companies need to think in terms of âbig bets,â which will require executives to adopt the right mindset, tactical steps, and leadership habits.
In his conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Rossman explains why we need to work in prose, not in PowerPoint; how to think big, while betting small; and how to make the critical decisions to âcontinue, pivot, or killâ a project.
Key topics discussed:
01:19 | What makes a âbig betâ
04:10 | Thinking in outcomes
06:49 | Prose over PowerPoint
12:51 | Thinking big, but betting small
16:21 | Thinking in systems
19:21 | How to decide to âcontinue, pivot, or killâ â and avoid confusion
22:45 | Where âbig betâ thinking can be applied
Additional inspirations from John Rossman:
The Amazon Way: Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles (Clyde Hill Publishing, 2021)Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader (McGraw Hill, 2019)
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In Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner's Guide, Michael C. Jackson emphasizes the need for integrating diverse systems methodologies to navigate complexity and uncertainty.
Jackson, an emeritus professor of management systems and former dean of the University of Hull Business School, has also served as president of several prominent systems thinking organizations, including the UK Systems Society, the International Federation for Systems Research, and the International Society for the Systems Sciences. His most significant contribution to the field is his development of Critical Systems Thinking (CST), which emphasizes the combined use of different systems approaches to deal with the complexity that leaders face.
In a conversation with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Jackson introduces the EPIC process (Explore, Produce, Intervene, and Check), a four-stage, sequential framework to help leaders deploy systems methodologies. Their discussion includes how different systems perspectives can be combined, how theory informs interventions, how organizations are embracing system thinking, barriers to adoption, and the relevance of systems thinking to todayâs business environment.
Key topics discussed:
2:40 | What systems thinking can offer the traditional MBA toolkit
5:20 | Systems thinking in contemporary business scenarios
6:37 | The EPIC process: Explore, Produce, Intervene, and Check
16:52 | Characteristic tools of systems thinking
17:34 | The five lenses of systems thinking
21:54 | Advancing the agenda of systems thinking
Additional inspirations from Michael C. Jackson:
Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers (John Wiley & Sons, 2023)Systems Approaches to Management (Springer, 2000)Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity (Wiley, 2019)Creative Problem Solving: Total Systems Intervention (Wiley, 1991)
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There is no shortage of technologists touting the promise of AI, but the frontier of AI fervor is a noted philosopher who thinks the economy could double every few monthsâand that space colonization by self-replicating machines may not be hundreds of years away.
Enter Nick Bostrom, who previously authored the 2014 bestseller Superintelligence about the dangers of AI, and now considers what can go right with AI in his new book Deep Utopia. Bostrom was formerly a professor at Oxford University, and currently principal researcher of the Macrostrategy Research Initiative.
In this episode, he joins Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Chief Economist of BCG, who is skeptical of AI narratives and thinks technologyâs economic impact has long-lagged expectations. They discuss different takes on the likely size and speed of AIâs impact on the macroeconomy, and why they disagree about the prospect of tech-driven mass unemployment. Bostrom also explains key themes from Deep Utopia, including stages of utopia, âshallow and deepâ redundancy, implications for policy, as well as the unique rhetorical style of the book.
Key topics discussed:
01:45 | Is tech jumping ahead or behind schedule?
03:24 | Is Deep Utopia really a book about AI or about philosophy?
04:39 | Technological unemployment: Real or fallacious
10:54 | Taxonomy of utopia
13:59 | What about public policy, such as UBI?
15:47 | Concept of shallow and deep redundancy
18:50 | Concept of âinterestingnessâ
21:07 | Rhetorical style of book
23:29 | AI regulation and policy
Additional inspirations from Nick Bostrom:
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Oxford University Press, 2014)
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In The Great Disconnect: Hopes and Fears After the Excess of Globalization, Marco Magnani explores the factors that are driving the crisis of globalization we are currently experiencing.
Magnani teaches international economics at LUISS University in Rome and UniversitĂ Cattolica in Milan. Previously, he was a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and worked in investment banking for two decades. In his new book, he discusses the history of internationalization and the benefits that modern globalization has broughtâas well as the drawbacks that have become increasingly apparent.
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Magnani discusses the causes of the increasing global disconnectâbeyond U.S.-China tensions. He also lays out four scenarios for how globalization may play out, as well as practical tips for how executives can prepare for these different futures in a time of deep uncertainty.
Key topics discussed:
01:19 | The great disconnect
04:13 | The benefits and downsides of modern globalization
07:21 | Future scenarios for globalization
13:28 | What the history of internationalization reveals about where we are heading
15:25 | Implications of AI for globalization
16:33 | How globalization or de-globalization might play out in practice
21:10 | Implications for businesses
Additional inspirations from Marco Magnani:
Making the Global Economy Work for Everyone: Lessons of Sustainability from the Tech Revolution and the Pandemic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)Creating Economic Growth: Lessons for Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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In Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future, Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley explore the intangible forces that make it hard to anticipate how new technologies create impact and what we can do about this challenge during the design process for new applications.
Carter is the Director of Teaching and Learning at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford â also known as the Stanford d.school. Doorley is a Creative Director at the d.school, having previously worked in the film industry for more than a decade.
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, they discuss how designers, technologists, and corporate leaders can more effectively harness transformative technologies like AI and artificial biology by giving more weight to non-technical factors like emotions, perceptions, imagination, and serendipity.
Key topics discussed:
01:23 | The problem of runaway design
03:16 | The forces that make technology impact unpredictable
09:17 | The role of emotions in design
11:59 | Why we are not thinking about unpredictability in designing technologies
15:17 | Potential solutions to new design problems
22:22 | Applying these solutions to AI
24:20 | Implications for businesses
Additional inspirations from Scott Doorley:
Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration (Wiley, 2011)Additional inspirations from Carissa Carter:
The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data (Ten Speed Press, 2022)
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In How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be, Cass Sunstein reveals why some individuals become celebritiesâand others donât.
Sunstein has long been at the forefront of behavioral economics. He is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and served as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. He has authored numerous best sellers, such as Nudge and The World According to Star Wars. In his new book, he explores the roles played by skill, luck, and social processes in the achievement of fame and successâbased on recent research on informational cascades, reputation cascades, network effects, and group polarization.
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Sunstein discusses how a better understanding of these mechanisms can help businesses make better decisions in marketing, talent management, and innovation - and why the greatest composer of all time may not be J S Bach, but rather Taylor Swift.
Key topics discussed:
03:18 | How to prove whether or not fame is driven by merit
06:08 | The importance of quality and skill to fame
09:33 | Enduring vs. transient fame
11:36 | The greatest composers of all time: Bach vs. Taylor Swift
14:44 | Social factors driving fame
19:54 | The role of group polarization and network effects
28:48 | Implications for businesses: Marketing, talent, innovation
33:19 | The art of manipulating information cascades
Additional inspirations from Cass Sunstein:
Thinkers & Ideas: Look Again with Cass SunsteinLook Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There; with Tali Sharot (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024)Nudge; with Richard Thaler (Penguin Books,... -
In The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions, Michael Norton explores how the little things we do can create big impact.
Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he also leads the unit for negotiation, organization, and markets. A well known and respected researcher on behavioral economics and well-being, his new book demonstrates the power of small actsâand how a subtle shift of turning habits into rituals can add purpose and pleasure to life.
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Norton discusses how we can use rituals deliberately and effectively in our life and work, why it is important that rituals evolve over time, and how COVID changed our rituals as individuals and as teams.
Key topics discussed:
00:52 | Ritual vs. habit
03:39 | The power (and pitfalls) of rituals
07:08 | Deliberately using rituals (in private life and the workplace)
13:41 | The importance of evolving rituals
18:22 | How COVID changed our rituals
21:20 | How CEOs can harness the power of rituals
Additional inspirations from Michael Norton:
Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending co-authored by Elizabeth Dunn (Simon & Schuster, 2013)How to Buy Happiness (TED Talk, 2012)
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In Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times, Rebecca Homkes guides leaders on how to turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Homkes teaches business strategy at the London Business School, is on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education, and consults major companies on strategy. She has developed a framework for leading through uncertainty based on three principles: setting up the firm for continuity through shocks (survive), making strategic choices for growth as the situation changes (reset), and ensuring implementation of the new business model (thrive).
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Homkes discusses how to thrive under uncertainty and how her framework applies in the context of the AI revolution.
Key topics discussed:
02:11 | How uncertainty affects strategy
03:40 | The survive, reset, thrive framework
05:20 | How to survive a shock
09:20 | How to reset for a new environment
14:42 | How to execute so you can thrive in the long term
19:12 | The creative vs. competitive aspects of strategy
24:11 | How algorithms and AI will affect strategy and the strategy process
27:49 | Applying this framework in your personal life
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At the BCG Henderson Institute, we aim to bring forward-looking leaders the ideas and inspirations that will shape their next game. To honor this missionâand celebrate the 100th episode of our Thinkers & Ideas podcastâwe welcomed three leading futurists to discuss the evolution of business and society.
Rita McGrath is a professor of management at Columbia Business School, and has been ranked among the top 10 management thinkers globally by Thinkers50 for years. Gary Shteyngart, a professor of writing at Columbia University is also a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction novels. Esther Dyson, founder of Wellville, is an investor, writer, and expert on all things tech, space, and health.
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, they discuss their complementary perspectives on the future. They also divulge their methods for making predictions, providing valuable hints for how business leaders can use similar approaches to shape their perspectives and strategies.
Key topics discussed:
02:06 | Revisiting past predictions about the future
05:08 | The digital age
08:16 | Social media and a technology-centred society
12:47 | Methods for sensing the futureâ
17:23 | Harnessing the power of science fiction
22:31 | Using metaphors
24:41 | Bringing together these future-sensing methods
31:07 | Predictions about what is coming next
Additional inspirations from Rita McGrath, Gary Shteyngart, and Esther Dyson:
Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen By Rita McGrath(Harper Business, 2019)Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel By Gary Shteyngart (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011)Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age By Esther Dyson (Broadway, 1997)
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In Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There, Cass Sunstein, together with his co-author Tali Sharot, discusses the importance of reevaluating the familiar to discover new insights.
Sunstein has long been at the forefront of behavioral economics. He is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School and served as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. He has authored numerous best sellers, such as Nudge and The World According to Star Wars., In his new book, he explores the effects of habituationâceasing to notice the familiar.
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Sunstein discusses the perils of habituation and how to see the unseen. He also identifies ways that company leaders can strategically avoid habituation to ensure their organizations do not get stuck in mental models that limit adaptability to new trends and challenges.
Key topics discussed:
01:09 | How habituation works
04:25 | What dishabituation is
08:18 | How to see the unseen
13:51 | How corporations should think about (dis-)habituation
22:08 | Breaking free from a mental model
24:21 | Personal strategies for dishabituation
Additional inspirations from Cass Sunstein:
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment; co-authored by Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony (Little Brown Spark, 2021)The World According to Star Wars (Dey Street Books, 2016)Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness; co-authored by Richard Thaler (Penguin Books, 2009)
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In Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality, Venki Ramakrishnan explores the current research on and prospects for human longevity.
Ramakrishnan leads a group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. For his research on the structure and function of ribosomes, he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. From 2015 to 2020, he served as president of the Royal Society. In his new book, Ramakrishnan explains the mechanisms of aging and their potential impacts on life expectancy, health span, and lifespan.
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Ramakrishnan discusses the likely social, economic, and ethical implications of increasing longevity as well as the specific efforts researchers are making to prolong healthy lifeâand how close they are to achieving a breakthrough. He shines a light on a set of technologies which could be every bit as impactful as artificial intelligence, which therefore also deserve our attention.
Key topics discussed:
02:28 | Life expectancy vs. health span vs. maximum lifespan
08:21 | Mechanisms of aging
13:25 | Potential interventions for promoting longevity
18:27 | How close are we to a longevity breakthrough?
24:02 | Societal and ethical implications
28:48 | The art of communicating complex idea
Additional inspirations from Venki Ramakrishnan:
The Most Promising Ways to Stop Ageing (New Scientist Interview, 2024)The Story of Deciphering the Ribosome (The Royal Society Talk, 2020)Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome (Basic Books, 2018)
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In Making Sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world, J. Doyne Farmer challenges traditional economic models, which rely on simplistic assumptions and fail to provide accurate predictions.
Farmer, a complex systems scientist at the University of Oxford and the Santa Fe Institute, argues that with technological advances in data science and computing, we are now able to apply complex systems thinking to build models that more accurately capture reality and enable us to make better predictions about the economy.
Together with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Farmer discusses the limitations of standard models of economics as well as the consequences of such limitations. He proposes an alternative based on complex systems thinking and agent-based modelingâand describes how it can be applied in various fields, including business.
Key topics discussed:
01:42 | Limitations of the standard model of economics
04:44 | How complex systems thinking works
09:01 | Consequences of using inadequate economic models
12:44 | Agent-based modeling as a powerful alternative
19:02 | Leveraging alternative modeling techniques in business
24:59 | How CEOs can start embracing complexity thinking
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