Redefining Leadership Brown University School of Professional Studies

Tim Edgar, Executive Master in Cybersecurity (EMCS) faculty member, interviews John Grant, Palantir’s civil liberties engineer, who recently spoke to our students about the importance of privacy and civil liberties in the company’s mission to build better institutions for all.

Power. It’s essential for leadership. But to wield it effectively, do we need to better understand the interplay between the person designated as the leader and those being led?

Listen to this interview with Brown University Professor of Psychology Joachim Krueger to find out how he explores the power dynamic in his Brown Executive class, Psychological Perspectives on Strategic Decision-Making.

Head Rules is a five-part podcast series with Professor Joachim Krueger. Each episode analyzes a specific topic - creativity, happiness, decision-making, trust, and power - from a psychological perspective to attune leadership to a more nuanced understanding of human behavior.

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We all make decisions on a regular basis but how do we actually do it? How can understanding this process make us more decisive and effective leaders?

Listen to this interview with Brown University Professor of Psychology Joachim Krueger whose expertise lies in the psychology of strategic reasoning and behavior. You’ll get a glimpse of how he explores decision-making and leadership in his Brown Executive class, Psychological Perspectives on Strategic Decision-Making.

Head Rules is a five-part podcast series with Professor Joachim Krueger. Each episode analyzes a specific topic - creativity, happiness, decision-making, trust, and power - from a psychological perspective to attune leadership to a more nuanced understanding of human behavior.

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Trust. It’s implicit in any work relationship yet little understood. Explore this mysterious bond in this Head Rules podcast episode with Brown University Professor of Psychology Joachim Krueger

You’ll learn about the connection Krueger identifies between micromanagement styles and the bedrock assumption that workers must trust and ultimately follow management.

You’ll also get a sense of the provocative ideas and questions that define Krueger’s Brown Executive class, Psychological Perspectives on Strategic Decision-Making.

Head Rules is a five-part podcast series with Professor Joachim Krueger. Each episode analyzes a specific topic - creativity, happiness, decision-making, trust, and power - from a psychological perspective to attune leadership to a more nuanced understanding of human behavior.

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Transforming healthcare and achieving the triple aim. We all know we need to do it. The question is how. Executive Master in Healthcare Leadership faculty member Jim Austin sheds light on this subject in his new book, "Transformative Planning: How Your Healthcare Organization Can Strategize for an Uncertain Future". The book is based on Austin’s extensive experience working with healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, physician groups, and pharmacy benefit managers. Enjoy this mini-interview to find out how Austin packs into 120 pages a “how-to” guide for leaders looking to drive transformative change in a rapidly changing industry. Austin is currently a principal at Decision Strategies International, and previously served as a former senior executive at Baxter Healthcare.

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In this interview, we ask Brown University's Executive Master in Cybersecurity faculty member, Deborah Hurley, how the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal should be viewed from the perspective of laws in the US and beyond. Based on the current facts, Hurley tells us, Facebook probably wouldn’t be liable for violating personal data and privacy protections of the American Facebook users. But, in a world where users and their data are global, US laws aren’t the only ones Facebook needs to worry about. Listen to this podcast to learn more about the potential legal fallout for Facebook from the Cambridge Analytica scandal under different nations’ laws as they exist today and post May 25, 2018 when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect. Hurley is an adjunct professor of the practice of computer science at Brown University, Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, and seminal player in the development of industry standards for information technology for the past 30 years.

If you’d like to hear more, listen to our other episode with Hurley where she talks about the Seven Stages of GDPR.

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