Foundstone Conversations

Andrew Bird
  • 0.0 (0)
  • MANAGEMENT
  • UPDATED BIWEEKLY
Foundstone Conversations

Real-world strategy conversations with organisation & industry leaders about their latest challenges, learnings & insights.

  1. 10/25/2022

    What is Strategy? Planning is not Strategy. (Roger Martin, World's #1 Management Thinker)

    “Strategy is a set of integrated choices.” “A plan is not a strategy.” This is our conversation with the world’s #1 management thinker Roger Martin. The former Dean of the Rotman School of Management & author of 13 books including Playing to Win and A New Way to Think. Roger's work in strategy, continues to leave a prominent mark globally in distilling down complex and often noisy concepts into crystal clear principles that can be applied in the real world. As a strategy a...

    57 min

  2. 08/09/2022

    What do strategy, community and culture have in common? (Brad Krauskopf, Co-Chair & Co-Founder, The Hub)

    In this episode, we chat with Brad Krauskopf, Founder and CEO of The Hub. The Hub is Australia’s largest privately-owned co-working provider. We kick off our conversation with how Brad works through making tough strategy choices. Brad shares his practical experience with getting customer insights and how that helps the organisation to get clarity & the confidence to make the best strategy decisions. As a certified B-Corp, we also talk about the fundamentals of what a B-Corp is an...

    42 min

  3. 07/04/2022

    L'Oréal's intuition-driven strategy (Jordan Colreavy, Head of Category Strategy, L'Oréal)

    In this episode, we chat with Jordan Colreavy, who’s the Head of Category Strategy at one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies L'Oréal Jordan gives some rare insights of how L’Oreal use a unique mix of both Intuition & creativity for strategy & execution across the business. He talks about how L'Oréal's French heritage and culture have a big influence on this – and how other organisation leaders can learn from this sort of approach. L’Oreal also captures unique cus...

    44 min

  4. 05/19/2022

    How to Build a Billion-Dollar Business (David Shein, Founding Partner, OIF Ventures)

    Want to hear first hand, how to build a billion-dollar business? We had a recent conversation with David Shein, founder of Australia's first $ billion-technology company, to find out how. Now, as co-founder and partner of Our Innovation Fund, David is one of the best connected venture capital investors in the country. He's also the author of a book that's been released fairly recently "The Dumbest Guy at the Table". So, we talked about how his recent book came about, the subtex...

    59 min

  5. 03/28/2022

    What is a Social Enterprise? (Wendy Bezzina, Executive Director, Social Traders)

    It was great to have Wendy back for another conversation and this time, in her new role as the Executive Director Social Procurement and Impact with Social Traders. In this latest conversation, we dive deeper into the world of Social Enterprise. Wendy talks about her time in her previous role as the CEO of a Social Enterprise and some of the first-hand learning and experiences of how she grew that business significantly through Social Enterprise principles. In Foundstone's work with ...

    41 min
  6. What is Open Strategy? (Julia Hautz, Co-author of 'Open Strategy' & Prof. of Strategic Mgt)

    02/25/2022

    What is Open Strategy? (Julia Hautz, Co-author of 'Open Strategy' & Prof. of Strategic Mgt)

    In this episode, we chat with Julia Hautz - the Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Julia is the co-author of 'Open Strategy, a book that is taking the global strategy community by storm. Open Strategy, as Julia explains, means actively involving people from outside the C-suite in strategy deliberations. Both internal and external to the organisation. This can include customers, partners, suppliers, and even competitors. As well as those internal ...

    51 min

  7. 11/10/2021

    Innovation starts by listening to your customers (Ron Lesh, Managing Director of BGL Corporate)

    In this episode, we talk to Ron Lesh, Managing Director of BGL Corporate Solutions, about why listening to our customers is important for any business. Having decades of experience under his belt, Ron also shares about common mistakes made by young businesses as well as other insights he's observed over the years. Tune into this episode to learn about how customer feedback is key to better innovation and customer relationships!

    38 min

  8. 10/08/2021

    Understanding millennials beyond the stereotypes (Amy Smith, Founder of Aligned Tribe)

    Did you know that millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025? It also may come as a surprise that the average tenure of millennials is over 3.5 years. Amy Smith, Founder of Aligned Tribe has plenty of experience working with executives and boards, helping them understand the millennial generation better. In this episode, Amy talks about why it's important to understand millennials beyond the stereotypes and how many executives may need to "unlearn" some of their perceptio...

    41 min
See All (16)

About

Real-world strategy conversations with organisation & industry leaders about their latest challenges, learnings & insights.

Information

  • Creator
    Andrew Bird
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2023 Foundstone Conversations
  • Show Website
    Foundstone Conversations

To listen to explicit episodes, sign in.

Stay up to date with this show

Sign in or sign up to follow shows, save episodes, and get the latest updates.
Select a country or region

Africa, Middle East, and India

Asia Pacific

Europe

Latin America and the Caribbean

The United States and Canada