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Discussing the key theories in economics, business, management, strategy, innovation, marketing, and psychology. Your own personal pocket business school.

  1. 11/21/2025

    Power

    Power dynamics or political currency - How to execute your agenda in a complex organisation? How is power acquired, held and lost? Why do some people have power and others don't?

    38 min

  2. 11/20/2025

    Psychological Safety and the Fearless Organization

    Psychological Safety is often misunderstood as group cohesion, ignoring performance or softness. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In reality, it is about leaders demonstrating situational humility and responding productively. Psychological safety is a necessary but not sufficient condition for high performance - it must be balanced with high standards, accountability, and a focus on results.

    31 min

  3. 11/18/2025

    Motivation

    Human motivation in the workplace is a complex and widely misunderstood topic. This episode discusses intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of behaviour, from Maslow's foundational need hierarchy, to Herzberg's two-factor theory, to the latest in behavioural science.

    41 min

  4. 10/27/2025

    Leading change

    What makes organisational change and transformation fail, and what is needed to make change stick?

    43 min

  5. 10/26/2025

    Blue Ocean Strategy

    Intense competition leads to blood in the water - red oceans. Companies can win by leveraging innovation to create blue oceans - uncontested markets, where they can rule the waters.

    56 min

  6. 10/25/2025

    The innovator’s dilemma

    Why did The Eastman Kodak Company, which invented the digital camera, not only get left behind in the race of digital, but almost got wiped out by the digital camera wave? How can successful, outstanding companies do everything "right" and still lose their market leadership, or even fail as new technology develops?

    1h 5m

  7. 10/24/2025

    Diffusion of innovation and crossing the chasm

    How do innovations, ideas, messages and even rumours spread? How, why, and at what rate new ideas and technologies spread through a population or social system depends on relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability.

    1h 5m

  8. 10/22/2025

    Living with uncertainty

    Life is uncertain, as is the business environment. This episode focuses on strategic decision-making and risk management in uncertainty.

    36 min
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Discussing the key theories in economics, business, management, strategy, innovation, marketing, and psychology. Your own personal pocket business school.

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