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Innovation always requires some level of risk. For leaders, this means taking the right risks and knowing when to walk away. How do leaders make decisions when the outcome is uncertain?  How do they create a culture that promotes innovation and enables risk taking?
 
In this episode, host Gautam Mukunda speaks with Annie Duke, Cognitive Scientist, Decision Strategist, and Author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, and Paul Misener, the VP of Global Innovation Policy and Communication at Amazon about the process of decision-making and innovation in uncertain conditions.
 
Resources:
 
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, by Annie Duke
 
Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, by Annie Duke
 
“If we are not failing ever, we are not trying hard enough; we are not being innovative enough.” — Paul Misener, VP of Global Innovation Policy and Communications at Amazon
 
“There's a time-accuracy trade-off when we're making decisions. The more time we take, usually, the more accuracy we're going to accrue. The less time we take, the less accuracy we're going to accrue.” — Annie Duke, Author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, Decision Strategist and Former Professional Poker Player
 
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Great leaders recognize that it takes more than talent to build a winning team. The culture and cohesion of a team can make or break it. It’s up to leaders to cultivate an environment that empowers people and promotes growth and opportunity.
 In this episode, host Gautam Mukunda speaks with Daniel Coyle, Award-Winning New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, The Culture Code and more and Vlatko Andonovski, Head Coach of the U.S. women’s national team, about the secrets of creating a world-class team.
 “Performance in business is actually a learning contest." - Daniel Coyle, Award-Winning New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, The Culture Code and more
“I think that’s what drives me, the challenge to do something that has never been done before.” - Vlatko Andonovski, Head Coach of the United States Women’s National Soccer Team



Resources:
 
Books by Daniel Coyle
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
 
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In this bonus feature, World Reimagined is turning the table on its host, Gautam Mukunda. Interviewed by his good friend, General Stan McChrystal, Gautam discusses the inspiration behind his newest book, Picking Presidents, shares what leadership means to him, and reveals who his ultimate hero is. Gautam also gets a second chance at answering the presidential history question that ended his reign on the TV show Jeopardy! many years ago.
 
Resources:
 
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, by John Keegan
Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World, by Gautam Mukunda
Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay
 
“If you want to solve a problem about leadership, the presidency is uniquely fertile ground.” — Gautam Mukunda, Author of Picking Presidents & Host of The World Reimagined Podcast
 
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Today’s changing world faces continuous social, economic, and environmental
challenges—from disease to natural disaster to war. The leaders stepping up to solve these
issues possess deep ambition, vision, and skills to bring their ideas to life.
In this episode, host Gautam Mukunda speaks with Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., Professor of
Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley and Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
and Esther Duflo, Ph.D., Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT
and Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences. Together, they discuss how great leaders can
pioneer breakthroughs and effectively enact change—from discovery to implementation.
Resources: 
Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
“There are so many things I kind of wish I had known early in my career, but the big ones for me
are, first and foremost, that each person is an individual and has their own sets of passions,
strengths, weaknesses, desires.” – Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and
Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley
“Try to avoid micromanaging people. You get much more done if you can trust someone to run
with it.” - Esther Duflo, Ph.D., Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at
MIT 
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While technology is a key driver of advancement and disruption, technology itself does
not produce innovation. It’s the people that make it possible—and the leaders who
aren’t afraid to take risks, admit when they’re wrong, and face failure head on.
In this episode, host Gautam Mukunda speaks with Josh Wolfe, Founding Partner and
Managing Director of Lux Capital and Mike Pell, Envisioneer and Director at the
Microsoft Garage in NYC about how leaders should approach and encourage innovation,
and lead employees in a technology-driven world.
“I like to say that chips on shoulders put chips in pockets, in part because it is often
predictive of somebody that is going to be relentless against adversity.” – Josh Wolfe,
Founding Partner and Managing Director of Lux Capital
“Tech enables amazing, incredible new things we could never do before, but it's always,
for me, the people part that is far more interesting and far more powerful.” – Mike Pell,
Envisioneer, Director, The Microsoft Garage - NYC
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Research shows that strong comradery and collaboration among coworkers is essential
for building successful organizations. And in today’s world of hybrid work, it’s perhaps
more important than ever. It’s up to leaders to create a culture that prioritizes these
positive co-working relationships and fosters employee engagement.
In this episode, host Gautam Mukunda speaks with Ben Michealis, Co-founder and CEO
of the group.io, and Kevin Delaney, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Charter, about how
leaders can build successful teams in this new world of work. The duo discusses the
importance of bringing humanity to work, while maintaining boundaries between work
and personal life.
“The quiet quitting and Great Resignation are diagnostics on businesses.” — Kevin
Delaney, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Charter
“So much of the problem is we get into these sorts of momentary, transactional
relationships where it's just about what is the transaction, as opposed to the larger
picture, which is the broad relationship of how do we, how are we relating to one
another long term?” - Ben Michaelis, Co-Founder and CEO of Group.io
Resources:
Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You
Work, by Leslie A. Perlow
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business, by Charles
Duhigg
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