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Stephen Witt's last book was entitled How Music Got Free. His latest, The Thinking Machine, a history of NVIDIA and its CEO Jensen Huang, might have been called How Intelligence Got Expensive. It's about NVIDIA's role in both the multi trillion dollar AI revolution and the world's Taiwan-centric microchip economy. Witt explains how NVIDIA transformed itself from an obscure gaming graphics company into an AI hardware powerhouse by investing in scientific computing when competitors wouldn't. He describes Huang's relentless leadership style (including demanding Musk style weekly emails from 30,000 employees), the influence of his Taiwanese heritage, and NVIDIA's success in parallel computing as a post-Moore's Law company. * NVIDIA succeeded by taking a counterintuitive approach - investing heavily in academic computing markets that seemed unprofitable but eventually led to their AI dominance.* Jensen Huang has an unusual management style featuring a flat organizational structure with 60 direct reports, mandatory weekly emails from all employees, and public critiques of underperforming teams.* Huang's Taiwanese heritage and cultural background played a significant role in NVIDIA's success, particularly in establishing crucial manufacturing relationships with TSMC.* NVIDIA's focus on parallel computing positioned them as a post-Moore's Law company, allowing them to thrive when traditional chip manufacturers like Intel and AMD hit physical limitations.* Despite NVIDIA's current dominance, they face threats from Chinese competitors, potential shifts in manufacturing due to tariffs, and the challenge of maintaining control over increasingly powerful AI systems.Stephen Witt is the author of The Thinking Machine, a forthcoming book on the AI hardware giant Nvidia. His first book, How Music Got Free, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Financial Times, New York, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and GQ. He lives in Los Angeles, California.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host Michael Sobolik speaks with Geoffrey Cain about Big Tech in America, how these corporate giants have enabled Beijing's rise, and what policymakers should do to reign them in. Guest biography Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, technologist, and scholar of East Asia. His first book, Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, from a decade of his coverage of the world's largest technology conglomerate, was longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, and was named a Cult of Mac best tech book of 2020. His second book, The Perfect Police State, received the citation for the “best non-fiction book on international affairs” in 2021 from the Overseas Press Club. A former correspondent at The Economist, Cain is a regular commentator in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Foreign Policy, The New Republic and The Nation, a contributing editor at The Mekong Review, and a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, BBC and Bloomberg. Cain writes about the ways that technology is upending our lives, communities, governments and businesses. His work takes him to the world's most authoritarian and far-off places, from inside North Korea to the trans-Siberian railway across Russia, from investigations into genocide in Cambodia to experiments in technological surveillance in China. Cain is sought out as a consultant on government, business and technology, having advised the World Health Organization, Open Government Partnership, the United Nations humanitarian affairs office, and major multinational corporations and hedge funds. A Fulbright scholar, he holds a master's with distinction from London's School of Oriental and African Studies and a bachelor's at The George Washington University, which he attended on a music scholarship. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, a tech think-tank. Resources from the conversation Buy Michael's book, Countering China's Great Game Buy Geoffrey's book, The Perfect Police State Read Geoffrey's op-eds in The Hill and The Dispatch Read Geoffrey's think-piece in American Affairs

We take for granted that the “immigrant experience” is part of the American story. But in an epic new history Daniel Schulman tells the story of the Jewish immigrants who built some of America's biggest financial institutions and transformed America.  A best-selling author, Schulman is known for his first book, “Sons of Wichita,” a biography of the Koch brothers, which was a finalist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. His second book, “The Money Kings,” was recently released and details several German-Jewish immigrants who influenced the rise of modern finance in the United States, including Goldman Sachs, Kuhn Loeb, Lehman Brothers and J. & W. Seligman & Co. Beyond his books, Schulman is a journalist whose work has appeared in publications including the Boston Globe Magazine, Politico, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post and Mother Jones, where he is the magazine's deputy Washington, D.C. bureau chief.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rachel and Simon speak to Juliet Mabey, co-founder and publisher of Oneworld Publications. She established the company in 1986 with her husband, Novin Doostdar, as an independent publishing house focusing on non-fiction. Its books have covered a broad range of subjects, including biography, history, politics and science, and have won prizes including the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. In 2009 Juliet set up a fiction list; its authors won the Booker prize in 2015 (Marlon James for "A Brief History of Seven Killings"), 2016 (Paul Beatty, "The Sellout") and 2023 (Paul Lynch, "Prophet Song"). Oneworld now includes imprints focusing on children's literature, young-adult books and crime fiction. We spoke to Juliet about winning three Booker prizes since 2015, her early experience setting up Oneworld, and the role of independents versus large corporate publishers.  “Always Take Notes: Advice From Some Of The World's Greatest Writers” - a book drawing on our podcast interviews - is published by Ithaka Press. You can order it via ⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bookshop.org⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Hatchards⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠Waterstones⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can find us online at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠alwaystakenotes.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, on Twitter @takenotesalways and on Instagram @alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/alwaystakenotes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

Episode SummaryJohn Carreyrou literally wrote the book on Theranos – the bestseller “Bad Blood,” which built on his earlier writing at the WSJ that broke the story. With Elizabeth Holmes scheduled to be sentenced this week, I sat down with John to get the inside scoop on how he uncovered the Theranos fraud, his take on Holmes, what went wrong and why, and what her sentence is likely to be.Sydney Finkelstein Syd Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He holds a Master's degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Finkelstein has published 25 books and 90 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman calls the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.” He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, and a top 25 on the Global Thinkers 50 list of top management gurus. Professor Finkelstein's research and consulting work often relies on in-depth and personal interviews with hundreds of people, an experience that led him to create and host his own podcast, The Sydcast, to uncover and share the stories of all sorts of fascinating people in business, sports, entertainment, politics, academia, and everyday life.John CarreyrouJohn Carreyrou is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. In his reporting for The Wall Street Journal, he was the first to break the scandal surrounding the failed biomedical startup Theranos and the disturbing lies of its wunderkind founder, Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes. A compelling speaker, Carreyrou discusses the ethical lapses, the credulous media coverage, and the lax oversight that allowed Theranos to achieve a “unicorn” valuation of $9 billion and shares with audiences the lessons that can be learned from its fall.Bad Blood was also named the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. The HBO documentary based on the Theranos story, The Inventor, was directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney and premiered at Sundance. A graduate of Duke University, Carreyrou lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and three children.Insights from this episode: Details about John's bookTheranos scandal and how John discovered itThe intimidation, threats, and stonewalling John experienced when covering the scandalDetails about Elizabeth Holmes's trialConfidential informants being stalked during the trialWhat Elizabeth Holmes did wrong and how she was able to build credibilityQuotes from the show:“I had done a lot of reporting about health care medicine by then and enough to know that that's not usually how things happen (Theranos scandal). Usually, people who make advances in medical fields are trained and then do decades of research before they add value” —John Carreyrou [9:14]“It wasn't until late April/May of 2015 that I began approaching the company and letting them know that I was doing a story and could they answer these questions. At that point they tried to stonewall me, they gave me the silent treatment for about a month, but then I think it dawned on them that I wasn't going away” —John Carreyrou [20:21]“They knew that those three employees (Adam Rosendorff, Tyler Shultz, and Erika Cheung) had left with objections and raising doubts, and their suspicions immediately gravitated toward them” —John Carreyrou [24:39]“That's what you call affinity fraud. You surround yourself with people who have a lot of credibility and prestigious names, and you borrow their credibility. That is very much what took place. In this case, Elizabeth was able to do that” —John Carreyrou [40:23]“She was convicted of defrauding investors. To me, that isn't the worst part of the scandal. What I consider to be the worst part is the fact she went live with a medical product that didn't work. She had a machine called the Edison, it was very limited and its capabilities could only do a handful of blood tests, and it didn't perform it accurately” —John Carreyrou [29:23]“To me, her biggest crime is that she knowingly commercialized a medical product that she knew was deficient, that she knew was flawed, that she knew didn't work. She put patients in harm's way, she endangered the public health” —John Carreyrou [30:30]“[About cutting corners] Elizabeth Holmes is someone who was well aware of this history, of this lure. She knew that people like Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs had cut corners earlier in their careers and she felt entitled to do the same” —John Carreyrou [33:21]“The Theranos scandal is a reminder that fine, bring your new ideas and your money to the problems in healthcare but, you got to remember it's not the same world as software and that the stakes are much higher. If you don't bear that in mind then what happened to Elizabeth Holmes will happen to you” —John Carreyrou [37:07]Stay connected:Sydney FinkelsteinWebsite: http://thesydcast.comLinkedIn: Sydney FinkelsteinTwitter: @sydfinkelsteinFacebook: The SydcastInstagram: The SydcastJohn CarreyrouLinkedIn: John Carreyrou Twitter: John CarreyrouSubscribe to our podcast + download each episode on Stitcher, iTunes, and Spotify.This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry.

Mohammed bin Salman has been Crown Prince (heir to the throne) of Saudi Arabia since 2017.  As de facto leader of the country, he has enacted a series of liberalising social reforms that have had positive effects for Saudi women and young people. However, he has also centralised massive political power around himself, leading to many unpleasant moments, including the murder of Royal court figure turned journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. MBS is undoubtedly a ruthless leader, but one big question remains- can the West afford to stand up to him?My guest for this conversation was Justin Scheck (@ScheckWSJ on Twitter), reporter for the Wall Street Journal and co-author, along with Bradley Hope, of Blood and Oil, which was longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award in 2020. 

Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist and a bestselling, award-winning author. She is a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. Amy has advised CEOs and heads of strategy of some of the world's largest companies, three-star generals and admirals and executive government leadership on strategy and technology. She was also a Delegate on the former U.S.- Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she worked on the future of technology, media and international diplomacy. She is the author of several popular books, including The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, which was longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, and won the 2020 Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology. She also wrote The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream, which won the Thinkers50 Radar Award, was selected as one of Fast Company's Best Books of 2016, Amazon's best books 2016, and was the recipient of the 2017 Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology. Amy was named by Forbes as one of the five women changing the world, listed as the BBC's 100 Women of 2020, and the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led. In this podcast, she shares: Why we should be doing 'back-casting' rather than forecasting Why strategizing for the future is NOT about predicting it, but instead about shifting your mindset to be prepared for the future's uncertainty Some practical advice about who should be doing the kind of future planning work that that is so critical for today for any organization that wants to remain relevant __________________________________________________________________________________________"If you're on a three-year strategic planning cycle, typically...you're marking milestones and KPIs...on that corporate strategy. The problem is that it doesn't account for uncertainty. This is where a lot of companies fall short, and they don't have the ability to recalibrate. So I do not use a line, I use a cone it's a different shape. So the intersecting vectors where that cone begins on the left that represents today. And the further out in time, you go, the wider, the angle becomes on the inside of that cone. And that represents uncertainty over time."-Amy Webb__________________________________________________________________________________________Episode Timeline:00:00—Introducing Amy + The topic of today's episode2:10—What is your definition of strategy?3:32—A model for thinking about time and foresight6:05—What's a tip or go-strategy for getting people to appreciate the importance of thinking of long-term horizons?8:15—Could you explain the difference between predicting the future vs. being ready for many possible futures. Could you explain the difference?10:22—Using data and evidence to model out plausible next-order impacts12:24—The term and history of the futurist13:50—Could you describe your work in synthetic biology? 17:16—You mentioned that synthetic biology will become as commonplace a term as AI, could you explain how other industries could be affected that seem unrelated?19:27—Do you have any other tips for how people can learn more about this topic?20:34—What is a science fiction book or movie people should know about?__________________________________________________________________________________________Additional Resources: Personal Page: https://amywebb.io/Company Page: https://futuretodayinstitute.com/amy-webb/Twitter: https://twitter.com/amywebbLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amywebb

Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist and a bestselling, award-winning author. She is a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. Amy has advised CEOs and heads of strategy of some of the world's largest companies, three-star generals and admirals and executive government leadership on strategy and technology. She was also a Delegate on the former U.S.- Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she worked on the future of technology, media and international diplomacy. She is the author of several popular books, including The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, which was longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, and won the 2020 Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology. She also wrote The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream, which won the Thinkers50 Radar Award, was selected as one of Fast Company's Best Books of 2016, Amazon's best books 2016, and was the recipient of the 2017 Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology. Amy was named by Forbes as one of the five women changing the world, listed as the BBC's 100 Women of 2020, and the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led. In this podcast, she shares: Why we should be doing 'back-casting' rather than forecasting Why strategizing for the future is NOT about predicting it, but instead about shifting your mindset to be prepared for the future's uncertainty Some practical advice about who should be doing the kind of future planning work that that is so critical for today for any organization that wants to remain relevant __________________________________________________________________________________________"If you're on a three-year strategic planning cycle, typically...you're marking milestones and KPIs...on that corporate strategy. The problem is that it doesn't account for uncertainty. This is where a lot of companies fall short, and they don't have the ability to recalibrate. So I do not use a line, I use a cone it's a different shape. So the intersecting vectors where that cone begins on the left that represents today. And the further out in time, you go, the wider, the angle becomes on the inside of that cone. And that represents uncertainty over time."-Amy Webb__________________________________________________________________________________________Episode Timeline:00:00—Introducing Amy + The topic of today's episode2:10—What is your definition of strategy?3:32—A model for thinking about time and foresight6:05—What's a tip or go-strategy for getting people to appreciate the importance of thinking of long-term horizons?8:15—Could you explain the difference between predicting the future vs. being ready for many possible futures. Could you explain the difference?10:22—Using data and evidence to model out plausible next-order impacts12:24—The term and history of the futurist13:50—Could you describe your work in synthetic biology? 17:16—You mentioned that synthetic biology will become as commonplace a term as AI, could you explain how other industries could be affected that seem unrelated?19:27—Do you have any other tips for how people can learn more about this topic?20:34—What is a science fiction book or movie people should know about?__________________________________________________________________________________________Additional Resources: Personal Page: https://amywebb.io/Company Page: https://futuretodayinstitute.com/amy-webb/Twitter: https://twitter.com/amywebbLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amywebb

Ian Fraser, author of the bestselling book Shredded, stops by this week to discuss the events that led to the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Listen along as we dive deep into the scandal, from the changes instituted in the 80s by Matheson, to the ill-fated acquisition of ABN, the Government bailout and the aftermath... You'll never look at banks the same way after this episode.About IanIan Fraser is an award-winning journalist, commentator and broadcaster who writes about business, finance, politics and economics. He has written for titles including The Economist, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Independent on Sunday, the Herald, Sunday Herald, BBC News, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, Accountancy, CA Magazine and Citywire.His book, Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain, published in June 2014, explores how and why RBS, the world's largest company by assets at the time of its collapse, became the world's most expensive bank to bail out. The book — based on extensive interviews with more than 120 current and former RBS insiders, advisers, politicians, and others — was longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year and has received positive reviews including from FT chief economics correspondent Martin Wolf.Guest Links:Book Link: USBook Link: UKWebsiteSocials:TwitterLinkedInOther Links:The RBS Crisis: Timeline of EventsIf you like our show, please let us know by rating and subscribing on your platform of choice!If you like our show and hate social media, then please tell all your friends!If you have no friends and hate social media and you just want to give us money for advertising to help you find more friends, then you can donate to support the show here!2 Bulls Discord:https://discord.gg/Q8hft2zMTMAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the first episode of Chasing Impact, MzN founder and Managing Director Chris Meyer zu Natrup interviews Alan Barlow, a former senior executive in a variety of business ownership structures, two-time author and trustee at the charity “Integrity Action”.Alan's book Purpose Delivered: Bigger Benefits for Society and Bigger Profits for Business - A CEO's Experience was published by Routledge in 2021 and has been nominated for the FinancialTimes and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award:  "Going beyond the why and what of purpose-led business, this book sets out an innovative business model of how to lead and operate a company to deliver its purpose." All the proceeds of his book go to the charity Integrity Action. In this episode, Alan talks about Purpose Delivered, shares his experience working as a senior executive with a purpose-driven agenda and explains what other executives can do to lead their companies with integrity and purpose. We hope the interview inspires you to do good, better. Alan Barlow bio: Alan Barlow has extensive experience of senior executive roles in a variety of business ownership structures, including CEO for a private equity-owned multinational engineering group, director at an FTSE 100/NYSE-listed energy group, and partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.Alan has a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and holds a portfolio of non-executive board directorships. He is regularly invited to speak at conferences, lead workshops and seminars on how leading and operating a business with heightened integrity directly results in bigger profits for business and bigger benefits for society.Download Alan's slides "Best practice metrics" and "Integrated business reporting" on our website: www.mzninternational.com/podcastFind out more about Alan's book Purpose Delivered: https://www.routledge.com/Purpose-Delivered-Bigger-Benefits-for-Society-and-Bigger-Profits-for-Business/Barlow/p/book/9780367757816Find out more about Integrity Action: https://www.integrityaction.org/Intro Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/fugu-vibes/spatialLicense code: BG4G1RNDTFTEOLEX

Buy the book here - Independent -https://uk.bookshop.org/books/shredded-inside-rbs-the-bank-that-broke-britain/9781780276045Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Inside-Britain-Revised-Updated/dp/1780276044/On today's podcast I am happy to be hosting Ian Fraser, author of "Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank That Broke Britain".On the podcast we talk about the point at which RBS turned in the wrong direction, leadership incompetence and whether any issues were learnt from the catastrophe which broke Britain. Ian Fraser is an award-winning journalist, commentator and broadcaster who writes about business, finance, politics and economics. He has written for titles including The Economist, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Independent on Sunday, the Herald, Sunday Herald, BBC News, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, Accountancy, CA Magazine and Citywire.His book, Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain, published in June 2014, explores how and why RBS, the world's largest company by assets at the time of its collapse, became the world's most expensive bank to bail out. The book — based on extensive interviews with more than 120 current and former RBS insiders, advisers, politicians, and others — was longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year and has received positive reviews including from FT chief economics correspondent Martin Wolf.Since March 2009, Ian has worked on programmes about the global financial crisis and its aftermath for the BBC. These have included RBS: Inside The Bank that Ran Out of Money, (a one-hour documentary that was shortlisted for Bafta), Trust Me I'm A Banker for BBC Scotland Investigates, Carry on Banking for BBC 1 Panorama and seven Radio 4 ‘File on 4' documentaries (including Badly Behaving Bankers).Ian Fraser - Website - https://www.ianfraser.org/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianfraser/Twitter - https://twitter.com/Ian_FraserWTFinance:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfnTikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeUjj9xV/iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-fatseas-761066103/Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

In 1998, Michael E. Mann and two of his colleagues published the “hockey stick” graph that would revolutionize and galvanize climate activism. It showed the exponential acceleration of global warming since 1900 and that human reliance on carbon-based fuels was making the planet hotter and the climate consequently more unstable. Mann is now a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State and has authored several books, including his latest, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, a finalist for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. He joins the podcast to talk about why, after decades of inaction, we're at an existential crossroads: keep doing nothing and watch the planet warm to levels that create catastrophic climate change, or take the necessary steps right now to decarbonize our economy and end our dependence on fossil fuels. Listen to this episode to learn: • How a spate of inactivists and bad actors have deceived, distracted, and delayed meaningful climate action -- and that fighting against this PR and messaging campaign is the battleground of our “new climate war” • Why mainstream messaging that focuses on personal responsibility (i.e., eat less meat, cut back on air travel, lower your carbon footprint) deflects from what's really causing climate change and the big, systematic changes needed to stop it • The vital leadership role companies must play in fighting climate change -- but why corporate greenwashing initiatives and individual “net zero” commitments, while well-intentioned, are not enough • How the financial industry has in many ways been more progressive than most governments in taking meaningful action against climate change • How words like “adaptation” and “resilience” and promises of “technological innovation” are really just forms of distraction and climate inaction • Why Mann is “cautiously optimistic” about our ability to avoid catastrophic climate change

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/243efeb3-032a-4282-b83a-24f566ea1161The chip shortage hobbling the auto industry has worsened as a wave of coronavirus cases spreads across south-east Asia with three of the world's largest automakers announcing new disruptions on their assembly lines, Europe remains scarred by the memory of the Syrian refugee crisis and the bloc's message about Afghan refugees is different, and FT Management Editor Andrew Hill shares highlights from this year's longlist for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Chip shortage deepens supply problems at global carmakers - with Tokyo Correspondent Kana Inagaki https://www.ft.com/content/89bd676c-fc10-4a69-9b03-dc50ed3f441dIn Europe, Afghan refugees raise spectre of 2015 asylum crisis - with Berlin Bureau Chief Guy Chazanhttps://www.ft.com/content/15549b1b-81c9-452f-9876-e90dc6c61ce0FT and McKinsey Business Book of the year Longlist - with Management Editor Andrew Hill https://www.ft.com/content/2529e4d9-0ca2-4bec-bc14-8d6626651408 The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon and Marc Filippino. The show's editor is Jess Smith. Our intern is Zoe Han. Additional help by Gavin Kallmann, Michael Bruning, and Persis Love. The show's theme song is by Metaphor Music. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The New York Times bestseller Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies

Originally recorded on April 30, 2021 for the CID Speaker Series, featuring ​Kate Raworth, Economist & Co-Founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Raworth continued the conversation with our CID Student Ambassador after an appearance at the virtual CID Speaker Series event where they shared insights from her research and book, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist. Doughnut Economics starts with the goal of meeting the needs of all people within the means of the living planet. Achieving this calls for economies that are regenerative and distributive by design. What would it look like to put this into practice at the level of the city? Kate Raworth will present the core ideas of Doughnut Economics and share stories of how the idea is being put into action in cities and places worldwide. Kate Raworth is an economist focused on making economics fit for the 21st century. Her book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist is an international bestseller that has been translated into 20 languages, and was long-listed for the 2017 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. She is co-founder of Doughnut Economics Ac+on Lab, working with cities, businesses, communities, governments and educators to turn Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformation. She teaches at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and is Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

This week The Pack visits with a friend of the show Roddy Boyd (@RodBoydILM on Twitter). Roddy is the Editor and founder of the Foundation for Financial Journalism. I think Roddy is among the few remaining investigative journalists on the planet. Before FFJ, he was a reporter for Fortune, NY Post, NY Sun, and Institutional Investor News. In 2011 he published “Fatal Risk – A cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide”, a McKinsey Business Book of the Year. In 2012, The Huffington Post named him “one of the most feared financial reporters in America.”  Roddy takes us through his upbringing, his early work, and events that shaped his career both personally and professionally. Sit back have a drink and enjoy!  When something like alcohol use is so intimately ingrained in the fabric of our society, it becomes extremely difficult to significantly alter its use and or abuse comprehensively and beneficially. It becomes extremely difficult for many individuals to realistically see the destructive, unhealthy, and sometimes fatal aspects of drug or alcohol abuse. If you need help or think you need help you are taking the first step.   https://www.aa.org and https://www.nami.org/Home 3:15 Roddy's background; growing up as the son of a hedge fund titan, being taught the importance of hard work, and graduating from Fordham University 10:18 Roddy's aspiration of becoming a journalist which was enhanced after the Watergate hearings, putting his dreams on pause to pay the bills for his new family, and working his way up from being a desk clerk 19:20 Roddy's attempt to get a job as a writer, landing a financial journalism gig at II and writing his biggest gets on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae which led him to the NY Sun and eventually the NY Post.  Writing about overstock.com 30:00 Going after Fairfax Financial, overstock suing Rocker Partners which led to a wave of attacks on short-sellers and eventually journalists. 40:02 Roddy getting subpoenaed from the SEC for his Fairfax reporting, taking the case to the state supreme court and ultimately fighting off the suit, and how Dan and Roddy became in contact over the wave of Chinese fraud.   49:10 Where were you the first time you heard about Ben Wei and Freedom of Speech?   52:20 The time Roddy visited the China Media Express office, witnessed Jeffrey Toobin-esque activities and a sleeping R&D department, and the subsequent stop on trading the next day from the NASDAQ. 1:00:35 Roddy's work on Valeant and their ultimate demise, Bill Ackman's hypocritical stance on Valeant after playing the moral high ground on Herbalife. 1:12:40  Roddy's continuous work and personal sacrifice to help bring down Insys Pharmaceuticals, and ultimately being thanked personally by a senior DEA officer on the case. 1:20:00 How Roddy makes a living off of donations to the Foundation for Financial Journalism, doing honest work and still getting attacked for taking donations from short-sellers. 1:30:20 Roddy's journey towards sobriety and the moments that made him realize he needed to make a change, how drinking often becomes a problem for journalists and people on Wall Street.  How Roddy has helped numerous people reach sobriety.

Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL  Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP).  She advises policy makers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. She is author of The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018) and Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2020).  She is winner of international prizes including the 2020 John Von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Rana Foroohar is global business columnist and associate editor for the Financial Times, and CNN’s global economic analyst. Her first book, Makers and Takers, was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year in 2016. Her second, Don’t Be Evil: the Case against Big Tech, was published in 2019 and was a Sunday Times Business Book of the Year and Observer Book of the Week. 5x15 brings together outstanding individuals to tell of their lives and inspirations. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck **Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award** From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Justin Scheck and Bradley Hope (coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale), this revelatory look at the world’s most powerful ruling family reveals how a rift within […] The post Book Author Podcast – Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck appeared first on Book Author Podcast.

Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck **Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award** From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Justin Scheck and Bradley Hope (coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale), this revelatory look at the world's most powerful ruling family reveals how a rift within […] The post Chris Voss Podcast – Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck appeared first on Chris Voss Official Website.

Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard, where she specializes in innovation and organizational change. Her newest book "Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire" examines how capitalism might be reworked so as to strive for a greener, more equitable future. "Reimagining Capitalism" was named to the shortlist of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and has received high praise from both academia and industry. Many scholars have argued that capitalism is at a crossroads, as the climate crisis and soaring inequality pose problems that the free market has proven to be incapable of solving. Professor Henderson points to Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics as the origin of these issues. As businesspeople adopted shareholder value maximization as their primary goal, and proponents of free market capitalism attacked government and regulation, capitalism spiralled out of control. How can businesses balance social responsibility and profitability? What changes need to be made to our current form of capitalism? And can the system truly be reformed? These are the questions that led Professor Henderson to write Reimagining Capitalism. In this interview, we explore these questions and more, diving into Professor Henderson’s insights as well as the research that informed her conclusions. We begin with Professor Henderson’s vision of “purpose-driven capitalism,” in which businesses place profit maximization on equal footing with serving society. How feasible is such an idea? Are there any real-world examples of businesses embracing this philosophy? Professor Henderson argues that, in many cases, the interests of business align with the interests of society. One of Professor Henderson’s key insights is that business and strong political institutions are complements – not adversaries. In opposition to the classical view of government as detrimental to economic efficiency, Professor Henderson argues that businesses benefit from capable government and regulation. What does this mean for tech giants like Facebook and Google? We discuss potential antitrust activity against these companies, and how it might be carried out in a responsible manner. Finally, we place Professor Henderson’s research alongside other recent books about capitalism: Thomas Piketty’s "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", Branko Milanovic’s "Capitalism, Alone", Nicholas Lemann’s "Transaction Man", Katharina Pistor’s "The Code of Capital", Glen Weyl on "Radical Markets"… How does "Reimagining Capitalism" differ in its approach to reforming capitalism? What makes Professor Henderson’s insights unique from that from academic economists?

Review of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Buy the Book: Princeton University Press From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America’s working class. Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row — a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim more than 150,000 American lives each year. Anne Case and Angus Deaton, known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair, explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. They demonstrate why, for those who used to prosper in America, capitalism is no longer delivering. “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism(link is external)” paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline. For the white working class, today’s America has become a land of broken families and few prospects. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. In this critically important book, Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and, above all, to a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. Capitalism, which over two centuries lifted countless people out of poverty, is now destroying the lives of blue-collar America. This book charts a way forward, providing solutions that can rein in capitalism’s excesses and make it work for everyone. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, reviewed After decades and decades of growth in life expectancy, even including the 1940s and the period of the first World War and the Spanish Flu, the United States has now seen three consecutive years of a fall in life expectancy. Even more strikingly, the cost of US health care has risen even as these life expectancy rates have fallen. The US also lags behind all other leading Western nations in terms of life expectancy and the amount spent per capita. To put it plainly almost everywhere else people are living for longer on less money spent on them. Add into this a rising death rate due to drugs, opiates, suicide, and other non natural causes of deaths, and it is not unfair to conclude that even before the current horror show that is their management of covid-19, the US has some serious problems to remedy. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: I just want everyone in this country to have the same healthcare I receive as a member of Congress. This book effectively dives into the issues faced, including the rise of Sheriff of Nottingham redistribution of wealth, ie upwards, enabling the rich to get richer, rather than equitably sharing it out. It is truly shocking at times how dire the situation is over there, except that it is also pretty clear what a mess the country is in by the current division and upheaval currently playing out in the current electoral cycle. Hopefully a book as well researched and incisive as this can help to point the US in the right direction, at the same time, due to all the entrenched interests it is also a massive challenge too. This is a tragic, but important book, and hopefully it helps to nudge the needle towards where badly needed social reforms need to go. Though it may take a change of government from the one that is so set on removing Obama care rather than expanding it to cover as much of the population as possible. Until those type of changes take place it is hard to see the negative trends outlined by these authors ceasing. More ...

Review of If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore, shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge–decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company’s papers in MIT’s archives and set out to tell this forgotten history, the long-lost backstory to the methods, and the arrogance, of Silicon Valley. Founded in 1959 by some of the nation’s leading social scientists –­ ‘the best and the brightest, fatally brilliant, Icaruses with wings of feathers and wax, flying to the sun’ – Simulmatics proposed to predict and manipulate the future by way of the computer simulation of human behavior. In summers, with their wives and children in tow, the company’s scientists met on the beach in Long Island under a geodesic, honeycombed dome, where they built a ‘People Machine’ that aimed to model everything from buying a dishwasher to counterinsurgency to casting a vote. Deploying their ‘People Machine’ from New York, Washington, Cambridge, and even Saigon, Simulmatics’ clients included the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign, the New York Times, the Department of Defense, and dozens of major manufacturers: Simulmatics had a hand in everything from political races to the Vietnam War to the Johnson administration’s ill-fated attempt to predict race riots. The company’s collapse was almost as rapid as its ascent, a collapse that involved failed marriages, a suspicious death, and bankruptcy. Exposed for false claims, and even accused of war crimes, it closed its doors in 1970 and all but vanished. Until Lepore came across the records of its remains. The scientists of Simulmatics believed they had invented ‘the A-bomb of the social sciences’. They did not predict that it would take decades to detonate, like a long-buried grenade. But, in the early years of the twenty-first century, that bomb did detonate, creating a world in which corporations collect data and model behavior and target messages about the most ordinary of decisions, leaving people all over the world, long before the global pandemic, crushed by feelings of helplessness. This history has a past; If Then is its cautionary tale. Review of If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future reviewed On the front cover of the version of the book that we received it included a quote with the first word that said ‘hilarious’. This was a poorly chosen and tone deaf word to use on the front page as, much as we like a joke, there was nothing funny or even remotely chucklesome in this book at all. The author is a good writer, and you could imagine this book being the basis of a future movie. However, as an American Studies History major, this book was kinda all over the place. Was it about Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon? Well yes sort of, but was it also about Simulmatics Corporation? Well yes, and was it a heavy handed attempt to link to Cambridge Analytica? Yes, but which was the focus? It was hard to tell. Does it tap into the current malaise that the US find’s itself in? Yes absolutely, but Simulmatics Corporation went bust, the people failed and they did not become Facebook, Google or any of the other ethically challenged behemoths that stride the landscape today. The parallels are clear for sure, but the links feel shoehorned and over worked. There is a lot of great subject matter in this book, but equally, it almost seemed like it was trying to be the next great American novel, not dissimilar to Tree of Smoke or Infinite Jest perhaps, and not in a completely successful way for any of those books either. We would read other books by this author for sure, but we’re not convinced that this book really hangs together or delivers an overall coherent and colle...

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We hear from two award-winning American economists about how capitalism and corporate purpose could evolve to more broadly benefit society, especially in this current time of crisis. Yuval Atsmon, a senior partner in our London office, spoke with professor Anne Case and Nobel prize winner, Angus Deaton, about their new book, ‘Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism’. Their book, which has been short-listed for the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, highlights the social and economic forces negatively impacting the working class, which they argue fosters inequality and undermines society. Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 30:24) >

We hear from two award-winning American economists about how capitalism and corporate purpose could evolve to more broadly benefit society, especially in this current time of crisis. Yuval Atsmon, a senior partner in our London office, spoke with professor Anne Case and Nobel prize winner, Angus Deaton, about their new book, ‘Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism’. Their book, which has been short-listed for the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, highlights the social and economic forces negatively impacting the working class, which they argue fosters inequality and undermines society. Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 30:24) >

We hear from two award-winning American economists about how capitalism and corporate purpose could evolve to more broadly benefit society, especially in this current time of crisis. Yuval Atsmon, a senior partner in our London office, spoke with professor Anne Case and Nobel prize winner, Angus Deaton, about their new book, ‘Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism’. Their book, which has been short-listed for the 2020 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, highlights the social and economic forces negatively impacting the working class, which they argue fosters inequality and undermines society. Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 30:24) >

Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck **Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award** From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Justin Scheck and Bradley Hope (coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale), this revelatory look at the world's most powerful ruling family reveals how a rift within Saudi Arabian royalty produced Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a charismatic leader with a ruthless streak. Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister Tony Blair and WME chairman Ari Emanuel flew out to meet with the crown prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passionately about bringing women into the workforce and toning down Saudi Arabia's restrictive Islamic law. He lifted the ban on women driving and explored investments in Silicon Valley. But MBS began to betray an erratic interior beneath the polish laid on by scores of consultants and public relations experts like McKinsey & Company. The allegations of his extreme brutality and excess began to slip out, including that he ordered the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While stamping out dissent by holding three hundred people, including prominent members of the Saudi royal family, in the Ritz-Carlton hotel and elsewhere for months, he continued to exhibit his extreme wealth, including buying a $70 million chateau in Europe and one of the world's most expensive yachts. It seemed that he did not understand nor care about how the outside world would react to his displays of autocratic muscle-what mattered was the flex. Blood and Oil is a gripping work of investigative journalism about one of the world's most decisive and dangerous new leaders. Hope and Scheck show how MBS's precipitous rise coincided with the fraying of the simple bargain that had been at the head of U.S.-Saudi relations for more than eighty years: oil in exchange for military protection. Caught in his net are well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians, all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince. The Middle East is already a volatile region. Add to the mix an ambitious prince with extraordinary powers, hunger for lucre, a tight relationship with the White House through President Trump's son in law Jared Kushner, and an apparent willingness to break anything -- and anyone -- that gets in the way of his vision, and the stakes of his rise are bracing. If his bid fails, Saudi Arabia has the potential to become an unstable failed state and a magnet for Islamic extremists. And if his bid to transform his country succeeds, even in part, it will have reverberations around the world.

Show NotesThe COVID-19 virus has impacted the way we work, learn and live our lives. On this episode, I talk with Amy Webb. We recorded this interview on May 15, 2020. Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist and a bestselling, award-winning author. She is the Founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. She's also a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business. During our interview, we'll hear about Amy's career path and get her thoughts on how we can deal with change and lean into uncertainty. Bio InfoWebb is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Säid School of Business, a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center, a Fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program and a Foresight Fellow in the U.S. Government Accountability Office Center for Strategic Foresight. She was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where her research received a national Sigma Delta Chi award. She was also a Delegate on the former U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she worked on the future of technology, media and international diplomacy. Webb has advised CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies, three-star generals and admirals and executive government leadership on strategy and technology. Webb is the author of several popular books, including The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, which was longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, and won the 2020 Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology, and The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream, which won the Thinkers50 Radar Award, was selected as one of Fast Company’s Best Books of 2016, Amazon’s best books 2016, and was the recipient of the 2017 Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology. Webb was named by Forbes as one of the five women changing the world, listed as the BBC’s 100 Women of 2020, and the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led. "As a futurist, I'm always saying, what would it take for X to be Y?" - Amy WebbFuture Today Institute: http://www.futuretodayinstitute.comTwitter: @amywebbFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/FuturistAmyWebbLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amywebb

This book exposes the gender bias that is in the world around us and affects our daily lives. A brilliant look at the data that shows the facts we need to acknowledge and overcome. Caroline presents a very thourough study into the way the world has been built and how it has been unfair on women. This is a revealing book which was a brilliant read for anyone. As two white guys we really had a lot to learn and enjoyed discussing this book and what we can do to improve things. About the Author Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster and award-winning feminist campaigner. Her most notable campaigns have included co-founding The Womens Room, getting a woman on Bank of England banknotes, forcing Twitter to revise its procedures for dealing with abuse and successfully campaigning for a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett to be erected in Parliament Square. She was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award, and was awarded an OBE in the Queen s Birthday Honours 2015. Awards Invisible Women has won the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, the Books Are My Bag Readers Choice Award and the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She lives in London.

Caroline Criado-Perez won the latest Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award with her book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. She spoke to Andrew Hill, the FT’s management editor, about the consequences for women and for society as a whole of using men as the default model.Contributors: Andrew Hill, management editor, and Caroline Criado Perez. Producers: Marc Filippino and Fiona Symon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Martin Ford is a prominent futurist, New York Times bestselling author, and leading expert on artificial intelligence and robotics and their potential impact on the job market, economy and society. His 2015 book, "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future" won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and has been translated into more than 20 languages. In this episode, Martin discusses his best-selling books and describes some of the themes he writes about. For instance, in Rise of the Robots he talks about “The Triple Revolution” which was a report presented to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson fifty years ago that argued this would be a dramatic change to the economy; however, it never really panned out. Martin’s argument for artificial intelligence started back in 2009 after writing his first book titled The Lights in the Tunnel. Ultimately, artificial intelligence will become so powerful that it can have a significant impact on employment that will compete with a large fraction of the workforce. Enjoy the show! We speak about: [02:50] Martin’s background [05:45] The themes behind Martin’s writing [08:35] Machine learning is when algorithms can make decisions [12:00] Amazon is susceptible to automation [16:45] The most common occupation error is driving some kind of vehicle [18:15] The type of work that will be left for humans [21:45] Universal basic income [28:55] Building explicit incentives to earn more income; paying people more to pursue education [33:25] Artificial intelligence will be the primary force shaping our futures [38:35] The solution is not to teach everyone how to code [41:30] Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it [46:00] Deep learning is the biggest thing to happen to artificial intelligence [52:20] Controlling data and an entirely new industry called data banks [53:15] Negative implications of artificial intelligence [64:40] You do not want to be doing something predictable Resources: Martin’s Website: https://mfordfuture.com/about/ Martin’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-ford-5a70428/ Martin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MFordFuture TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_ford Now you can support Data Futurology on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/datafuturology Thank you to our sponsors: UNSW Master of Data Science Online: studyonline.unsw.edu.au Datasource Services: datasourceservices.com.au or email Will Howard on will@datasourceservices.com.au Fyrebox - Make Your Own Quiz! And as always, we appreciate your Reviews, Follows, Likes, Shares and Ratings. Thank you so much for listening. Enjoy the show! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/datafuturology/message

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this final episode, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work & Careers editor, and FT economics commentator Martin Sandbu, talk to Jeremy Heimans, who together with Henry Timms co-wrote New Power: How it’s changing the 21st century — and why you need to know, and Annie Lowrey, author of Give People Money. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fifth series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this first episode, Jonathan Derbyshire, the FT’s executive opinion editor, talks to John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, and James Crabtree, author of The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fifth series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this first episode, FT columnists Andrew Hill and Martin Wolf talk to Mariana Mazzucato, author of The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, and Adrian Wooldridge, co-author (along with former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan) of Capitalism in America: A History. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this sixth and final episode, Isabel Berwick, and Andrew Hill talk to Jillian Medoff about her novel This Could Hurt. The author focuses on an HR department to explore the role work plays in our lives. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this fifth episode, Isabel Berwick, and Andrew Hill talk to Andrea Komlosy about her book Work: The Last 1,000 Years. The author explores how work and its status has evolved. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this fourth episode, Isabel Berwick, and Helen Barrett talk to Leah Weiss about her book How We Work. According to the author even the most mundane jobs can have purpose. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the third episode, Isabel Berwick, and Michael Skapinker talk to Jerry Muller about his book The Tyranny of Metrics and how the obsession with quantifying performance is bad for business. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the second episode, Isabel Berwick, and Emma Jacobs talk to Catherine Price about her book How to Break up With Your Phone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the first episode, Isabel Berwick, Andrew Hill and Emma Jacobs talk to Morten Hansen about his new book Great at Work: How Great Performers Work Less and Achieve More See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guest: Andrew Lo - the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering. He’s going to talk to us about his book Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought, which has been shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Enrich is former European Banking Editor for The Wall Street Journal. He was responsible for coordinating the Journal's coverage of banking and regulatory policy across Europe.Mr. Enrich has received numerous journalism awards, including in 2012 an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of the European financial crisis and a George Polk Award for coverage of insider trading. Mr. Enrich was part of teams of Journal reporters who were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes in 2009 and 2011.. In 2013, Enrich became the news. On October 17 of that year, a British judge ordered David and the Wall Street Journal to comply with a request by the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office prohibiting the newspaper from publishing names of individuals in the government's ongoing investigation into alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate. David was threatened with jail if he disobeyed. In 2016, returned to New York from London, and wrote his book  "The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History", and was published in March 2017 to critical acclaim. National Review called The Spider Network "a nonfiction epic...an engrossing, entertaining tale." Bloomberg Businessweek called it an "exhaustively reported tale" and author Harlan Coban praised it as a "terrific nonfiction book." The New York Times called it a "vivid depiction of the ethos of the core financial institutions upon which the global economy depends." CNBC and the FT recommended the book as one of their summer reads. It was also shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.A native of Lexington, Massachusetts, in September this year he left the Wall St. Journal and became the Business Day Financial Editor of The New York Times. We are pleased to have David, a truth teller of the first order on The Economic Warrior Show. To contact David further, contact: david.enrich@nytimes.com

We live in a world where all business owners have to be able to run two businesses: the business you're in today and the business that you're becoming. Because the world is changing constantly. We stand at a unique moment in history, where technology is replacing more jobs than it creates. And it is the business owners that are anticipating what is around the corner, rather than only focusing on running the business they're in now, that will grow and thrive. How will changes in technology impact you and your business? Could these advancements help or hurt your current model? In this episode of the Tony Robbins Podcast, you will hear from both Tony and Martin Ford – software entrepreneur and author of the Financial Times and the McKinsey Business Book of the Year, “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” – as we delve into the power of anticipation and some of the biggest upcoming changes in technology.   This podcast is brought to you by Business Mastery. Do you have the right mindset and skills to take your business to the next level? Business Mastery is the only event in the world created by Tony Robbins to prepare you to master the mindset and skills you need in business to elevate your game. A one-of-a-kind immersive program, Business Mastery will allow you to understand the critical factors impacting your business, then refocus and realign with the strategy and psychology you need to compete and innovate in any economy. Remember, business success is 80% psychology and 20% mechanics. If you're ready to learn and master the strategies to help you grow your business and stay competitive, then don't hesitate. Apply for the next Business Mastery program now. Learn more about our Business Mastery event at www.tonyrobbins.com/events/business-mastery

Mike talks with futurist and author Martin Ford. His most recent book is Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. They discuss the Seven Deadly Economic Trends, what jobs are … Continue reading "Martin Ford Interview" Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy