Only 2% of people are narcissists — but roughly 16% of CEOs are. Jennifer Chatman explains why narcissistic leadership gets mistaken for vision, how to spot it, and how to protect your culture from its sticky after-effects.
Geoffrey Cain — Steve Jobs in Exile, Part 2: NeXT's Failures, Pixar's Lifeline and the Road Back to Apple
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Author Geoffrey Cain takes Aidan McCullen inside Steve Jobs in Exile — the NeXT years of vengeance, sabotage and failure that quietly built the Apple comeback.
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Geoffrey Cain reveals the untold story of Steve Jobs in Exile: fired from Apple in 1985, sued by his own company, three years from bankruptcy at NeXT — and how those failures forged the leader who saved Apple. Part 1 of 2.
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A single developer sold an $80 million company to Wix in six months. In this Kyndryl Institute panel, Rita McGrath, Alexander Osterwalder, Ismail Amla and Usman Sheikh explain how AI is rewiring organisations — killing the billable hour, flattening power, and shifting work from hours to outcomes.
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Eric Ries — author of Incorruptible and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange — joins Aidan McCullen to expose the hidden forces that corrupt mission-driven organisations. From financial gravity and the golden goose problem to the LTSE ambush and the Costco governance fortress, this is a blueprint for building an incorruptible organisation that lasts.
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A Thinkers50 special episode with Aidan McCullen, Alex Osterwalder, Howard Yu and Sangeet Paul Choudary exploring how AI reshapes business models, strategy and organisational leadership. A masterclass in reinvention, recorded just hours before each received major Thinkers50 honours.
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In this episode, Aidan McCullen dives into the turbulent trends shaping our world with futurists Bob Johansen and Jamais Cascio, co-authors of “Navigating the Age of Chaos.” They explore the BANI framework—Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible—and how leaders can respond with resilience, empathy, and strategic foresight.
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Join Aidan McCullen as he welcomes legendary Harvard professor Joseph L. Bower to discuss his influential work From Resource Allocation to Strategy. Bower unpacks how organizations really make strategic decisions—from the factory floor to the C-suite.
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Join us as we welcome Gary Hamel for Part 2 of their conversation on “What Matters Now”. This episode explores the hidden threats of success, strategic decay, and the human biases that hold organizations back from reinvention.
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We welcome back Gary Hamel to discuss The Future of Management. In this episode, Hamel reveals why legacy systems hinder innovation and how forward-thinking leaders can reinvent management for the 21st century.