In this week’s Thought Sparks Podcast episode, Rita McGrath, a Columbia University Business School Professor, C-Suite strategist, business founder and best-selling author, speaks with Vivienne Ming, theoretical neuroscientist and artificial intelligence expert, named one of “10 Women to Watch in Tech” by Inc. Magazine and one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2017, and author of the new book “Robot-Proof: When Machines Have all the Answers, Build Better People”.

00:45: Introductions

3:44: Vivienne's Personal Background – From the Farm to the Academy

13:45: Vivienne's Work Today – From Hiring Science to the Human Trust

18:30: What Actually Predicts Long-Term Life Success

23:04: How AI Is Changing Teams, Trust, and Cognition

28:01: The Core Distinction Between Well-Posed vs. Ill-Posed Problems

32:38: Deprofessionalization and the "Right" Questions About AI and Jobs

36:52: Three Types of Human-AI Collaborators : Automators, Validators, and Cyborgs

43:59: The Utopia/Dystopia Debate and What's Actually Worth Worrying About

51:29: Teaching in the Age of AI and The Case for Productive Friction

1:00:13: What You Still Need to Learn And Why Human Qualities Are Developable

1:05:44: Closing and Where to Learn More

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In this week’s Thought Sparks Podcast episode, Rita McGrath, a Columbia University Business School Professor, C-Suite strategist, business founder and best-selling author, speaks with Dave Whorton, Founder & CEO at Tugboat Institute, and co-author of Another Way: Building Companies That Last…and Last…and Last alongside Bo Burlingham, which gives practical advice and explanations of Evergreen companies: focused on long-term stability and steady growth, and leadership beyond personal wealth generation.

00:56: The HP Origin Story and Learning to See a Different Way

3:58: From Reluctant Venture Capitalist to the Evergreen Discovery

9:59: The Tugboat Metaphor

10:51: The Book's Approach to Learning in Real Time

14:44: Financial Transparency, Jack Stack, and the Great Game of Silicon Valley Business

18:01: The Wealth Trap and What Evergreen Leaders Model Instead

22:15: How Evergreen Leaders Approach Boards

25:30: People First: The First of the Seven P's

30:22: Perseverance and the Debt Question

30:45: Customer Intimacy Over Competition-Watching

37:10: Why Aren’t More Companies Like This?

40:02: The Scale and Diversity of the Evergreen World

49:00: Weighing up Venture and Evergreen

52:45: AI, Careers, and the Changing Unit of Value Creation

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In this week’s Thought Sparks Podcast episode, Rita McGrath, a Columbia University Business School Professor, C-Suite strategist, business founder and best-selling author, sits down with Johan Roos, Global Chief Academic Officer at Hult International Business School, co-creator of LEGO Serious Play, and author of Human Magic: Leading with Wisdom in an Age of Algorithms.

00:30: Introductions — A Long Friendship and a New Book

6:00: The Genesis of Human Magic — The Central Question

10:34: The History Behind the Idea, From 2012 to ChatGPT

17:58: The Five Cs: The Core of Human Magic

22:42: Algorithmic Citizenship vs. Professional Citizenship

28:24: The Junior Talent Problem and Unintended Consequences

35:50: AI in Business Schools and Lessons from Hult Business School

40:04: The Future of Business Schools and the MBA

44:08: Rethinking the Role of the Professor

50:35: What Human Magic Hopes to Accomplish

53:45: Science Fiction, Warning Signs, and "Your Choice"

55:06:What's Next for Johan Roos

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