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In this podcast, we interview Allyson Stewart-Allen who offers a deeper understanding of America’s business mindset, diversity and regions so you can confidently navigate this large, complex and profit-making economy.

In this podcast, we explore how business growth and scale are undeniably interconnected but differ in a few fundamental ways. The latter can’t be realized without the former, but they are also wholly different measures of a business’s development.

It’s one thing to come up with ideas and test them in the market. How do you find a way to win the resources and support to bring ideas to life? To find out, we interview Jeff Dyer and Nathan Furr, co-authors of the new book “Innovation Capital: How to Compete – and Win – Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders.”

Creativity is in high demand in the workplace, both among front-line workers and leadership. But do our current ways of working support innovative, imaginative ideas? Johan Roos believes play nurtures the imagination, so you can put it to more productive use.

Chinese innovators are making their mark globally. What can leaders and entrepreneurs around the world learn from the innovation happening in this country? Authors Mark Greeven, George Yip and Wei Wei join us to discuss the four different type of innovators in China, the successes of Western companies that have tried to move into this market, and the lessons the rest of us can learn from China’s startup culture.

What can science teach us about the qualities of great, innovative leaders? In her new book The New Science of Radical Innovation: The Six Competencies Leaders Need to Win in a Complex World, Dr. Sunnie Giles explains how concepts like neuroscience and quantum mechanics apply to everyday work.

Is it possible to be both constantly creative and constantly productive? In her book “Hustle and Float” Rahaf Harfoush suggests that society’s preoccupation with life hacks, hyper-efficiency and “Inbox Zero” directly harms our creative best interests. She shares advice for leaders who want to help the “Productive Creatives”.

Along with Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon are co-authors of The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty. In this interview, Efosa and Karen reveal the paradox at the heart of existing approaches to solving poverty, and propose a better way forward based on entrepreneurship and market-creating innovation.

A veteran of IT management and delivery, Randy Salley has had the opportunity to peek inside many enterprises and see how they run their IT functions. He’s got strong opinions about what works and what doesn’t. We asked him how IT leaders can better manage their teams to deliver the best results.

Is the higher education system doing a good enough job preparing our next generation of leaders for the demands of the workplace of the future – and, for that matter, the present? We asked Mary Curnock-Cook, an expert on this topic.

Guillaume Alvarez is fascinated by the relationship between people and the places they work. He believes leaders can create a physical environment that is conducive to creativity, as well as the personal well-being of their employees and the business as a whole. We asked him to explain.

What do business leaders need to know about the future of AI? Felix Hovsepian, an expert in the implications of emerging technologies on business, believes that AI, if used properly, will be of immense benefit to humanity. In this episode, he explains why the concept of lifelong learning is the key to human-centered, properly-utilized AI deployment.